The HOW

How we work

Three ways to engage Long Gamma. Each is led personally by Enrique Opi and scoped around the strategic question rather than a volume of hours.

Strategic Diagnostic

Focused review, normally two to three weeks

A short, focused review of a single strategic question: what is actually being decided, which assumptions carry the most weight, which options exist and what the trade-offs are.

  • Confidential conversations with the leadership team
  • Review of the material already available internally
  • A clear written point of view: what matters, what should change, what should not
  • A recommended next step, whether or not it involves Long Gamma

Executive Advisory

Confidential ongoing senior advice

A selective advisory relationship with a chief executive, founder, board or leadership team. Senior judgement and challenge available as decisions arise, without adding a permanent appointment.

  • Regular confidential sessions at a rhythm agreed in advance
  • Direct access between sessions when a decision cannot wait
  • Preparation for board, investor and institutional conversations
  • Continuity: the same adviser across the whole relationship

Strategic Residency

Long Gamma's most embedded engagement model

Senior strategic professionals embedded alongside the leadership team for a defined period, carrying a consequential agenda from decision into implementation.

  • Diagnosis of the strategic question and its implications
  • Options, trade-offs and a recommended direction
  • Alignment of the leadership team around that direction
  • Translation into initiatives, owners and decision rhythms
Most embedded model

Strategic Residency is Long Gamma's most embedded engagement model: the senior professionals advising the organisation work alongside its leadership for a defined period and remain directly involved as decisions become action.

How Strategic Residency works
Compensation

Engagements are scoped around the question, not the hours.

Fee structures are agreed in advance and adapted to the engagement. Where it is appropriate for both sides, part of the compensation can be structured flexibly and connected to the progress achieved.

Who does the work

Every engagement is personally led by Enrique Opi. Selected specialists may be involved when a specific question requires them, and that is always agreed with you first. Long Gamma does not operate a large permanent consulting team.

Which model fits depends on the decision.

A first conversation is confidential and without obligation. It usually establishes whether the question calls for a diagnostic, an advisory relationship or a defined mandate.

Common questions
Which engagement model should I start with?

Most relationships begin with a Strategic Diagnostic, because it answers the prior question: what is actually being decided, and is external senior support even needed?

Executive Advisory suits leaders who need judgement available as decisions arise. A Strategic Residency suits an agenda that has to be carried from decision into implementation.

How long does an engagement usually last?

A Strategic Diagnostic normally takes two to three weeks. Executive Advisory runs at a rhythm agreed in advance and is reviewed periodically. A Strategic Residency is scoped for a defined period tied to the agenda it carries.

Who actually does the work?

Every engagement is led personally by Enrique Opi, and he remains the point of continuity throughout. Where specific depth is required, senior professionals are brought in for that part of the work. There is no permanent consulting pyramid and no junior team learning on your problem.

How is the work priced?

Scope is agreed in advance around the strategic question rather than billed as a volume of hours. Fees are quoted once the question and the shape of the engagement are clear, so you know what you are committing to before anything starts.

What about confidentiality?

Everything discussed is treated as confidential, including the existence of the conversation itself. Long Gamma does not publish client names, cases or testimonials.