What your business is really doing
and the few changes worth making.
Manalo Advisory Group runs two lines. One works out where the value in your business actually sits and what to do about it. The other finds money you are already spending and gets it back. Most businesses need one, not both, and the first conversation is about working out which.
The business you picture and the business in your numbers drift apart.
Nobody decides to let it happen. A price stays where it was set years ago. A contract renews on terms written for a smaller company. Each one made sense at the time. Large companies pay analysts to catch the drift. Most owner-led businesses have nobody whose job that is.
That is the job. We work out what the business is really doing and hand you a short list of what is worth changing, with each item sized. The list is short on purpose, because a team already running the business can carry out three changes, not twelve. Sometimes nothing needs changing. When that is the answer, we say so.
Where the answer is money already leaving through contracts and spend, our cost recovery line gets it back and is paid only from what it recovers.
Discipline forged under real pressure.
Twenty years leading large-scale operations and technology strategy, in environments where precision, accountability and results are not optional. Multibillion-dollar programs and cross-functional teams. Mission-critical budgets managed down to the dollar, and the kind of operational rigor most organizations never get to see.
The same discipline goes to work on owner-led businesses, on what they are really doing and the few changes worth making. Different work, same standard.
The client comes first — always.
Most advisory starts with "here's what I do." We start with what your numbers actually say. On the recovery side that means performance-based fees and work done behind the scenes, so you are never out of pocket to find out. On the advisory side it means a fixed fee quoted before anything begins, never a percentage of anything, and a written answer you can hand to your accountant. Either way, if there is nothing here worth doing, we will say so. Roughly half of first conversations end there, and that is the process working.
Proudly veteran-owned & operated
A track record measured in billions — and precision.
Anthony operates at a scale and stakes few ever will, in environments where discipline, accountability and getting the numbers exactly right are the whole job.
$3.4B in UAS operations directed
Supporting 13,000+ missions and 120,000+ flight hours, alongside $9.5M in satellite budgets — earning Presidential-level recognition.
Electronic warfare strategy for 7,500+ combat sorties
Led 24/7 operations centers, doubled qualified personnel, and cut training timelines by 50% — performance under pressure, repeatedly.
$1.25B+ in R&D proposals evaluated for AFWERX
As an SBIR/STTR evaluator, reviewed 974 proposals and helped secure $263M in research funding aligned to strategic priorities.
Manalo Advisory Group
Applying that same forensic discipline to strategic advisory and cost recovery for businesses across the country.
Four commitments we don't bend on.
You know the price first
Recovery is performance-based, so you are never out of pocket to find out. Advisory is a fixed fee, quoted before any work starts, and never a percentage of anything.
No disruption
We work behind the scenes with your existing systems and vendors. No downtime, no chaos, no burden on your team.
Numbers you can check
Every figure ties back to your own records, and every headline number is worked out twice by different methods and reconciled. If it does not tie out, we say so rather than presenting it.
Specialists, not generalists
The work is delivered by our specialist network, each one doing a single category all day. On technology that network holds relationships with 900+ suppliers. Enterprise capability, personal attention.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, nine questions, nothing to prepare. At the end we tell you which of the two lines fits, or that neither does. There is no cost and no obligation either way.
