About
The pattern recognition that took twenty years to develop in the enterprise world doesn't cost $500,000 to apply here.
Tim Hislop became a VP at 35 by doing one thing repeatedly: walking into rooms where something wasn't working and making it work. Not through mandates. Not by following instructions. By understanding the problem clearly enough to make the right call — and being accountable for what happened next.
In commercial technology services, he learned what operational efficiency looks like when it's real — not a slide deck, not a dashboard, not a recommendation with seventeen caveats. A result. Savings that showed up in the numbers. Processes that actually ran the way the map said they did. Relationships that held because they were based on something true.
He also lived the problem he now fixes. He came up through a business that started at $2.5M, scaled to $15–20M, then to $50M — and watched the bottom line get thinner as the top line grew. More revenue, more overhead, more hours from the people who built it, and the only one who clearly came out ahead was a hypothetical investor. That's the pattern Sentir exists to break: a business that got bigger without making its owner richer.
From commercial to federal, the move was deliberate: "I bring commercial best practices to a market that hasn't had them." In commercial work, deals averaged $250K with $12M+ in annual revenue — solid, relationship-driven, operationally demanding. The federal translation changed the deal geometry entirely: $2M–$5M multi-year contracts and $30M+ in annual revenue, earned by applying what he already knew in a context where that experience was rare.
Sentir is the third translation. Enterprise rigor and hard-won pattern recognition, brought down to the owner whose business grew but whose profit didn't — at a price it could actually afford. The same instinct. The same accountability. A room that's smaller, and stakes that are more personal — which makes the work matter more, not less.
Tim spent the last decade in the enterprise world — watching what AI looks like when it actually delivers, and what it looks like when it's a demo with a good presenter. He knows the difference. He was at ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 watching enterprise AI demonstrations — most of it clickbait, some of it real, all of it built for organizations with large development teams and compliance mandates.
That knowledge — the ability to cut through the noise honestly — is the most valuable thing he brings to a $20M business owner who's been pitched three times this year and is still confused.
He's not anti-AI and not a skeptic. He's the person who's seen enough of both to tell you which is which. That's rare. And in a local market being flooded with vendor pitches, it's exactly what's missing.
"These clients built something real and are proud of it. My job is to sit across from them and actually listen — then show them what I found, in numbers they can take to their banker."
The Approach
First meeting is honest and free. Tim asks the questions most consultants skip — about the owner, the succession plan (or lack of one), what keeps them up at night, and what they've already tried. If Sentir can help, you'll know it in that meeting. If not, we'll tell you that too.
$5,000. Four to six weeks. We go inside the business — processes, financials, people, systems. We document what we find and verify what we claim. The deliverable is a clean, specific report that holds up in front of your CFO, your banker, or a buyer's due diligence team.
Gain-share: 20–25% of verified first-year savings, paid quarterly as savings are realized. We only get paid when the savings hit. That alignment is intentional — it means we're in this together, not handing you a document and leaving.
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