The 12-month roadmap
The headline. Your findings sequenced into waves and tied to the target set in week one: the path from where you are to where you want to be, on revenue and on margin.
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The Diagnostic
Find what is actually holding growth back, in 90 days.
A fixed-scope sprint with one job: find the real constraint, prove the biggest findings before you bet on them, and hand you a 12-month roadmap your team can run.
Who it is for
Founders who know growth has stalled, or should be faster, and want to find out why before spending another pound chasing it.
Most growth advice starts with tactics. We start with your P&L, and work back to what will actually move revenue and profit.
How we define growth
Revenue, profit, or both, in balance.
We agree what growth means for your business in week one, with an actual number attached. We don't assume it, and we don't quietly optimise the top line while margin leaks underneath.
Everything anchors to your unit economics. Often we are the first people to connect your platform data to your P&L and show you what each channel, product and customer cohort is really worth. That picture alone tends to change decisions.
- Contribution margin
- CAC
- Payback
- Repeat rate
- LTV
The 90 days
Five phases, overlapping by design.
This isn't a waterfall where nothing surfaces until the end. Every week there is a 30-minute check-in with your team, so the people who will run the plan help shape it as it forms.
- 0MobiliseWeek 1
We agree what growth means for you, with a real number attached, and set up access.
You'll haveA signed-off growth target and a one-page scope.
- 1BaselineWeeks 2–4
We build the honest commercial picture: where revenue and profit actually come from today.
You'll haveYour unit-economics model and one true number.
- 2Deep-diveWeeks 3–8
We find the real constraints, in depth in marketing and screened across the rest of the business.
You'll haveA ranked list of what is holding growth back.
- 3ValidateWeeks 6–10
We prove or disprove the two or three biggest findings before they reach your roadmap.
You'll haveValidated findings, each with a confidence rating.
- 4SynthesiseWeeks 9–12
We turn it into a sequenced, runnable plan and present it live to your team.
You'll haveYour 12-month roadmap and the full deliverable set.
The phases overlap by design, and there is a 30-minute check-in with your team every week. That way, nothing waits until day 90 to surface.
What we look at
Deepest where the value is. Screened everywhere else.
Around two-thirds of the value in a business your size sits in marketing, so that is where we go deepest. The other five functions get a focused screen, enough to catch the thing that looks like a marketing problem but isn't.
Marketing · in depth
- Acquisition quality, not just volumeBlended versus channel-level returns, brand versus non-brand search, and a clean new-customer CAC.
- Discount dependencyHow much revenue is full-price versus promo, and what that is doing to margin and positioning.
- Retention and lifecycleOwned-channel revenue, email and SMS coverage, repeat rate and cohort curves, plus subscription and loyalty where they exist.
- Brand demandWhether the brand itself is growing, or growth is rented through paid.
- MeasurementWhether you can actually see what is working. Flying blind is often the fastest, highest-leverage fix we find.
The rest of the business · screened
- Sales and merchandisingSite conversion, AOV levers, and how any wholesale or trade channel is run.
- Customer serviceA signal mine, not a cost audit: ticket drivers, returns reasons and reviews.
- Procurement and marginGross margin by product, supplier terms, landed cost and stock availability.
- Product and rangeWhich SKUs drive revenue and profit, pricing architecture and hero products.
- Operating modelTeam shape, where the strategic gap sits, and whether your agencies are coordinated.
What is relevant flexes to your business: subscription only where it exists, trade only where you have it.
Proving it before you bet on it
Most diagnostics stop at "here's what we think". We test the biggest findings first.
We pick two or three findings that are high-impact if true and testable within a few weeks, then settle each with the lightest method that will do the job.
- A deeper data cutOr a natural experiment, to confirm a pattern isn't noise.
- A small, reversible live testA controlled brand-search pause, a bundle test on one segment, one email flow rebuilt.
- A handful of customer callsOr a short survey, to settle a demand or positioning question.
- An actual supplier re-quoteTo confirm a saving is real rather than theoretical.
What you get
Four deliverables, presented live.
The evidence pack
The unit-economics model and the channel and cohort truth behind the roadmap. The thing you'll keep referring back to.
The one-pager
What is actually holding growth back, sharp enough to keep on the desk.
The 30-day quick wins
Three to five things worth doing immediately, whatever you decide next.
Presented live, not sent as a PDF.
We walk your team through everything in the room. The plan lands better when the people who will run it helped build it.
The investment
£8,000, fixed. Then decide.
Many clients keep us on to help execute, either as an outside advisory lens or as an embedded fractional growth lead. But there's no obligation built in.
Start here
Diagnostic
£8,000 fixed scope, 90 days
Fixed scope, fixed price. You know the cost up front and it doesn't move.
Whatever you decide afterwards, you keep everything: the roadmap, the model and the quick wins. The Diagnostic stands on its own.
Book a discovery callThen, if needed
Advisory
From £2,500 per month
An outside lens on execution. We keep every function pulling in the same direction without running it day to day.
Leadership
From £5,000 per month
For systemic hurdles or preparing for a sale. We sit inside the senior team and own the growth agenda directly.
Talk through either optionWhat clients say
“Through a cross-function approach that focuses on both profitability and revenue, Ashton has given us the confidence to invest more and achieve more ambitious growth.”
Freya NicholsonCo-founder