Operator-led.Outcome-focused.
We take ownership of delivery: the negotiation, the process, the vendor management, the result. Not just the recommendation.
Who we are
Eighty Twenty is a performance improvement firm. We work with mid-market executives and private equity investors on the operational and commercial problems that limit growth and compress margins.
Our leadership team has built and run the functions we now work in: revenue organizations, go-to-market, procurement, technology cost management, and marketing effectiveness, inside scale-ups, public companies, and global enterprises. That is why we take ownership of delivery rather than handing off a set of recommendations.
Offices in Brooklyn, Toronto, Austin, and London. Clients across North America and Europe, from scale-ups and PE-backed businesses to global enterprises including Dell, Toyota, Adidas, Spin Master, BlackRock, and Capital One.
Brooklyn · Toronto · Austin · LondonHow we work
Most consulting firms are structured to produce recommendations. We are structured to produce outcomes. We take the mandate all the way through: the negotiation, the process build, the vendor management, the measurement. We do not move to the next engagement until the current one shows results.
We bring three things to every engagement that an internal team cannot easily assemble: benchmarks from hundreds of contracts, audits, and negotiations; a network of specialists and vendors we have worked with for years; and deep fluency in the technology, from media platforms to enterprise software to AI, that now sits underneath almost every cost line. Where automation makes the work faster or the output better, we use it. Where judgment and experience matter, that is what you are paying for.
What we believe
Performance problems are almost always operational, not strategic. The strategy is usually known. What’s missing is the discipline to execute it: the vendor relationships that need restructuring, the technology costs that need to come down, the agency spend that needs governing, the revenue operations that need rebuilding. That’s the work we do.
Mid-market companies have real complexity. They need the same quality of operational thinking large enterprises get, delivered with the speed and accountability a focused, experienced team provides.
Measured across engagements since 2018, corporate and private equity, North America and Europe.
Work with us.
Most engagements start with a 15-minute conversation. Tell us the problem. We’ll tell you if we can help.