Juvantum
Juvantum LLC is a management consultancy based in the United Arab Emirates.
We work alongside the owners of small and mid-sized companies, above all in construction and its supply
chain, as their general manager: the numbers, the people and the processes that let the business
run and grow without depending on one person for every decision.
Juvantum comes from the Latin iuvans “the one who helps”. Iuvantum is its poetic genitive plural: of those who help.
Our symbol is a hoopoe, and it has carried the same meaning for three thousand years.
Four traditions, one purpose: to assess, to measure and to guide in the right direction.
We are not the kind of consultancy that hands over a report and leaves.
We work with the owner side by side, on one area at a time, and we stay on it until the change holds without us.
The role of a general manager, for as long as your company needs one. Working sessions with the owner by video call, an agenda built on the company's own priorities, and every session opens by checking what was agreed in the one before.
You know what a job is earning while it is still open, not when it is finished and nothing can be done. The cost of your structure, the margin job by job, the price below which you are working at a loss, and a cash plan that gets ahead of the bank instead of following it.
New work stops depending on your personal time. We rebuild the commercial process, the quotation and the follow-up, so that more of what you quote becomes work, at the margin you set and not at the one the customer asked for.
Your people decide the right things without calling you first. Roles, responsibilities, written procedures and reporting, supported by the tools that keep them alive: shared dashboards, job and site reporting, and automation where it removes work instead of adding it.
A structured session and a reading of the numbers you already have. You receive a written picture of where the company stands, what today's way of working is costing you and what to fix first, whether or not you go ahead with us.
An agenda built on your priorities, one area at a time, with the deliverables, the people responsible and the dates. Approved before any work starts and revised whenever those priorities move.
Regular working sessions by video call, each one closing with tasks for the company and opening with the check on the previous ones. What gets decided gets done, because the next session starts from there.
At the end of each cycle we measure what changed, with the numbers, and we rebuild the plan around what the company has actually absorbed rather than around what was written at the start.
We work with owner-led small and mid-sized companies in Europe and in the Gulf, above all in construction and its supply chain, where most decisions still pass through one person and the numbers arrive too late to change anything.
No more sites that depend on you alone
No more margins found only at the end
No more fees that ignore the real hours
No more orders won on discount alone
A fixed monthly fee covering the general management programme: the working sessions, the models and documents we build with you and the support in between.
For one area with a defined end: a costing system, a commercial process, a reporting structure. Priced on the approved plan and invoiced against milestones.
For assessments, second opinions and short assignments.
Mario Menzio did not come to this work from a consulting firm. He trained as an architect, worked at Renzo Piano Building Workshop and then ran his own practice in Genoa, teaching sustainable architecture at the University of Genoa for fourteen years alongside it. Drawings, bills of quantities and site reports are his first language, so no owner has to explain to him how the work actually gets done.
He then crossed to the other side of the business and learned it from the inside: selling, marketing and company building, including a product he patented in Europe and North America and took from prototype to market. That combination is the point. A management consultant reads your numbers, someone who has come off the site reads your job, and the two are rarely the same person.
In recent years he has worked as an outside general manager for owner-led companies, across every area of the business and not only the operational one: margins, cash, marketing, sales and organisation. He founded Juvantum LLC in 2026 and divides his time between Italy, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
Tell us where the company stands and what is not working. We reply within one working day.
We sit on your side of the table.
