Augmentum Advisory Ltd brings C-suite commercial leadership to SaaS and technology businesses between £1m–£20m revenue — without the permanent hire. Led by Nick Nesbitt, a proven Chief Revenue Officer with over 25 years scaling businesses from £1m to £50m ARR across EMEA, APAC and North America.
There is a specific, critical — and frequently underestimated — inflection point in the growth of every B2B SaaS, Fintech, RegTech and technology business. The moment when founder-led sales stops being enough.
The founder sells. Deals close on relationships, conviction and product belief. It works — but it does not scale, and it cannot be replicated by a team.
VC or PE investment arrives. Headcount grows. But the sales motion is still founder-led instinct dressed up as process. Pipeline is unvalidated. Forecasting is optimistic. The board starts asking hard questions.
This is where Nick Nesbitt works. Replacing founder-led sales with a structured, data-driven, enterprise-ready commercial function — ICP defined, pipeline validated, GTM motion designed, team enabled, metrics in place — that investors can trust and operators can scale.
Augmentum Advisory exists for one specific type of organisation: a B2B technology business that has achieved early commercial traction — typically between £1m and £10m ARR — and now needs to make the transition from informal, founder-driven growth to a structured, scalable, investor-ready commercial operation.
These are businesses that cannot justify — or cannot yet afford — a full-time C-suite commercial leader who has built this before. That is what Augmentum delivers: fractionally, without the cost, without the long-term commitment, and without the risk of getting the hire wrong.
"I engage with boards to define overarching business strategies that deliver clean, sustainable growth — with a sharp focus on product-market fit."
Nick Nesbitt is an accomplished and purposeful business leader with a proven track record of accelerating growth through a rigorous, disciplined approach to sales and go-to-market processes that prioritise the customer.
He has personally scaled multiple SaaS businesses from approximately £1m to £9m over six years at Tagetik, and from £12.5m to £35m ARR at Aptitude Software — building and leading teams of up to 275 people across EMEA and APAC.
With deep expertise in Corporate Performance Management, Regulatory & Compliance Reporting, and BI & Data Analytics within the SaaS B2B space, Nick has a proven history of generating new customers, expanding market share, and driving profitable growth to enhance shareholder value.
His prior career spans IBM Global Business Services, Oracle Corporation, Accenture, Cognos, and Arthur Andersen — providing a foundation of enterprise commercial discipline combined with hands-on execution experience.
Core Competencies
Led revenue operations with 275 people across EMEA and APAC. Negotiated and closed enterprise deals with FTSE 100 clients including Diageo, GSK, BAE Systems, Centrica, Halma and Smith & Nephew.
Part of a four-person executive team at Aptitude Software PLC that led search, due diligence and sign-off on a £40m acquisition. Regularly engaged investors, managed £50m P&L and built partner strategies with Microsoft, Big 4 firms and channel resellers.
Holistic optimisation of market position, pricing architecture and internal commercial structure to maximise revenue potential. Grounded in experience managing £50m P&Ls and driving 25–42% ARR growth year-on-year across multiple SaaS businesses.
Each service is delivered personally by Nick Nesbitt — bringing C-suite rigour and hands-on execution experience to your most pressing commercial challenges.
Executive-level guidance to steer your revenue generation efforts at a fraction of the cost of a permanent hire. Immediate uplift in leadership quality with a controlled burn rate — drawing on 25+ years of CRO-level experience across EMEA and APAC.
Comprehensive go-to-market strategies to successfully launch products and dominate new markets. Built on proven playbooks used to penetrate UK banking, insurance, pharma and FTSE 100 accounts.
A focused, rapid-impact programme to realign your commercial engine and jumpstart growth when momentum has stalled.
Crystallise your Ideal Customer Profile and craft compelling value propositions that convert. Hone client messaging, optimise onboarding and implement targeted, measurable client management systems.
Optimise your full sales cycle — from pipeline qualification to close. Build a revenue forecasting model that actually predicts accurately.
Architect a robust commercial operating model designed for efficiency and sustainable scale. Includes team structure, role definition, compensation design and governance metrics.
For early-scale SaaS businesses where revenue growth has stalled, the commercial narrative has drifted, or the GTM motion lacks coherence. A structured, rapid-impact programme to realign and reignite.
Deep commercial audit across sales, marketing, customer success and product-market fit. Stakeholder interviews, pipeline analysis, win/loss review and competitive positioning assessment.
Co-create the new commercial strategy with your leadership team. Redesign the GTM motion, sales process, ICP definition and value proposition. Secure board and team alignment before execution begins.
Execute with precision. Train and enable the team. Implement the new operating model, metrics framework and reporting cadence. Hand over a self-sustaining commercial engine with clear ownership.
Each package is a focused, hands-on engagement delivered personally by Nick Nesbitt. Select the one that addresses your most pressing commercial challenge — or combine several as part of a broader advisory relationship.
Being selected as preferred supplier feels like the finish line. It is not. It is the beginning of one of the most complex, high-stakes phases of any B2B sale — where more deals are lost, delayed or re-opened to competition than most organisations want to admit.
Working with Nick, your team will build a repeatable close process and a Mutually Agreed Plan (MAP) methodology that creates joint accountability with your client and a clear, shared path to signature.
Pipeline solves every commercial problem. But only real pipeline. Inflated, unvalidated or poorly qualified pipeline creates false confidence — distorting forecasting, misallocating resource and producing the kind of missed targets that erode board confidence and damage team morale.
This engagement delivers a rigorous, objective assessment of your pipeline — examining quality, stage validity, coverage against target, velocity and the activities generating it.
Marketing and sales misalignment is one of the most persistent and expensive problems in early-scale SaaS. Marketing generates leads sales dismisses. Sales pursues prospects marketing has never heard of. Meanwhile, the business burns budget, loses momentum and wonders why growth is harder than it should be.
A Monthly or Quarterly Business Review should be one of the most strategically valuable conversations a leadership team has. In practice, it is frequently a backward-looking data exercise — packed with metrics that measure activity rather than outcomes, and disconnected from the decisions that actually move the business forward.
In complex B2B sales, a small number of conversations determine the outcome of every deal. The first meeting with a new economic buyer. The executive presentation. The moment a competitor enters the picture. These are defining moments that require a fundamentally different level of preparation, intent and execution.
The businesses that grow fastest are not those that chase every opportunity — they are those that identify the right opportunities early, invest in them with complete strategic intent, and walk away decisively from the ones that do not fit.
OKRs are one of the most powerful alignment tools available to a scaling SaaS business — and one of the most consistently misapplied. Poorly designed OKRs become a bureaucratic overhead. Well-designed OKRs create genuine strategic clarity — giving every function and individual contributor a direct line of sight from their daily work to the company's most important goals.
Growth does not stall without reason. New logo acquisition slows. NRR drifts. Churn becomes a problem. The sales motion that worked at £3m ARR no longer functions at £8m. These are interconnected signals that the commercial engine needs a fundamental evaluation and reset.
Selecting the right advisory partner is a significant decision. It requires confidence — in their experience, their judgement and their ability to understand your business quickly. That confidence is built through demonstration, not a sales process.
Nick offers a structured Complimentary Commercial Diagnostic to a carefully selected number of businesses each quarter. This is not a discovery call — it is a genuine, substantive evaluation of your commercial position.
Whether you need a Fractional CRO, a 90-Day Commercial Reset, or targeted advisory on a specific challenge — the conversation starts here.
Nick works directly with founders, CEOs and boards of SaaS and technology businesses. Every engagement is hands-on, bespoke and built around your specific situation — no generic frameworks, no junior consultants.
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