Sherpa works for you across the whole consulting lifecycle. He delivers based on your goals, context, record, and steer.
Two ways to start. The Terrain — his briefing on your world, built on your record. The Pursuit — help with a live tender.
See a complete Terrain sample first
Both free to start, and the whole ask is small — who you are, your CV, what you’re chasing. Whatever you send stays yours: never used to train models we control, deleted on request.
A worked example. A real one arrives in your inbox, built on your record.
The most valuable, most personalised read of your world he can build from what you give him — CV, context, goals. What’s moving, what fits you, what to do next. The more he has, the better it gets. The first one is free.
Request your first Terrain — freeThe honest verdict on a live tender or application — and the route from there: what winning will take, the gaps found while they’re still closable, every claim sourced from the funder’s own rules and your record.
Send him a live tenderWhatever you send — a CV or a client’s tender — stays private to you: isolated at the database layer, never used to train models we control, deleted on request. Client material is handled as theirs, not ours. How your material is handled
He works from your record — your projects, your voice, your rates, your corrections. Two consultants asking him the same question get different answers, because the right answer depends on who is asking.
One memory runs underneath every tier, and it never resets.
He knows the field, not just the language of it — funder logic, donor rules, and what reviewers actually score. Deepest in climate and development finance, at home well beyond it.
He cites what he claims, and says when something is outside his depth.
An AI associate who works like a colleague — not software you operate. You email him the way you would email anyone on your team. He drafts; you decide.
The judgment — and the outcomes — stay yours.
Everything below is a worked example of what actually arrives — not a picture of a product.
01 · FIND
Sherpa scans the funding terrain against your record and pipeline — what is worth your week and what to skip, each with the reason stated, every item gate-checked for eligibility before it is ranked.
What it replaces — the evenings of portal-scanning.
Terrain № 001, delivered as a PDF by email.
02 · SECURE
Go or no-go with the win economics behind it. Then the compliance matrix against the funder's own requirements, and a first draft built from your record, in your voice, every claim sourced. A cold panel reads your draft the way the funder’s own reviewers will — for GCF work, that means iTAP.
What it replaces — the three-week bid grind, and the doomed ones entirely.
Forty-one requirements mapped; both gaps found on day two, not day twenty.
03 · DELIVER
He helps carry the delivery itself — inception to final report. Deliverables drafted from your notes and his research, in your voice; the logframe watched; deadlines tracked against the contract; problems raised in week one rather than in the final report.
What it replaces — the 11pm reporting scramble.
Nine dates, read off the contract, including the one at clause 7.2.
04 · GROW
Every win, loss and correction lands in your record and changes what he brings you next. Your evidence base grows itself; partner shortlists come from your own history.
What it replaces — starting from zero, every single time.
The quarterly review, including the part that argues with you.
Same tender shape, a year apart. Two consultants asking the same question get different answers — and so do you, a year on.
Built from your CV, three questions, and the folder you sent.
Built from fifty-one Terrains: 4 wins, 7 losses, 63 corrections.
By week nine he had stopped bringing you the twenty-two.
The year-one read is built from fifty-one Terrains of that consultant’s record — 4 wins, 7 losses, 63 corrections, an evidence library and a vetted partner bench. None of it was re-entered. That is the memory.
Your past work and how you work. Your rates, your sectors, your goals. Every steer, note and correction along the way. He holds all of it and brings the right piece back when it matters — he does not forget what you told him in March.
And everything he hands you is shaped by it: your voice in the drafts, your rates in the numbers, and the calls you told him to stop bringing simply absent from the list. The same question, asked by a colleague, comes back differently.
His best value comes with the right context and input — the better he knows you, your world and your goals, the better the help.
Forward a tender, reply with a correction, ask what you’d ask across the desk — no dashboard to learn, no prompts to engineer. A web app is coming, and more surfaces follow where your work happens — he meets you where you are.
A worked example. Illustrative — a real week arrives in your own inbox.
Trained deep on a growing set of domains — and competent across the breadth of international development. Coverage is tiered, the tier is stated, not implied — and no domain in the field is refused.
Authored, expert-reviewed, kept current.
Moving as these markets form.
Researched live from the funder's own rules.
Under all of it: MEL & results frameworks — the spine every proposal stands on.
One memory underneath, four ways to carry on.
Before any of them: your first Terrain is free, either way. No card, no call — who you are, your CV, and what you’re chasing. It stays free whether or not you take a seat.
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“Tell me what's happening.”
The standing brief on your world, read against your record — with alert-class notes when something you track moves. Your first Terrain is free either way.
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“Work with me.”
The full relationship, month to month — Pursuits, drafts, deadlines, the practice memory. Opens with online payments; the founding seats are the way in today.
Twenty seats · one intake · by invitation
A year inside the build.
Not a cheaper Associate — the same year of the same work. What the seat buys is access: Ron Sircar, the founder, on the other end of the thread, your live problems shaping what gets built next — and a price that never rises while you stay. It’s Sherpa’s founding period, and these twenty practices are where his track record starts.
It starts with a conversation, not a checkout.
One goal, not a subscription · scoped and priced in writing before it starts · by request
“See this one through with me.”
Not a rung on the ladder above — one named goal, worked together to the finish, with a person in the work with you. What “done” means is defined first, in writing; the judgment, the relationships and the call stay yours.
The evenings back. The morning that starts with the two things worth your week. The bid you didn't chase, and the one you won because you had time to do it properly.
Who you are, your CV, and whatever you’re chasing — that’s the whole form. Sherpa replies, your first Terrain follows, and every one after gets sharper.