14 client stories · 14 industries

What actually
happened, with the
numbers left in.

Every story on this site is a real engagement with Robert T Fletcher. The situation before, what was changed and in what order, the measured result, and the part that went badly. Names are withheld where the client asked; nothing else is.

Robert T Fletcher at his desk during a client working session
Robert T Fletcher — 40 years of operating companies

14

Documented engagements

14

Industries covered

90 days

Fastest measured turnaround

100%

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The case files

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All 14 stories
SaaSCASE 01

$1.0M to $5.2M ARR, churn down 42%

SaaS Founder · 14 people · 12 months

Stuck at $1M ARR for seven quarters, with logo churn running near 3% a month.

Robert didn't tell us to raise prices. He made us watch twenty renewal calls until we admitted we were charging for the wrong thing.
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Marketing AgencyCASE 02

On-time delivery 98%, team retention up 60%

Agency Owner · 22 people · 90 days

A full order book, a burnt-out delivery team and roughly a third of projects shipping late.

I took a two-week holiday in month four and nothing caught fire. That had never happened in nine years.
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EcommerceCASE 03

Repeat purchase rate up 110%, LTV 2.3x

Ecommerce Brand · 9 people · 6 months

Paid acquisition costs climbing every quarter, with only 14% of customers ever placing a second order.

We spent two months not chasing new customers. It was the most uncomfortable and most profitable decision we've made.
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ConsultingCASE 04

Average project value £3k to £18k

Independent Consultant · Solo · 4 months

Positioned as a generalist, competing on price, averaging £3k projects with long sales cycles.

Saying no to eighty percent of enquiries felt like career suicide for about six weeks. Then the right people started arriving pre-sold.
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Tech StartupCASE 05

$1.5M seed round closed

Startup Founder · 6 people · 5 months

Thirty-one investor conversations, no term sheet, and no consistent explanation of what the company did.

The deck barely changed. What changed was that all three of us finally told the same story in the same order.
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ManufacturingCASE 06

Clean transition, output up 30%

Family Business · 48 people · 8 months

A founder ready to step back at 71, two siblings disagreeing on direction, and almost nothing written down.

Twenty years of knowing how everything worked, and none of it was anywhere but in Dad's head. Writing it down was the inheritance.
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In their words

I took a two-week holiday in month four and nothing caught fire. That had never happened in nine years.

Founder · Marketing Agency

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The through-line

What keeps turning out to be true