Consensus Growth Partners is Dan Patnode and Jon Braught, a two-partner practice helping MSPs, VARs and technology solutions providers build a business that can charge for what it delivers.
We kept seeing the same ceiling, in founder-led shops and lean executive teams alike.
We met years earlier at the same technology solutions provider, working the same side of the enterprise-technology business before going our separate ways. Dan into partner sales leadership, most recently building the North American sales strategy for an international partner. Jon into strategic accounts, before a short-lived retirement.
We kept coming back to the same conviction: sales and delivery only produce real growth when they work in harmony, and most organizations run them as two separate worlds. CGP is our answer: a practice that puts people and relationships first and treats the revenue engine as one connected system.
That conviction turned out to matter more than we expected. As automation takes the hours out of technical work, the firms under pressure are the ones whose price was built on effort. The way through is to charge for the result instead, and a result can only be sold by a business that can define it, baseline it, deliver it repeatably, and measure it. None of the four sits inside a sales team. They sit in the seams between sales and delivery, which is the gap we started this practice to close.
And we prove it before we ask for the bigger commitment. We would rather show you how we work on something real than hand you a sales deck. It starts with one day on site at a fixed price, and every step after that has to earn the next. We are looking for organizations that believe in us the way we believe in them.
The partners you meet are the partners who do the work.

Since 2014, Dan has sold technology from the provider's side of the table: hardware, software, cloud and managed services, and the complex solutions that tie them together. He has worked strategic account portfolios from mid-market companies up to the Fortune 100, nationally and internationally.
At CGP he sells and delivers. He's the partner in the room on the day on site, and the one you'll hear from first.

Jon spent his career at a $3 billion value-added reseller and network solutions provider, as a Presidential Club rep on strategic healthcare and oil & energy accounts. He moved more than $200M in IT products (primarily Microsoft, with a deep networking, server, and storage background) and built and led a team inside the business responsible for $20M+ a year across direct reps, technical staff, and sales engineers.
He stepped away in 2022 to play music and serve on boards championing the arts in New Hampshire's Monadnock region, and stepped back in to build CGP. Here, he turns that enterprise experience into the recommendations and deliverable design behind each engagement, working hand in hand with Dan. He's at his best on the complex problems: the ones that need deep thought and patient untangling.
We run the practice by these, and we don't bend them.
Every engagement proves a moved number before we present findings. If we can't measure it, we don't claim it.
We're not the cheapest, and we don't discount to win. We charge for the work because we over-deliver on it, and we show you the number that proves it.
We use our real names and say what we think. If it's not true, we don't say it.
One day on site, fixed scope. See how we work before you commit to anything beyond it.