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Engagements are awarded.
Not sold.

NEXARCHE™ operates a fixed number of principal mandates at any time. Intake is selective by structure. The application below is the only route to a Nexarche Architect Retainer, and to a governed NXA OS™ deployment for ventures from their first million in revenue upward.

Who NEXARCHE™ is for

Principals, not procurement.

I

Principals of consequence.

Founders, owner-operators, and family principals who govern firms generating €1M to €500M+ and who carry final accountability for capital, legal, market, and operating decisions. Scale is not the qualifier; accountability is.

II

Ventures the founder can no longer hold alone.

Start-ups past their first million, scaling companies, holding groups, and family offices where fragmented counsel, freelancers, agencies, and early executive hires have stopped producing coherent governance and the principal has become the only integration layer.

III

Operators preparing for permanence.

Principals approaching a seed or institutional raise, a recapitalisation, a generational transition, or an exit who require the venture instrumented as a single sovereign architecture before the event, not after.

Who it is not for

Structural disqualifiers.

Applications matching the criteria below will not be reviewed. The standard exists to protect mandates already in delivery.

  • 01

    Operators seeking a single deliverable, a slide deck, or a workshop.

  • 02

    Pre-revenue ventures below €1M in turnover, or firms without a defined principal accountable for material decisions.

  • 03

    Inquiries routed through procurement, recruiters, or third-party intermediaries.

  • 04

    Engagements requiring NEXARCHE™ to compete in a panel pitch or RFP against advisory firms.

What to expect

The intake architecture.

  1. 01 · Application review

    Every application is read by the Apex Principal. There is no intake desk and no automated triage. Review concludes within ten working days.

  2. 02 · Architect Dialogue

    Qualified applicants are invited to a structured 90-minute dialogue. The objective is to determine structural fit, not to pitch the firm.

  3. 03 · Mandate or decline

    If the architecture is right, a Nexarche Architect Retainer is proposed within fifteen working days. If it is not, the decline is delivered in writing with reasoning.

Application

Submit for review.

All fields except Anything else relevant are required. Submissions are read by the Apex Principal. Do not attach confidential documents at this stage.

Describe the mandate. State the architecture you intend to build, refactor, or replace.

State the trigger: recapitalisation, succession, raise, regulatory event, or structural threshold.

Optional. Counsel, prior advisors, existing instruments, jurisdictional notes.

By submitting, you authorise NEXARCHE™ to review and store the application for the duration of the intake cycle.

After submission

Silence is not absence.
Every application receives a written response.

Review concludes within ten working days. Qualified applicants are invited to a 90-minute Architect Dialogue. A Nexarche Architect Retainer is proposed within fifteen working days of the dialogue, or a written decline is issued with reasoning.