One advisor for finance, technology and the decisions that sit between them
Founder-led advice for businesses and investors when a decision cuts across commercial finance, technology and growth — including cross-border work. One person, from diagnosis through to a recommendation you can act on, or a solution built and handed over.
A cross-border move with financial, operational and legal dependencies. Growth that has outrun your systems, cash flow or structure. A technology, AI or digital-asset decision needing both technical and commercial judgment.
Pure regulated investment advice, pure legal or tax filing, large multi-team delivery, or work that just needs execution without judgment. Where specialist advice is required, it's coordinated with qualified external advisers.
Three practices. One principal.
Three focus areas — capital, technology and the relationships that move both — advised with the same rigor, by the same person, throughout.
Finance & Cross-Border Advisory
Structured counsel on capital allocation, cash flow and corporate financial planning — including commercial and financial planning for cross-border company moves, coordinated with qualified tax and legal advisers. Rates, cycles and market conditions used as scenario inputs where relevant to the decision. Clear numbers, defensible assumptions, a position you can act on or challenge.
Technology, AI & Digital Assets
Independent counsel on tooling, security and infrastructure, sized to a growing business. Where AI or automation genuinely earns its keep, it's built and tested against agreed reliability requirements before deployment. Digital-asset infrastructure and market mechanics evaluated on the same terms — the setup, not the asset itself.
Growth & Business Development
Sales process and proposals refined through practice — from first contact to closed agreement, including engagements where growth required financial and systems work coordinated alongside external legal advisers. Introductions are made selectively where there's a clear fit; any commercial interest in a referral is disclosed upfront.
How engagements are run
Scope and deliverables vary, but each engagement moves through the same three stages.
Diagnose the decision
Reviewing the relevant numbers, systems, stakeholders and constraints, then agreeing the decision to be made and the evidence required.
Set out options and trade-offs
A recommendation, the alternatives considered, key assumptions, material risks, sequence and cost — stated plainly, not buried in hedging.
Implement and verify
Where implementation is in scope, the work is built against agreed acceptance criteria, tested, and documented before handover.
Depending on scope, an engagement may produce a diagnostic brief, scenario model, recommendation paper, implementation plan, risk register, acceptance criteria and handover documentation.
A practice built since 2019
Nilsen Consulting is the practice of Sindre Nilsen, founded in 2019 — built on years in sales, and a network that comes from working across industries rather than staying inside one.
Somewhere along the way the work stopped being only about closing deals. People started bringing problems that had nothing to do with a sale — two parties who'd stopped talking, a project missing the right person more than a plan, a relationship that needed a way back to the table. Informally, and before there was a name for it, that became part of the practice too.
Recent work spans commercial and financial planning for cross-border company moves between Norway, Germany and other EU/EEA countries; supporting growing businesses with financial and systems work coordinated alongside external legal advisers; and operational risk analysis on digital-asset infrastructure and cross-border ownership arrangements. Clients are based across the EU and EEA — currently Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and Germany — with the practice open to suitable engagements elsewhere. The subject changes by engagement — the standard doesn't: understand the situation on its own terms, advise with a position worth defending, and see it through.
Representative work
Cross-border relocation
Commercial and financial planning for a company relocation between Norway and Germany — structuring, timing and coordination with local tax and legal advisers.
Growth, systems & structure
Financial and operational systems work for a growing business, coordinated alongside external legal counsel as the structure evolved.
Digital-asset risk review
Operational and structural risk analysis on a digital-asset infrastructure setup and its cross-border ownership arrangement.
Bring the question you're weighing
A short outline is enough to start: the decision, any deadline, and where the entities sit.
Typically scoped as a defined diagnostic, a fixed-scope project, or an ongoing relationship — agreed in writing before work begins. English (Norwegian available) · CET.
First conversation is short and specific — 20–30 minutes on the situation, what's realistic, and whether it's the right fit. No deck, no obligation.