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Program 02 · Commercial Review

A plan, not a deck.

Owners and asset managers commission this kind of work from advisors who have never deployed a commercial team. Commercial Review is the practitioner alternative — a defined-scope engagement producing a board-grade twelve-month plan, written by senior About Partners directors and anchored to live data from our operating network.

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Director-led, not analyst-led
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Defined scope and timeline
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Anchored to network data
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Written for ownership
What it covers

Six workstreams, one plan.

Commercial Review is built around six discrete analytical workstreams. Each produces a section of the final document. Together they form a quantified view of where your commercial position is, what needs to change, and the twelve-month sequence to get there.

Segment mix

Corporate, MICE, Leisure, and Transient revenue against your peer set. Where you are over-indexed, where you are exposed, and what the network shows is achievable.

Channel performance

Direct, OTA, GDS, wholesale, group, and consortia by yield and volume. Channel mix benchmarked against the network band and recommended re-weighting.

Source markets

Geographic feeder analysis against the addressable buyer demand we see across our operating network. Markets you are missing and why.

Rate position

Comp set positioning, leakage, parity issues, and rate strategy against demand patterns from buyers we work with directly.

Commercial structure

Team, accountability, reporting cadence, and capability gaps. Whether the structure can deliver the plan or whether structure itself is the constraint.

Buyer relationships

Named accounts, volume, retention, and recovery opportunities. Which buyer organisations should be in your book that are not, and why.

How it runs

Four stages from intake to plan.

01 · Intake

Brief and access

Owner brief, data access, and stakeholder interviews with ownership, the GM, and the commercial lead. Scope locked before work begins.

02 · Diagnostic

Six-workstream analysis

Each workstream run against benchmarks drawn from our live operating network. Findings tested with the commercial team before synthesis.

03 · Synthesis

Quantified opportunity

Findings consolidated into a quantified view of opportunity by segment and market, with recommended trade-offs surfaced.

04 · Plan

Twelve-month sequence

A board-grade twelve-month plan with quarterly milestones, named accountabilities, and the action sequence to execute.

What you receive

A document you can take to the board.

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Executive summary

Written for board, ownership group, or asset manager. Standalone readable in fifteen minutes.

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Full commercial assessment

Findings against each of the six workstreams, with peer-set comparison drawn from the operating network.

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Twelve-month plan

Quarterly milestones, named accountabilities, and a recommended action sequence.

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Recommended next steps

Including whether to engage About Partners further. The Review may conclude that you should not.

What this isn’t

Three things this engagement doesn’t do.

We do not produce slide decks designed to impress. We produce a working document designed to be read, marked up, and acted on.

We do not recommend programmes that do not fit. The Review may conclude that you should not engage About Partners further, and the document will say so.

We do not subcontract. The director who signs the engagement letter writes the plan. No analyst fronting, no offshore production, no junior delivery.

Who it’s for

Commissioned around a defined decision.

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Refinancing or recapitalisation where lenders or investors require a defensible commercial view.

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Pre-sale preparation where commercial position needs to be presented to a potential buyer.

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Sustained underperformance against the peer set, where ownership wants an independent view before changing direction.

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New asset entering the portfolio, where ownership wants a baseline before the first full year of trade.

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GM or commercial leadership transition, where ownership wants a written commercial position for the incoming team to inherit.

It is not the right fit for generic strategy work, brand or marketing reviews, capex feasibility, or properties without enough commercial history to diagnose. If that is what you need, we will tell you directly in the scope discussion.

Start with a scope discussion.

A thirty-minute conversation to determine engagement fit, indicative scope, and timeline. No deck, no pitch. If we are not the right team for the decision in front of you, we will say so.

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