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Top-Rated Management Consulting Firm in Minneapolis, MN
Senior operators — not slide decks — embedded in your business. Every engagement opens with a fixed-fee diagnostic and closes against KPIs we set with you in week one.
- Certified Management Consultants (CMC®) on every engagement
- Fixed-scope diagnostic — priced before we start
- Free 45-minute working session, no obligation
- CMC®Certified Management Consultants on staff
- MN Reg. #BC-104728Registered Minnesota consultancy
- 15 yrsadvising Twin Cities metro companies
- NDA-firstconfidentiality signed before your data moves
- 92%of clients extend past the first engagement
6 ways we move the needle
Every service line below runs on the same operating system: a fixed-fee diagnostic, KPIs set in week one, and a handover your team owns.
Growth Strategy & Market EntryMarket sizing, pricing architecture, and a sequenced go-to-market plan — with revenue targets your team actually signs up for.Explore 
Operations & Process ImprovementWe walk your floor and your workflows, find the eleven minutes lost per order, and rebuild the process with the people who run it.Explore 
Financial Planning & ForecastingA rolling 13-week cash model and a 3-year operating plan your bank, your board, and your Monday meeting can all read.Explore 
Data, Analytics & KPI SystemsOne scoreboard per team, five numbers per scoreboard, refreshed nightly — built on the data you already have.Explore 
Digital Transformation & AutomationSystems selected for your workflows — not the loudest vendor — implemented with adoption targets, not just go-live dates.Explore 
Fractional Leadership & AdvisoryA seasoned COO, CFO, or strategy lead two days a week — senior judgment on payroll terms that fit a mid-market P&L.Explore
Why companies pick Atlas — and stay
Four commitments, in writing, on every engagement letter.
Operators, not observers
Every Atlas partner has run a P&L — plants, branch networks, finance teams. We have sat in your chair, which is why our plans survive contact with Monday morning.
The diagnostic is fixed-fee
Engagements open with a 3-week diagnostic at a price agreed in writing before we start. You see the findings, the roadmap, and the business case before you commit to anything more.
KPIs set in week one
We define the numbers that will prove the work — with you, in the first week — and report against them every two weeks. If the needle isn’t moving, you’ll hear it from us first.
Your team keeps the keys
Every model, playbook, and dashboard is built in your systems and handed over with training. When we leave, the capability stays — dependence on us is a design failure.
The partners on your engagement
No leverage-pyramid staffing. The people below are the people in the room — average partner tenure at Atlas is 11 years.
Rafael Ortiz
Managing Partner
Former regional COO of a 14-site distribution group. Rafael leads growth and exit-readiness engagements and still takes the first diagnostic interview himself.
Denise Calloway
Partner — Strategy
Two decades of market-entry and pricing work across manufacturing and B2B services. Denise builds the growth plans our clients take to their boards.
Kenji Watanabe
Partner — Operations
Ran continuous-improvement programs across 30+ plants before Atlas. Kenji leads operations diagnostics and won’t present a fix he hasn’t watched work on the floor.
Maeve Brennan
Principal — Data & Analytics
Maeve turns messy ERP exports into scoreboards teams actually watch. She leads our KPI-system and forecasting builds end to end.
What to expect, start to handover
A fixed route with named waypoints — you always know where the engagement stands and what comes next.
Working session
A free 45-minute session with a partner. Bring the problem as you see it; leave with our first read and a clear yes/no on whether we can help.
Fixed-fee diagnostic
Three weeks inside your numbers, your systems, and your team. Findings, root causes, and a sequenced roadmap — at a price agreed before we start.
Engagement sprint
60–120 days of execution beside your team, reported against the KPIs we set in week one. Every two weeks: what moved, what didn’t, what’s next.
Handover & cadence
Playbooks, models, and dashboards transferred into your systems with training. Most clients keep a light quarterly cadence; none are locked into one.
Engagement outcomes
Aggregates across 340+ engagements since 2011. Every figure below is tracked against KPIs agreed with the client in week one.
- engagements completed
- 340+
- client value documented
- $148M
- median EBITDA improvement
- 23%
- clients extend past engagement one
- 92%
- B2B distribution
+31% revenue in 18 months
Pricing rebuild plus a two-territory expansion plan, executed with the client’s own sales leadership.
- Contract manufacturing
11 days of cash cycle recovered
A 13-week cash model and new AR cadence took DSO from 61 to 50 days without a single strained customer call.
Professional servicesFounder exit at 1.9× first offer
Eighteen months of exit-readiness work — documented process, a real second layer of leadership, clean books.
