About · Calvin Dickinson, Founder
Seven and a half years at a Sunday Times 100 double-winner. £1m to £45m, 20 to 300 people. Now I bring the same operator instinct to founders scaling revenue. GTM, hiring, process, investors, advisory.
Numbers don't make a partner. But they're a fair shortcut for whether someone's actually done the work, or just read about it.
The short version. The long version's better over a 20-minute call.
Chapter 01 · Tecknuovo
Joined Tecknuovo in 2018 as a Talent Consultant. Left in January 2026 as Growth Director, with P&L for the part of the business that had grown 45× while I was there.
What I cared about wasn't the title or the trajectory. It was the pattern recognition. What works at £3m and breaks at £8m. When a process is the answer, and when it's slowing you down. Spotting a wrong-fit hire six months before everyone else admits it.
None of that's in the deck. It's the room.
Chapter 02 · Khulani
Khulani is the operator in the room for founders scaling revenue. The work I love: revenue growth, the hiring calls that shape the next stage, process built alongside delivery, the difficult conversations founders shouldn't be having alone.
A small number of engagements at a time. Weekly cadence. Mostly face-to-face. Founder-led businesses with product-market fit, anywhere from zero up to around £15m. Sector-agnostic, with the deepest pattern recognition in B2B services and tech-enabled services.
If that's what your room is missing, let's talk.
I'm a year into Khulani as a business. The 7.5 years that produced the playbook isn't. If you're weighing the lack of a Khulani-branded case study against the work, that's a fair read.
The right answer to it is a conversation, not a deck. Twenty minutes will tell us both whether the operator experience translates to what you're trying to do.
We see if there's something to do together. If there isn't, you'll get an honest take on what you're working on.