Case studies

What itlooks likein practice.

Anonymized engagements across marketing, technology, and private equity. Sector, situation, what we did, and what changed.

Consumer Packaged GoodsMedia Audit & Agency Restructuring

$14M recovered from a global media and agency estate.

A global CPG company was spending across dozens of agencies, markets, and media partners with no single view of what it bought, who added value, and what senior talent it was actually paying for.

$14MRecovered annually across media, agencies, and intermediaries
B2B SoftwareMedia Audit & Strategy

A $30M programmatic program, sharpened.

A fast-growing B2B software company had scaled programmatic from a $20K pilot to roughly $30M a year. The spend was working. The question was where money was going that it shouldn't.

$4.5M+Annual efficiency recoverable, no new budget
AutomotiveMedia Audit & Contract Governance

Taking control of the programmatic supply chain.

A national automotive brand with strong agency partners wanted institutional knowledge and control over where its digital media money went, what it bought, and who owned the data.

FullLog-level data ownership written into contracts
Consumer ProductsAgency Search & Roster Optimization

One global commerce partner instead of a patchwork.

A global consumer products company ran eCommerce and retail media through a patchwork of regional agencies and technology vendors. It needed a single partner capable of global consistency and regional nuance.

13 wksFrom kickoff to appointed partner
Quick Service RestaurantAgency Search & Selection

An agency search in eight weeks, not eight months.

A growing QSR franchise group needed a media and digital partner that could support new-location openings across Canada and the US, with compensation tied to performance.

8 wksSearch completed, against a 3 to 9 month norm
Financial ServicesAgency Performance & Roster Optimization

Fewer agencies, better people on the account, lower fees.

A mid-market financial services firm had accumulated a roster of creative, media, and production agencies over five years. Fees had never been benchmarked. The senior people from the pitch had long since moved on.

14%Fee reduction across retained agencies
Technology ServicesIT & Software Cost Optimization

A software stack nobody owned, brought under control.

A PE-backed technology services company had grown through acquisition. Each acquired business brought its own tools. Three years later, the stack had never been rationalized.

19%Annual software cost reduction
Digital MediaCloud & Infrastructure Cost

Cloud spend that had outgrown the business it supported.

A digital media company's cloud bill had doubled in two years while revenue grew far more slowly. Engineering had no incentive to challenge it and finance had no way to.

24%Reduction in monthly cloud run rate
Private Equity Portfolio100-Day Value Creation

The 100-day plan, run rather than presented.

A sponsor had just closed on a mid-market services business. The deal thesis assumed operational improvement. The management team was capable but stretched, and nobody owned the cost base.

4 moTo visible EBITDA impact

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