Growth & Venture Building, built for measurable impact
Led by founder-grade product, growth, and GTM leaders with real-world enterprise venture experience, Outsized Teams deliver outcomes spanning growth strategy, opportunity validation, MVP development, and go-to-market enablement.
Growth & Venture Building support, designed for real performance
From idea validation to repeatable growth, Outsized Teams help you move faster and build smarter. Each engagement blends strategic thinking with hands-on delivery – ensuring every venture initiative achieves measurable impact, faster.
Growth Strategy
Identify high-potential opportunities and validate commercial viability quickly. Our teams run rapid customer interviews, design hypotheses, and test low-cost experiments to prove demand before major investment — delivering validated opportunities with clear go/no-go decisions.
Opportunity Assessment
Design and run data-driven acquisition, activation, and retention experiments. Our operators test channels, optimise conversion, and refine repeatable customer acquisition paths — measurable, scalable growth channels built on real unit economics, not assumptions.
New Business Models & MVPs
Build customer-centric MVPs that prove new value propositions fast. From product design to engineering, our squads focus on what proves the model and serves early customers – working products in market within 8–12 weeks, not just wireframes and roadmaps.
GTM & Sales Enablement
Build pricing, packaging, and sales motions that convert. From GTM playbooks to sales training, our practitioners establish repeatable go-to-market foundations – predictable revenue and higher conversion rates, not pitch decks and pricing spreadsheets.
Growth & Venture Building at Outsized Teams is led by a seasoned venture and growth operator
Matt Dobbin
Outsized Capability Lead – Growth & Venture Building
- Shaped $100M+ complex multi-partner deals at EY, IBM, and PwC, launching innovative industry ecosystems and cutting-edge growth strategies.
- Led IBM Investment Fund, building corporate venture capital entities globally with focus on portfolio optimization and new asset creation through acquisitions and strategic partnerships.
- Originated intelligent data center transformation venture in MENA, enhancing AI workload management and ESG compliance, scaling globally via tech vendors and infrastructure funds.
- Developed multi-tenanted third-party risk management platform for oil and gas, pivoting into revenue generation asset involving tech vendors and infrastructure funds.
Experience from:
Growth & Venture Building consulting in action
Rapid validation of automation and margin enhancement
A professional services firm needed to validate automation and AI opportunities and develop a board-ready business case for margin enhancement over 2-3 years.
Challenge:
Leadership identified optimisation opportunities but needed credible implementation plans with quantified financial impact. They needed rapid validation, rigorous business case, and board-ready plan within 4.5 weeks.
Solution:
Outsized curated a three-person team using DMAIC methodology to validate the quantified target number and identify specific opportunity initiatives. Undertook financial modelling, dependency mapping, and developed a phased roadmap with success metrics. Packaged findings into board materials, including a refined business case and Q&A preparation.
Impact:
Comprehensive board-ready business case with realistic financial projections. Validated opportunity assessment for measurable margin enhancement. Phased roadmap balancing quick wins with longer-term initiatives. Governance structure for effective execution.
This is what we were missing. The Six Sigma approach, and then the plan,
– Head of Operations, Global Professional Services Firm
helped us go back to the board in a credible way.
Your Outsized advantage: Built for fixed-scope execution – where traditional consulting models aren’t built to flex
We’re not here to replace your Big 4 or MBB relationships – we complement them. Large consulting firms excel at enterprise-wide transformations and long-term strategic programmes. But for fixed-scope projects often in the AUD 200k–2m range, their model isn’t designed for speed or agility. That’s exactly where Outsized Teams deliver – combining structure, accountability, and senior delivery talent without the overhead.
When to use Outsized
Teams
• You need a full delivery team built around a defined project scope
• The work requires multi-disciplinary collaboration and leadership
• You want structured governance, reporting, and accountability
• You’re focused on measurable outcomes, not just hours worked
• You prefer turnkey delivery without the overhead of large firms
When to use Outsized Talent on Demand
• You need specialist expertise to plug short-term skill gaps
• You’re building internal capability and managing delivery yourself
• The project is individual-contributor-led, not team-based
• You want maximum flexibility to scale resources up or down
• You’re comfortable owning coordination, delivery, and outcomes
“We used a Big 4 firm for our corporate innovation strategy and Outsized Teams for focused venture delivery where their model makes more sense – like our 12-week MVP programme. Different tools for different jobs.”
– Head of Innovation, Australian Financial Services Firm
How we deliver your projects through Outsized Teams
Outsized offers two flexible delivery models designed to combine quality, accountability, and speed – tailored to the complexity of your project. Each engagement is set up and quality-assured by Outsized to ensure clear structure, expert execution, and measurable outcomes from start to finish.
Option 1: Curated Teams
Built-for-you project teams of independent experts, hand-picked from our vetted network and led by an Outsized Capability Lead. You retain full project oversight while we handle coordination through a dedicated Delivery Manager.
• Outsized Capability Lead providing senior oversight and structure
• Outsized Delivery Manager coordinating execution and quality
• Hand-picked project team from Outsized’s 60k+ vetted experts
Option 2: Delivery via Boutique Partners
Alternatively, we connect you with specialist consulting firms that bring deep domain expertise. The boutique firm takes full accountability for delivery, while Outsized facilitates the partnership and ensures quality throughout.
• Delivery via vetted boutique consulting firms
• End-to-end accountability with proven methodologies
• Partnership management and quality assurance from Outsized
How does it work?
A proven consulting delivery model – designed by practitioners with real implementation experience, combining speed, control, and measurable business outcomes.
Discovery
Together, we translate objectives into a clear, outcome-based delivery plan. You get defined milestones, ownership lines, and measurable deliverables — removing ambiguity before mobilisation.
Team assembly (ca. 1 week)
Within days, your team is handpicked from our vetted independent experts or specialist boutiques. Each consultant or partner is selected for precise capability fit, chemistry, and execution track record.
Delivery & handover
We manage structured delivery with weekly governance, milestone reviews, and transparent reporting. On completion, we ensure full knowledge transfer to your internal team – so the impact continues.
In addition to project teams, we can support your overall talent-on-demand and staff augmentation needs
Talent-on-Demand
Quickly close capability and capacity gaps for your core functions and project teams. Onboard talent in days, not weeks or months. Access our platform of top independent consultants, skilled contractors, and seasoned experts with deep execution experience.
Bench by Outsized
Bench gives always-on access to curated and continuously updated and maintained talent pools of top-tier independents across high-priority skill areas. Outsized guarantees quality, depth and availability of talent, so you can immediate deploy skills as and when you need them.
Contract-to-Hire
Speed up and de-risk hiring for both you and the talent. With our Contract-to-Hire model, employers and talent get to know each other during a ‘try before you buy’ period – ensuring a great match for both sides. Escape lengthy, broken recruitment processes and confirm suitability through on-the-job performance.
Contracting-as-a-Service
An end-to-end solution to contract, pay, and manage your independent talent. We reduce the complexity, time, and risk of onboarding people who aren’t on your payroll. Most importantly, we ensure they have a great experience while you stay focused on results. Our suite of added-value services protects your brand and keeps your reputation in safe hands.
Get in touch to discuss how Outsized Teams can help transform your next initiative
Please let us know any questions you have, or if you would like to set up a discussion on how we can support you.