Your market-entry deck is obsolete the day it's signed.
Six-week strategy engagement produces a PDF. Six months later the brand is in market against a frozen point of view.
By launch day the competitor set has shifted, channel economics have moved, the regulatory baseline has tightened, KOL CPMs are 30% off-baseline, and a new GB or REACH clause is in consultation. The team is left executing against a deck that nobody updates — burning the first two quarters re-learning the market on the brand's dollar.
Five places traditional market entry loses the plot.
Three things boutique consultancies cannot ship.
- Refreshable competitor radar per market
- Channel matrix with live economics
- BOM-grounded pricing waterfall
- Live regulatory map per market
- Department-store concession depth
- Boutique aggregator playbook
- DTC + paid acquisition economics
- Wholesale-and-distributor pack
- EU 27 + UK + Nordics covered
- Greater China · 30-day playbook
- GCC + APAC playbooks
- Native partners in PA · MI · SH · HK · DXB
Fifteen+ markets, four regions, one workflow.
From discover to operate, five stages.
- Department-store concession (Selfridges, Galeries Lafayette, Bloomingdale's, Lane Crawford, SOGO)
- Boutique aggregator (Tomorrow, Tranoï, Pitti)
- Marketplace (Tmall, JD, Farfetch, MyTheresa, Net-a-Porter)
- DTC (own .com, paid acquisition, app)
- Margin holds at the channel-take rate?
- Lead time fits your production calendar?
- Brand fit matches positioning?
- Cultural fit clears native review?
- Buyer / merchandiser shortlist with named contacts
- Brand intro angle per buyer
- Line sheet and look book pack assembled
- Mandarin / Arabic / Japanese pack where relevant
- Wholesale terms negotiated
- Onboarding pack delivered
- First PO / first order executed
- KPI baseline captured
- Sell-through tracked per door / per SKU
- Reorder cadence proposed
- Marketing co-investment briefed
- Channel-mix re-evaluated quarterly
Four weeks. Four phases. Launched.
Define the launch thesis with your leadership.
Working sessions with your CEO, CMO, and head of commercial. Articulate the launch thesis, target markets, category framing, and success criteria — loaded into the agent on day 7.
- Launch thesis signed off with KPI bands
- Target market shortlist (2–4 markets)
- Category framing + competitive set
- Brand-context dossier loaded into the agent
Generate the agentic playbook live.
Run the Market Entry agent in the room — competitors, channels, pricing, regulation, demand. Your team edits the agent's output as it generates so the v1 playbook is yours by end of week 2.
- Competitor radar v1 per market
- Channel matrix with phasing
- BOM-grounded pricing waterfall
- Regulatory readiness checklist
Hand off a working market-entry workspace.
Your team takes ownership of the playbook inside McLeuker AI. Distributor lists, channel briefs, regulatory dossiers, pricing models live in the workspace — refreshable on demand.
- Workspace handed over with logins
- Distributor + buyer outreach drafts
- Regulatory dossier handed to in-country counsel
- Channel onboarding kicked off
Activate the first market moment.
First trade event, first wholesale meeting, or first DTC pulse — live in market. The agent refreshes against post-launch data and we move to the retained monthly cadence.
- First market activation live
- Refreshed competitor + channel data
- Cross-channel attribution baseline
- Retained monthly cadence agreed
Eight working surfaces for the market-entry team.
From frozen deck to operating workspace.
What changes from day 30.
Common questions.
Which markets do you cover?+
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, the Nordics, the US, Greater China (Mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, South Korea, and the GCC. Additional APAC and MENA markets on request.
Is this really 30 days, or is that marketing?+
30 days is the fixed-scope ship — Diagnose · Design · Deploy · Operate, one week each. It works because the agent does the heavy synthesis and your team edits in the room rather than waiting for decks. After day 30 we convert into a retained monthly refresh cadence.
What if we are entering Mainland China specifically?+
We have a dedicated AI for China Fashion Market practice with a deeper Tmall / JD / Douyin / Xiaohongshu workflow, Chinese brand-naming, Baidu + RED SEO, and the GACC / CIQ / PIPL regulatory dossier. The 30-day ship plan is the same shape; the deliverables are China-specific.
How does this connect to our supplier and sustainability work?+
Inside McLeuker AI, the Market Entry workflow shares brand context with the Sustainability and Sourcing workflows. Pricing references real supplier quotes. Claims reference your verified evidence. Nothing is reconciled twice.
Do you handle the in-country distributor onboarding?+
We design the readiness — buyer shortlists, brand intro angles, line sheets, regulatory clearance. For the in-country negotiations and onboarding we partner with on-the-ground agents (Paris, Milan, Shanghai, Dubai). We coordinate the handoff so nothing falls between us.
One company. Two front doors.
We are not advisers who read about agentic AI. We designed, built and operate McLeuker AI - a multi-agent platform running in production for fashion brands. That is where the consulting comes from: every recommendation is something we have already had to make work.
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Brief us on the next market you're entering.
30-minute call: we walk through the launch thesis, the target markets, and what an agentic Market Entry engagement would look like.