Find the commercial move most likely to win next.

Customer, market, competitive and performance evidence turned into clearer propositions, sharper decisions and stronger commercial moves.

Find the commercial move most likely to win next.

Customer, market, competitive and performance evidence turned into clearer propositions, sharper decisions and stronger commercial moves.

Find the commercial move most likely to win next.

Customer, market, competitive and performance evidence turned into clearer propositions, sharper decisions and stronger commercial moves.

SELECTED SIGNALS · 2026

15 years+

BRAND · GROWTH · COMMERCIAL

9 organisations

TECH · CONSUMER · SPORT · DIGITAL

4 disciplines

BRAND · INTELLIGENCE · RESEARCH · SYSTEMS

Evidence → Decisions

INSIGHT MADE COMMERCIALLY USEFUL


BRANDS WORKED WITH


Turnfragmentedevidenceintoclearercommercialdecisions.

Fragmented signals

Evidence

Customer, market, competitive, performance and operational signals brought together.

DECISION LAYER

Commercial judgment

Determine what the evidence actually means and which decision deserves action.

“The goal isn't more information. It's knowing what to do with it.”

Find the tension

Diagnosis

Separate symptoms from the underlying commercial problem.

OUTPUT

Your next move

Positioning, propositions, growth decisions and systems that can actually be executed.

SERVICES

Four disciplines. One decision architecture.

Four disciplines. One decision architecture.

Four disciplines. One decision architecture.

Different commercial problems require different lenses. I bring four disciplines together to find what matters, decide what to do and turn it into something usable.

RESEARCH & INVESTIGATION

Establish what is actually true

Structured research that separates evidence, claims, inference and uncertainty before important decisions are made.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Find what matters commercially.

Customer, market, competitive and performance signals interpreted to expose opportunities, threats and leverage.

BRAND STRATEGY

Turn insight into a stronger position.

Positioning, propositions and messaging built around what customers value and markets reward.

DECISION SYSTEMS

Make better judgment repeatable.

Frameworks, workflows and AI-enabled systems that turn commercial reasoning into decisions teams can use again and again.

DECISION ARCHITECTURE

One connected system.

One connected system.

One connected system.

Each discipline answers a different question. Together, they turn evidence into a commercial decision, then use the outcome to sharpen what happens next.

01

01

Establish the evidence

Determine what is known, what is claimed, what remains uncertain and what still needs proving.

02

02

Interpret the opportunity

Connect customer, market, competitive and performance signals to find where the leverage sits.


03

03

Choose the move

Turn that understanding into positioning, propositions and messaging designed to create preference and action.

04

04

Make it repeatable

Encode the reasoning into frameworks, workflows and AI-enabled systems that improve with what happens next.

SELECTED WORK

The thinking, applied.

The thinking, applied.

The thinking, applied.

TECH

0%

Uplift in conversion rate

Turning customer evidence into commercial performance

Webselenese

Retail store interior

RETAIL

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Research lenses

Turning fragmented evidence into decision-ready intelligence

STACK

Clinical team reviewing data

HEALTH

0 hours

Per production cycle

Halving production time with an AI-assisted workflow

ExpressVPN

Core Belief


Moreinformationisn'ttheadvantage.Betterjudgmentis.

The goal isn't to produce more research, more strategy or more content. It's to identify what matters, make the right commercial decision and build the system that makes the next one better.


CHRIS SHERLOCK

Commercial strategy, intelligence and decision systems for harder business problems.

© 2026 Chris Sherlock. All rights reserved.

CHRIS SHERLOCK

Commercial strategy, intelligence and decision systems for harder business problems.

© 2026 Chris Sherlock. All rights reserved.

CHRIS SHERLOCK

Commercial strategy, intelligence and decision systems for harder business problems.

© 2026 Chris Sherlock. All rights reserved.