BTG, Expert360, and Catalant Are Trending This Week
The Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs. A 15% replacement landed the same day. Inside: consulting and fractional solutions for navigating tariff uncertainty, plus 6 verified business cases.
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The Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs last Thursday. By Friday, a new 15% global tariff was in place under Section 122 — with a 150-day clock before it expires or Congress acts.
The result: companies are staring at $133-179 billion in potential refunds, a tariff rate on China still sitting at 41%, and zero certainty about what comes next.
Every week, we analyze what buyers are researching across our database of 1,077 solutions, 1,492 verified case studies, and 1.1M+ inputs. This week, demand is flowing to Consulting, Strategy, and Operations.
When you can't predict costs 150 days out, you don't hire a permanent team to figure it out. You deploy specialists.
Below are solutions and business cases we think you should know about — specifically for navigating tariff uncertainty, supply chain restructuring, and the cross-functional work that both demand.
Trending This Week: Consulting & Strategic Advisory
Business Talent Group — #1 in Strategy
Critical talent for critical moments. BTG connects enterprises with highly experienced independent consultants, operators, and boutique firms for mission-critical work — exactly the kind of cross-functional expertise (tax, legal, supply chain, finance) that tariff navigation demands.
Capabilities: HR, Consulting, Finance
Expert360 — #1 in Management Consultants
Australia & New Zealand's vetted contract talent network delivering curated experts and teams within 48 hours. Strategy consultants, management consultants, change managers, M&A experts — the cross-functional expertise tariff navigation demands, deployed fast.
Capabilities: Strategy Consulting, Management Consulting, Change Management, M&A, Operations
Catalant — #3 in Consulting
Consulting 2.0 marketplace connecting enterprises with vetted independent consultants, operators, and boutique firms. Catalant specializes in the kind of strategic, project-based work that tariff uncertainty creates — trade compliance, supply chain re-engineering, and cross-functional transformation.
Capabilities: Strategy, Consulting, Operations
Also Worth Knowing: Top Fractional Solutions
When you need a CFO to model tariff scenarios or a COO to restructure operations — but can't justify a permanent hire with a 150-day policy window — fractional is the answer.
Malloy Industries — #1 in Executive Coaching
Fractional executive staffing firm providing on-demand leadership talent to growth-stage B2B companies. 350+ vetted specialists. When organizations need a fractional COO or VP of Operations to restructure supply chains without a permanent hire, Malloy delivers.
TechCXO — #3 in Fractional
On-demand executive leadership services delivering fractional and interim C-suite professionals — CTOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs. The broadest fractional C-suite coverage on the platform.
Go Fractional — #1 in C-Suite
Fractional executive platform connecting companies with proven, multi-exited leaders — CTOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs, CHROs — at 50% the cost of full-time hires. Built for companies that need senior operational leadership fast.
Verified Customer Results
~$500M Global Supply Chain Cost Reduction Over 3 Years
Catalant + $30B Beverage Company
Deployed independent experts who built a structured improvement methodology across pilot sites. 10% cost-of-sales reduction within 6 months, scaling to ~$500M in global supply chain savings over 3 years.
37% Ocean Freight Spend Reduction, $40.8M Saved
Catalant + $17B Consumer Products Company
Independent consultants ran a full RFP process across 3 bid rounds to address rising ocean freight costs. RFP to go-live in 14 weeks.
$60M Saved and 30% Rate Reduction Over 3 Years
Expert360 + NBN
NBN was scaling multi-hundred-million-dollar network rollout projects. Expert360 implemented a managed service model across business units. Onboarding satisfaction went from 15% to 90%.
42% Epic Cycle Time Reduction in 90 Days
Expert360 + Westpac
Westpac teams were drowning in uncontrolled work-in-progress. Expert360 deployed a Workflow Uplift solution. Report generation dropped from 2 weeks to 2 minutes.
2,800 Comp Plans to 260, $2.3M Annual Savings
TechCXO + GE HealthCare
GE HealthCare manually managed 2,800 unique comp packages for 3,500 sales employees. A fractional executive rebuilt the entire structure in 10 months. Processing costs dropped from $2.5M to under $200K annually.
55% YoY Revenue Growth via Fractional Executive
Malloy Industries + RightHear
RightHear struggled to break into the US market. A fractional executive bridged the cultural gap, built a repeatable GTM motion, and drove qualified inbound leads from 10 to 40 per month over 2+ years.
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