When failure is not an option, we take command.
A specialist is assigned within the hour and on site the same day in Nairobi. We stop the loss first and explain it afterwards.
A consultancy built for the situations nobody planned for.
Fiasco was founded in 2008 by three partners who left Big Four practice for a simple reason: the report was never the hard part. Staying through execution was.
Today we do two things. We take command when something is going wrong right now — an incident, an investigation, a project in freefall, a story about to break. And we build the strategy, operations and controls that mean an organisation does not need us a second time.
Nine services, two pillars, one standard.
Every engagement is scoped in writing before it starts — what is included, what you receive at the end, and how long it takes.
Crisis & Recovery
For organisations dealing with something that is going wrong right now.
Strategy & Performance
For organisations building the capability to not need us next time.
What the work actually looks like.
Each engagement written up as situation, action and result — not a logo wall.
What clients say when the dust settles.
Attributed by role rather than by name — most of this work is covered by non-disclosure, and we would rather be accurate than impressive.
They took command on day one. Within a week we had one version of the facts instead of five, and the board finally had something it could act on. That alone changed the outcome.
The forensic report was the first document in the whole matter that nobody could argue with. Thorough, properly evidenced, and it held up when it was tested.
Our project had been written off by two previous advisors. Fiasco found the actual constraint in three weeks — and it was not the one everyone had spent a year arguing about.
They got us ahead of the story when we had a day and a half. We ended up being the credible source on our own incident, and that is entirely down to how they sequenced it.
What we have learned the hard way.
The Six Signals That Precede Almost Every Operational Collapse
Business disasters rarely arrive without warning. Across 300 engagements the same six precursors show up again and again — and each is visible months before the failure it predicts.
Amelia Wangui · 10 Mar 2026 · 5 min read
What Actually Happens in the First 30 Days of a Turnaround
When a project is declared unrecoverable, the recovery rarely starts where people expect. A week-by-week account of the diagnostic phase, and why the first answer is usually the wrong one.
Steve Nyagah · 12 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
The 72-Hour Window: Crisis Communications Under Real Pressure
A reputation takes years to build and one news cycle to lose. The tactical sequence we run in the three days after a story breaks — and the two mistakes that make everything worse.
Michael Wainaina · 13 Mar 2026 · 6 min read