Commercial clarity for ecommerce leaders.

Ecommerce activity scales faster than commercial clarity.
Between yesterday's trading reality and next month's management accounts, decisions are already being made, often without a shared picture of what to fund, fix, slow, protect or stop.

The Commercial Layer

Finance reports numbers on closed periods.
Marketing builds future demand.
Channel teams manage what is moving now.

Each view is partial.
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Finance

Channels

Marketing

Commercial Layer

Margin · Channel mix · Pricing · Inventory · Promotions · Capital allocation

Closed periods

What is moving now

Future demand

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The Commercial Layer is that connecting framework: margin, channel mix, pricing, inventory, promotions and capital allocation.
It helps leadership see where margin is being created or lost, where capital is being absorbed, and where growth is healthy rather than an expensive activity.

/mental works in this layer with ecommerce leadership teams.

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Where the Commercial Model Breaks

These patterns repeat across most ecommerce teams.

Graph showing revenue trend line going up with a blue arrow and profit trend line going down with a red arrow.

Revenues are up, but profits didn't follow.

Another quarterly review. Revenue is up. Nobody at the table can break down margin by channel, brand, or territory with any confidence. The conversation moves on.

Revenues are up but profits don't follow.

Marketing budgets aren't getting enough backing.

The CMO needs a budget approved. You can see the request, but not the commercial logic behind it. The finance director has questions nobody prepared for. The meeting ends without a decision.

Ads revenue are up but revenues are flat.

Ads budgets are up but where's the revenue?

Ad spend increased 50% six weeks ago. The finance director is now in the CEO's office with a spreadsheet. Nobody thought to explain the payback timeline before the money went out.

Commercial Principles

My set of principles for interpreting performance and making decisions.

Contribution margin over revenue.

Revenue is a vanity number until you know what's left after the channels have taken their share.

Channel and territory expansion decisions are capital allocation decisions.

The question is not whether you can win on Amazon EU. It is what it costs to find out, and whether that is the best use of the capital right now.

Finance and marketing are not adversaries.

They lack a common language. That is a solvable problem.

The channels are digital. The economics were always retail.

Ecommerce metrics are not wrong. They are channel-level instruments. The mistake is treating them as the full picture.

Who It's For

For

Founders, CEOs, and senior commercial leaders in ecommerce brands with real operational complexity.
£3m–£15m in revenue (as a guide, not a rule).

You have channels running, some marketing spend, and decisions ahead that need more than instinct.
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You might be:
• expanding into Amazon or DTC
• running both and losing track of margin
• approaching a significant capital decision

£3m+

Typical Brand Revenue

Not For

Early-stage brands still finding product-market fit.

Businesses with no marketing budget and no appetite to develop one.

Brands that want execution without a strategic, commercial layer.

Services

Full descriptions, pricing, and outputs on the Services page.

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Commercial Diagnostic

A structured assessment of your commercial architecture: what it produces, where it breaks down, and what to address first.

Fractional Commercial Lead

Ongoing commercial oversight across your channels, your spend, and your capital allocation decisions.

Amazon Full Service

End-to-end Amazon channel management for brands that need the channel run strategically, not passively or reactively.

Custom Work

Project-based engagements: new channel launches, pre-launch viability assessments, international expansion, and board-level advisory.

See all Services.

How I Work

From diagnostic to execution.

Diagnostic >

Every engagement starts with a diagnostic. Not as a commercial formality - because I will not make recommendations without first understanding the commercial architecture, and you should not want me to.

Clear Scope >

The diagnostic drives the scope of what follows. Some brands need ongoing commercial oversight. Some need a specific project completed with a clear handover. The starting point is the same either way.

Execution.

I work with your existing teams - finance, marketing, channel leads - not around them. Part of the work is building the shared language between functions that currently do not speak the same one.

Commerce Notes

Commercial thinking on ecommerce, channel economics, decision sequencing and capital allocation.

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Ecommerce activity scales faster than commercial clarity.Between yesterday's trading reality and next month's management accounts, decisions are already being made, often without a shared picture of what to fund, fix, slow, protect or stop.

Ecommerce activity scales faster than commercial clarity.
Between yesterday's trading reality and next month's management accounts, decisions are already being made, often without a shared picture of what to fund, fix, slow, protect or stop.