We build the marketing engine your business actually needs
Connecting commercial goals to execution. Designed for your business, not borrowed from someone else’s. Built to make growth predictable.
What we do
Our goal is simple: turn marketing investment into lasting commercial value. Here’s how we do it:
Challenge what you’re doing and why; because most businesses are busy with the wrong things.
Clarify where to play, how to win, and what to prioritise; so your whole business is pulling in the same direction.
Grow by making performance repeatable, scalable and accountable; so momentum builds rather than stalls.
Challenge. Clarify. Grow. It’s our promise and our process.
Our services
Marketing strategy
The building blocks of a marketing engine that actually works; aligned to your commercial goals, built around your business, and clear on where to focus.
- Competitive Positioning
- Go-To-Market Strategy
- Proposition Fit
Marketing advisory
Senior-led guidance that aligns teams, investment and execution to drive profit and competitive advantage, from AI integration to fractional leadership.
- Fractional CMO
- AI Orchestration
- Coaching & Mentoring
Audits & benchmarking
Fast, evidence-based diagnosis of what is working, what is not, and where the real growth opportunity lies.
- Marketing Audits
- Investor Due Diligence
You already know something isn't working
Maybe growth has stalled. Maybe the activity is there but the results aren’t. Maybe you’ve invested in marketing before and it didn’t deliver what you were promised.
What you need is someone senior enough to tell you exactly what’s wrong, honest enough to say it plainly, and experienced enough to know what to do about it. That’s how we work.
We get to the root cause, fast
We get to the root cause, fast. Not the presenting problem, the real one underneath it. Because our consultants have seen it before, we spend less time diagnosing and more time on pragmatic action.
We work in your world, not ours
No marketing jargon. No methodology decks. We translate marketing into commercial language your whole leadership team can get behind.
We turn complexity into clear decisions
Specialist sectors, complicated propositions, fragmented marketing. We are comfortable where others aren't. We make the complex navigable and give you something you can act on.
We stay accountable for the outcome
We stay accountable for the outcome: Not just the recommendation. Strategy without follow-through is just a document and that's not how we work. The real results come after.
Consultancy
not agency
Most of the businesses we work with have already tried an agency. They got execution without strategy, juniors without seniors, and a playbook built for someone else.
We’re different. Decades of experience across complex, specialist businesses means we grasp your problem fast, usually within the first conversation. No lengthy onboarding. No weeks of discovery before anything useful happens.
The people who understand your business are the people doing the work. Direct access, no handoffs, no account managers. Just senior consultants who’ve been where you are and know how to move you forward.
Our consultants
Bethan has spent 15 years helping SaaS and ecommerce businesses build marketing functions that scale. She has worked with businesses from seed through to Series C, with first-hand experience of being a founder and building her own business.
Lisa has spent 30 years building brands and driving marketing performance across fintech, financial services, travel and legal services, with executive leadership roles at customer-centric businesses including first direct and Atom Bank.
Jon has spent 20+ years leading marketing teams across travel, tech and communications, from start-ups to large organisations. His background combines agency, in-house and founding team experience, with a decade of university lecturing.
How we add value for our clients
Success stories are best told in the words of their subjects. Here’s what some of our clients have to say about working with Open Velocity.
Not sure where to start? The Growth Clinic is for you.
Every Friday afternoon, our senior consultants run free 30-minute Growth Clinic sessions, structured conversations designed to help you work out what is really holding your business back and what to do about it.
No pitch. No pressure. No junior account managers. Just an honest, experienced perspective at the moment you need it most.
Bring a real challenge. Leave with direction.
Book for the Growth Clinic here.
