Strategic Growth Authority

Commercial Velocity.

Strategic commercial growth consultancy in Bath, Bristol & London for mid-market leaders.

Built for mid-market leaders who have replaced agency faith with the discipline of revenue certainty. We engineer commercial velocity for businesses ready to compound profit through strategic growth, not optimism.

Verified Infrastructure Partners

Six layers that separate
consultancy from execution.

Where conventional agencies rotate junior resource and fracture expertise across teams, one senior mind holds the entire commercial architecture. Undivided. Continuous. Compounding week after week.

Your media budget compounds on accurate data. Most organisations inherit tracking that captures 60 to 75% of true conversions, then optimise against incomplete signals. Every engagement starts with a forensic data audit. We validate event architecture, conversion paths, and timestamp precision. Server-side tracking eliminates the 25 to 40% attribution loss caused by browser limitations. Offline conversion tracking connects CRM systems directly to bidding algorithms. Technical SEO foundations — crawlability, schema, Core Web Vitals, hreflang — are reviewed alongside the paid stack so organic and paid compound, rather than compete. Internal system integration turns fragmented data into clean commercial intelligence. You receive a bespoke performance framework built from first principles. Year-on-year growth, cumulative pacing, budget efficiency, period-level ROAS. Not a dashboard export. The vantage point: seeing the entire landscape before committing capital.

Forensic data audit as standard Server-side tracking infrastructure Technical SEO foundations Offline conversion tracking Bespoke performance framework Internal system integration Event parameter validation BigQuery-ready architecture Conversion path integrity

The person who audited your account is the same person optimising bids, fielding platform calls, and reviewing weekly performance. No account manager rotations. No handover documents. No coverage gaps. This is the structural advantage of working with a single senior practitioner who combines the depth of an ex-head of PPC, commerce director, and analytics lead, with proven expertise across both B2B lead generation and full omnichannel eCommerce. Credentials include the global transformation of LUSH Cosmetics across 16 markets, the safe migration of Towergate Insurance and 40 brands into Everywhen, and a career spent training teams and authoring industry best practice. Every client receives that expertise, undivided, every week of the year. For businesses tired of institutional knowledge walking out the door with every personnel change, this is the antidote: compounding intelligence that never resets.

Single senior practitioner throughout No account manager rotations Available every week of the year B2B and eCommerce mastery LUSH Cosmetics across 16 markets Everywhen 40+ brand migration Ex-head of PPC Commerce and analytics depth

Fortnightly strategy calls with Google deliver vertical market insights, beta access, and platform intelligence that most organisations receive quarterly at best. When Google convenes face-to-face industry events, we attend. When Meta releases new attribution models for Facebook and Instagram, we test them before they reach the mainstream. LinkedIn's B2B targeting ecosystem and YouTube's intent-rich audience signals receive the same forensic attention. Both are structurally underutilised by organisations without a direct platform relationship. When the platforms move, this engagement moves first. The elevated perspective: your media strategy informed by the platforms themselves, not filtered through layers of account management.

Fortnightly Google strategy calls Beta programme access Meta Blueprint certified (Facebook and Instagram) LinkedIn Campaign Manager YouTube and Display Network Vertical market intelligence Google Partner certified Microsoft Advertising (Bing) Amazon Ads Partner Stape Partner

We architect across every revenue-bearing channel: Google Search, Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising (Bing), YouTube, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), LinkedIn, Amazon — and the technical SEO foundations that earn organic visibility alongside the paid stack. All anchored to a single profitability model rather than managed as isolated channels with competing KPIs. Our Comparison Shopping Service expertise and proprietary feed management approach means product data becomes a competitive weapon, not an afterthought. Display image creative is designed as standard because media without considered creative is capital without direction. Competitor intelligence is structural: understanding where rivals deploy, where they retreat, and where category gaps are widening before others notice them. The integrated view: every channel, every platform, every pound, all serving the same commercial north star.

Unified profitability model Google Search and Shopping Microsoft Advertising (Bing) Meta (Facebook and Instagram) LinkedIn B2B acquisition YouTube and Display Network Technical SEO and organic search Amazon Performance Ads CSS and feed management Display image creative as standard Cross-channel attribution

Every decision traces to one question: does this make the business more profitable? Not more visible. Not more awarded. Not more active across more platforms. More profitable. The Kaizen principle of incremental, compounding improvement means every week is a forensic review, never a celebration of output. AI is applied as subtraction. Removing noise, redundant spend, and the underperforming inventory that accumulates silently inside every account, on every platform, across every channel. Gains in data fidelity, bid efficiency, and audience precision do not reset between account managers or review cycles. They compound indefinitely, because the same senior mind holds the account, without interruption, from the first week to the last. Vigilance from elevation: continuous oversight that sees what fragmented teams structurally cannot.

Profit-first decision making Kaizen methodology AI as subtraction Bid efficiency forensics Audience precision Spend elimination discipline Zero vanity metrics

Most PPC practitioners hand the website back to a separate development team and brief vaguely from there. This engagement reads HTML, CSS and JavaScript fluently — meaning conversion-blocking errors, render-blocking resources, broken schema, mobile usability defects, tracking failures and tag manager bloat are diagnosed at source rather than guessed at. The codebase remains your developers' responsibility. We provide the strategic technical layer that sits between the PPC plan and the developer queue, translating diagnosis into precise, executable briefs your in-house or third-party team can act on without ambiguity. Core Web Vitals, on-page SEO, structured data and accessibility are reviewed, documented and prioritised — not implemented. Site speed compounds every paid pound. A faster landing page lifts Quality Score, lifts ad rank, lifts conversion rate and lowers cost per acquisition simultaneously. The forensic diagnosis that ensures your developers fix the right things in the right order. The strategic technical eye most consultancies cannot offer because they have never opened the code.

