Guides

How Haycion does each job.

One guide per capability: how your practice gets found and finds clients, then what each client receives, how the workspace shows its work, and what a result looks like. Each guide is also available as Markdown at the same URL plus .md.

1 · Get found

Your profile in the Advisor Network, read by buyers and by AI

  • How companies hire advisors now

    Companies choose consultancies, agencies and fractional executives in two ways now: by researching the field, and by asking an AI assistant. What both read, and how to be the firm they choose.

  • What AI says about your practice

    How to find out whether Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants name your practice when your buyers ask who to hire, who they name instead, and what to change so they do.

2 · Find the client

Prospecting for advisors in the Advisor Network

  • Prospecting for advisors

    How advisors in the Haycion Advisor Network find prospective clients: companies in their industries with a reason to reach out now, reserved for them and researched before the first call.

  • How consultants find new clients

    Where new clients come from for consultancies, agencies and fractional executives now: referrals, being found by buyers and AI assistants, reaching out with a reason, and showing up prepared.

3 · Build the picture

Company baseline and gap analysis

  • Company baseline and gap analysis

    How a workspace builds a 360° baseline of a client from a URL or a brief, names the capability gaps, and tells you what changed when you rebuild it.

  • What feeds a workspace

    The data sources and integrations behind a client workspace: URL crawl, written brief, document uploads, live web and news search, a read-only profile API and an MCP server.

  • How to research a client before the first meeting

    What a consultant should know about a client or prospect before the first meeting, where to find it in public sources, and how to get from a URL to a briefing in about an hour.

4 · Map the field

Competitive benchmarking on a weighted strength matrix

5 · Find the opportunity

Ranked plays: where the client can win, and what to buy

  • Market opportunity sizing and prioritisation

    How a workspace sizes market segments with a method and cited sources, shows the buyer questions and competitors in each, and turns the openings into ranked plays.

  • From analysis to playbook

    How a workspace turns its analysis into ranked plays, where to sell against each rival and what to buy to close a gap, each with its evidence and one next step.

7 · Keep the client

Client-ready reports, exports and a shared workspace

  • Client-ready reports and deliverables

    What a consultant can hand a client from a workspace: a report builder with 18 section types, draft and publish, PDF and Word export, the daily brief, the AI visibility report and the fix bundle.

  • Keeping client data separate

    How a consultant runs many clients in one account without mixing them: one isolated workspace per client, data segregation, role-based access with a dedicated Client role, and Client View.

8 · Grow the client

Generative engine optimization, measured

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