Win back the time to grow your business.
Ardea redesigns processes and tools for SMEs, so the hours lost to email and spreadsheets go back into running the company.
Italy · Costa Rica · Panama
Capabilities
Strategy and processes
Clear goals, with each step designed around how the company really works.
Software and integrations
The right software, properly connected, so each piece of information is entered just once.
Data and automation
Figures you can take in at a glance, and routine tasks handed over to systems.
Digital presence
Clear, well-organised websites and portals, built for your customers.
- Marketing engineering
- Finding new customers, methodically: a shortlist of target companies, the first approach, content and campaigns.
- Process engineering
- Documents, steps and tools redesigned so that no quote is left sitting in an inbox.
- Automation engineering
- Reminders, CRM and dashboards run by systems, with nobody having to step in.
Marketing engineering
More customers and a steady stream of new leads
A system, built on data and method, that looks for new customers every day.
- Prospecting and outreach
- Companies chosen one at a time, each with its own message, followed up promptly.
- Content and campaigns
- Posts, videos and campaigns scheduled in advance and judged on the enquiries they bring in.
Process engineering
Less time spent on paperwork and spreadsheets
Workflows redesigned around the people who do the work.
- Email and documents
- Every document reaches the right folder and the right person, so nobody has to go looking for it.
- Processes and integrations
- Data passes from one application to the next without anyone retyping it.
Automation engineering
Routine tasks handled automatically: CRM and reminders
Routine work handed over to systems that run on their own.
For Eurogas and the Buoi Rossi group: cylinders, stock, invoicing and hotel margins that work themselves out.
- CRM and reminders
- Every contact has a next step in the diary, and reminders go out the day they fall due.
- Dashboards and software agents
- Decisions made on today’s figures, with recurring paperwork left to software agents.
One process at a time.
The site visit.
Half a day at your premises to see how the work is done today: email, spreadsheets, quotes, who does what.
Choosing the process.
Just one: whichever takes up the most time today.
Building on site.
We build the system alongside the people who will use it, and test it on their day-to-day work.
Measuring the results.
Time saved and steps cut, measured against your own figures. Then on to the next process.
Clients include
- Eurogas
- Buoi Rossi
- Castello di Piovera
- WallBang
Gabriele Ciravegna
Founder
Studied at the United World College of the Adriatic, with a background in economics and project management. He watches how a business works, then designs the system around it.
Mauro Corbino
Engineer · formerly of Ferrari
He learned the discipline of engineering design at Ferrari and applies it to systems that stand up to daily use.
Angelo Quintana
Business development · Costa Rica
Sales management, with training at INCAE Business School. He puts data and artificial intelligence to work in sales.
Paola Quiros
Business strategy · Costa Rica
More than nineteen years of business strategy at Amazon, and now at INCAE Business School. She brings the discipline of someone who has run operations at scale.
- What does Ardea do?
- Ardea is a consultancy based in Alessandria, Italy. It builds systems around the way SMEs work: documents and processes, customers and figures, digital presence, and marketing engineering. It applies strategy, processes and technology to everyday work.
- How do I start working with Ardea?
- Ardea spends half a day at your company to see how you work today: email, spreadsheets, quotes, who does what. You and Ardea then pick a single process, the one that costs the most time, and rebuild it with the people who use it.
- How are results measured?
- Ardea measures the time saved and the steps removed against your own figures, one process at a time. Once one is finished, Ardea moves on to the next.
- How do I get in touch with Ardea?
- Email gabriele.ciravegna@ardea.consulting. The first conversation is a thirty-minute call, by phone or video, to work out where a system would save you the most time.
One call, by phone or video, to pin down the process that takes up most of your time. After that, it’s your call.