What clients put on the record
Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 312 Google reviews. A selection, verbatim.
- May 2026
The diagnostic paid for itself before it ended — they found margin leakage in freight recovery our own controller had flagged but never quantified. First consultants I’ve met who talk in our numbers, not theirs.
- March 2026
Kenji spent his first week on our floor in safety glasses, not in a conference room. The process rebuild came from our own leads’ ideas, which is exactly why it stuck.
- January 2026
We finally have one scoreboard per team instead of forty spreadsheets. Board meetings went from archaeology to actual decisions. Worth every dollar of the analytics build.
- November 2025
I called about a sale and Rafael talked me out of selling that year — cost them a fee, saved me seven figures. Eighteen months later we closed at nearly double the first offer.
- September 2025
Biweekly KPI reviews meant there was nowhere to hide — for them or for us. Cash cycle down eleven days, and my team runs the model themselves now.
- June 2025
Straight-shooting from the first call. The diagnostic told us two of our three “problems” were symptoms, and the roadmap fixed the real one. Docked a star only because I wish we’d started a year earlier.
370+ companies advised across the Twin Cities metro
Since 2011, Atlas has run engagements from Minneapolis out to every corner of the metro. Each marker is a community where clients are on the books today — sized by count.
- Clients on record, by community
- Stylized survey contours — not a road map
Fees, scope & how engagements price
Consulting has a reputation for meters that never stop running. Ours works differently — every number below is agreed in writing before work begins.
Fixed-fee diagnostic
$9,500 flat
Three weeks, all findings and the roadmap included. Credited in full against a follow-on engagement.
Engagement sprints
Fixed monthly fee
Scoped to deliverables and KPIs, never open-ended hours. The fee is the fee — overruns are our risk.
Fractional leadership
From $6,800 / mo
One to three days a week of partner-level time, minimum three-month term, 30-day notice either way.
Payment terms
Monthly · Net 30
Monthly invoicing with milestone-based options on longer engagements. No retainer held, no surprise line items.
The first working session is always free — and if a diagnostic finds the problem isn’t one we should solve, we say so and refer you out at no charge.
Serving the Twin Cities metro
On-site where the work needs eyes, remote where it doesn’t — with no travel charge anywhere below.
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Questions owners actually ask
The real objections, answered straight. Anything else — bring it to the free session.
Ask us directlyHow much does a consulting engagement cost?
The first 45-minute working session is free. A three-week diagnostic is a flat $9,500, credited in full if you continue to an engagement. Execution sprints run on a fixed monthly fee scoped to deliverables — typically $12,000–$28,000 per month depending on scope — and fractional leadership starts at $6,800 per month. Every price is agreed in writing before work begins.
How long does a typical engagement last?
The diagnostic takes three weeks. Most execution engagements run 60–120 days, and about nine in ten clients then keep a lighter quarterly cadence. Nothing auto-renews and nothing is open-ended — every phase has a defined end date and a defined deliverable.
We’re a 20-person company, not a Fortune 500. Are we too small?
You’re our core client. Atlas works with companies roughly $2M–$150M in revenue — big enough to have real operational complexity, small enough that a 23% EBITDA improvement changes the owner’s life. We size scope and fees to a mid-market P&L.
Which industries do you work in?
Most of our 340+ engagements are in distribution, manufacturing, logistics, business services, and multi-site consumer businesses across the Twin Cities metro. We deliberately avoid industries where we’d be learning on your invoice — if that’s the case, we say so in the first session and refer you out.
Do you work on-site or remotely?
Both, weighted to the work. Diagnostics are heavily on-site — you can’t map a process from a video call — while analytics builds and reporting cadences run well remotely. In-person work is included within the Twin Cities metro at no travel charge.
How do we know the work actually paid off?
We define the KPIs that will prove the engagement — with you, in week one — and report against them every two weeks in a scoreboard your team can open anytime. If the needle isn’t moving by mid-engagement, we re-plan at our cost, not yours.
What happens to our confidential data?
A mutual NDA is signed before any document moves. Your data stays in your systems wherever possible; anything we hold is encrypted, access-logged, and deleted or returned at handover. We never reference a client by name without written permission.
What should we bring to the free working session?
Just the problem as you see it. If you want maximum value, bring last year’s P&L and your top three frustrations — but plenty of first sessions start with nothing but “something is off and I can’t name it.” A partner, not a salesperson, runs the session.
Bring us the problem you can’t name yet.
A free 45-minute working session with a partner. Worst case, you leave with a sharper read on your own business.