Sondag LLC
Know the depth before you commit
We map what a United States expansion will actually cost, take and require, before you sign anything.
Independent advisory. New Mexico, United States.
A written plan, not a deck
Every engagement ends in a document your bank, your accountant and your team can each act on.
Numbers before opinions
We start from your accounts, your contracts and your pipeline. Advice comes after the reading, not before it.
One firm, no handoffs
The person who does the sounding is the person who stays with the work. No junior takeover after the sale.
The entity was the easy part
Forming a US company takes a week. Making it operate takes a plan, and most of the failures happen after the certificate arrives.
01
The bank says no and will not say why
An application is refused, then the next one, and nobody explains that the problem was the description of the business, not the business.
02
The pricing was copied, not calculated
European margins carried into a market with different acquisition costs, payment fees, taxes and payment terms.
03
Contracts written for the wrong jurisdiction
Terms translated from home templates, with liability, termination and payment clauses that will not hold up here.
04
Nobody owns the back office
Filings, registered agent, sales tax, bookkeeping and renewals with no calendar and no owner, until something lapses.
What we work on
Five areas. We take on the ones you actually need, in the order that unblocks the rest.
Market entry plan
Who buys, at what price, through which channel, and what the first twelve months cost in cash. Written as a sequence with owners and dates, not as a forecast.
Banking and payments readiness
Getting the company presentable before it applies: business description, documentation, activity evidence, processor fit. We prepare the file and rehearse the questions.
Contracts and commercial terms
Client agreements, supplier terms, statements of work and payment terms reviewed for how they behave in a dispute here. Drafting is done with your counsel, not instead of it.
Pricing and unit economics
Rebuilding the price from acquisition cost, processing fees, delivery cost, tax and payment delay, so the margin survives contact with the market.
Back office and compliance rhythm
One calendar for filings, renewals, bookkeeping and reporting, with a named owner per line and a monthly review that takes an hour.
How an engagement runs
Four movements. You can stop after any of them and keep everything produced up to that point.
01
Sounding
Two weeks. We read the accounts, the contracts, the pipeline and the market. You answer questions; we do the reading.
02
Chart
One document. The plan, sequenced, costed, with the risks named and an owner against every step.
03
Passage
We work the plan with your team, weekly, for as long as the work needs. Decisions get made in the meeting, not after it.
04
Handover
Your team runs the rhythm. We stay reachable for the questions that come up in the first months after.
What we need from you to start
Nothing unusual, but the work does not begin without it.
—The last twelve months of accounts, or since you started
—The contracts and templates you are using today
—One person on your side who can make decisions
—An honest number for what the expansion can absorb
—Two hours a week during the active phase
The method in one line
We read the accounts, the contracts, the pipeline and the market before we say anything. Everything we recommend has to survive that reading.
How we are engaged
Three formats. Each one is quoted per engagement after the first call, in writing.
Sounding
Two weeks, fixed scope
The diagnostic on its own. You get the reading and the findings, and you are free to act on them without us.
- Accounts, contracts and market read
- Findings session
- Written summary with priorities
Chart
Sounding plus the plan
The full written plan, sequenced and costed, ready to hand to your bank, your accountant and your team.
- Everything in Sounding
- The plan document
- Two revision rounds
Passage
Monthly retainer
We stay through execution. Weekly working session, decisions in the room, and the back office rhythm set up and running.
- Everything in Chart
- Weekly session
- Direct line between sessions
No prices are published. Fees are quoted per engagement and set out in a written engagement letter before work begins.
Book a first callWho this is for
A good fit
- ICompanies with revenue at home that want the United States to be a second real market, not a mailbox
- IIFounders who already formed the entity and now need it to operate
- IIITeams that will make decisions in the room and act on them the same week
Not a fit
- IAnyone looking for a bank account guarantee, an approval shortcut or a nominee arrangement
- IIPre-revenue ideas that need funding before they need an operating plan
- IIIWork that is really legal, tax or accounting practice, which we do not perform
From clients
The reading was uncomfortable and completely correct. We changed the price before we launched instead of after.
Marta R.
Operations director, industrial supplier
Two applications had been refused before we spoke. The third went through with the file they helped us prepare.
Daniel V.
Founder, software services
What I actually needed was a calendar and someone to hold me to it. That is what I got.
Elena C.
Managing partner, design studio
Questions we are asked
No. No consultant can. We prepare the company and the file so the application is credible, and we rehearse the questions with you. The decision belongs to the bank.
No. Sondag LLC is a business advisory firm. We work alongside your counsel and your accountant, and we will tell you plainly when a question belongs to one of them.
It is the normal case. Most of our work starts after formation, when the company exists on paper and has to start operating.
The sounding is two weeks. The plan follows within two more. Execution support runs monthly and most clients stay between three and six months.
We quote per engagement after the first call, in writing, with the scope attached. We do not publish prices because the reading changes what the work is.
Yes. Sessions, documents and correspondence in Spanish or English, whichever your team works in.
Thirty minutes. You describe the situation, we tell you whether we are useful and what we would look at first. If we are not the right firm we say so on the call.
Start with the reading
Tell us where the company is and what the United States is supposed to do for it. We will tell you what we would look at first.
Or write to us directly
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