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The Brutal Truth About Your Options

You're losing £2,000 every month you delay. Here's what each path really costs.

Small is a feature, not a bug. Big consultancies fail because they're big—coordination tax, hand-offs, and juniorisation. One expert can see what five juniors can't. [1][2]
Reality: ~70% of digital transformations fail [1]
While you read… Big-4 would have billed £0.00 Twisthand “build time” cost: £0.00

vs Big-4 Consultancies

≈70% of transformations fall short (BCG). [1]

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vs DIY AI Tools

Only 22% beyond PoC; 4% create substantial value (BCG). [3]

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vs Offshore Teams

Insourcing & GICs are resurging (Deloitte 2024). [4]

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Data Sources

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What You Need
Twisthand
Everyone Else
Total Investment
£45,900 complete ≈85% less
£100k–£400k (consultants) / £35k+ (offshore)
Time to Results
30 days ~6× faster
6–12 months
What You Get
Working systems Real
Reports, recommendations, or fragile code
Who Does the Work
The founder directly
Juniors, freelancers, or you
Risk
Full refund guarantee
100% your risk

Reality Index

BCG admits ~70% of transformations fail. McKinsey & Oxford show big IT projects run 45% over budget and ~7% late, delivering 56% less value than planned. Deloitte reports insourcing on the rise. Their model is broken. We exist because it fails. [1][2][4]

What Big-4 Promise

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“Enterprise-grade methodology”
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“Best-in-class team”
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“Proven framework”
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“Global expertise”

The Statistics Say

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~70% fall short of objectives (BCG). [1]
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Avg. overrun: 45% budget, ~7% schedule (McKinsey). [2]
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Value shortfall: ~56% below plan (McKinsey). [2]
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Firms bring scope back in-house (Deloitte 2024). [4]

One Honest Confession

We can’t run 10 transformations at once. We do one at a time—brilliantly.

Paradoxically, admitting a limit increases trust. You’ll get focus, not a bench.

Illustrative Breakeven Timing

Your scenario will vary. Here’s a rough illustration many SMEs recognise.

Twisthand
DIY
Big-4
Offshore

Graveyard (Anonymised)

Real artefacts we repaired. Logos and identifiers blurred.

Anonymised slide 147: future-state architecture, no code shipped

200-Slide Strategy, Zero Delivery

Slide 147: “Future State Architecture”. After 4 months, no build. We shipped a working flow in 30 days.

DIY automations: 70+ Zaps with no error handling or audit trail

Zap Spaghetti

70+ Zaps, 0 retries, no audit. One edge case silently failed at day 61. We rebuilt as one observable flow.

Offshore code snippet: TODO comment asking what HMRC means

Perfectly Wrong Build

Spec literalism, context missing: “// TODO: Ask client what HMRC means”. Fixed after on-site mapping.

3-Question Diagnostic: What’ll Actually Work for You?

Answer honestly—see which option fits: Big-4, DIY, Offshore, or Twisthand.

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