The whole picture.Your next move.

Strategy, IT and transformation for owners, boards and executive teams.Rooted in Geneva since 2017. Built on operating experience.

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Advice for the decisions
that define a company.

Strategy, IT and digital, operations, growth and corporate structure, from the first diagnosis to delivery.

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A company moves forward when the whole company moves together.

Strategy meets technology. Our economists and lawyers work alongside the people who build and run the business.

An empty boardroom with leather chairs around a long timber table — **The board**Ownership, governance and the long view.

Overhead cranes above the production hall of a steel plant — **The plant**Where plans meet production.

A glass office tower rising into cloud — **The balance sheet**Capital that funds the next move.

A long aisle of server racks in a data centre — **The technology estate**The systems the business runs on.

Client-owned architectural visualisation of a contemporary house at dusk — **The property**Assets that must earn their place.

The customerThe reason the rest exists.

An industrial group in Central Asia released 18% of its working capital while maintaining production.

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What we do.

We advise owners, boards and executive teams, and we stay to deliver. Strategists, engineers, economists and lawyers work as one team, led by a managing partner.

Most mandates combine several practices: a growth decision becomes a question of capital, and a technology choice changes how the company works.

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Strategy & transformation

A direction worth committing to.

We help owners decide where to compete and what it will take to win, then turn the decision into an operating model, a programme and a budget.

Services

Corporate and portfolio strategy: Where to compete, what to own and what to exit.
Transformation programmes: Design, launch and steering of change across the group, with clear owners.
Operating model and organisation: Structure, roles and decision rights that fit the strategy.
M&A and integration: Target screening, due diligence and the first hundred days after a deal.
Strategic planning: Three-to-five-year plans with targets the board can follow.

From strategy to working capital

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IT & digital

IT the board understands and the business can rely on.

We make complex IT estates understandable at board level, decide what to keep, replace or build, and then deliver it together with your team.

Services

IT strategy and roadmap: A plan for systems, people and budget, tied to business goals.
IT audit and due diligence: An independent view of state, risks and cost before a decision or a deal.
Enterprise architecture: A target architecture and the order of migrations that reaches it.
Cloud and infrastructure: Migration to public or private cloud, Kubernetes platforms and automated operations.
Cybersecurity: Risk assessment, access and network hardening, monitoring and incident readiness.
Data and AI: Data platforms, management reporting and AI assistants built into daily work.
ERP and core systems: Selection, implementation oversight and recovery of stalled programmes.
Interim CIO and CTO: Experienced technology leadership while you hire or rebuild the team.

A clearer technology estate

IT, from audit
to operation.

Our engineers design, build and run the platforms we recommend, and hand them over when your team is ready. One partner answers for the result.

Audit
2 to 4 weeks
Systems, contracts, security and the team: what you have and what it really costs.
Architecture and roadmap
4 to 8 weeks
A target architecture, the order of migrations and a budget the board approves.
Build and migrate
3 to 12 months
Cloud and data centre migration, Kubernetes platforms, integration and automation, delivered with your team.
Run and secure
Ongoing
Monitoring, security operations and support at agreed service levels, or a clean handover to your team.

Operations & performance

Growth & marketing

Ambition with a commercial foundation.

We choose the customers and markets that support the next stage of growth and connect positioning and pricing to the economics of serving them.

Services

Market entry: Market sizing, entry route and a launch plan for a new country.
Positioning and pricing: Value proposition, price architecture and discount discipline.
Sales and channels: Sales organisation, partner channels and key accounts.
Customer experience: Customer journeys, service standards and loyalty.
Commercial strategy for real estate: Unit mix, pricing and sales plans for developments.

A proposition that sells

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Corporate & legal advisory

A sound structure for what comes next.

We align ownership and governance with the future of the business, weighing the commercial, legal and tax position together with local counsel.

