Meet the founder

20+ years helping businesses make customer engagement work better.

The consultancy was founded by Toby, a customer engagement and CRM transformation leader with more than 20 years' experience across CRM, lifecycle, retention, customer strategy and transformation.

Toby has worked across fintech, SaaS, ecommerce, subscription and international businesses, helping organisations understand their customers, identify opportunities for growth and build the teams, processes and technology needed to deliver. His experience spans both consultancy and senior client-side leadership — building customer engagement functions from the ground up, leading CRM and Martech transformations, developing teams and operating models, and working with leadership teams to translate commercial objectives into practical customer strategies.

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Toby, founder and customer engagement and CRM transformation leader
What Toby is good at

The strength isn't simply knowing CRM.

It's understanding how all the pieces need to work together — strategy, people, process, workflow, technology, data and governance.

Identify opportunities that others overlook
Simplify complex organisations and problems
Design effective workflows and ways of working
Build customer operating models and governance
Connect customer strategy to commercial objectives
Translate business requirements into practical Martech solutions
Build and develop high-performing customer teams
Bring the right specialists together around a problem
From CRM to customer transformation

Customer functions get more complex as businesses grow.

Teams expand. Technology is added. Processes evolve. Responsibilities become unclear. Different parts of the organisation develop their own priorities. Eventually a business can end up with significant investment in CRM, Martech and people without a clear answer to a simple question:

How should our customer organisation actually work?

That is the problem this consultancy exists to solve. The focus isn't simply improving campaigns or implementing technology — it's understanding the wider customer organisation and creating a structure that enables it to perform.

AI and the future of customer organisations

AI as a tool within transformation — not an end in itself.

More recently Toby has worked on AI enablement and organisational transformation, including work at Chip supporting the ADP transformation.

That means looking beyond the technology to understand where AI can genuinely improve how teams operate — identifying opportunities, enabling adoption, redesigning workflows and helping teams work more effectively.

The result is a practical approach to transformation: understand what is really happening, work out what needs to change, then build a way of working that people can actually adopt.

A different kind of consultancy

Sometimes you need a small number of experienced people who understand the problem and know how to get it solved.

The best solution isn't always to hire another permanent team or bring in a large agency. Toby leads the client relationship, diagnosis, strategy and transformation personally.

Where additional expertise is needed, he brings together trusted senior specialists from his professional network — giving you the right expertise for the problem in front of you, without unnecessary layers, overhead or bureaucracy.

The philosophy

Good customer organisations don't need to be complicated.

Clarity

Everyone understands the commercial objective and their role in achieving it.

Structure

The right people, processes and technology are in place.

Focus

Teams spend time on the things that create the greatest customer and commercial value.

Flexibility

The organisation can adapt as customers, technology and the business change.

Capability

The client is stronger when the engagement ends than when it started.

Help businesses understand how their customer organisation should work — and make it work.

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