Client Voices
What it is actually like to work with Solva
Accounts from founders and leadership teams who have used our advisory engagements to work through strategy, planning and decision-making.
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Organisations
advised
4.8
Average
satisfaction
94%
Client
retention
6
Years of
practice
Client Reviews
In their own words
Tanawat Prachakul
CEO · Bangkok
We did the Discovery Session when we were trying to decide whether to expand into a second market or focus on deepening what we had. The session itself was well-structured — Nathalie listened properly before asking questions, which meant the conversation stayed relevant. The written summary gave us something concrete to work from. We ended up focusing on the existing market, which turned out to be the right call. Would use Solva again for a similar decision point.
May 2025 · Discovery Session
Sunisa Watthanakul
COO · Chiang Mai
The Quarterly Planning Partnership was genuinely useful for us at a point where our team was growing fast but the planning process had not kept up. Kasem facilitated the session in a way that kept things moving without feeling rushed. The milestone outline we came out with was actually used — which is not always the case with plans from outside advisors. My one note would be that the mid-quarter check-in was brief, though that may have been what the scope allows.
April 2025 · Quarterly Planning Partnership
James Lim
Managing Director · Bangkok
We have been on the Advisory Retainer for just over a year. The value for us is consistency — having someone who knows the background and does not need the full context every time. The quarterly reviews have become a useful anchor point for the leadership team. Solva does not push their own agenda on any topic, which I appreciate. It feels like working with someone who is genuinely trying to help us think, rather than someone who needs to show they have useful opinions.
May 2025 · Advisory Retainer
Apornwan Rojanasuwan
Founder · Bangkok
The Discovery Session helped me think through a hiring decision I had been putting off. I expected general advice but got something more specific — a set of questions I had not been asking myself. The written output was clean and actually reflected what we had discussed, not a generic summary. Good use of half a day and I did not feel any pressure to continue into a larger engagement, which made the decision to go ahead easy.
May 2025 · Discovery Session
Michael Ng
Director of Operations · Phuket
Our team used the Quarterly Planning Partnership coming into a busy season. It helped us actually commit to priorities rather than treating everything as equally urgent, which had been the problem. The facilitation was low-key in a good way — it kept us on track without being rigid about it. The milestone outline gave us something to point to when new things came up mid-quarter and we needed to decide whether they were worth pursuing.
April 2025 · Quarterly Planning Partnership
Piyanut Phongphan
Co-founder · Bangkok
We started with a Discovery Session and moved into the retainer six months later. Looking back, the Discovery Session was worth doing first — it gave both sides enough context to make the retainer more productive from day one. Now in month eight of the retainer. The async note facility is useful for smaller questions between sessions. The quarterly review is something I actually look forward to because it forces a perspective I would not take without it.
May 2025 · Advisory Retainer
Case Studies
A closer look at three engagements
Challenge
Consumer goods company, Bangkok
A five-person leadership team had been discussing an expansion into a second product category for two quarters without reaching a conclusion. The conversations kept circling back without producing a clear frame for the decision.
What Solva did
Discovery Session
A half-day session focused on mapping what the team actually knew versus what they were assuming, and identifying the two or three things that would need to be true for the expansion to make sense. The session concluded with a clear priority list and a set of questions to answer before deciding.
Outcome
Decision made within 3 weeks
The team chose to defer the expansion by one quarter to address a distribution gap first. The session helped surface that the core assumptions underpinning the expansion were not yet in place. The decision was made with less internal disagreement than previous discussions.
Timeline: 1 half-day session + follow-up
Challenge
Professional services firm, Chiang Mai
A growing team of twelve had a clear sense of their annual goals but struggled to break them into workable quarterly priorities. New requests kept displacing the planned work, and end-of-quarter reviews were producing mixed results.
What Solva did
Quarterly Planning Partnership
Facilitated a planning session with the leadership team to document objectives, build a milestone outline sequenced to actual team capacity, and agree on a simple decision rule for evaluating mid-quarter requests. A mid-quarter review session was held six weeks in.
Outcome
Three consecutive quarters of planned delivery
The team completed three consecutive quarters of largely planned work — a first for the organisation. The mid-quarter review helped them make one significant adjustment in the second quarter without derailing the overall plan. They continued into a second Quarterly Partnership in Q3 2025.
Timeline: One quarter with review checkpoint
Challenge
Technology company, Bangkok
A founder navigating a leadership transition — bringing in a CEO while stepping back from day-to-day management — needed a sounding board for decisions that did not fit naturally into conversations with either the incoming executive or the board.
What Solva did
Advisory Retainer — 14 months
Monthly sessions structured around whatever was most relevant at the time — sometimes the transition itself, sometimes decisions about team structure, sometimes longer-term strategic questions. Asynchronous notes addressed smaller decisions between sessions. Quarterly reviews provided perspective across the full arc of the transition.
Outcome
Transition completed without disruption
The leadership transition completed without significant disruption to the organisation. The founder described the retainer as the only advisory relationship during the period that stayed focused on what was actually happening rather than offering generic transition advice. The engagement ended at the founder's request once the transition was settled.
Timeline: 14 months
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