Every Sans Silos engagement begins by building a shared understanding of the opportunity, the constraints, and the systems behind them. Before decisions are made — about products, partners, or investment — we take time to explore the problem space and the solution space together. This early work helps teams see what’s possible, what’s risky, and what truly matters.

Quick Opportunity & Supplier Scan
A short, structured engagement to surface better information early — exploring feasibility, constraints, and partner requirements so internal decisions are better informed. Often used to decide whether and how to proceed, before committing significant time or budget.

Full Product & System Development
When the opportunity is confirmed, we extend the work across the full Sans Silos Flow™ — shaping the product, testing opportunity–partner fit, co-designing the system around it, and supporting delivery over time. Designed for long-term consistency, not one-off success.

Targeted System Support
For programs that don’t require a full end-to-end engagement. We step in where it’s most useful — refining the opportunity, stress-testing partner fit, supporting delivery, or strengthening learning systems. Always grounded in an understanding of the wider system.

Strategic Advisory
Independent thinking for teams managing ongoing South African portfolios — supporting forecasting, supplier strategy, risk exposure, and financial architecture without adding operational complexity.

We are a product and system development partner for South African wine — built for clarity, alignment, and reliability.

We Work:

• between your category and portfolio strategy and the realities of South African production
• alongside your buying, technical, and brand teams
• in conversation with producers, bottlers, and key partners

You hold the brand, the consumer insight, and the commercial decisions.
We hold the structure that connects those decisions to a system capable of delivering the product consistently.

What We Hold

1. The Opportunity Space

We help ensure the brief reflects the real opportunity: category role, consumer insight, portfolio intent, timing, constraints, and feasibility — the foundation for shaping the right product.

2. Matching the opportunity to the right partners

We assess partners for capability, commercial structure, timing, incentives, and long-term fit — ensuring the opportunity and the supplier genuinely belong together.

3. The Project Spine

We ensure teams stay on the same page, with clarity around who needs to know what, when, and why.
This is the connective tissue that prevents gaps, delays, and misinterpretation.

4. The Learning Loop

We capture and structure what each cycle teaches — strengthening the chain and improving performance

What collaboration actually looks like

Meetings

Conversations are purposeful and documented. Sessions are recorded confidentially and summarised using secure transcription and AI summaries, so decisions, nuances, and open questions are captured accurately and shared clearly.

Shared Working Space

Each project is anchored in a living Notion document — holding the opportunity framing, decisions, assumptions, constraints, partner input, and next steps as the work unfolds.

This becomes the shared reference point across buying, brand, technical, and supply teams.

Supporting files and references are shared through secure, access-controlled folders linked to the project workspace.

Decision Clarity

Key decisions are captured in one place, with context. This reduces rework, prevents misinterpretation, and supports confident progress.

Working With Partners

Value chain partners are brought in with the right level of context at the right time — enabling them to engage thoughtfully and contribute in ways that fit both the opportunity and their own capabilities.

To protect clarity and alignment:

• Sans Silos does not invoice for wine, packaging, or production

• Nothing passes through our books

• Commercial relationships remain directly between you and your value-chain partners

Our role is to design, assemble, and support the value chain around your opportunity — holding alignment across relationships, decisions, and delivery as programs develop and scale.

We invoice for our services.
In longer-term engagements, fees may include a transparent, scale-linked component reflecting the ongoing work required as volume and complexity increase.

This structure allows teams to start small, build confidence, and scale intentionally — while keeping incentives aligned across the system.