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Startup consulting for teams that need clarity under growth.

We help founders and operators install the financial discipline, budgeting systems, and organizational practices that scale — without the enterprise bloat.

Services

What we offer

Practical engagement models drawn from multinational operations and venture-backed startup experience.

Zero-based budgeting

Rebuild the expense base from first principles each period. Every line needs a justification — not last year’s inertia. Free capital from blanket increases and redeploy into top-line growth.

Originating with Pete Pyhrr’s work at Texas Instruments, ZBB remains one of the cleanest tools for finding cash you didn’t know you had. Read more on Quartz ↗

Operating systems

Install lightweight rhythms for planning, review, and accountability: budget cycles, hiring plans, unit economics reviews, and decision logs that keep a growing team aligned.

Organizational efficiency

Methods from large multinationals, adapted for startups: clearer ownership, fewer meetings that don’t ship, and process that supports — not slows — product and fundraising velocity.

Approach

High-signal, low-ceremony.

We don’t drop 200-page decks and disappear. Engagements are structured, time-boxed, and measured against decisions you can actually implement next week.

  1. Diagnose Map spend, ownership, and decision latency against your stage and runway.
  2. Design Co-create a budget and operating model your team will actually use.
  3. Install Run the first cycles with you — then leave a system, not a dependency.

About

Who we are

Altuna Consulting is a group with backgrounds in startups and venture capital. We’ve worked inside large multinationals and early-stage companies, and we bring organizational methods for efficiency, budget control, and startup development process.

From San Francisco to teams worldwide.

Contact

Start a conversation

Tell us about stage, team size, and what “better operations” would unlock.

chris@altuna.co

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