About Revenue Arc

Revenue Arc helps technology, software and services companies grow in a way that lasts, and helps the investors behind them decide whether that growth is real before they commit to it. It works with companies roughly between £10 million and £250 million in revenue. Its focus is narrow by choice: whether a company’s growth will last, and what to do about it.

The work starts with an accurate picture of where the company actually stands. What it needs is then decided by the evidence, not chosen in advance.

The independent read

Running a company at pace takes conviction, and conviction makes the plan hard to see from the outside. That is the use of an independent read. It is not attached to the plan, and it reports what the evidence shows rather than what would be easier to hear. Where the read is done with a company’s own team, the picture belongs to them.

The evidence behind the judgement

The read is not built on instinct. It rests on The Truthscaling Study, a study of 182 business-to-business technology companies: 78 that failed to scale and 104 that scaled and held, all 182 scored on one instrument locked before any company was read. What separated the two groups is what Revenue Arc looks for, and its instruments are built from that study.

Leading Revenue Arc

Revenue Arc was founded and is led by Mark C. Ward. The person who does the reading is the one who has spent thirty years doing the work, inside B2B technology companies from global businesses to sponsor-backed scale-ups. The method and the research come out of that experience. A fuller account is on the Meet the Founder page.

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Successful scaling starts from an accurate account of where a company stands. That account will never be found in a CRM or from an AI agent offering insights. Get the reading right and the work becomes clear. Get it wrong and capital, hiring and effort only compound the mistake.

INSIGHTS

CURATED RESOURCES TO INFORM

We have captured the thinking of our best consultants and subject matter experts to guide you as you navigate transformation.

Market and Proposition Build

Where to compete now and next, whom to serve and why they will buy: settled on evidence, not conviction.

Revenue System Build

A sales system capable people can run, so winning stops depending on the efforts of founders or superstars.

Customer Value and Expansion Strategy

The post-sale system that turns a signed contract into value delivered, revenue retained and accounts that grow.

Commercial Intelligence

The process, data and technology that let the company see itself truthfully, and the governance that makes it act on what it sees.

Pricing and Value Realisation

The pricing architecture, execution protocols, and commercial controls that convert delivered value into revenue and margin that hold.

Commercial Transformation

The flagship. When the failure is systemic, we rebuild the commercial and revenue system end to end and carry the change through.