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
Sound familiar?
If a question like this is circling your leadership meetings, you have a memo-shaped problem.
You’re the one expected to walk in with the answer — and the cost of guessing is a quarter you don’t get back. This is how you walk in with one.
Our promise
You’ll make your next big bet with conviction — in days, not quarters.
We keep that promise the unglamorous way: a named strategist signs every memo, every bet states what would prove it wrong, and the delivery date is guaranteed. When we publish a client’s story, it ends the same way — promise, kept.
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.
Day 1 to delivery
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. And it ships in your brand and your template, so it reads as your team's work, not a vendor's deck.
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. Every report is delivered in your brand and your template, so it reads as your team’s work.
Want to check us out the old-fashioned way? Ask, and we’ll connect you with past clients.
Promise, kept
The impact, before the story.
Large manufacturer · Chief Innovation Officer
Tens of thousands of dollars of product research, delivered in a week, for $1,000.
The problem — The innovation team had more product opportunities than research capacity. Every area of curiosity meant weeks of analyst time before leadership could even debate it — so promising directions sat unexamined, and product strategy moved at the speed of the research backlog.
What we did · The Memo
- Turned an area of curiosity into a board-ready product research memo in five business days
- Evaluated the product opportunities with market data and diligence-grade sourcing
- Gave the team the evidence base to decide which opportunities deserved real investment
Promise, kept: Conviction in five days — hundreds of research hours handed back to the team, and a product strategy that moved.
Hardware + software company · CEO
Every lever a CEO could pull to grow the exit multiple — narrowed to one bet, with the data to back it.
The problem — The CEO is building toward an exit in the next few years, and the valuation math was blunt: without recurring revenue, the company trades at a discount to its competitors. The hard part wasn't knowing that — it was choosing. In the vast space of moves a CEO could make to grow a private-equity multiple, every option looked plausible, and committing to the wrong one would burn runway the exit timeline couldn't spare.
What we did · The Diligence + The Deep Dive
- Ran a private-equity-style diligence report on the company — as an acquirer would see it
- Followed with a marketing deep dive on the recurring-revenue options
- Narrowed the option space to the single best bet, backed by data the board could stand behind
Promise, kept: Conviction on the exit-defining bet — backed by diligence a buyer would respect.
The desk
Written by operators, not interns.
Memobets is the strategy desk of the team behind SageCreek AI. Between the two of us: AI product leadership at JPMorgan Chase, recommendation systems at Ancestry, a Y Combinator-backed company, a data-science directorship, published research, and multiple software companies built and shipped. We combine machine-scale research with operator judgment — and we sign what we send you.
Connor McLeod
Co-Founder · Strategy & Go-to-Market
Built AI and ML products as VP of Product at JPMorgan Chase, shipped recommendation and personalization systems at Ancestry, and founded a Y Combinator-backed company. Leads strategy and the executive conversations where every memo begins.
Bob Bodily
Co-Founder · Research & Data
Data scientist and published researcher. Former Director of Data Science at Lumen Learning; founder of multiple software companies, including Toniq and Odin.fun. Leads the research engine behind every memo — the part that turns a week into hundreds of analyst-hours.
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.
Whose name is on the report?
Yours. Every report is delivered in your brand and your template, so what your board and leadership team see is your company's work product — sharpened. The accountability doesn't change: a named Memobets strategist stands behind every memo and takes your follow-up questions. The branding is yours; the responsibility is ours.
Can I talk to past clients before buying?
Yes. Ask, and we'll arrange a conversation with a past client. For a purchase like this you shouldn't have to take a website's word for it — hearing “it was worth it” from someone who already paid is worth more than anything we could write here.
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?
Send the brief anyway — describe the decision in plain language and pick the closest depth. We'll tell you within one business day which depth actually fits — or tell you honestly that it isn't a Memobets-shaped problem. Nothing is invoiced until scope is agreed.
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, and you’ll make your next big bet with conviction — in days, not quarters. The memo is on your desk in 5, 10, or 20 business days, guaranteed.
Not ready? Take the sample memo with you.