Clients commission a consulting report to get an answer they can act on, not a record of everything you did. This template leads with an executive summary and a recommendation, then sets out scope, approach, rated findings with charts, ranked decisions with owners, a three-phase roadmap and an appendix glossary. Headings state the conclusion, so the document reads from the titles alone.

The sample is a ten-week engagement by Ironvale Services for a fictional housing association, finding that repeat repair visits cost £2.1M a year and that six changes recover £1.4M of it. Replace the findings, the benefit and cost figures, the owners and the roadmap dates first, rewrite the executive summary last, and move method detail to the appendix.