I
Holding & participations
The company holds and administers participations in its own right — capital structure, governance and the reporting that keeps a group legible rather than a pile of entities.
ParticipationsGovernanceReporting
Holding · Consulting · Marketing · Software · AI
Services
Four disciplines that are usually bought from four suppliers. Here is what each one covers, and where we stop.
01 — What we do
Four working disciplines, one holding structure
Engage a single discipline or the whole chain. Internally we treat them as one job, because that is where the value actually sits.
II
Management consulting
Strategy, operating model and the unglamorous work of deciding what a business should stop doing. We write plans that can be funded and defended, not plans that read well.
StrategyOperating modelPrioritisation
III
Marketing & brand
Positioning, identity and campaigns that stay consistent from the pitch deck to the product to the paid ad. Measured against what it moves, not against how it looks.
PositioningIdentityCampaigns
IV
Software & applied AI
Internal tools, integrations and AI where it earns its keep — document handling, classification, support triage. We say plainly when a spreadsheet would do the job.
Product buildIntegrationsAI where it fits
02 — The boundary
And four things we do not do
Saying this plainly saves everyone time, and it is the part most firms leave out.
No regulated advice
We are not lawyers, auditors, tax advisers or licensed financial advisers. Where a mandate touches those, you get a written flag and a referral, not an opinion.
No lock-in by design
Systems are documented and handed over. If you can only run it while we are on retainer, we built it wrong.
No AI theatre
We use models where they measurably save time. Where a rule or a script is cheaper and more predictable, we say so and build that instead.
No ghost teams
The people who scope the work do the work. Nothing is quietly passed to a subcontractor you never met.
02 — Approach
How we work
A clear path from first conversation to a result somebody else can maintain.
Phase 01
Scope
What the problem actually is, as opposed to how it was first described to us.
Phase 02
Plan
Objectives, sequence and cost. Usually back with you inside two weeks.
Phase 03
Deliver
The work itself, in visible increments rather than one reveal at the end.
Phase 04
Hand over
Documentation, training and a clean exit. You should not need us afterwards.
In detail
How a mandate actually runs
Four stages, each ending in something you can read, use or reject. No black box and no month-long silence.
Stage 01 · Diagnose
Understand before proposing
We start with the numbers, the org chart and a handful of honest conversations. What comes back is a written diagnosis — including the parts nobody wanted to hear.
AnalysisInterviewsWritten finding
Stage 02 · Decide
A plan you can fund
Objectives, sequence, cost and the trade-offs stated openly. If two options are genuinely close, you get both with a recommendation rather than a single option dressed as inevitable.
RoadmapCostingTrade-offs
Stage 03 · Build
Brand, system or both
Whatever the plan needs: identity and campaign, or software and integrations. Built by the same people who wrote the plan, which removes the usual handover losses.
CreativeSoftwareIntegration
Stage 04 · Run
Measure and hand over
We instrument it, report in plain numbers, and document it so your own team can take it over. A dependency we created is a problem, not a business model.
MeasurementDocumentationHandover
Mandate structure · illustrativeActive
Typical span
3–9 months
Diagnose to handover
Team
Small
Senior, no pyramid
Written diagnosisStage 01
Funded roadmapStage 02
Build & integrationStage 03
Documented handoverStage 04
Illustrative structure — not a client engagement
04 — FAQ
Clearly answered
What does SYLTHERA actually do?
Two things at once. It holds and administers participations, and it does the operational work — consulting, marketing, software and applied AI. Some clients only ever see the second half.
Is this a consultancy or a holding company?
Both, and the imprint says so. The holding function is a legal and structural one; the consulting, marketing and software work is what you would engage us for day to day.
What size of engagement makes sense?
Enough to change something. Below roughly a few weeks of work the diagnosis is usually right and the implementation never happens, which helps nobody.
Do you use AI in everything?
No. We use it for document handling, classification, drafting and support triage, where it demonstrably saves time. Where a rule, a script or a spreadsheet does the job, we say so.
Who owns the work?
You do. Source code, designs and documentation transfer with the engagement unless we have explicitly agreed something else in writing.
Which markets do you serve?
We are registered in Cyprus and work across the EU. Correspondence and delivery in English and German.
Let’s talk
Have something that needs strategy and building?
Describe the situation in a few lines. You will get a straight reply — including when the honest answer is that you do not need us.