Antevon vs Flow Partners: finance leadership or a two-week audit

Antevon describes itself as a managed demand desk for indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is a fixed-fee two-week forecasting project.³

The optional monthly desk refreshes the forecast and maintains the decision ledger.⁵

Antevon publicly offers a bookable two-week demand audit.³

Antevon Ltd operates the public offer and website.²

Not in the published offer. No additional trading aliases were established from the public pages read.

The public trading name is Antevon.¹

This option is a fractional CFO and FP&A service with an advertised weekly inventory-planning component.¹³

Flow Partners delivers the offer as fractional CFO support embedded in the client team.¹²

The consumer-products service says its team runs weekly demand, purchasing and cash forecasts.¹³

Flow Partners currently markets a fractional CFO service for consumer-products companies.¹³

The website terms identify Flow Partners (London) Ltd. as the operator.¹⁴

Companies House lists Nikhil Parmar as an active person with significant control of Flow Partners (London) Ltd.¹⁵

The website identifies Flow Partners (London) Ltd. as its legal operator.¹³

Flow Partners is the brand used for its fractional CFO and corporate-finance advisory offer.¹²

The public audience is roughly £0.5M to £25M in revenue.⁴

Antevon targets indie beauty and dermocosmetics brands.⁴

The audit is for beauty brands selling through retailers or about to do so.³

The stated service audience is in the UK and EU.⁴

The audit is positioned for a founder or commercial team without a full-time owner of the forecast.⁵

Flow Partners says it works from pre-seed through growth to exit, without specifying a revenue or SKU limit in this statement.¹⁶

Not confirmed. Revenue, catalogue and location thresholds for the consumer-products offer were not established.

Flow Partners explicitly targets consumer founders in food, fashion, beauty and lifestyle.¹³

Flow Partners also advertises fractional CFO support for skincare, cosmetics, haircare, fragrance, wellness, supplements and personal care.¹⁷

Flow Partners models contribution and payback across DTC, Amazon, wholesale and retail.¹³

Flow Partners explicitly offers fractional CFO services to UK startups.¹⁸

The offer targets founders who need to build internal finance functions and prepare for capital raising or exit.¹²

The brand brings its sales export and retailer reports and makes an hour available for questions.⁵

Antevon cleans the imperfect data as part of the work.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for supplier lead-time, MOQ, safety-stock and connected-system parameter maintenance is not specified publicly.

On the optional desk, Antevon refreshes each forecast number monthly and maintains the ledger.⁵

Not in the published offer. Native system installation, production integration builds and full-stack migration scope are not established for the general audit.

The client can keep using the delivered files without adopting software or maintaining a paid login.⁵

Cleaning imperfect data is included in the audit rather than charged as a surcharge.⁵

The audit leaves the client with two Excel files to keep.⁵

Not confirmed. Responsibility for extracting, mapping and cleaning demand-planning data was not established.

The illustrative Grow and Pro packages assign ongoing financial-model maintenance and projection refinement to Flow Partners.¹³

Not confirmed. Responsibility for demand-planning parameters and promotion, launch or supplier context was not established.

Accounting and FP&A tech-stack implementation is listed in the illustrative Core package and inherited by Grow and Pro.¹³

The forecast is by product, retailer and month.⁵

Not in the published offer. A standard service forecast horizon is not established from the public offer.

Not confirmed. The exact demand-forecast grain by SKU, retailer and location was not established.

Flow Partners advertises SKU-level contribution P&L analysis for consumer brands.¹³

Not confirmed. The forward horizon of the weekly demand forecast was not established.

The UK fractional CFO offer includes a 13-week cash-flow forecast.¹⁸

Not in the published offer. Retailer-by-retailer sell-in versus sell-through input coverage and data-feed availability are not specified.

The stated forecast target is what each retailer will sell, with buy decisions following from it.⁷

Not in the published offer. retailer EDI support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Flow Partners says its PO sizing uses actual sell-through, without specifying the retailer data source or a separate sell-in forecast.¹³

Not confirmed. A specific retailer or EDI integration was not established from the public material read.

The audit models each promotion separately and gives each forecast number a likely range.³

The audit prices a retailer promotion against not running it, in pounds.⁶

Not in the published offer. The standard method and data requirements for a product with no sales history are not specified in the public offer.

Launch events are marked when the audit cleans sales history.³

Flow Partners uses SKU-level contribution analysis to inform promotion calendars and pricing decisions.¹³

Not confirmed. Launch-specific demand forecasting was not established.

The audit supplies buy, move, hold and cut recommendations with their money impact.³

Not in the published offer. Creating, sending and executing purchase orders are not established parts of the public offer.

Purchase orders are inputs to the audit.³

Not in the published offer. The public service description does not assign every PO creation, sending or supplier-follow-up step.⁴

Not in the published offer. An audit feature for minimum-order quantities or case-pack optimisation is not established publicly.

