Strategy & Due Diligence Analyst.

About the work

The consulting practice at StartPro produces three kinds of documents on rotation:

• Business plans for founders applying to the Canada Start-Up Visa program or the UK Innovator Visa program. These are not generic templates — each one is built around the specific market, regulatory environment, and operator behind the venture.
• Due diligence reports for investors and incubators reviewing early-stage ventures. We assess market, financial, technical, and operator risk in writing.
• Feasibility studies and pitch decks for ventures earlier in their journey — when the question is not "is this fundable" but "is this real."

You would be the second writer in the room. You would not lead engagements on day one. By month six, you would.

What you'll actually do

• Run primary market research — interviews, regulatory reading, competitor analysis — and synthesize it into something a reader can act on.
• Build the financial side of business plans: bottom-up models, unit economics, sensitivity tables. We do not use template spreadsheets; you would build models that fit each business.
• Write. Most of the role is writing. Plain, structured, defensible prose. We do not write fluff and we cut yours, gently, when you do.
• Sit in client calls, take real notes, and translate what was said into what the document needs to say.
• Help maintain our internal market-research library — the place we keep findings we have already paid to produce, so we do not produce them twice.

What you bring

• Three-plus years in a research-and-writing-heavy role: management consulting, equity research, market research, journalism, or similar. The job title matters less than the actual writing output you can show us.
• Strong, plain English writing. Send us one published piece, one internal memo, or one document you would re-read and not be embarrassed by.
• Comfort with spreadsheet modeling — DCFs, unit economics, simple Monte Carlo where appropriate. We do not require finance pedigree, but you should know what a working capital line does to a model.
• Reading literacy across at least one of: healthcare/biotech, fintech, climate-tech, industrial software. We pick up the rest by reading.
• Curiosity that is bigger than your domain. The next file we open might be a logistics venture; you should be the kind of person who reads a 200-page regulator report on intermodal freight without complaining.
• Eligible to work in Canada.

What we are not looking for

• Consultants who define value by deliverable size. We will reject the eighty-page version and ask for the twelve-page version.
• Generalist "AI-first researchers" who run prompts and ship the output. We use AI in the loop; we do not ship its first draft.
• People with no interest in operators. Our clients run real businesses. Detachment shows up in the writing.

How we interview

• Conversation (45 min) with the founder. Background, samples discussed.
• Writing exercise (paid, 8 hours of your time, due in a week). We send you a brief — an anonymized venture we have actually worked on — and you write the first three sections of a due diligence report. We pay CAD $400 for this, whether or not we move forward.
• Debrief (60 min). We walk through your draft together. The discussion is more important than the draft.
• Reference and offer within a week.

Benefits, plainly

• Compensation as listed above.
• In-person at our Concord, ON office, five days a week. The work is collaborative — kickoffs, deck reviews, and the unstructured conversation that makes the research land. You should expect to be in the room.
• Four weeks paid vacation, plus the holiday closure.
• Health and dental after three months.
• Equipment of your choice; the writing happens on whatever keyboard you want.
• $2,500 annual learning budget. Conferences, certifications (CFA candidacy reimbursed by stage), books.

Send a note to careers@startpro.ca with one writing sample and one paragraph on a market or industry you have a non-obvious opinion about.