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Strategy Management Software Designed for SMEs and Startups

For most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) strategy management platforms are highly intrusive, complex and expensive. With many SMEs resorting to alternative, strategy adjacent tools to manage their strategy.

Designed by your peers, Ciclo Strategy is purpose-built for experienced Advisors, SMEs and Startups with leadership teams who understand strategy but need better tools to manage it.

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Affordable & simple pricing model @ $28 per user

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  • "Impressive. Structured, but flexible enough to work with different types of strategy processes."

    Executive Coach

  • "I love the format. The reporting on strategic goals and suggestions to improve is super interesting."

    Agency Founder

  • I really like the ability to integrate our strategic plan into the way we actually work, rather than it just being a document that sits somewhere.

    CEO, Non-Profit

  • "We’ve realised that ‘no process’ is not that helpful. You need just enough structure. And I think Ciclo Strategy does that incredibly well."

    Strategy Director, Technology Agency

  • "A great way to aid a consultant and generate momentum with clients."

    Strategy Consultant

  • "The goals are exactly what you need to achieve for a startup … perfect.”

    Strategy Consultant

  • "At the moment it all exists in spreadsheets and Miro boards … we need this."

    Strategy Director

  • "This creates a cadence, a bit of discipline, without needing to get into every gritty project detail."

    Strategy Director

  • "For accountability, this is exactly the gap we’ve been trying to close."

    Strategy Director

  • "Ciclo helps us move from buzzwords to clarity. It forces us to get specific about what we’re trying to achieve."

    Head of Strategy

  • "It brings everything together in a way that makes sense — the mission, vision, dashboards. It’s cohesive."

    MD, Design Consultancy

  • "I’ve used a lot of products in this space. Ciclo feels different. It connects strategy to measurable stuff at the end."

    Managing Director

  • "This actually helps people who have no idea how to ‘do’ strategy. It guides you through one."

    MD, Design Consultancy

  • "It’s in the right space. You’ve nailed what a lot of us are trying to do."

    Managing Director

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What Alternatives Do You Have as an SME or Startup Founder?

Alternatives to Strategy Management Software for SMEs and Startups

The highly intrusive and complex nature of traditional strategy management software has forced SMEs like you to consider alternative, often unlinked, strategy adjacent tools to manage their strategy.

For example, tools like Miro boards, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, and project management tools are often stitched together to form adhoc solutions for strategy management.

The Results Are Limited

Unfortunately, these methods can limit your ability to manage strategy.

Often leading to an increased risk of siloed information, poor team alignment, lack of consistency, difficulty measuring strategic performance, delaying important decisions, and even good strategic plans being filed away and forgotten.

You Deserve a Working Solution

We built Ciclo Strategy to give you a real, affordable, all-in-one strategy management option.

What is Ciclo Strategy?

Ciclo Strategy is non-intrusive strategy management software built by your peers and powered by a purpose-built AI system to arm experienced Consultants, Advisors, Startups and SMEs with modern tools to manage strategy.

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What Makes Us Different?

Built By Your Peers

Our Ciclo team has spent decades developing strategies, leading organisations, and bridging the gap between vision and execution. We know first hand many of the challenges faced by consultants, SMEs and Startups in sourcing workable strategy managment tools.

Complete end-to-end strategy management tool

Ciclo helps you build and test strategy, execute your strategy with roadmaps, KPIs and aligned activities, and dynamically measure strategic performance with dashboards, analysis and on demand reporting.

Non-intrusive

Designed to link with your existing strategy processes and apps … not replace them.

Purpose Built AI

We didn't bolt AI onto existing software. We built Ciclo around an AI system designed specifically for strategy management from the ground up.

This means the platform understands strategic frameworks, recognises patterns, and provides relevant feedback throughout the entire strategy lifecycle.

Our Philosophy on AI

We believe AI should amplify human expertise, not replace it. A highly experienced strategist, consultant, or leadership team becomes more valuable when using Ciclo.

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A Ciclo demo is a relaxed conversation with a peer, where you can share how your team works, and get a clear sense of whether Ciclo is right for you.

