Scale what your founder or best rep knows but can't teach

Your top rep closes 47% of deals, everyone else 13%. You can’t scale instinct. But you can scale the struggling moments behind it. We interview the customers your founder or top rep won, extract the patterns she hears, and turn tribal knowledge into shared capability. | An IT services client went from 3 missed quarters to doubling their client base within a year of our Sprint."

Three Moments That Trigger the Search

Most companies reach us through one of these doors. Which one is yours?

Door 1: The Top Performer Gap

When founder steps back, deals grind to a halt

Your top rep closes 47% of deals. Everyone else: 13%. When you ask what she does differently, she says 'I just listen for when they realise their approach isn't working. You can't scale instinct.

Extract the buying job
We interview the customers who bought from her. We find out why your last 10 deals closed: the trigger that forced change, the internal risk that nearly killed it, the moment they decided to stop evaluating. Most teams have never asked.

Codify the decision pattern
We turn what we heard into something your team can use: the trigger signals worth chasing, the language that moves decisions forward, the questions that separate real pipeline from wishful thinking.

Install it across the team
Sales, marketing, C-S learn to hear the same signals and respond the same way. New hires ramp in 3-4 months not a year.

Make growth system led
When the pattern is shared, variance drops. Win rates stabilise. Revenue starts tracking to forecast rather than founder availability."

Door 2: The No-Decision Problem

60% of your pipeline ends in 'no decision

Your forecast said £2M by the end of the quarter. The final meeting went well. The prospect said "we'll circle back next week." Six weeks later: radio silence. The problem is that nobody has mapped the increments a buyer actually has to move through before they can say yes, and your reps are pushing their own process against the grain of the buyer's.

Extract the buying job
 We find the sequence: the internal trigger that opens the opportunity window, the approvals that must happen, and the risk that must be neutralised before anyone signs. Most teams have a sales process. Almost none have a documented map of how their buyers actually move from problem to decision.

Codify the decision pattern 
We turn that map into something your team can use: the buying increments that mark genuine progress, the questions that help a buyer take their next step rather than extract information for your CRM, the meeting structures that make the buyer's commitment obvious,  to them, as well as to you.


Install it across the team
Reps learn to read where a buyer is in their process, not just where the deal is in the pipeline. Meetings become decision events. Every conversation ends with a buyer-owned next step, not a seller follow-up. Discovery stops feeling like interrogation.

Make growth system-led
When your team understands how buyers move, not how sellers sell, "no-decision" drops, forecast accuracy improves. Deals that are going to close, close faster. Deals that aren't, surface earlier.

Door 3: Post-Raise Malaise

You hired 5 AEs. Conversion didn't move

"90 days post-merger, or post-raise. Pipeline's up 40%. Conversion stuck at 16%. You're tracking to £8M, not £12M. The team is capable. The product is real. But nobody extracted the buying pattern before the deal closed — while the founders were still in the room, the customers still fresh, the evidence still warm. That window is gone. The board will ask why you waited.

Extract the buying job
This is the work that should have happened during commercial due diligence, before IC, while access was open, and the pattern was visible. We do it now. Why the last 10 deals closed. The trigger. The risk that nearly killed it. The moment the buyer committed. Documented as a commercial asset the portco owns from day one: not a consultant's slide deck, a transferable system.

Codify the decision pattern
The team you inherited isn't the team that closed those deals. Some are new. Some came with the acquisition. All of them need a shared language, not a history lesson about what used to work, but a clear, coachable framework for how this buyer moves from problem to decision. Confidence comes from knowing the pattern. Competence comes from practising it.

Install it across the team
An inherited team with a documented buying pattern onboards faster, aligns quicker, and stops reinventing the conversation from scratch. New hires learn the triggers, the language, and the qualification signals in weeks, not through war stories, through a system.

Make growth system-led
The £12M number becomes reachable. The commercial asset built in weeks one to four compounds across every hire, every vertical, every new market. And when the board asks what changed, the answer is: we built the thing we should have built at diligence.

Your best deals weren’t random.

They followed a pattern.

We extract it, codify it, and install it — so the next ten deals close the same way the last ten did, without the founder in the room.

For PE firms and their portfolio companies, this work starts earlier.

The buying pattern that drove pre-deal growth is the most perishable asset in any investment. It lives in the founder's instincts, the first rep's memory, the customer relationships that closed before anyone was watching closely. The window to capture it is narrow; ideally, during commercial due diligence, before IC, while access is open. We work with PE investors and operating partners to extract and document that pattern before the deal closes, and install it as a commercial system the portco can scale from day one.

