Empowering AI companies to scale through high-performing partner ecosystems
Fractional Alliances Leadership for Revenue Growth
Direct sales alone won't scale an AI company — partnerships should be your force multiplier. But most ecosystems look impressive on paper and fall short in practice:
Partners signed, but barely any pipeline.
A marketplace listing or SI partnership that generates nothing.
One partnership that works and no way to repeat it.
The cost? Slower market entry, a rising cost per deal, and growth that depends entirely on headcount — just as your investors are asking for capital-efficient growth.
That's what we fix.
Through fractional alliances leadership, we bring senior partnerships expertise into your business — designing the ecosystem, equipping partners to sell, and building the programmes that make it repeatable.
Your Product is winning. Your Partnerships aren't.
Partner Ecosystem Audit
Fractional Alliances Lead
Portfolio Partnerships Programme
Know what needs fixing, but no one senior to fix it?
Senior partnerships leadership embedded in your team: partner recruitment, enablement, co-sell and programme design, reporting into your CEO or CRO.
[X] days per month · Ongoing
Seeing the same go-to-market gap across your portfolio?
For VCs and PE firms: partner ecosystem audits and workshops across your portfolio companies, so each one builds distribution faster after its raise.
Per-portfolio pricing
Not sure why your partners aren't performing?
In 3–4 weeks, we assess your ecosystem against our Build. Activate. Scale. framework. You get a partner scorecard, the 5–10 partners most worth investing in, one ready-to-run co-sell play, and a 90-day activation plan.
Fixed scope · Fixed price
Three ways to work Together
Build.
Activate.
Scale.
Ecosystem Architecture
Revenue Activation
Growth Infrastructure
Symptom: partners signed, no pipeline.
Equip partners with sales plays, enablement and joint marketing to win in-market.
You get: enabled partners, actively generating pipeline.
Symptom: one partner works, nobody knows how to repeat it.
Implement programmes, incentives and performance tracking to drive consistency.
You get: a repeatable, partner-led growth engine.
Symptom: lots of partners, no clear strategy.
Design your ideal partner landscape, value proposition and recruitment strategy.
You get: a focused, scalable partner strategy.
Every engagement follows the Build. Activate. Scale.™ framework, so you always know where you are and what comes next.
How we work: Build. Activate. Scale.™
What a working Partner Ecosystem gives you
Lower Customer Acquisition Cost: partners bring warm, pre-qualified opportunities.
20 - 50
Revenue growth without hiring: borrow a partner sales force many times the size of your own.
Faster entry into new markets: partners already have the relationships and local presence.
Harder to replace: once you're embedded in partner's offering, customers stay.
Is your partner ecosystem holding you back?
Unlock your growth potential with our free Partner Ecosystem Diagnostic - assess your readiness and uncover where the quickest revenue gains are.
Want the full picture? Your results are the starting point for a Partner Ecosystem Audit.
Tried and Tested
Became a standing line item in a Global System Integrator's Digital Transformation methodology
An AI/software company wanted a foothold inside a leading GSI's delivery practice — not just a logo on a partner page. We built the recruitment plan, value narrative, and ongoing cadence needed for the GSI to actively champion and resell the solution as part of their transformation offering.
Activated a dormant partner sales team with a dedicated sales play, joint narrative, and hands-on enablement
A growth-stage software company had partner agreements in place but no pipeline to show for it. We built a MEDDPICC-aligned sales play, aligned joint value proposition, and enabled the partner's reps directly — turning a paper agreement into an active revenue channel leveraging a sales force 10x their own size.
Built the incentive structure and performance system behind a 30%+ pipeline increase — and made it repeatable
A Series B AI infrastructure company had one strong partner relationship but no system to replicate it. We designed the incentive programme, performance tracking, and QBR cadence needed to turn a single co-sell win into a standing, repeatable revenue motion — one that kept compounding well past year one, without adding headcount.
Fractional Partnerships Leadership that turns Strategy into Measurable Revenue Outcomes
Led by Telma Rafael — a Partnerships & Alliances leader with 15+ years in enterprise tech, the last several building partner ecosystems across EMEA and global markets — embedded in your business, without the full-time cost.
"What we needed was someone who’d built this before and could tell us which mistakes to skip."
— Mark Barlow, Founder & CEO of Digital Adoption Advisor
Built for AI Companies scaling past Product-Market Fit
We work with Series A–C AI and tech companies whose partner ecosystems are emerging or underperforming and whose revenue teams are ready to modernise beyond direct sales alone. If you've validated your product and need a repeatable, partner-led growth engine, that's exactly where we start.
For VCs and Private Equity
Partnerships often look stronger on a slide than they are in practice. Our Partner Ecosystem Audit gives investors an independent view of a portfolio company’s partners, and a clear plan to turn them into efficient, defensible growth.
• Find untapped partner revenue across your portfolio
• Strengthen value-creation plans and exit readiness
• Get a prioritised 90-day action plan management can deliver
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