About

Not another SaaS company.

We're a service business that operates as a software company.

Earl builds the commercial channels that elite sports and stadia operate off the field. Year-round revenue, AI-native, run with your own brand.

Why now
01 - The commercial pressure

Revenue targets keep rising. Your team doesn't.

Broadcast is capped by deals you don't control. Regulation tightens the wage-to-revenue ratio. The only lever left is how much your commercial team can sell, and how fast, and most are still running on cold calls, tired decks, and manual research.

02 - The AI shift

Every part of how your team sells is about to change.

Research, drafting, pricing, prospecting: the work your best people do on instinct is becoming something software can do at scale, for everyone on the team, all the time. The commercial teams that embed this first will simply outsell the ones that don't.

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The team

Who's behind Earl.

Neil Kent

Co-founder, Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer

A decade embedded in the commercial operations of elite sport rightsholders, including Chelsea FC and the NFL, and consulting to global commercial partners of Formula 1, UEFA, and Manchester United. A further decade as co-founder of the leading communications and marketing strategy partner for the events sector.

Chris Wright

Co-founder, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer

Founded a successful agency working with Microsoft, Google, SAP and their partner ecosystems for over a decade. A computer science background with two decades shipping software inside commercial teams. Leads product, AI and engineering at Earl.

Barnaby Ellis

Co-founder, Chief Strategy & Experience Officer

A decade across strategy and commercial growth working with global technology vendors and the elite sport rightsholders they partner with, from award-winning activations to commercial ecosystems. Specialises in positioning, ABM and the operating models that translate brand equity into measurable revenue.

How we work

We sit inside your priorities and deliver practical tools to help your teams work smarter. Working on retainer, with bigger builds becoming standalone projects, we are your AI implementation partner for commercial operations.

Most engagements start with a diagnostic, not a subscription: a fast, clear read on where AI can move your commercial revenue fastest, whether that's how buyers find you, or how your own team gets deals done. From there, we build.

How to engage Earl.

We take on a defined number of venues each year. Outline the commercial brief, and if there’s a fit, we’ll come back with a route in.

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