01The synthesis
The Memo
What's actually happening in your market, what your customers value, and where competitors are exposed — filtered into the executive version your board would actually read. Opinionated, sourced, and argued.
Board-quality strategy, productized
Make your next big bet with conviction.
Memobets delivers executive strategy memos — market, customer, and competitive synthesis, plus the bets worth making — in as few as five business days. From $1,000, not $100,000.
Published pricing. Guaranteed turnaround. No sales call required.
Memobets / Strategy Desk
Memorandum № 047
Where does the next $10M in revenue come from?
- Client
- Company A
- Lens
- Product
- Depth
- Deep dive
- Delivered
- 10 days
The bets
1. Specialize in the highest-margin vertical▮▮▮▮▯
2. Attach payments before moving up▮▮▮▯▯
3. Move upmarket this year▮▯▯▯▯
Synthesis · Bets · Risks · Decision frame
The missing middle
Between a $250,000 engagement and a free chatbot, there was nothing. Now there’s a memo.
Big-firm consulting is rigorous but slow, expensive, and built for companies with procurement departments. Generic AI research is instant but unaccountable — it has no skin in the game and no point of view. Memobets is the third option: the rigor of a strategy engagement, packaged like a product.
| Big-firm consulting | DIY + generic AI | Memobets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $50k–$250k+ | “Free” — plus weeks of your team's time | $1,000–$7,500, published |
| Time to answer | 8–12 weeks | An afternoon | 5–20 business days, guaranteed |
| Depth | Deep, padded to justify the fee | Broad, shallow, generic | Decision-grade, scoped to your call |
| Point of view | Hedged across 120 slides | None — it agrees with you | Opinionated, with invalidation criteria |
| Accountability | The partner moves on | None | A strategist signs every memo |
| How you buy | RFP, scoping, procurement | — | Like a product. No sales call. |
What you get
Anatomy of a Memobets report.
Every report — at every depth — has the same four-part spine. The memo builds the knowledge. The bets turn it into action.
02The action layer
The Bets
Two to five prioritized moves. Each bet states its thesis, the upside, the downside, our conviction level, and — most importantly — what evidence would invalidate it.
03The honesty section
The Risks
The assumptions that matter, where the evidence is thin, and what to validate before committing capital or quarters. No hedging across 120 slides — just the risks worth your attention.
04The next meeting
The Decision Frame
What to do now, what to defer, and what to measure — structured so your leadership team can debate it Monday and decide by Friday.
Read before you buy
Judge the memo, not the marketing.
The fastest way to know whether Memobets clears your bar is to read one. We publish a full sample memo — situation, findings, bets, risks, and decision frame — so you can hold it to the same standard you’d hold a board pre-read.
From the sample · The Bets
“Moving upmarket is the bet everyone in the building already believes — which is exactly why it deserves the most scrutiny. The evidence points the other way: the fastest path to the next $10M is owning one vertical outright.”
Memorandum № 047 · p. 4Conviction ▮▮▮▮▯
How it works
From question to conviction in days, not quarters.
Day 0
Brief us
A 20-minute written intake: the decision you're facing, your context, your constraints. That's all we need to start. The turnaround clock starts when intake is complete.
Days 1–4
We research
Market, customer, and competitive research at machine scale — read, filtered, and challenged by a human strategist. We chase the question, not the page count.
Day 5–20
You get the memo
Synthesis, bets, risks, and a decision frame — delivered in 5, 10, or 20 business days depending on depth. Guaranteed.
After
You decide
Deep Dives and Diligence reports include a live debrief where we pressure-test the bets with your team. Then it's your call — which is the point.
Pricing
One memo. Three depths. Choose the depth your decision demands.
Every tier runs on the same research process as our private-equity diligence work — sized to the stakes of your decision. Pricing is published because you shouldn’t need a discovery call to learn a number.
The Memo
Pick your next move.
$1,000
flat, published · 5 business days
One focused strategic question, answered with a board-quality point of view. Choose a product or marketing lens.
- Executive strategy memo — synthesis, not a data dump
- 2–3 prioritized bets, each with upside, downside, and what would invalidate it
- Risk register: the assumptions that actually matter
- Decision frame: act now, defer, measure
Best for: Choosing between segments, channels, positioning angles, or product directions.
The Deep Dive
Commit a quarter.
$2,500
flat, published · 10 business days
A full product or marketing strategy built on significantly deeper research — for decisions that commit real roadmap, budget, or headcount.
- Everything in The Memo, at full depth
- Expanded market, customer, and competitive research base
- A sequenced portfolio of bets, not just a shortlist
- Debrief call to pressure-test the bets with your team
Best for: Quarterly strategy, repositioning, new-segment entry, product line decisions.
The Diligence
Commit capital.
from $7,500
scoped to the deal · 20 business days
Private-equity-style commercial due diligence on a company, deal, or market entry — for operators and investors making capital-grade decisions.
- Full commercial due diligence report
- Market sizing, dynamics, customer and competitive analysis
- Value-creation theses framed as risk-adjusted bets
- Scoping call before we start, working session after we deliver
Best for: Acquisitions, investments, market entry, bet-the-company commitments.
For reference: a comparable consulting engagement runs $50,000–$250,000 and takes a quarter of your year. Turnaround is guaranteed from completed intake. Product, marketing, or whole-company lens — your choice at intake.
Trigger moments
If a question like this is circling your leadership meetings, you have a memo-shaped problem.
Objections, welcomed
Questions a careful buyer should ask.
Isn't this just an AI-generated report?
We use AI the way a good analyst team uses a research library: for coverage and speed. The synthesis, the point of view, and the bets are operator judgment — every memo is argued, edited, and signed by a human strategist who is accountable for it. The test is simple: read the sample. A generic AI brief agrees with you; a Memobets memo will tell you which of your own assumptions to kill.
How is this different from hiring McKinsey or Bain?
Scope and overhead. A big-firm engagement buys you workshops, steering committees, and a partner's airfare alongside the thinking. Memobets productizes the part you actually wanted — decision-grade research and a defensible recommendation — at a fixed price and a guaranteed turnaround. If you need a 12-week transformation program, hire the firm. If you need a board-quality answer to a specific question, buy the memo.
What do you need from me?
A 20-minute written intake: the decision you're facing, your context, and your constraints. If you have internal data worth including — metrics, win/loss notes, past research — we'll take it, but we don't require it. The turnaround clock starts when intake is complete.
Is my information confidential?
Yes. Your intake, your data, and your memo are confidential and never shared, resold, or used as marketing material without written permission. We're happy to sign a mutual NDA before you tell us anything sensitive.
What if my question doesn't fit a tier?
Email us at hello@memobets.com with the decision you're facing. We'll tell you within one business day which depth fits — or tell you honestly that it isn't a Memobets-shaped problem.
Why call them “bets”?
Because that's what strategic decisions are: commitments of capital, time, and attention under uncertainty. Calling them bets forces honesty about upside, downside, and what would prove us wrong. It has nothing to do with gambling — every bet in a memo is a testable strategic move tied to the evidence.
What happens after I get the memo?
Deep Dives and Diligence reports include a live debrief where we pressure-test the bets with your team. And every memo states what to measure, so 90 days later you'll know whether the bet is working — or whether the invalidation criteria have been hit.
The next board meeting is coming
Walk in with a point of view, not a status update.
Brief us today. Depending on depth, the memo is on your desk in 5, 10, or 20 business days — guaranteed.
Not ready? Take the sample memo with you.