Alternative Path operates as a single firm with two complementary practices. The Consulting Practice diagnoses, designs, and architects. The four Service Practices build, run, and continuously improve. Most engagements draw on both, because most operating ambitions cannot be solved by either alone.
Where most operating mandates fail is in the handoff. A consulting firm hands the recommendation to a delivery firm. A delivery firm hands the function back to the client. The seams between firms are where the work erodes. We were built to close those seams. The Consulting Practice partners with senior leaders on the strategic question. The four Service Practices execute against the operating model the consulting work helped design. Both layers are senior-led. Both are accountable to the same outcome.
Four practices, each led by a Practice Lead with deep tenure in the discipline. Each practice operates with both a consulting layer (assess, design, architect) and a delivery layer (build, run, improve). Click through any practice to see how it works.
The engineering disciplines behind every credible product organisation, run as one capability. Where most firms sell engineering through five separate vendors with five different standards, we deliver them as one team, with one person accountable for the whole.
Pipelines, platforms, and the engineering behind durable data. We design and run the ingestion, transformation, and quality layers that turn fragmented organisational data into a reliable enterprise asset, treated with the operational discipline of production engineering.
Decision-grade information, designed for executives. We build the analytical environment senior teams actually use, from reporting cadences anchored to the questions leadership asks, to the dashboards, pipelines, and data-modelling discipline that make the whole system trustworthy.
A finance function senior leadership can see clearly and trust. Designed, run, and continuously improved as one capability. We cover the full operating scope, from fund accounting and management reporting to FP&A, US tax, and the transactional core, releasing senior bandwidth back to capital, strategy, and the business.
Every practice can be engaged in three modes. The right one depends on whether you want us to advise, deliver against a defined scope, or run the function on an ongoing basis. The dial is yours to set, and many engagements move across modes over time.
Senior-level strategic guidance. We help you assess, design, or transform an operating function without placing a full team. Best for organisations in transition, or for the diagnostic phase before a larger engagement.
Scoped, time-bound support for specific initiatives. From full ownership to embedded team augmentation, across any of our four practices. Best for finite initiatives, transformations, platform implementations, and release-cycle delivery.
Full ownership of an operating function across Technology Ops, Data Ops, BI, or Finance. We staff, manage, and continuously improve, so your team can focus on the core business. Best for ongoing, steady-state needs where capability, not transactions, is the goal.
We operate across multiple industries but our deepest concentration is in financial services. Our work spans private markets and asset management, fintech and financial software, enterprise software, and global capability centre build-outs for multinationals expanding into India.
| Sector | Common engagement profile |
|---|---|
| Private Markets & Asset Management | Fund Ops, FP&A, Investor Reporting, BI, Data Ops |
| Fintech & Financial Software | Technology Ops, Quality Engineering, Data Ops, BI |
| Enterprise Software & SaaS | Technology Ops, Quality Engineering, BI |
| Credit & Specialist Financial Data | Data Ops, DBA, IT & Application Support |
| Global Capability Centres | GCC strategy, operating model design, multi-practice delivery |