About auranquelis: Values-Aligned Financial Consultations
We founded auranquelis with a clear purpose: helping individuals create intentional alignment between financial decisions and personal values. Too often, spending patterns reflect inherited habits, social pressures, or historical momentum rather than conscious priorities. Our consultations provide analytical frameworks and practical guidance for implementing zero-based budgeting methodologies that transform resource allocation into an expression of what truly matters.
Margaret Stevenson
Founder and Principal Consultant
What Defines Our Consultation Approach
Principles that guide how we work with clients
Client-Centered Methodology
Every consultation acknowledges your unique circumstances, values, and priorities. We provide frameworks and guidance while respecting your decision-making authority. Financial approaches should serve your life rather than forcing conformity to external standards or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Analytical Yet Practical Focus
We balance thorough analysis with actionable implementation strategies. Zero-based budgeting benefits from structured frameworks, but excessive complexity undermines sustainability. Our consultations emphasize approaches you can actually maintain rather than theoretical ideals disconnected from real-world constraints and human behavior.
Adaptive Framework Philosophy
Life circumstances change, and budgeting approaches should evolve accordingly. We design frameworks with flexibility built in, allowing adjustments as priorities shift without abandoning core methodologies. This adaptability prevents the rigid thinking that causes many budgeting systems to eventually fail when circumstances change.
Why Choose auranquelis
Specialized Zero-Based Budgeting Expertise
While many financial consultants offer generic budgeting advice, we specialize specifically in zero-based methodologies and values alignment. This focused expertise means consultations go deeper than surface-level tips, providing genuine insight into implementation challenges and solutions based on extensive experience with this particular approach.
Supportive Rather Than Prescriptive Approach
We believe you are the expert on your own values and priorities. Our role involves providing analytical frameworks, asking clarifying questions, and offering practical strategies rather than dictating financial decisions. This collaborative approach creates ownership and sustainable practice rather than temporary compliance with external expectations.
Realistic Expectations and Timeframes
We communicate honestly about the time investment zero-based budgeting requires and the gradual nature of behavior change. Rather than promising instant transformation, we set realistic expectations and provide support through the inevitable challenges that arise during implementation. Past performance doesn't guarantee future results, and individual experiences vary.
Our team brings collective decades of experience with budgeting methodologies, financial analysis, and client consultation. We have guided hundreds of individuals through zero-based budgeting implementation, learning what works across diverse circumstances and personalities. This experience informs practical, nuanced guidance that acknowledges real-world complexity.
Schedule a consultationOur Values
Core principles that shape how we approach consultations and client relationships
We hold ourselves to the same standards we encourage in clients: intentional alignment between stated values and actual practice. These principles guide our consultation approach, business decisions, and ongoing service delivery to ensure consistency between what we advocate and how we operate.
Transparency and Honesty
We communicate clearly about what consultations involve, time requirements, and realistic outcomes. No hidden agendas or overselling.
Respect for Autonomy
Clients make their own financial decisions. We provide frameworks and guidance while honoring individual authority over personal choices.
Evidence-Based Methodology
Our approaches draw from established budgeting principles and behavioral research rather than trendy claims or unverified strategies.
Sustainable Practice Focus
We prioritize approaches clients can maintain long-term rather than intensive systems that work briefly before collapsing.