Case Studies

Three brands. Three categories. Three collapses. Same era, same investor base, and the same operating-model failure underneath all three. The popular post-mortems blamed market timing, promotional wars, and lost cool. Underneath, the same pattern: the cost base scaled faster than the operational discipline.

Gousto went from a £157m loss to record profits in 18 months. They closed warehouses, shut a factory, and stopped chasing new customers. Here's exactly what they did, and what growth-stage founders can learn from their operational reset.

How The Ops Engine™ helped a climate tech company align teams, close skill gaps, and build an operational backbone to unlock scalable growth.

When fast growth hides operational cracks, margins bleed, cash tightens, and chaos takes over. This is how a six-month turnaround restored profit, clarity, and structure to a $20M brand, and why choosing profit over hyper-growth, clarity over speed, and structure over confusion is the only sustainable path forward.

Circularity is no longer a niche sustainability initiative, it’s becoming the new growth model for global brands. From fashion to homeware, companies are redesigning their systems to keep products and materials in use for as long as possible. But what does that actually mean for operations?

When Rhode’s numbers surfaced, they told a simple story: growth built on operational discipline and smart execution, driving an exceptional 34% EBITDA margin, a top-tier performance for a young beauty brand.