Your business is putting in the effort, yet cash flow remains unstable or profitability continues to decline.
In most cases the issue is not effort. It is structural.
Amor + Associates identifies the primary structural constraint limiting profitability, throughput, and cash flow so that effort can be directed where it actually restores performance.
No coaching. No growth‑at‑all‑costs. No pressure to act.
Most underperforming businesses don't lack ideas or effort. They reach a point where doing more produces less and where growth adds pressure and cash tightens instead of flowing.
This usually happens when the cash flow machine gets choked by a hidden bottleneck. The way that effort, time and money interact no longer lets normal work to convert into cash. That's why "common fixes" start backfiring.
If you're the owner or director, it's exhausting - everyone wants action, but you're the one carrying the consequences if the next move doesn't work.
Amor + Associates helps owners and directors decide what to do next. We work with businesses where performance has stalled, pressure has increased, cash running out the door and fixes that used to work no longer behave as expected.
Before acting, we establish whether the current shape of the cash machine can support improvement or whether pushing harder will simply increase the risk and accelerate cash burn.
Where correction is possible, we focus on the main distortion holding the business back. We change one thing at a time so cause and effect stays clear. Every change is tested against cash impact before it proceeds.
Our work replaces assumption with evidence and urgency with discipline.
Our diagnostic work is informed by formal turnaround, business economics, and constraint-based methodologies.
Member of the Restructuring, Insolvency & Turnaround Association of New Zealand.
Certified Turnaround Analyst (TMA Global).
Certified by the Theory of Constraints (TOCICO).
We separate determination from execution. We don't "start fixing" until it's clear that continuation is reasonable and cash risk understood.
This preserves independence and credibility, especially where director duty, funding or reputation is at stake.
To preserve independence:
The goal is simple: regain control of cash, protect optiond and know the next safe step.
A short eligability check to confirm decision authority, timing and the decision at stake. No advice. No pitch.
Verify what's driving the cash pressure, where is getting jammed and whether fixing things now would actually help or make it worse.
If it's safe to fix, remove the blocker to restore cash flow - or get evidence to Pause/Stop early and clean.
Short, board-grade insights on cash reality, viability boundaries, and decision discipline.
A short fit check to confirm whether a Viability Determination is the right next step. No advice. No pitch.