About
We've spent years building businesses, products and technology.
Top Comps is how we make that experience available to others.
Why we exist
Top Comps brings together complementary technical, commercial and operational experience.
We work with founders, boards and leadership teams where a problem sits somewhere between business, technology and delivery.
Often the challenge is not simply knowing what technology to use.
It is understanding:
- what should be built;
- whether it should be built at all;
- what it should cost;
- who should build it;
- how it fits the business;
- and how to make sure it actually gets delivered.
That is where Top Comps works best.
What that means in practice
We can advise it, design it, build it, run it, or sit on the board responsible for it.
That breadth is the proposition. You’ve got a business problem. Technology might be part of the answer. We’ll help you work out what to do next.
01
Project
A defined problem or delivery requirement.
02
Fractional
Part of your leadership team for an agreed number of days each month.
03
Advisory
Ongoing strategic or board-level support.
04
Embedded
Working directly alongside your existing team.
The collective
Duncan Clapman
Strategy / Commercial / Product / Board
I work out what a business should build, whether it is worth building, and what it is really worth commercially.
David Barlow
Operations / Delivery / Business
I turn strategy into something that actually happens — plans, people, suppliers and the operational detail underneath.
Juanma Sanchez
Technology / Architecture / Engineering
I design and build the technology — architecture, engineering, integrations and the AI that has to work in production.