Strategic technical audits Conversion blocker diagnosis Developer-ready briefing documents Core Web Vitals diagnosis Render-blocking resource analysis Schema and structured data review Tag manager hygiene Mobile usability diagnosis Form and funnel error tracing On-page SEO best practice Tracking gap analysis
The Senior Mind

Held by one practitioner.
From audit to invoice.

Nicholas Crane, Founder of The Crane Consultancy
Nic Crane Founder
Nic Crane · Founder

A decade engineering profit at scale.

Architect of the LUSH Cosmetics global digital transformation across sixteen markets, recognised by Welocalize as Best Global Client Team. Former Paid Media Enablement & Commerce Lead at Adapt and Head of Paid Media at Navigate, leading media programmes across attraction, conservation and tourism portfolios.

Most recently engaged by The Ardonagh Group and Everywhen as Digital Data & Analytics lead through the Q4 2025 Everywhen brand launch — securing data integrity across a complex multi-organisation migration spanning Towergate Insurance and forty other brands.

Meta Advanced Media Buying Professional. Meta Discovery Commerce certified. Google Partner. Amazon Ads Partner. The practice operates from Bath, with sessions hosted at the registered office at 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair when the engagement calls for a London room.

The senior mind that wins the work is the senior mind that does the work.

01 / The Climate

The market has changed.
Most PPC has not.

2026 is not a year for optimism with a budget. Energy and supply-chain costs remain elevated. Geopolitical instability continues to weigh on consumer demand and global logistics. Boards are scrutinising every line. CFOs are auditing every channel.

The agency model most mid-market businesses inherited was built for a different decade — one of cheap traffic, abundant capital and channel specialists who never had to think commercially. The skills gap is now structural. The result is the same in every account we audit: technically active, commercially adrift.

Historical Execution

Proven at global scale.

LUSH Cosmetics — global commercial transformation across sixteen markets
02 / The Methodology

We engineer the
inevitability of profit.

The structural answer to a structural problem. The Crane Consultancy was built as the deliberate antithesis of the rotating-junior model: a single senior mind holding the entire commercial architecture — paid search, paid social, technical SEO, server-side tracking, attribution and the financial logic that joins them. Every decision is filtered against one question: does this compound your profit?

Our Services

The infrastructure of scale.

Revenue Architecture

  • Commercial Strategy
  • E-commerce Roadmapping
  • Business Growth Modelling
  • Profitability Engineering

Capital Deployment

  • Google Search and Shopping
  • Microsoft Advertising (Bing)
  • Meta (Facebook and Instagram)
  • LinkedIn B2B Acquisition
  • YouTube and Display Network
  • Amazon Performance Ads

Commercial Intelligence

  • Server-Side Tracking
  • Technical SEO
  • Advanced Data Analytics
  • Conversion Rate Optimisation
  • Attribution Modelling
Operating Standards

What we will not do.

Mid-market leaders have suffered enough agency theatre. Four standing commitments separate this engagement from the model most boards have previously contracted.

i.

You own everything.

Every ad account, tag manager, analytics property and dashboard sits under your ownership. Always. We do not gatekeep your own data.

ii.

No bait-and-switch.

The senior named on the proposal is the senior who does the work. No handover to a junior. No silent reassignment after the contract signs.

iii.

Live, not laminated.

Performance dashboards updated frequently. No vanity PDFs assembled the night before a quarterly review.

iv.

Direct line to the founder.

WhatsApp access to Nicholas, not a ticket queue or an account-management layer. Ask the difficult question on a Sunday if you need to.

03 / The Mandate

Growth is a discipline,
not a chance.

The Crane Consultancy founder portrait — introduction video preview
The Ledger

A small book.
By design.

Capacity dictates execution. We only accept engagements where the senior mind can be deployed without dilution. The final mandates for 2026 are currently being allocated.

Bailey of Bristol

Category Dominance

BIG Language Solutions

Stateside Expansion

Brunel Engraving

Category Dominance

Celtic Routes

Dual-Market Capture

PRIMA Leisure

Revenue Acceleration

Private London Estate

Ultra-Prime Positioning
45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair — The Crane Consultancy registered London address
Bath & Bristol · London when the work calls for it.

Registered office: 45 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London. Available for face-to-face client sessions.

Available for new mandates

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The Crane Consultancy is a trading name of Crane Consultancy Limited (Companies House 15526285, VAT GB466677439), a PPC and SEO consultancy founded in 2024 and registered at 45 Albemarle Street, Floor 3, Mayfair, London W1S 4JL. The practice operates from Bath, Somerset and serves mid-market businesses across 85 UK cities including Bath, Bristol, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Belfast.

The founder, Nicholas Crane, is a Google Partner, Stape Partner, Amazon Ads Partner, Meta Blueprint Advanced Media Buying Professional, and Meta Discovery Commerce certified practitioner. His track record includes the global digital transformation of LUSH Cosmetics across sixteen international markets, recognised by Welocalize as Best Global Client Team, and the Everywhen brand launch covering Towergate Insurance and forty other brands under The Ardonagh Group.

Services cover PPC consultancy across Google Search, Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Amazon; technical SEO; server-side tracking; attribution modelling; and conversion rate optimisation. Every engagement is held by one senior practitioner from audit to invoice — no account manager rotations, no junior handovers. The practice is an independent family business, named after the grey crowned crane and the founder's surname.