Tailwind Consulting · For owner-led businesses

A sharper view of your next move.

A focused, no-cost consulting project that turns one messy growth or operations question into clear priorities and practical next steps.

Brady Dresner Babson College ’29

Where an outside view helps.

The best first project is narrow enough to finish and important enough to matter. These are common starting points—not a rigid menu.

Customer acquisition

Clarify who you are trying to reach, where promising leads come from, and which outreach or marketing efforts deserve the next dollar or hour.

Operations

Map a process that feels slower or more manual than it should, identify friction, and prioritize changes that make day-to-day work easier.

Client experience

Look at the path from first inquiry to repeat business and find practical ways to improve conversion, communication, and retention.

Built to end in action.

No open-ended internship and no generic strategy deck. The work starts with a defined question and ends with a useful decision.

START

Frame the question

A short conversation identifies the one area where analysis would be most valuable and defines the scope.

SPRINT

Analyze what matters

Review the relevant process, market, customer path, or available business information—without expanding into everything at once.

FINISH

Deliver a clear recommendation

Receive a concise readout: what was found, what to prioritize, and what the next few steps should be.

Founder experience, applied with fresh eyes.

Brady is a sophomore at Babson College with firsthand experience building and organizing a service business. He founded Study Buddies and grew the tutoring network to 150 tutors across three schools—learning what it takes to recruit people, coordinate delivery, and earn trust without a large team or budget.

Now he is bringing that operator’s perspective to local and founder-led businesses through tightly scoped consulting projects.

150 tutors recruited across three schools through Study Buddies, a student-led tutoring venture.

Respect the owner’s timeKeep meetings purposeful, ask for only the information the project actually needs, and work toward a defined finish line.
Stay grounded in the businessRecommendations should fit the company’s real customers, capacity, and constraints—not an abstract case study.
Make the answer usablePrioritize a small number of concrete moves over a long list of ideas with no clear order.

A few direct answers.

The first conversation is simply to see whether there is one useful, realistic project to take on.

Is the project really free?

Yes. There is no consulting fee for the project. If the work is useful, Brady would appreciate a short testimonial afterward—but the recommendations are not contingent on one.

What kind of business is a fit?

Owner-led and local service businesses are a strong fit, especially when there is one specific growth, operations, or client-experience question that would benefit from structured analysis.

What will I receive?

The exact format follows the question, but every project ends with a concise explanation of the findings, prioritized recommendations, and practical next steps.

Is this an internship?

No. This is a single, time-boxed analysis with a defined scope and end point—not an ongoing internship or general extra pair of hands.

Bring one question to the table.

A 20-minute conversation is enough to identify whether there is a focused project worth doing—and what a useful result should look like.

To start a conversation

Reply to the email that brought you here with the business question you have in mind and a couple of times that work.

Typical first-project length: 2–3 weeks