Research the market. Find the buyers. Localize the product. Start selling.
Four kinds of work that usually happen in this order. You can start anywhere, and most engagements end up spanning more than one.
Enter
Understand the market before investing in it.
Most expansion failures are decided before anyone gets on a plane: the wrong market, the wrong segment, or the right market entered from the wrong angle.
Enter is the work that prevents that. We map the market, the buyers and the competition, size the opportunity honestly, and turn it into a go-to-market plan with a first move you can make next quarter. It’s research in the service of a decision, not a report.
Capabilities
- Market research and market sizing (TAM, SAM, SOM)
- Competitor analysis and intelligence
- Customer, buyer and pricing research
- Market validation and opportunity mapping
- Go-to-market and market-entry strategy
- Positioning and ICP definition
- Channel and partnership strategy
- Regulatory and ecosystem mapping
- Partner and distributor research
Typical engagements
- Market selection: which of three candidate markets to enter first
- Entry plan for a single market, with segment, buyer and first channel
- Competitive teardown before a product or pricing decision
- Partner landscape and shortlist for a distribution-led entry
What you leave with
A clear answer on where to go and where not to, a defined first customer, a route to reach them, and a plan sized to the evidence rather than the ambition.
Planning a new market?
Localize
Make the product, brand and experience feel native.
Buyers rarely say “this feels foreign”. They just don’t reply.
Localization is everything that decides whether a buyer trusts you enough to continue: the way the value is framed, the proof they expect, the pricing page, the onboarding, the demo, the support experience. Translation is a small, late part of it. We adapt the whole thing, and we test it with real users in the market before it goes live.
Capabilities
- Website, product and UX localization
- Language and cultural adaptation
- Brand, messaging and content localization
- Local market positioning
- Local SEO
- UX research, usability and user testing
- UX/UI design and adaptation
- Conversion optimization
- QA and localization testing
Typical engagements
- Localization of a SaaS product and website for a first European market
- Repositioning a brand and its messaging for GCC enterprise buyers
- Usability testing with target-market users before launch
- Conversion audit and fixes for a localized funnel that isn’t converting
What you leave with
A product and a story that a local buyer would assume were made locally, tested with the people you’re selling to, and a funnel that converts instead of leaking.
Wondering if your product feels local?
Grow
Build pipeline, customers and distribution.
Nobody is waiting for you to arrive. Demand has to be built, and in a new market it has to be built from nothing.
We design and run the engine that produces qualified conversations: outbound, partners, content and paid, in whatever mix the market responds to. We start with the channels that produce evidence fastest, and we hand the working system to your team when it’s ready to own it.
Capabilities
- SDR, outbound and lead generation
- Account-based prospecting and appointment setting
- Pipeline development
- Partner acquisition
- Demand generation and campaigns
- Content marketing and SEO
- Paid acquisition and performance marketing
- Email and social marketing
- Brand positioning
Typical engagements
- Outbound sales engine for a first market, from ICP to booked meetings
- Partner and reseller acquisition programme across two or three countries
- Demand generation for a launch, with content and paid working together
- Account-based programme for a shortlist of named enterprise targets
What you leave with
A pipeline with real opportunities in it, a documented, working acquisition system, and the data to know which channels deserve more money.
Need your first pipeline?
Execute
Put people on the ground and make things happen.
The hard part of a plan is the Tuesday afternoon when someone has to follow up.
Execute is the layer that does the following up. Fractional local teams who represent you in the market, take the meetings, manage the partners, run the tests and handle the operations, so you can prove the model before committing to a permanent structure. When it’s time to hire, you’re hiring into something that already works.
Capabilities
- Fractional local teams
- Local representation and business development
- Sales representation
- Partner management
- Market testing and product testing
- Launch support and local operations
- Customer development
- Growth experimentation
- Ongoing market management
Typical engagements
- Fractional country lead for the first six to twelve months in a market
- Sales representation and partner management for a distribution-led entry
- Structured market test: a fixed period, a fixed budget, a clear go/no-go
- Launch support for a product going live in a new market
What you leave with
A presence in the market without the fixed cost of one, decisions made on real signals, and a local operation your own team can step into.
Need a team on the ground before you hire one?
Not sure whichto start with?
That’s the most common starting point. Tell us where you are and we’ll suggest the first step.
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