The cause is usually in one of two places. The plan itself: targets, priorities or go-to-market choices that don't fit your stage of growth or how your customers actually buy. Or how it's executed: product, marketing and sales running on different clocks. Often it's both.
ClockSpeed works with PE investors and leadership teams in B2B software and data businesses to find which, and lead the fix, including as interim or fractional CCO/CMO.
Revenue behind plan? We find out why, and fix it
Built for private equity. Applied across portfolio companies.
Led by Jennifer Peart
20+ years of commercial leadership. Former CCO at Nominet, CMO at Auction Technology Group and The IN Group, with senior roles at Equifax, McGraw-Hill Education and the UK Hydrographic Office.
Commercial execution and advisory work for PE-backed and global businesses including The Access Group, IRIS Software, Lucanet and ICIS. Warwick MBA, MCIM.
Principal-led: you work directly with Jennifer, not a junior team.
100%+
sales uplift in first month of a campaign
200%
of the EMEA beta-customer target for a global digital product launch
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PE sponsors’ portfolios: Hg, TA, ECI, ICG, Apollo
5%
margin uplift through pricing strategy
The ClockSpeed® Framework
We measure maturity within each function and across them. A strong sales team paired with immature marketing fails differently from the reverse, and both look different at Series B than they do after a buyout.
The framework shows where the levels are misaligned and what to fix first: the Maturity Trap, the Synchronisation Tax, and the Ghost Metric.
How ClockSpeed® Works
Senior-led at every stage, with AI built into how the work gets done: faster diagnosis, sharper plans and more delivery capacity without adding headcount.
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Assess
We score the maturity of product, marketing and sales, individually and against each other, for your stage of growth.
Fixed scope.
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Realign
Where the plan itself is wrong, we reset it: targets, priorities and go-to-market choices that fit your stage and how your customers buy. Where execution is the problem, we reset ownership and cadence so product, marketing and sales deliver against it.
Project-based.
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Lead
Where the fix needs a leader, Jennifer steps in as interim or fractional CCO/CMO and leads the commercial team through delivery, from reset to results.
Interim or 1–3 days a week.
Who brings ClockSpeed in
Investors and operating partners
Commercial execution clarity before and after capital deployment. Test revenue assumptions against how the business actually operates, and deploy the fix across the portfolio, without adding headcount.
Founders and leadership teams
From founder-led momentum to structured commercial performance. Find where product, marketing and sales are misaligned, and what to change first.
What’s your commercial ClockSpeed?
Five questions, two minutes: a first read on where your commercial engine is performing and where it's holding you back. Then book a call with Jennifer to turn your results into clear next steps.