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01 For specialist consultancies

I turn market signals into qualified conversations.

I watch for funding, hiring, awards and leadership changes, then reach out while the reason is still fresh - personalised in your voice.

Free · No call required.

Thomas Kusturin at a laptop, surrounded by the outbound loop: email, replies, calls, results
Specialist consultants in
Nonprofit funding
  • Federal grant writing (SAMHSA, HRSA)
  • Capital campaigns
  • UK charity fundraising
R&D & innovation funding
  • SBIR/STTR (NIH, DoD, NSF)
  • Innovate UK & EIC Accelerator
  • UK R&D tax claims
Affordable housing
  • LIHTC year-15 & exit planning
  • HUD REAC inspection prep
  • NMTC allocation advisory
FDA compliance
  • Warning-letter response
  • cGMP audit readiness
  • Food-import (FSVP) compliance

Sectors are not a gate — the same motion works for any practice that wins work by referral, from M&A advisory to fundraising rounds.

02 Proof

One campaign.
Two contracts, $260K.

Built and run for NPI Strategies, a nonprofit funding consultancy whose referrals had thinned. I sourced the replies; NPI closed the work.

$260K
2 contracts,
one campaign
6
consultations
booked
<24 hrs
reply, executive
director in the thread
1st email
won the first
contract

The list came from public award records, timed to a federal funding deadline. NPI took the calls and closed both. The targeting, timing and sequence are in the full case study.

NPI StrategiesNonprofit funding consultancy

See the full case study →PDF

“You took my cold-call list, my warm list, and my Mailchimp base, layered in your own independent research, segmented all of it, and wrote in my voice but personalized to each person.
I had more calls in two weeks than in the entire prior year.”

Michele Zoromskim.zoro Consulting
See the full case study →PDF

04 The first four weeks

A four-week pilot. Free.*

  1. 01

    Demand thesis

    One paragraph, in your buyer's words — who's a fit, and the trigger that means now. We both sign it.

  2. 02

    One batch

    Email and LinkedIn, to a scoped named list.

  3. 03

    The numbers

    Sent, replied, qualified, booked.

  4. 04

    Decide

    Scale, change one thing, or stop.

*My fee is a percentage of the contracts the pilot books.

See a pilot that worked: m.zoro, 5 contracts →PDF

05 Get your brief

I'll build you a one-page campaign brief.

A quick read on your target market, the signals I'd use to find demand, and the campaign I'd test first.

Free · No call required — I read this and send back your one-page brief. Privacy

07 About

One thing led to the next.

  1. 2017National Art School, Sydney

    Art history. Four years of looking at what's there before saying what it means.

  2. 2022dither_

    Built an app for finding exhibitions across 167 Sydney galleries. No ad budget, so I went to the galleries: 50 interviews, 800 beta users, 10,000 followers. The lesson: find out who needs it before you build it.

  3. 2026Catchafire, 350 Colorado

    Took that into fundraising. 69% of their donors gave once and never returned; the data said who was worth writing to again.

  4. 2026NPI Strategies

    Asked to do the same for their own pipeline. That's the $260K campaign above.

  5. 2026Vector

    The same work, on its own. Public signals, your voice, the conversation handed over.

Thomas Kusturin

Thomas Kusturin