Commercial build partner for PE portfolios

Commercial targets,turned into weekly action

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.

Value creation plan

Commercial targets

The sales team

Every week

  • Who to target
  • Where to focus
  • What to do next
  • What happened

The board pack

Progress against the plan, from live data

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

  1. Turn the plan’s commercial targets into what the sales team does each week

  2. Go live within weeks

  3. Give each new portco a head start on the last

  4. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 02

    Build

    We deliver the engine and the modules, live with the sales team.

  3. 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.

Guy Moreve

Guy Moreve

Co-founder. Former CMO at Dojo

Juned Mohammad

Juned Mohammad

Co-founder. Data science lead in a PE-owned group

About us

Where to start

Start with a diagnostic

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.

Book a diagnostic