The audit puts a date and a price in pounds on each buy that follows the retailer forecast.⁷

Flow Partners says it runs weekly demand, purchasing and cash forecasts to size the next purchase order.¹³

The consumer-products offer includes a weekly demand and PO plan tied to supplier lead times and cash.¹³

Not confirmed. Responsibility for creating, sending and following up purchase orders was not established.

Not confirmed. Treatment of supplier minimum order quantities was not established.

Supplier lead times and open-to-buy are tracked weekly alongside the demand forecast and bank balance.¹³

Production sizing, cash planning and promotion calls are priced from the same forecast.⁵

Not in the published offer. An automatic hard-budget constraint or cash-constrained optimiser is not established publicly.

Flow Partners models supplier deposits and payment timing as a cash schedule.¹³

Not in the published offer. Batch tracking, expiry handling and shelf-life constraints are not established in the public offer.

Not confirmed. Batch, expiry and shelf-life planning were not established.

Not in the published offer. Shopify support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. Amazon support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. 3PL support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. ERP support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not in the published offer. CSV file intake support is not evidenced as a documented integration in the public pages read.

Not confirmed. A specific Shopify integration was not established from the public material read.

Not confirmed. A specific Amazon integration was not established from the public material read.

Not confirmed. A specific 3PL integration was not established from the public material read.

Not confirmed. A specific ERP integration was not established from the public material read.

Not confirmed. A specific CSV integration was not established from the public material read.

Not in the published offer. A formal approval matrix for forecast sign-off and cash commitments is not published.

The brand signs its retailer promotions after the desk’s profit read.⁵

Not in the published offer. Responsibility for ongoing operational exceptions and their response times is not fully specified publicly.

Not confirmed. Responsibility for demand-forecast sign-off, cash approval and purchase approval was not established.

Not confirmed. Ownership of operational forecast exceptions, stockout investigations and buy/hold/cut follow-up was not established.

The audit takes two weeks from when the data lands, not from payment.³

The audit draft arrives on day 13 and the walkthrough call is on day 14.³

The audit asks for 12 to 24 months of sales, purchase orders, a stockist list and a promotion calendar.³

The client supplies a sales export, retailer reports and an hour for questions.⁵

Not confirmed. Time from engagement or data receipt to the first reviewed forecast was not established.

Flow Partners says it studies the business and proposes a plan before integrating into the organisation.¹⁶

Yurii Blazhevych takes the call and runs the forecast.⁵

The audit includes a working session through the first decisions on day 14.⁵

The monthly desk refreshes the numbers, maintains the ledger and reads retailer promotions before the client signs.⁵

Antevon lists a registered office at Manorfield, Church Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6EA.²

Not in the published offer. A staffed UK operating office is not established from the public registered-address statement.

Antevon Ltd states that it is registered in England and Wales under company number 17404379.²

Not in the published offer. UK support hours, time-zone coverage and response-time commitments are not specified publicly.

Not in the published offer. Named or independently verified UK clients are not established from the allowed public pages.

Not confirmed. A staffed UK operating office was not established.

Companies House records Flow Partners (London) Ltd., number 12969521, as active with a London registered office.¹⁹

Not confirmed. UK support hours, response times and service-level guarantees were not established.

Flow Partners says it works with companies in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham and beyond.¹⁸

Antevon publishes from-prices for both the audit and the monthly desk; the final fee is scoped on a call.⁸

Neither the audit nor the monthly desk is billed by the hour.¹⁰

The audit fee depends on product and retailer count, is quoted on the first call, and is fixed once agreed.⁸

Half the audit fee books the slot and half is paid on delivery.⁸

Data cleaning is part of the audit work, not a surcharge.¹⁰

The optional monthly desk is scoped to the catalogue and retailer count.¹⁰

Not in the published offer. A separate minimum purchase or initial commitment beyond the published from-prices is unknown.

Not in the published offer. Whether a separate setup or onboarding fee applies is unknown.

There is no surcharge for cleaning imperfect audit data.⁵

Not in the published offer. Trial availability and trial terms are unknown from the public pages checked.

The full terms for working together are in each signed engagement letter, not the website terms.²

The monthly desk is optional after the audit.¹⁰

The audit files keep working without an ongoing software login or subscription.¹⁰

The monthly desk has rolling 30-day notice.⁸

Public prices are indicative because the packages are illustrative and final pricing is tailored.¹³

Flow Partners publishes illustrative monthly CFO packages and tailors the final price to client requirements.¹³

The public FAQ says fractional CFO service starts at £4,000 per month and requests a tailored quote.¹⁶

Not confirmed. A binding minimum fee or minimum purchase volume for a specific consumer-brand engagement was not established.

Not confirmed. A separately payable setup fee was not established.

Not confirmed. A free trial or trial-service term was not established.

Flow Partners says it works on a month-to-month rolling basis without a long-term lock-in.¹⁶

Audit exports and reports are used only to build the client’s files, not shared outside Antevon and deleted on request.¹¹

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