Your value creation plan sets the commercial targets. We build the working system that turns them into what each portco’s sales team does every week. Live within weeks, and owned by the portco.
From the plan’s targets, to the team’s week, to the board.
The problem
The targets live in slides. The sales team keeps doing what it did before.
Value creation plans set commercial targets. In asset-backed and traditional businesses, there’s usually no system to turn those targets into what the sales team does each week.
Funds try to close the gap with portfolio training and knowledge-sharing sessions. But those mostly reach leadership, not the teams doing the work. Nothing changes in the systems sales teams use every day, so how each portco sells stays the same.
Today
Targets sit in the plan and a tracker in slides
Training reaches leadership, not the sales team
Data spread across a CRM, an ERP and spreadsheets
Progress is reported, not driven
With a working commercial system
Targets become what the sales team does each week
Built around how the portco sells, in the tools the team already uses
One view of the market, across every source
Progress against the plan, from live data, every week
The gap isn’t another tool. It’s a working commercial system, built around how each portco sells.
Higher rates, high valuations and slower exits mean returns now depend on operational improvement and revenue growth. Source: Bain & Company, Global Private Equity Report 2026.
What good looks like
If you designed the answer from scratch, it would do four things
Turn the plan’s commercial targets into what the sales team does each week
Go live within weeks
Give each new portco a head start on the last
Leave an owned asset that holds up in diligence
Why us
Three things none of the alternatives can give you
Commercial targets with a working system behind them, live within weeks
The plan’s growth targets become a system the sales team runs every week: who to target, where to focus, what to do next and what happened. We build it in weeks because we’ve built it before.
Each new portco gets to results faster
Each system is custom-built, but our blueprints and know-how carry over. So your second, third and fourth portcos get to results sooner, and the gains land earlier in the hold. A platform’s implementation partner sets up one vendor’s software, which the portco rents. Our blueprints cover the whole system, whatever tools it runs on, and the portco owns what we build.
Board-ready evidence every week, and an asset at exit
Every board pack shows commercial progress against the plan from live data, not slides. When you sell, that history is what diligence wants to see. An owned, working commercial system shows up in diligence as infrastructure, not another subscription.
Who it’s for
Built for operating partners, and the portcos they back
You build the shortlist, bring us into the portco and report the result to the investment committee. The portco’s CEO or CRO lives with the system, so we earn their buy-in too.
The best fit
Mid-cap and above, selling to other businesses through a field or inside sales team
Asset-backed and traditional businesses, such as industrial, distribution and services
Data spread across a CRM, an ERP and spreadsheets, with no single view of the market
Commercial growth targets in the value creation plan, early in the hold
A trigger: new commercial leadership, missed pipeline targets, or acquisitions to integrate
Probably not a fit
Software companies that sell online, with a mature sales operations team already in place
Very small sales teams, where a few tools and good habits are enough
Funds with no operating partner or value creation team to champion the work
Working together
Every engagement runs in three steps
01
Diagnostic
We score the portco across Find, Plan, Engage, Win and Grow, and size the system it needs. Fixed fee, so the build is sized before anyone commits.
02
Build
We deliver the engine and the modules, live with the sales team.
03
Run
A monthly retainer to operate, measure and improve the system. A choice, not a dependency. Portcos keep us because the system keeps getting better.
Who we are
Commercial leadership and engineering, in one team
Agencies and platforms bring tools without a commercial lead. Consultancies bring a plan, then leave before anything is built. We bring both, and we’ve built this before, together, for a PE-backed business.
We’ve grown a business, not just advised one
Twelve years leading marketing at Dojo, as it grew to about £400m of revenue.
We build the system, not just the plan
Twelve years building data and AI products for businesses, most recently leading data science at a PE-owned international group.
We know how PE-backed businesses work
We’ve both worked inside PE-backed companies, so the value creation plan, the board pack and the hold period are familiar ground.
Whether you back the business or run it, we start the same way. We score it across Find, Plan, Engage, Win and Grow, and size the system it needs, for a fixed fee.