Every project a top-tier firm runs.Delivered as software.

Tacitude is Firefly Software's top-tier consulting practice, delivered as Service-as-a-Software. Your company retains it on an annual retainer, and every team in your company can open an engagement for its own project. Software carries out the Tacitude Method inside a private data room, and your team receives a deliverable it can act on and audit.

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EngagementMarket entry: Portugal, 2027

Illustrative engagement

Stages

  1. FramingDone
  2. DataDone
  3. AnalysisDone
  4. RecommendationDone

Who acts at each step

  1. Your teamAgrees the engagement brief: enter Portugal in 2027, and by which route?
  2. AI modelsClassify 38 files and redact 214 personal data fields.
  3. Lead agentSplits the question into three hypotheses.
  4. Research agentSizes the mid-market segment from 41 public sources.
  5. Analysis agentModels margin and break-even for both routes.
  6. Challenger agentTests organic entry against your cost data, and rejects it.
  7. Quality gatesSource, figure, challenge and confidence: passed.
  8. Your leadership teamReads the recommendation and decides.

Recommendation reportReady for your leadership team

The decision
Enter Portugal in 2027 by acquiring a regional distributor.
Confidence
Moderate to high
Evidence trail
126 figures, each traced to its file, cell and date

An illustrative engagement. The names, figures and decision are synthetic.

Software runs the method; your teams own the outcome

Service-as-a-Software means you buy an outcome, the deliverable of each engagement, and we operate everything that produces it: the method, the software, the AI agents and the data room. Teams at every level of your company bring the objective and the data, and the deliverable comes back to them.

  • Your team

    Sets the objective, agrees the engagement brief and acts on the deliverable.

  • AI agents

    Research, model and challenge each hypothesis, coordinated by a lead agent that plans the work with the method.

  • AI models

    Read, classify and redact the files in your data room before any analysis starts.

  • Method rules

    Trace every claim to its source and recalculate every figure before your team reads a line.

The projects companies bring us

Sixteen engagement types in six practices, from corporate strategy and M&A to operations, technology and turnaround. Each one takes a project from its objective to its deliverable with the same method.

All engagements

  1. Strategy and growth

  2. M&A and transactions

  3. Marketing, sales and pricing

  4. Operations

  5. Organization and technology

  6. Risk, sustainability and turnaround

The sectors we serve

The same method, applied to the challenges that define each sector.

All sectors

Each client works in its own data room

The data room is your company's isolated private space for the data of its engagements. Your team uploads what an engagement needs; the software classifies every file, redacts personal data and records where each figure comes from.

How the data room works

  1. Upload

    Only what the engagement needs.

  2. Classification

    By type and sensitivity.

  3. Redaction

    Personal data, before any analysis.

  4. Lineage

    Each figure with its file, cell and date.

What your team receives: a deliverable it can audit

The deliverable depends on the project: a recommendation, a target design, a roadmap, a business case or an implementation plan, with every figure traced to its source. A recommendation always has the same six parts, in the same order.

Recommendation reportIllustrative
1

Enter Portugal in 2027 by acquiring a regional distributor.

2

The reasoning

Acquisition breaks even two years before organic entry, on three arguments: reach, margin and time to market.

3

The evidence trail

Gross margin, northern region: 31.4 %. sales-by-region-2026.xlsx, sheet PT, cell F14, 30 September 2026.

4

The assumptions

Integration cost within 8 % of the purchase price. The decision holds up to 14 %.

5

The confidence

Moderate to high.

6

What would change our mind

A second distributor entering the region before closing.

  1. 1

    The decision

    On the first page, in one sentence.

  2. 2

    The reasoning

    A pyramid: the governing thought, three supporting arguments, the evidence under each.

  3. 3

    The evidence trail

    Every fact with its source, every number with its origin and date.

  4. 4

    The assumptions

    And how sensitive the decision is to each one.

  5. 5

    The confidence

    Stated plainly.

  6. 6

    What would change our mind

    The signals that should reopen the decision.

An illustrative report page. The figures and names are synthetic.

See how an engagement runs

One retainer for every project of the year

The retainer covers the use of Tacitude and its data room, and the engagements every team in your company opens during the year, for one annual fee.

How the retainer works

Top-tier consulting for every team in your company.

Tell us one project your company has ahead this year. We frame the engagement with your team and show you the method at work on your own objective.

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