Senior marketing leadership, without the full-time cost.
Same methodology, packaged as a role: we sit in on strategy, own the growth roadmap, manage your channel vendors, and report straight to founders or the board.
For businesses that have outgrown ad-hoc marketing — usually a mix of an agency here, a freelancer there, maybe one in-house junior — but aren't ready for a full-time CMO's salary and equity. If growth decisions currently get made by whichever vendor is loudest in the WhatsApp group, and no one senior is accountable for whether the overall spend is actually working, that's the gap this fills, without the cost or the hiring risk of a permanent senior leader.
Good signs you're ready
- You run 2+ marketing vendors without one person owning the outcome
- No one currently reports growth performance to founders or the board on a fixed cadence
- You need senior judgment on strategy, not another pair of hands on execution
- A full-time CMO hire isn't justified yet by team size or budget
The levers that move your numbers.
Every engagement starts by narrowing to the handful of levers that actually move the needle for a business like yours — not a generic checklist run the same way for every client.
Same methodology, applied to fractional cmo.
We own the roadmap, not just a channel
The same read-the-data, run-experiments engine we use everywhere else, but scoped across your entire growth function — paid, organic, retention, website — set as a quarterly roadmap with priorities, not a list of tactics run in isolation because no one's connecting them.
We manage the vendors you already have
Agencies, freelancers, in-house juniors — we write the brief, review the output against it, and hold everyone to the same numbers, so you're not the one translating between three vendors who've never actually spoken to each other.
We report the way a CMO would
Board-ready updates — what's working, what isn't, what we're betting on next quarter and why — delivered on a fixed cadence, not a raw metrics export the week before a board meeting that nobody has time to make sense of.
We build the muscle for whoever comes after us
If and when you do hire a full-time CMO, they inherit a working roadmap, documented vendor relationships, and a reporting rhythm already in place — not a blank slate and three tools nobody explained to them.
Example work, not a generic pitch.
Quarterly growth roadmap and vendor consolidation
Audited three existing vendors against a shared scorecard, cut one, renegotiated scope with the other two, and set a single quarterly roadmap all three now work against.
Board reporting cadence set up from scratch
Replaced ad-hoc updates with a monthly one-page report — pipeline, CAC/LTV, and the next quarter's bet — reviewed live with founders.
Channel mix reallocation based on blended CAC
Pulled spend and results across all vendors into one blended CAC view for the first time, then shifted budget toward the two channels actually producing profitable customers.