Help your best clients build more valuable businesses, and deepen your role in their future.

Adapt gives you a proven way to help your clients reduce owner-dependence, without changing what your practice delivers.

Why partner with us.

  1. 01

    Stay the one they call first.

    When you can answer the question every owner is asking, the relationship deepens instead of drifting.

  2. 02

    Your client stays your client.

    We work inside your relationship, never around it.

  3. 03

    Add capability without building it.

    The Adapt way, the Lumia platform and our team carry the implementation, with no new hires and no new practice area to fund.

  4. 04

    Diversified revenue.

    The partnership pays two ways: a referral fee when you introduce, and an ongoing share of platform revenue when you deliver.

  5. 05

    The network sends work back.

    When an Adapt or partner client needs specialist support (HR, finance, legal, marketing etc.), the call goes to one of our partners first, because we have trust and we know they deliver.

An Adapt facilitator working with a leadership team around the boardroom table

Owner-dependence sits outside most advisory engagements. It doesn't have to.

Bring it to them through Adapt, and stay in the room.

Refer it, or deliver it.

Both keep you the trusted adviser; the difference is how deep the operating model goes.

Refer

Alliance Partner

Introduce suitable clients to Adapt, stay close to the relationship, and give them a proven path when advisory alone is not enough. Every introduction carries a referral fee, agreed privately up front.

Best when you want to protect the client relationship and bring in specialist implementation without changing your delivery model.

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Charter Partner

Build a deeper relationship with Adapt: platform access, hands-on support, shared planning around your first client opportunities, and an ongoing share of platform revenue for the clients you bring. Certification takes about three hours.

Best when you want Adapt to become a visible capability inside your advisory offer.

Commercial terms, responsibilities and boundaries are discussed privately, once we understand your business, client base and preferred pathway.

An experienced coach rather than an advisory business? Coach with Adapt

Our partners, nationally.

These businesses send each other real work. When an Adapt or partner client needs specialist support (HR, finance, legal, marketing etc.), the call goes to one of our partners first, because we have trust and we know they deliver. Operators with decades in the chair, aligned on vision and values, delivering every day. No networking breakfasts required.

Founding cohort

All national partners

Proof from the network.

50% lift in client retention vs advisory-only baseline
+25% additional annual recurring revenue for the partner
+35% growth in annual service revenue

Metrics can be verified by partners.

It allowed us to move from a coaching/consulting model where we were hacking together various tools, to a much higher level of sophistication. Now all of our clients live in Adapt's platform, and it becomes our centre of truth.
Dr. Mitch Catterall Dr. Mitch CatterallFounder, Unveil Development Partners · Charter Partner, founding cohort
Partnering with Adapt has been a genuine accelerator for People Squared. Their frameworks have expanded my offerings, opened new revenue pathways and lifted every engagement.
Brendan Forwood Brendan ForwoodFounder, People Squared · Charter Partner
Our partnership with Adapt has been instrumental in shaping regional businesses into clear, values-led organisations built for sustainable growth.
Kane Leersen Kane LeersenFounder, Regional Prosperity · Charter Partner
Our partnership with Adapt and Gabe is a game changer.
Scott Harris Scott HarrisAdapt Founding Partner · Charter Partner, founding cohort

Start the conversation

We're selective. Deliberately.

We take on a few partners at a time, so every one gets real attention.

Not a fit
  • Businesses that want to hand the client over and step out of the room. This model keeps you in it.
  • Anyone looking for a badge without client responsibility
  • Frameworks that conflict with how Adapt works
A good fit
  • An advisory, wealth, accounting, legal or consulting business with established SME-owner trust
  • Founder-led clients who are valuable, but still too dependent on the owner
  • A reputation built on senior advice, not transactional volume

Straight answers.

The questions every principal asks us, answered before the call.

What does it cost?

Alliance costs nothing to explore. Charter is a paid annual partnership: an investment that covers certification and onboarding, plus an ongoing share of platform revenue for the customers you bring and onboard. Exact terms are agreed privately, on the call, once we understand your business.

What happens to my client relationship?

Your client stays your client. Every engagement is scoped with you first, we work inside your relationship rather than around it, and you decide how visible Adapt is.

Do you offer exclusivity?

We do not write exclusivity into partner agreements. Instead we are deliberately selective about geography and industry, because we want our partners to excel, not compete without good reason.

Does work flow back to partners?

Yes, by design. When an Adapt client needs HR, finance, legal, marketing or other specialist help, we always call a partner, because our name rides on the referral. Partners refer between themselves the same way. Joining gives you a national bench of trusted, values-aligned operators, with none of the networking events or memberships it usually takes to build one.

Let's find out whether this fits your business.

No two partnerships look the same. Tell us a little, and we'll walk through fit, pathway and terms privately.

Gabe Enslin, co-founder of Adapt

Your enquiry comes to Gabe Enslin, co-founder. He reads and replies personally.

We read every enquiry and reply personally, in confidence.

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