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No Juniors. No Handoffs. No Excuses. Why We Only Work with Seniors.

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Alfredo Guillén
Founder & CXO, OwnCX

The Problem with Traditional Consultancies

Ever hired a big consultancy? If so, you probably lived this experience:

  1. You meet a brilliant senior partner who impresses you
  2. You sign the contract
  3. The senior partner disappears
  4. A team of 25-year-old juniors with 2 years of experience shows up
  5. They spend 3 weeks "getting up to speed" with your operation
  6. They deliver a generic PowerPoint
  7. They charge you $200,000+ MXN per month

This isn't a stereotype. It's the standard business model of McKinsey, Deloitte, Accenture, PwC, and 90% of consultancies. It's called the "leverage model" — partners sell, juniors execute, margins are enormous.

The Hidden Cost of Juniors

Let's put real numbers on it:

  • A junior consultant costs the firm MXN 25-40K/month
  • The firm charges you MXN 80-150K/month for that same junior
  • The junior needs 2-4 weeks to understand your business
  • The junior makes mistakes the senior has to correct
  • The senior shows up at key moments (presentation meetings, crises) to maintain the illusion

You're paying senior prices for junior labor. And your project absorbs the learning cost of someone who will probably switch jobs in 18 months.

The OwnCX Model: Seniors Only, Always

At OwnCX we made a radical decision: we have no juniors.

Every person working on your project has a minimum of 10 years of experience in their field. The partner who sells to you is the partner who executes, is in the trenches with you, and is responsible for the outcome.

How is this economically possible? Three reasons:

1. AI as a multiplier. AI does the work that 3-4 juniors used to do: research, data analysis, document drafts, metric tracking. One senior with AI tools is more productive than a senior with 5 juniors.

2. Partner network, not payroll. Our 6 partners aren't employees with fixed salaries. They're independent professionals who bill per engagement. No office overhead, no bureaucracy, no management layers.

3. Controlled volume. We don't take 50 simultaneous clients like a big firm. We take few clients and give them total attention. We prefer 5 happy clients over 50 mediocre ones.

The Difference in Results

When a 15-year senior works directly on your project:

  • Diagnoses in days, not weeks. They've seen your problem 100 times before. They know exactly where to look.
  • Doesn't need supervision. You won't have weekly "alignment" meetings to make sure they understood the problem.
  • Makes decisions in real time. When an obstacle comes up, they don't need to "escalate to the partner" — they ARE the partner.
  • Their reputation is on the line. A junior can hide behind the corporate brand. A senior partner puts their name and credibility on every deliverable.

Who Our Partners Are

We're not consultants who read a book. We're operators:

  • CX at Amazon — not someone who worked at an agency that sold on Amazon. At Amazon directly.
  • Legal at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services — Head of Legal & Compliance. Not a lawyer who once wrote a contract for a car company.
  • Federal Government — former federal deputy. Not someone who "knows people in government."

The difference between real experience and invented experience shows in the first 5 minutes of a conversation.

Who We're NOT For

Let's be honest: OwnCX isn't for everyone.

  • If you're looking for the cheapest option, we're not it
  • If you need 20 people on your project, we're not it (yet)
  • If you want a pretty PowerPoint without implementation, we're not it

We're for companies that value results over presentations, execution over promises, and seniors over juniors in disguise.

The Promise

No juniors. No handoffs. No excuses.

The partner who sells to you is the partner who delivers. If we don't deliver, you tell us to our face — because we'll always be there.


*Want to work with seniors who execute? Book a call and meet the team that will work directly with you.*

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