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There are no limitations to a Ciclo trial. Get full access, test your exisiting strategy or build one from scratch. You will be surprised what you can do in 30 days.

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Simple Pricing …

Full software + 3 Users

AUD per month - Billed Annually

$70

AUD per month - Billed Monthly

$84

Additional Users

AUD per month - Per User

$28

Includes everything detailed below …

End to end Strategy Management Software …

Strategy Development

Enhanced strategic planning capabilities:

Get started in minutes not months - Upload your existing strategy, decks, docs or notes. Ciclo’s AI extracts goals, KPIs, and initiatives to populate your workspace.

Build and test strategy fast - With deep feedback on what’s strong, what’s missing, and how to improve.

Keep goals, targets, and vision aligned from the start with clear guided strategy stages.

Refine, clarify, and strengthen your strategy with AI - An intelligent second opinion that validates and enhances your client work.

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Strategic Execution

See which strategic goals have real work planning against them … and which are being ignored … with tailored roadmap initiative recommendations.

Instant visual progress charts, baselines, and targets with focused KPI dashboards, linked directly to your strategic goals.

Your day-to-day work now drives strategic objectives with team visibility and accountability across roadmap, actions, and KPI’s.

Reduce team alignment issues - Integrate Ciclo with your exisitng system to minimise challenges associated with change.

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Strategy Performance

Stay on top of broad measures of organisational performance - Your strategy health check provides a holistic view of progress across every team, roadmap, KPI, and action.

Fast, expert-level feedback to sharpen your thinking before sharing it with investors or your team.

An intelligent second opinion that validates and enhances your client work, surfacing client opportunities and execution blind spots.

Link the apps your team use now - Reduce double handling, siloed information, human error and meeting prep time with Integrations.

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Reporting

Now you can make critical informed decisions in minutes. Typically, siloed data means wasted time and money collecting information. Delaying time critical decisions for SMEs.

On demand access to detailed performance criteria for decision makers - Quickly see what needs to be discussed at the next meeting.

Up-to-date insights at your fingertips highlighting progress, limitations and bottlenecks for faster, smarter strategic decisions.

Keep your leaders in the loop - Automate performance reporting with scheduled reports emailed to your team.

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FAQs

  • Ciclo’s embedded analysis engine acts as your personal strategy coach, providing personalised guidance at every step of the strategic planning process.

    Our AI helps you build your strategy by checking your strategic goals and targets against our knowledge-base of best-practice business strategy literature. We compare your strategy to your company data to identify internal inconsistencies or areas where the strategy may be poorly articulated, unclear, or unlikely to succeed.

    Once your strategy is in place, our AI continually monitors your strategic goals and initiatives, reporting on how aligned your actions are with your vision.

    This ongoing analysis ensures that your team stays focused and that operations consistently support your objectives.

  • Ciclo is designed specifically for the needs of small to medium-sized businesses across various industries.

    Ciclo’s flexible platform adapts to your unique needs and is ideal for organisations that recognise the need for strategic planning and operational alignment but may not have dedicated strategy departments or extensive resources.

  • No, you don’t. In fact, Ciclo is designed for people at all levels, from CEOs and executives to department heads and team members.

    The platform provides a best-practice strategic framework and AI-assisted guidance that walks you through each step of the planning process.

    This ensures you can develop and maintain a robust and actionable strategy without feeling overwhelmed, even if you’re new to the process.

    Our approach incorporates decades of literature and knowledge on strategy as well as our team’s deep practical experience. 

  • At Ciclo, we take data security very seriously. We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal and business information, including:

    • Data Encryption: all data is encrypted on disk when stored.

    • Secure Data Storage: Your data is stored securely on servers with robust network security protocols.

    • Access Controls: We enforce strict access controls to ensure only authorised personnel can access your data.

    Your trust is important to us, and we’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of data security to protect your information.

  • Ciclo has been designed to integrate smoothly with your existing systems and workflows, ensuring minimal disruption.

    We currently have limited built-in integrations, however, this is on our roadmap and more integrations will be developed as soon as possible.

    Please let us know what software you're using and what integrations you would like to see!

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