For local businesses
Free consulting for local small businesses.
Trained UCF student teams, guided by faculty and working consultants, analyze your toughest business challenge and hand you practical recommendations. At no cost, ever.
Sound familiar?
The problems we help with
If any of these hits close to home, you're exactly who this program is for.
Not enough customers
Low sales or slow growth
Unsure what to charge (pricing)
Marketing or social media
Messy operations or slow processes
No clear plan for growth
How it works
From “something's off” to a plan, in four steps
Reach out
Fill out the short inquiry form below (or email us). A sentence or two about your business and what's bothering you is plenty.
We scope your challenge
A quick conversation to turn “something's off” into one clear, answerable question we can take on.
A student team digs in
A team of 3–4 trained students analyzes your challenge over several weeks, with faculty and working consultants guiding the work.
You get practical recommendations
Clear findings and specific next steps you can act on immediately. Yours to keep. There is no invoice.
Why trust student consultants?
Because they're not working alone
Guided, not guessing
Professors and working consultants review every engagement before recommendations reach you.
Trained every week
Our members practice business analysis weekly with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, and R. Your project is where that training pays off.
Genuinely free
No fee, no upsell, no strings. Students get real experience; you get real help. That's the whole exchange.
Get started
Tell us about your business
Takes about two minutes. We'll follow up to scope your challenge together.
Business Inquiry
A few quick questions about your business and the challenge on your mind.
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