Talk to Sivad Enterprises
There are two ways in, and both reach the people who would run the work: send a note and get a written reply, or book fifteen minutes and get a plain answer on the call. If what you describe is not work Sivad is the right firm for, we will say so either way and, where we can, point you toward someone better suited.
Tell us what is stuck
A written reply comes back from the people who would carry the work, with a plain answer where the question has one and a suggestion for what a first call should cover where it does not.
A working call, not a pitch
Pick a time on the calendar below and it is confirmed the moment you choose it.
- Fifteen minutes, at no charge
- Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 8 to 9 PM Mountain
- No deck: we ask what you are trying to change, what has been tried, and who has to agree before anything happens
- You leave with a plain answer on whether this is work we can help with
If a colleague needs to be in the room, bring them; nothing is signed on a first call.
Pick a time
The calendar shows live availability, so a time that appears there is genuinely open. If you would rather book in a window of its own, the same page opens directly.
Questions and answers
How is an engagement scoped?
Pricing depends on the shape of the work rather than on hours, and a written number goes out before any work starts, because we do not begin work against a verbal estimate.
Do you work with small suppliers, or only with primes?
Both, and the work is not the same in each direction: a small supplier’s problem is usually leverage — how to hold price and terms against a prime that has a template subcontract, a flow-down list, and a procurement organization that negotiates for a living — while a prime’s problem is usually the reverse, plus compliance exposure at scale, and it tends to surface as supplier performance, cost and pricing data disputes, or a supply base that will not hold schedule.
A material part of what we teach comes from working the supplier side of a prime’s table and, after an acquisition, the prime’s side of the same table, which is a perspective no firm that has only ever worked one side can offer. Small suppliers are not a lesser tier of client here — they are frequently where the method makes the most immediate difference, because the gap between how they negotiate today and how the counterparty negotiates is widest.
Can you deliver on site?
On site, yes — training delivers better in a room than on a video call, particularly the negotiation exercises, and Sivad’s consultants travel for it, with travel shown as a separate line in the proposal rather than folded into the body of the work.
What actually happens on a first call?
Fifteen minutes, no presentation, and no deck: we ask what you are trying to change, what has already been tried, who inside your organization has to agree before anything can start, and what the deadline is that made you get in touch this month rather than next — you will do most of the talking.
At the end you get a direct answer on whether this is work we can help with: if it is, we describe what an engagement would look like and what it would involve, and you get that in writing afterwards; if it is not, we say so on the call rather than sending a proposal you did not need. Nothing is signed on a first call.