Services

Holding and group structures: Set-up and restructuring of holdings across jurisdictions.
Governance and boards: Board composition, reserved matters and family charters.
Cross-border tax coordination: Structures reviewed with local counsel in each country.
Succession planning: Ownership transfer and leadership succession on a timetable.
Transactions: Support on acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.

Built for the next generation

How we work
with you.

Every engagement starts with a conversation with a managing partner, followed by a written proposal with scope, team, timeline and fee.

Describe your situation

Diagnostic

2 to 4 weeks

An independent view of the issue, the options and the first decisions, presented to the owner or the board.

Strategy and roadmap

6 to 10 weeks

A plan with owners, budget and milestones that the board can approve and follow.

Implementation

3 to 18 months

Our consultants and engineers work inside your team until the change runs without us.

Interim leadership

From 3 months

An experienced CIO, CTO, COO or transformation director while you hire or rebuild.

Transactions

To the deal timetable

Due diligence before an acquisition and integration after it, including IT.

The work is
in the outcome.

Selected engagements across industry, banking, property and family ownership. Client identities remain confidential.

All engagements

Coils of steel wire stacked in an industrial yard beneath a gantry crane

Capital back in the business.

Industrial group · Central Asia

18% of working capital released, with production maintained.

“We funded the next line from our own balance sheet.”
Chief Financial Officer, industrial group

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A glass financial district building seen from below against a pale sky

A clearer technology estate. A faster-moving bank.

Banking · North America

A target architecture with 30% fewer duplicated applications, backed by a funded modernisation programme.

“The board can finally see what our technology spend is buying.”
Chief Operating Officer, bank

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Client-owned architectural visualisation of a residential development with layered balconies

A place to live. A proposition that sells.

Residential development · The Gulf

The first release reached 72% reservation before construction, against a revised investment case.

“The design stayed. The numbers finally supported it.”
Managing Director, residential developer

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Client-owned architectural visualisation of a family house among pine trees

Built for the next generation.

Family holding · Switzerland & Central Asia

A shared governance framework across jurisdictions, with a clear route for succession.

“The next generation has a mandate. The family still has a voice.”
Chair, family holding

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What needs to change in your business?

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Close enough to understand. Independent enough to tell you.

Sagor advises owners and leadership teams when a decision will change their company. Our partners bring the judgement of people who have carried responsibility for businesses themselves.

More than fifty consultants combine engineering, economic and legal expertise. We form the team around the problem, with a managing partner directly involved.

Sagor visiting an automotive production facility with the operating team — At work with the operating business.

Lake Geneva at dusk, with the waterfront and mountains on the horizon — Geneva. Where the practice began.

One firm.
A wider field of view.

Four regions and one standard of advice. Teams move between them as the decision requires, with the same partner accountable throughout.

Geneva and its lake from above, with the Jet d’Eau rising over the harbour

Switzerland

Where the practice began in 2017. Family holdings and private banks that think in generations.

Wind-shaped sand dunes in warm evening light

The Gulf

Developers and family groups building for the decade ahead, with capital that expects a clear case.

The tiled courtyard of a historic madrasa in Samarkand under a clear sky

Central Asia

Industrial groups and banks modernising at speed, often across several jurisdictions at once.

A lakeside city skyline at sunrise, seen from the air

North America

Banks and technology-led companies bringing complex estates onto fewer, stronger platforms.

Every engagement is led by a managing partner.

The partners stay close to the work, from the first conversation to the moment the change holds.

Write to a managing partner

Sanschar Muradov

Managing Partner

Commercial leadership shaped in Switzerland.
Co-founder of the Geneva practice.

Egor Kretalov

Managing Partner

Technology leadership across thousands of systems.
Enterprise architecture with a commercial view.

What is your
next move?

You do not need a finished brief.
Tell us what is on your mind.

A managing partner will review your message. Expect a personal reply within two business days.

Switzerland · The Gulf · Central Asia · North America

The whole picture.Your next move.

A company moves forward when the whole company moves together.