A Different Way to Approach Business Consulting

Our consulting team has spent their careers working with businesses in Thailand and across mainland Southeast Asia. This is not generic business knowledge applied to a new geography — it's expertise built through twelve-plus years of engagements with companies operating in the same supply chains, facing the same regulatory environment, and competing in the same regional markets as your business.

When we review your operations or supplier network, we're comparing what we find against a real benchmark of what Northern Thai businesses at similar stages actually look like — not against a framework designed for a Western Fortune 500 company.

Each Lanna Drift programme follows a defined methodology. The Small Enterprise Health Check, for example, uses a structured assessment framework that covers three domains in a consistent sequence. This means the process is efficient, the findings are comparable to what we've observed elsewhere, and the deliverable has a predictable format that your team can engage with.

Structured methodology also means we can be clear about what the engagement covers and what it doesn't. If your situation has elements that fall outside the programme scope, we'll say so clearly rather than stretching the engagement in ways that reduce its quality.

We work alongside your team rather than issuing recommendations from a distance. During an engagement, we conduct structured interviews with the people who actually do the work, review real data rather than curated summaries, and involve relevant staff members in working sessions where possible.

This approach tends to produce better findings — we learn more when people feel they can speak frankly — and better uptake of recommendations, because your team has been part of developing the thinking rather than receiving it as a finished verdict.

Our three programmes are priced at ฿7,500, ฿16,800, and ฿36,200 respectively. These are fixed fees for defined scopes — not estimates that expand as the engagement progresses. The fee covers all consultant time, working sessions, data review, and the final written deliverable.

For businesses comparing consulting costs, these fees sit well below what Bangkok-based or international firms typically charge for equivalent work. The difference reflects our lower operating cost base in Chiang Mai, not a difference in the quality of the work.

Every report we produce includes prioritised, specific recommendations — not a list of observations that leaves your team to figure out what to do with them. We describe what to address first, why, and what a reasonable first step looks like given your resources.

We also conduct a handover session after delivery to walk through the findings, answer questions, and make sure the report is genuinely useful rather than filed on a shelf. Ninety-four percent of our clients return for follow-on engagements — we take that as a reasonable signal that the work produces value.