Expert-led marketing strategy, accelerating your journey to profitable growth

Grow revenue faster

Meet your perfect customer

Optimise what works, ditch what doesn’t

Stand out from the pack

Measure your success

We are problem solvers

We’re a marketing consultancy made-up of ex-CMOs and Marketing Directors with a passion for unpicking complexity and solving for success. We come from diverse sectors, with varied career paths, having worked across all marketing disciplines, so you benefit from our collective experience and perspectives.

How we help

Marketing expertise tailored to your challenges

Marketing Advice

Expert advice on-demand to help keep your growth plans on track.

Call on us as a sounding board on strategy, for advice on key marketing decisions, or have us working in your business steering your everyday marketing activity.

Marketing Advice

Marketing Solutions

Customised solutions to tackle specific challenges with rigour and insight, giving you confidence in your marketing. From developing market positioning, delivering growth plans, through to performance measurement frameworks.

Marketing Solutions

Marketing Competency Audits

Benchmark what you do today with an audit of core capabilities and performance drivers.

Our proprietary competency framework has been developed based on our practical experience of running marketing functions.

Marketing Audit

For businesses discovering their path to success

We work with Founders, CEOs, Boards and Investment Firms, from early stage start-ups to high-growth businesses, giving you the insight and marketing strategies that drive results.

Who we help

Yorktest logo

As a fractional CMO, at York Test, a leading health and wellbeing company, our work supported the development of in-house marketing capabilities, product expansion and growth into the US. Building a strong competitive advantage and growing brand presence, resulted in a 24% growth in direct UK traffic revenue and a 41% uplift in the US.

York Test


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Leadtech logo

“Over the past 9 months Bethan has been an integral part of translating our growth ambitions into a tangible long term plan and has worked closely with our senior team to define and validate an exciting new direction for the business.”

Andy Longhurst,


Managing Director, Lead Tech

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After an impressive period of growth we supported Impression’s repositioning as a leading multi-channel digital agency. Working alongside their in-house marketing team to translate their business goals into a scalable and fully-resourced go-to-market strategy, focusing on their best-fit target audience.

Impression


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“Requirements were captured in a very short space of time, and the end result is always to a very high standard. We could not operate at the level we are without support from Open Velocity. We hope to continue this relationship for many years to come, thank you for all the support so far!”

John Wells,


Head of Sales & Marketing, AGSS

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In a saturated and commoditised market we helped 34SP, a website domain name and hosting provider, refresh its positioning and tailor messaging to a clearly defined target audience, amplifying its strengths and helping them create stand out. We then defined the information architecture for the redevelopment of their website.

Food for thought

Get our insider insights and hear different perspectives with our podcast ‘The Brave’, our webinars and regular blog posts.

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