GBSM

Name

GBSM

Legal name

GBSM

Website

https://gbsm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Denver

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Services: Professional consulting fees for strategic planning, organizational development, leadership advisory, and executive coaching engagements. Engagements are project-based or retainer arrangements with senior executives and boards.
2. Public Affairs Services: Fees for navigating complex stakeholder, business, community, media, and government interests. Includes coalition building, community relations, regulatory navigation, and public involvement campaigns.
3. Strategic Communications Services: Reputation management, positioning, messaging, media relations, and strategic communications counsel. Services include agency review, communications assessments, corporate communications, and change management.
4. Crisis Communications Services: Crisis response, preparedness and training, issues management, litigation communications, and spokesperson training. High-stakes consulting engagements for clients facing reputational threats, regulatory investigations, and public crises.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

GBSM is a management consulting and strategic communications firm that assists senior executives, C-suite leaders, and boards with organizational strategy, public affairs, strategic positioning, and crisis response. The firm delivers four core service lines — management consulting, public affairs, strategic communications, and crisis communications & issues management — through project-based or retainer engagements. Services are sold directly to corporations, non-profits, law firms, and government agencies across the United States, with deep concentration in the Rocky Mountain West.

Product overview

GBSM is a management consulting and strategic communications firm, not a software product company. The company offers professional services including Management Consulting, Public Affairs, Strategic Communications, and Crisis Communications & Issues Management. These are service-based offerings delivered through consulting engagements rather than software products or platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Management Consulting Assists executives and boards to structure, plan, and optimize their organizations, develop leadership talent, plan for success, and overcome difficult challenges. Sold to senior executives, C-suite leaders, and boards across corporations, non-profits, and government agencies.
• Public Affairs Navigates the complex nexus of stakeholder, business, community, media, and government interests to create vibrant communities. Includes coalition building, community relations, regulatory navigation, and public involvement campaigns. Sold to government entities, non-profits, and corporations facing complex public-interest challenges.
• Strategic Communications Helps organizations and individuals successfully position themselves, protect and enhance their reputations, and communicate in ways that make a difference. Includes reputation management, positioning, messaging, media relations, agency review, communications assessments, corporate communications, and change management. Sold to executives, communications leaders, and boards.
• Crisis Communications & Issues Management Brings a steady hand, calm voice, and intelligent, seasoned advice to clients facing difficult, high-stakes situations. Includes crisis response, preparedness and training, issues management, litigation communications, and spokesperson training. Sold to clients facing reputational threats, regulatory investigations, and public crises.

Quantifiable outcome

• Stopped more than $150 million from being stolen from older adults through AARP financial exploitation prevention program
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Hill & Knowlton: Hill & Knowlton is a global strategic communications consultancy offering crisis, public affairs, and corporate communications. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with GBSM in crisis and public affairs for enterprise and government clients.
• Edelman: Edelman is the world's largest strategic communications firm with full-service crisis, public affairs, and corporate reputation practices. It is a broad incumbent competitor to GBSM across the entire communications value chain, though it serves a much larger and more global client base.
• Burson (BCW): Burson is a global strategic communications and public affairs firm serving large enterprises and institutions. It competes with GBSM in reputation management, crisis, and public affairs at the senior counsel level.

Direct peers

• APCO Worldwide: APCO is a global public affairs and strategic communications consultancy serving corporations, governments, and nonprofits. It directly competes with GBSM in public affairs, coalition building, and crisis work for similar client profiles.
• Kekst CNC: Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications consultancy with deep crisis, M&A, and public affairs practices. It overlaps with GBSM across crisis communications and stakeholder engagement for large enterprise and nonprofit clients.
• Mercury Public Affairs: Mercury is a public affairs and strategic communications firm with strong government, corporate, and crisis practices. It is comparable to GBSM in serving enterprises and institutions on stakeholder strategy and reputation management.
• SKDKnickerbocker: SKDKnickerbocker is a public affairs and strategic communications firm known for crisis, corporate reputation, and advocacy work with enterprises and nonprofits. It is closely comparable to GBSM's public affairs and crisis practices.
• FGS Global (Finsbury / Glover Hering / Sard Verbinnen): FGS Global is a leading strategic communications and public affairs advisory firm specializing in crisis management, M&A communications, and reputation work for large enterprises. It directly competes with GBSM in crisis and strategic communications for enterprise clients, with similar professional-services economics.
• Brunswick Group: Brunswick is a strategic communications firm advising on critical corporate issues including crisis, M&A, and public affairs. It competes with GBSM at the senior-executive counsel level on complex reputational and stakeholder engagements.

Emerging players

• Boies Schiller Group: Boies Schiller Group is a strategic communications and advisory firm with strong crisis and litigation communications capabilities, often led by former government and corporate executives. It is comparable to GBSM's high-stakes crisis and senior counsel engagements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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