Slap & Tickle Consulting
Practical leadership for complex work.
Slap & Tickle Consulting is the operating and client-facing consulting arm of the portfolio.
We help organizations bring structure, visibility, and disciplined execution to complex programs, technology efforts, business operations, and government-contracting activities. Our work is designed for leaders who need more than advice. They need someone who can assess the situation, create order, establish practical systems, and help move the work forward.
Engagements may include program leadership, PMO support, technology integration, operational improvement, executive reporting, business systems, capture support, and program recovery.
The approach is direct, owner-led, and grounded in real operating experience. Clients receive clear guidance, practical tools, and accountable support without layers of unnecessary consulting overhead.
Where Slap & Tickle fits
Slap & Tickle is the starting point for organizations seeking consulting, advisory, program leadership, or execution support.
Silver Seven Labs
From operational need to practical capability.
Silver Seven Labs is the technology, experimentation, and capability-development arm of the portfolio.
It exists to explore promising ideas, integrate emerging technologies, develop practical prototypes, and turn operational needs into concepts that can be tested, improved, and eventually deployed.
The focus is not invention for its own sake. Silver Seven Labs is built around mission relevance, system integration, field utility, and the difficult work of making separate technologies function as a coherent capability.
Potential work includes sensor integration, edge computing, situational awareness, operational dashboards, unmanned-system support, communications, automation, and technology demonstration packages.
Silver Seven Labs provides a place to build, test, document, and mature ideas that extend beyond traditional consulting.
Where Silver Seven Labs fits
Silver Seven Labs supports technical experimentation, product concepts, integration efforts, and emerging solutions that require more than a report or recommendation.
Silver Beard Years
Experience turned into something useful.
Silver Beard Years is the publishing, leadership, and practical-resource arm of the portfolio.
It was created to capture lessons earned through work, leadership, service, education, setbacks, and the accumulated experience of navigating complicated professional and personal responsibilities.
Through books, articles, digital resources, and practical tools, Silver Beard Years translates hard-earned knowledge into material that people can apply to their own work and lives.
The focus is honest, useful content rather than empty motivation. Topics may include leadership, career development, program management, technology, veterans’ experiences, education, personal growth, and the realities of building something later in life.
Where Silver Beard Years fits
Silver Beard Years gives the portfolio a voice. It turns experience into books, resources, and ideas that can reach people beyond a consulting engagement.
Septenary
The structure behind the ventures.
Septenary is the portfolio framework that connects the ventures and provides direction for their long-term development.
Its purpose is to ensure that the different brands do not become disconnected projects competing for attention, money, or identity. Septenary provides the strategic architecture for deciding what each venture does, how they support one another, where resources should be invested, and how the broader enterprise grows responsibly.
It brings together consulting, technology development, publishing, business systems, and future opportunities under one operating vision.
Septenary is not intended to replace the individual brands. It gives each one a clear role and creates a disciplined structure through which they can grow.
Where Septenary fits
Septenary is the portfolio-level strategy and governance layer. It is the connective framework behind the work rather than the primary client-delivery brand.
