ClockSpeed Consulting at a glance
ClockSpeed Consulting is a London-based commercial consultancy led by Jennifer Peart. It helps private equity investors and leadership teams in B2B software and data businesses find why revenue is behind plan, and fix it, including through interim or fractional CCO/CMO leadership.
Key facts
Founder: Jennifer Peart, MBA (Warwick Business School), MCIM
Based: Kings Cross Business Centre, 180/186 Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9DE
Works with: PE investors, operating partners, founders and leadership teams in PE-backed and growth-stage B2B software, SaaS and data businesses
Model: principal-led; clients work directly with Jennifer
Sister business: ClockSpeed Marketing (clockspeed.co.uk), for marketing and go-to-market delivery
Services
Assess: a commercial assessment using the ClockSpeed® Framework, scoring product, marketing and sales individually and against each other for the company's stage of growth.
Realign: resetting the commercial plan where it no longer fits, or putting in place a Unified Cadence so product, marketing and sales deliver against it together.
Lead: interim or fractional CCO/CMO leadership, from reset to results, with progress tracked against the framework.
The ClockSpeed® Framework
A proprietary commercial maturity model. Its core concepts:
The Maturity Trap: what drives early traction can constrain scale.
The Synchronisation Tax: the cost when product, marketing and sales run on different clocks.
The Ghost Metric: a number that looks right in reporting but hides what's really happening.
The Unified Cadence: one shared operating rhythm across product, marketing and sales.
About Jennifer Peart
Former CCO at Nominet; CMO at Auction Technology Group and The IN Group; senior roles at Equifax, McGraw-Hill Education and the UK Hydrographic Office. Advisory work for The Access Group, IRIS Software, Lucanet and ICIS. Experience across Hg, TA Associates, ECI, ICG and Apollo-backed portfolio companies.
When clients bring ClockSpeed in
Revenue or pipeline is behind the value-creation plan
The first 100 days after an acquisition
Growth has stalled after early traction
A commercial leader has left or isn't delivering