Outsized
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Outsized is transforming how clients and specialist expertise come together. Combining machine learning technology with human curation and financial services sector expertise, we help clients find consultancies and freelancers. Our focus is emerging markets financial services and financial inclusion and with our London, Cape Town and Mumbai offices up and running we're growing fast.
About us
Outsized transform the way financial services clients and high-quality consultancies, agencies and specialist freelancers find each other.
Currently, many clients default to the biggest brand consultancies for external support, even when these consultancies lack deep expertise or implementation experience for specific projects. Alternatively, clients go through risky and time consuming word-of-mouth searches which results in varied quality.
Outsized provides the solution. By leveraging strong network effects and combining machine learning technology with human curation from senior financial services experts, Outsized helps clients find vetted, high-quality expertise each time. The consultants we work with deliver innovation, deep expertise, agility and proven execution capability.
The result? Better project outcomes, driving growth, efficiency and skills transfer to client teams.
Currently, we have offices in London, Mumbai and Cape Town.
Our purpose
Our vision is to build a more effective infrastructure for performance improvement and skills transfer at scale, positively impacting social and economic development.
Our ultimate goal is to twofold: To fix something that is broken and to positively impact economic development, in particular in emerging and developing markets. If each client can find the best local or international options for their requirements and budgets in an easy and quick way - project outcomes are maximised. The results are that organisations can grow faster, become more efficient and profitable, employ and train more people. Do this for one client and you have a positive effect – do it at scale the impact can be profound.
It could be a bank in South Asia who gets access to the very best specialist firms for their alternative distribution strategy to reach more customers. It could be a microfinance organisation in Africa who needs a boutique firm or freelancer to start a micro-SME lending offering. Or it could be an insurer in South East Asia who needs to be able to better segment and market to mass-market segment to offer relevant and affordable protection products.
We are focused on ensuring that our clients can always access the very best consultants from around the world to help develop and implement their key projects. We have a long way to go before our vision is implemented but we will not give up until we get there.
Our team
We are building a great team and advisor network characterised by high performance, entrepreneurialism, purpose and decency!
Get in touch if you tick all the boxes - being nice and purposeful is great, but not without being a high-performer with a 'can do' attitude. Likewise, performance superstars but with an attitude and ego to match, please look elsewhere.
What we do
The market for consulting services is not working and in many ways, there isn’t actually a market at all. The choice for clients to find consultants for a project is to either hire a big brand, big fee firm with nice proposal decks but sometimes generic advice and junior teams with limited implementation experience - or to go through a risky and time-consuming word-of-mouth search for alternatives.
The biggest brand firms benefit from the fact that clients use consultants relatively infrequently in any part of the value chain and as such does not build up expertise on which firms (or freelancers) are actually the best match for particular project requirements. Thus, clients often default to the big brand firms as they are perceived a ‘safer’ choice, even when the fit with project requirements is less than optimal.
The result? Project outcomes are not always great, either because a big firm is not the right fit, or because a consultancy hired based on a vague word-of-mouth recommendation didn‚Äö√Ñ√¥t turn out to be so hot after all…
Enter Outsized.
We have set out to create a transparent market for consulting services, benefitting both clients and high quality consulting firms. This fundamentally changes how things have worked until now.
A market with scale and network effects: By partnering with a large number of clients Outsized gets a constant and growing flow of projects. The more clients and projects, the more experience we get about consultants in different niches and geographies.
Matching based on requirements and verified quality – nothing else: We understand consulting and if needed help clients scope out and structure projects to ensure requirements are clear. We then match the requirements with existing and new consultants. Quality assurance and vetting of consultants is rigorous and multi-stepped to ensure outcome quality. A consulting firm’s business development budget is irrelevant – verifiable quality of the project team is not!
Global pool of consultants: We partner with consultants from around the world to ensure that we have the best options available. For some projects, our clients want the very best international firms in a particular niche. In other cases, deep local expertise is needed or there are budget constraints. Outsized gives access to all options through one solution.
Self-regulating quality: We take great care vetting and reference checking our consultants during the on-boarding and project matching process. As an additional quality safeguard, clients rate consultants after each assignment to ensure standards are maintained.