A fixed-fee planning sprint that turns your own sales, acquisition and retention data into a committed month-by-month Q4 plan, then tracks it against reality through December.
The number gets set by feel in a planning meeting. Inventory, creative volume and cash commitments all key off it. Then the gap between the ambition and what your acquisition costs and repeat rates can actually deliver shows up in mid-November, when it is too late to do anything about it. The sprint closes that gap in August instead, while every lever is still on the table.
Two-plus years of your revenue, acquisition cost and retention curves pulled from your own store and ad accounts. Read-only access, about 30 minutes of your time.
Your Q4 target tested against what your real CAC, repeat rates and seasonality say is possible. If there is a gap between the ambition and the data, you see it in pounds, in August.
Month-by-month revenue, new-customer and spend targets for September through December. Not a deck. A plan with the assumptions written down next to every number.
Conservative, plan and stretch cases, each with the spend level and CPA assumptions behind it, so the trade-offs are a decision you make rather than a surprise you absorb.
Dashboard access with daily pacing versus plan for the whole quarter. You always know whether the month is on, ahead or breaking.
When reality diverges, and it always does somewhere, the plan gets rewritten in early November. You adjust BFCM with six weeks of runway instead of reading a postmortem in January.
Read-only access to your store and ad platforms. Roughly 30 minutes of your team's time, then the baseline builds on our side.
A 60 to 90 minute working session. We test your Q4 ambition against your baseline live, work the scenarios and land on the plan together.
The plan goes live in the tracking dashboard. Daily pacing, alerts when a month breaks, and a full reforecast in early November.
A fractional CFO who maintains a forecast like this runs £2,000 or more per month. An agency strategy retainer costs more and usually inherits your target instead of pressure-testing it.
More to the point: one avoided bad Q4 decision pays for the sprint several times over. Over-ordering inventory against a fantasy number. Under-spending in a month your data says you could push. Finding out in late November that the plan was never feasible.
If Q4 is 30 to 40 percent of your year, the plan behind it should not be a guess.
One email starts it: your store URL, your platform and roughly where you want Q4 to land. You will get a straight answer on fit, and a live demo of the planning platform on the first call.
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