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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 pilot.
Five contracts, $68,250.

Run as a pilot for m.zoro Consulting, an NIH SBIR/STTR consultancy whose new business ran on its founder's network. Every contract came from the cold list.

$68,250
won across
five contracts
5 of 5
contracts sourced
from the cold list
1,859
Phase I/II winners
segmented cold
6
prospects asked
for a Snapshot

The list came from NIH award records, timed to the 8 September SBIR/STTR deadline. Michele's words and the full case study are below.

“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 ConsultingSee the full case studyPDF

04 The first four weeks

A four-week pilot. Free.*

  1. 01

    Demand thesis

    One paragraph on who fits and why now, in your buyer's words. 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. 2026Vector

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

Thomas Kusturin

Thomas Kusturin