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New Partners — for operations & AI consultancies
Build a stronger consultancy.
Put New behind it.
The best operations and AI advisers increasingly find themselves in the middle of contracts, IP, data, AI risk, procurement and commercial decisions — whether they planned to or not. New gives you the infrastructure around that work.
Use New Legal for your own business. Bring us into your client engagements. Or, if you want a deeper partnership, join New and operate with our brand, commercial infrastructure and specialist support behind you.
01 — Your business
Put proper legal and commercial infrastructure behind your own consultancy.
02 — Your clients
Bring New into client work when legal, IP, data, AI or commercial risk appears.
03 — Join New
For selected partners who want to operate as part of New and build a broader proposition around our brand, reputation and infrastructure.
The market is changing
Clients expect more than implementation.
Operations and AI work no longer sits neatly in one box. An operations transformation uncovers contracts, contractors, IP, suppliers and commercial risk. An AI implementation touches data, customer commitments, vendors, confidentiality, IP, governance and procurement.
And larger clients increasingly ask harder questions before they buy.
“Who owns the output?”
“What happens to our data?”
“What are you promising in the contract?”
“Which suppliers and models are involved?”
“What happens if something goes wrong?”
“Can your business actually stand behind the work you're proposing?”
You can ignore those questions. You can try to become an expert in everything. Or you can build the right people around you.
That’s what New Partners is for.
01 — Your business
Let us do the legal around your consultancy.
You shouldn't be building sophisticated client businesses while your own contracts, IP and risk still live in old documents, AI prompts and founder memory. New Legal works with operations and AI businesses on the legal and commercial infrastructure behind the consultancy itself.
Win and structure client work
We can support you with:
- Proposals and statements of work
- Consultancy and services agreements
- Retainers and ongoing engagements
- Enterprise client terms
- Customer procurement
- Contract review and negotiation
- Payment, renewal and cancellation structures
- Scope and change-control mechanisms
The aim isn’t more paperwork. It is making what you sell clearer, easier to buy and safer to deliver.
Protect what you’re building
Your methodology, workflows, software, frameworks, prompts, automations, documentation and know-how can become some of the most valuable things in your business. We help you put the appropriate commercial and legal infrastructure around:
- Background IP
- Client deliverables
- Reusable methodologies
- Software and automations
- Licences
- Recordings and content
- Confidential information
- Contractor-created IP
- Collaborations and joint projects
Build a proper delivery chain
If employees, associates, freelancers or subcontractors help you deliver client work, your commitments to the client need to work all the way down the chain.
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Client
02
Your business
03
Delivery partner
04
Technology / vendor
So you know what you’re promising, what your suppliers are promising you and where the gaps sit.
Data + AI risk
For AI and automation businesses in particular, we help identify and manage the legal and commercial questions surrounding:
- Client and customer data
- AI vendors and subprocessors
- Confidentiality
- AI-assisted delivery
- Model and tool usage
- Generated outputs
02 — Your clients
Bring us into the client work when the legal side appears.
Most of what we do for partners sits inside their existing client engagements: a diagnostic, a call, a review, a clear position on risk. Nothing about it needs to look like instructing a law firm.
Diagnostics
A structured review of the client's contracts, IP position, data handling and AI usage — delivered as findings you can present alongside your own work.
We join your early calls
Bring us into a scoping or discovery call. We answer the legal, IP and risk questions live so you are never the one guessing in front of a client.
Input on your scopes
Pressure-test the proposals, statements of work and deliverables you are putting in front of clients before they are signed.
AI and data risk review
Governance for tools, prompts, training data, customer information and vendor terms — practical positions rather than a policy nobody reads.
Consultancy alongside you
Commercial, legal and risk consultancy delivered as part of your engagement, white-labelled or named — whichever fits the relationship.
Venture Shield where it fits
Where the client needs the underlying infrastructure fixed and kept current, Venture Shield provides it as a productised subscription, with tag-on consultancy support.
01
You spot the issue
Working inside the business, you notice unclear IP ownership, inconsistent client terms, unmanaged AI use or a contractor arrangement that was never papered.
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You bring us in
A message or a call. We can stay in the background or join the client conversation with you — your call, every time.
03
We diagnose it properly
We review what exists, what is missing and what the actual exposure is, and set out the options in plain language.
04
Choose the shape of support
Consultancy support alongside your engagement, a Venture Shield subscription for the recurring infrastructure, or both together.
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You look more complete
You keep the relationship and the credit. Your service answers more of the client's problem, so you win better work.
03 — Join New
For partners who want to build something broader with us.
Some operators don't want a referral relationship — they want the brand, infrastructure and specialist bench of a larger group behind their practice. That route exists, for a small number of partners.
Operate under the New brand
Selected partners deliver their work as part of New, with the reputation, positioning and market presence of the wider group behind them.
Commercial infrastructure included
Contracts, proposals, engagement terms, billing structures and risk frameworks are already built — you focus on delivery and client relationships.
Specialist support around you
Legal, IP, data and AI risk, tax, talent and technology specialists you can draw on rather than recruit.
A broader proposition
Answer more of the client's problem than an individual consultancy can, and pitch for larger, longer engagements as a result.
Selective by design
This route is not open to everyone. It suits established operators with a strong client base and a reputation worth combining with ours.
Start with a conversation
We talk about your practice, your clients and what a deeper partnership would actually look like before either side commits.
Why partner
We help you deliver a stronger service. You bring us in where we're useful.
Reciprocal, not transactional. Two professional disciplines working together — and the client ends up better supported than either of us manages alone.
Do your job more efficiently
Stop losing hours to questions outside your discipline. Get a straight answer from specialists who work with founder-led businesses every week.
Impress clients in the room
Name the issue accurately, explain the exposure and present a route to fixing it — on the call, not a week later.
Win more and better work
A more complete proposition wins larger engagements. Diagnostics regularly surface work for you as well as for us.
Protect your own business
Partners get preferential terms on Venture Shield for themselves, so your own contracts, contractors, IP, confidentiality, AI use and payment terms are as strong as those you recommend.
Keep the relationship
We complement you. You remain the trusted adviser running the operational or technical work.
Named people, not a form
You have a direct relationship with named advisers at New, with realistic timescales and clear pricing.
Where the lines sit
We are clear about what is consultancy and what is legal work.
Consultancy support and Venture Shield cover the repeatable and advisory layer. Formal legal work is a separate instruction, so nobody is guessing about scope or cost.
Consultancy & Venture Shield
Diagnostics, client calls, scope and proposal review, AI and data risk positions, everyday contracts, IP assignment, dispute mitigation and commercial frameworks.
Instructed separately
Unusual, bespoke or higher-risk matters requiring individual legal judgement are scoped and instructed separately with New Legal, with the cost agreed up front.
Who it's for
Built for embedded operations and AI experts.
Strongest where you work with founder-led businesses and hold ongoing, retained client relationships.
- Fractional COOs and operations consultants
- Operations agencies and boutique consultancies
- AI consultants and implementation partners
- Data, automation and systems consultants
- RevOps, commercial ops and transformation consultants
- Outsourced operations and scale-up teams
Partnership philosophy
We don’t want to replace the trusted advisers already helping a business grow. We want to make them stronger.
New works alongside operators, AI consultants, accountants and other specialists. The best businesses are supported by an ecosystem, not by one adviser pretending to know everything.
Become a partner
Build the right people around you.
Start with your own business, bring us into a client engagement, or talk to us about operating as part of New.