For underperforming portcos already inside the hold period, we do the same work under time pressure, rebuilding the commercial foundation that the growth plan assumed was already there.

We're not the right fit for everyone.

We work with B2B companies post-Series A or PE-backed, with commercial teams of 5–30, where the CEO is actively involved in revenue.

The work lands when two conditions are true. The product has market fit — customers are buying and staying, not being persuaded and churned. And the CEO owns the commercial outcome — not as a title, but as an active priority. Where those conditions aren't in place, we're the wrong call right now. We'd rather tell you that upfront than take six months to arrive at the same conclusion together.

We extract the buying pattern behind your wins — and install it.

We interview your customers who switched.

We document:

  • The trigger that forced change

  • The internal objection that nearly killed the deal

  • The proof that made the decision defensible

  • The moment they said “This is the one”

Then we embed that logic across sales, marketing, C-S, and leadership.

No repositioning.

No brand reinvention.

Just codified buyer logic.

Your best customers hired you to make progress.

They didn't buy features.

They were trying to escape a specific constraint and move toward a specific outcome.

You just haven’t codified that job yet.

 

We've sat in your seat

We’ve led sales, marketing, and GTM inside scaling companies.

We know what it feels like when:

  • Enterprise deals need founder air cover
  • Messaging keeps getting rewritten
  • Sales leaders come and go
  • New hires can’t replicate early wins
Revenue grows, but confidence doesn’t.

That’s why we focus on institutionalising the buying pattern, not reinventing your brand.

Our founding team

Craig Vintcent

Go-to-Market Acceleration

Lawrence Flude

Marketing Acceleration

Mark Gibson

Revenue Acceleration

Our client experience

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"Working with Mark has been transformative for our sales process and growth. His fresh perspectives from customer interviews challenged assumptions, inspiring us to adapt and refine our story. Mark’s coaching and role-playing sessions provided a safe space to practice, leading to a structured approach for building meaningful partnerships. His insights have been invaluable in reshaping our engagement with prospects and driving lasting results." Mindit grew its client base by 100% in 12 months following the 90-day engagement, and its CEO, Irina Ionescu, was recognised as EY Romania's entrepreneur of the year in 2025.

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Roxana-Maria Stanieu

Head of Growth | Mindit.io

As CTIO and COO, I worked with Craig during his management of the MTN Account for Oracle. He expertly navigated a challenging relationship, consistently delivering on client requirements with integrity and a solutions-driven approach. Craig’s dedication and ability to achieve win-win outcomes make him highly recommended for organisations seeking growth in emerging markets.

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Joyti Desai

Group CTIO | MTN

Working with Lawrence and his team was a breath of fresh air. As a technology company, it is rare to find a marketing agency that can capture the immense intangibility of technology in order to market it. Even more so, in the case of NgageU, we were looking to translate our new concepts that would make us stand out as a new breed. The team helped to do that with flying colors. Thank you.

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Mohamed Ali

Managing Director | NgageU

Why we do it

Revenue is visible. The job-to-be-done often isn’t.

Your best customers hired you for a reason.

  • To escape a constraint

  • To reduce risk

  • To move forward.

When that job isn’t institutionalised, teams optimise activity rather than enable decision-making.

That’s when variance creeps in.

 

How Buyer Logic Becomes Installed

We codify the job your best customers hired you to do — and install it across your commercial system.

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Extract the Buying Job

We interview the customers who switched. We uncover: The trigger that forced change, The constraint they needed to escape, The internal risk that nearly killed the deal, The criteria that made the decision defensible. This becomes your documented buying architecture.

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Codify the Decision Pattern

We translate that buying architecture into practical tools: ICP clarity based on real struggling moments, Messaging grounded in buyer language, Qualification based on trigger signals, Sales motions aligned to how decisions are actually made. This is installed logic.

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Install It Across the Team

Through immersive working sessions, Sales, Marketing, and CS: Learn the buying job, Practise the decision path, Align around real trigger language, Remove variance between reps. Founder instinct becomes shared capability.

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Make Growth System-Led

When buyer logic is institutionalised: Win rates stabilise, Discount pressure reduces, Sales cycles shorten, New hires ramp faster, Revenue becomes durable, not personality-dependent. This is the payoff.

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