About Ascension

A specialist marketing partner for ERP consultancies

Founder-led and built specifically for ERP consultancies. We understand the services, the sales cycles, and the language. No onboarding required.

Founder-led
ERP-niche focused
No internal team needed
Ready from week one
36
+

Months embedded in the ERP ecosystem

100
%

Client retention, no churn since founding

300
 +

Pieces of content produced across retained clients

5
+

Retained clients across the IFS ecosystem

Sales Enablement

ERP Specialists

Linkedin-Led Marketing

Founder-Led

No Onboarding Lag

Retainer Model

Sales Enablement

ERP Specialists

Linkedin-Led Marketing

Founder-Led

Founder-Led

Founder-Led

Why WE EXIst

Why Ascension exists

Across the ERP consulting space, we repeatedly saw the same issue. Strong consultancies delivering real value, but struggling to communicate that value clearly and consistently to the market.

Marketing was often disconnected from sales and delivery, filled with generic language that didn't reflect how ERP projects actually work or how buyers make decisions. In many cases, there was no internal marketing function at all, just fragmented effort spread across leadership or sales teams.

Ascension exists to bridge that gap. We combine ERP fluency with practical marketing execution, helping consultancies present their services, experience, and outcomes in a way that supports sales conversations and long-term credibility.

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The gap we kept seeing

Strong ERP consultancies delivering real value, with no clear way to communicate it to the market. Marketing that didn't match the quality of the work.

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Generic agencies fall short

Agencies without ERP knowledge default to surface-level messaging. They don't understand long sales cycles, complex delivery models, or how buyers actually evaluate consultancies.

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Built to bridge that gap

Ascension was built to do one thing well, marketing that reflects ERP delivery reality and actively supports sales conversations, not just content for the sake of it.

Built to bridge that gap

Alex Cockayne

Founder
Ascension Marketing

Ascension was founded by Alex, following time spent working inside a tier-one ERP environment, where he worked closely with delivery teams and shadowed the CEO directly. That experience gave him first-hand exposure to how ERP products are sold, implemented, supported, and discussed both internally and externally.

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London
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Embedded in a tier-one ERP environment

Spent over a year working inside the ERP ecosystem, observing how delivery teams operate, how products are positioned, and how sales conversations are structured from the inside.

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Working directly with senior leadership

Shadowed and worked directly alongside senior leadership, gaining exposure to commercial strategy, internal decision-making, and the pressures that leadership teams face on a day to day basis.

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Founding Ascension Marketing

That experience directly shapes how Ascension works today, focusing on accuracy, judgement, and timing to ensure marketing supports trust, sales enablement, and long-term credibility.

Built on real experience. Trusted by ERP-led businesses.
The Difference

Less Friction. More Alignment.

We understand the language, the pressures, and the realities of ERP delivery. That means less time explaining the basics and more time building marketing that actually moves the needle.

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If you're an ERP consultancy that needs consistent marketing, or a function that actually gets your services this is the right conversation to have.