Find Opportunities. Build Relationships. Create Growth.

I help product manufacturers, contractors and builders, and nonprofit organizations identify new opportunities, build the right relationships, and develop practical strategies to grow revenue and impact.

My approach combines design, business development, market intelligence, and relationship-building to help organizations create opportunities rather than simply wait for them.

Two Ways I Help Grow Revenue

Create New Opportunities

Markets + Projects + Relationships

I identify where new revenue can come from — new projects, markets, specifications, partnerships, services, customers, or uses for existing property.

The goal is to find meaningful opportunities before they become obvious, competitive, or commoditized.

Capture More Value

Positioning + Strategy + Execution

I help determine how to pursue the strongest opportunities through better positioning, relationship development, specification strategy, partnerships, design thinking, and business development.

The goal is to turn opportunity into qualified pipeline, revenue, NOI, or long-term business value.

Who I Help

  • Product Vendors

    Build architect relationships, uncover projects earlier, improve specification strategy, and create more qualified sales opportunities.

  • Contractors & Builders

    Create opportunities before the bid, strengthen owner and designer relationships, and differentiate beyond price.

  • Nonprofits

    Develop strategic partnerships, identify new revenue opportunities, strengthen programs, and build relationships that increase your organization's capacity to accomplish its mission.

From Opportunity to Revenue

  • 1. Identify

    Look for meaningful opportunities across markets, projects, relationships, specifications, services, partnerships, or property.

    Where could additional revenue come from?

  • 2. Understand

    Study the business, customers, market, current relationships, positioning, pipeline, and constraints.

    Why isn't that opportunity being captured today?

  • 3. Evaluate

    Assess demand, fit, competition, economics, decision-makers, timing, and probability of success.

    Is this opportunity worth pursuing?

  • 4. Build the Strategy

    Define the positioning, relationships, outreach, partnerships, specification strategy, or property concept needed to pursue it.

    What is the smartest path forward?

  • 5. Help Capture It

    Stay involved where useful to develop relationships, support business development, advance projects, improve specifications, or help guide implementation.

    How do we turn the opportunity into revenue?

About Me

Michael McCullough

After nearly two decades working across design, construction, specifications, and business ownership, I started noticing the same pattern:

Many of the best growth opportunities are created long before the traditional sale.

A product may be selected months before it is purchased. A contractor may have an opportunity to help create a project before it is ever put out to bid. A nonprofit may have untapped revenue through partnerships, programs, and relationships it has yet to develop.

That is where I work.

I combine design thinking, market insight, business development, and relationship strategy to help clients identify opportunities earlier and develop practical ways to pursue them.

You work directly with me throughout the engagement, with additional specialists brought in when needed.

My goal: Find opportunities worth pursuing and create substantially more value than the cost of my involvement.