Services — gRO Growth Retainers for B2B SaaS

Two engagements.
One outcome.

No retainer menus. No a-la-carte confusion. You're either in the Growth tier or the Scale tier — based on where you are, not what you can afford to pay.

Growth Retainer
$9,500/month

90-day pilot → 6-month contract. One channel, fully owned.

Ideal Situation One paid channel generating demos or trials, conversion below target, ad-hoc weekly decisions, no unified messaging framework.
  • One paid channel owned end-to-end — LinkedIn or Google
  • 8–10 ad creative variants per month, weekly rotation
  • 2 landing page variants/month with A/B testing to 95% significance
  • 4–6 email nurture campaigns/month with subject line testing
  • Weekly KPI scorecard — 4 metrics: CPL, demo rate, pipeline, top experiment
  • Thursday 30-minute growth call + monthly performance summary
90-Day Targets
CPL Reduction 10–20%
Demo Booking Rate +15%
Experiment Velocity 3+ / month
Requires Ad Budget $10K–$30K
Apply for Growth →

What You're Actually Replacing

One retainer.
Five headcount problems solved.

Building this in-house means hiring a team, managing competing priorities, surviving a 4-month ramp, and hoping they focus on what actually moves revenue. Here's what you're replacing — and what it would cost you to do it yourself.

Head of Marketing / Growth
Strategy, channel ownership, forecasting, executive reporting. Your most expensive single hire.
4–6 month ramp Generalist by nature
$18K–$23K
/month fully loaded
Paid Media Specialist
LinkedIn, Google, Meta — campaign setup, bidding, audience management, budget pacing.
Execution only No funnel ownership
$7K–$10K
/month fully loaded
Performance Creative Designer
Ad creatives built to convert — not just look good. Variants, rotation cadence, A/B testing.
Usually freelance Disconnected from data
$5K–$8K
/month fully loaded
Copywriter / Conversion Specialist
Landing page copy, email sequences, ad copy — tested against real conversion data.
Slow turnaround Not tied to pipeline
$4K–$6K
/month fully loaded
Marketing Analyst / Data
Attribution modeling, funnel reporting, experiment tracking, CAC decomposition.
Reports on the past Rarely drives action
$6K–$8K
/month fully loaded
Full in-house team
To cover what one gRO retainer delivers end-to-end. Plus benefits, equity, management overhead, and a 4-month ramp before you see results.
$40K–$55K
/month total
Growth Retainer — Monthly Math
Equivalent in-house cost $40K–$55K
Growth Retainer $9,500
You save every month $30K–$45K

That savings alone funds $360K–$540K in additional ad spend per year — reinvested directly into the channel that's working.

Scale Retainer — Monthly Math
Equivalent in-house cost $55K–$75K
Scale Retainer $18,500
You save every month $36K–$56K

Scale adds a second channel, full funnel audit, and executive reporting — capabilities that typically require a Director-level hire on top of the specialist team.

What in-house can't give you
Results in 90 days — not after a 4-month ramp and an onboarding period that costs you pipeline
A team that stays focused on one channel — not pulled into Slack, OKRs, and all-hands
Off without severance, benefits, or 6-month notice if the channel stops performing
An operator with a 600%+ growth and 92% CAC reduction track record — from prior roles, before day one
Ready to scale what's working?

One Growth-tier slot open now. Apply, we'll talk through whether it makes sense, and if it does — we're live in under two weeks.

Book a Growth Call →
Not sure where to start?

The $1,500 Funnel Audit maps your entire funnel, finds the leak, and tells you exactly where to put the next dollar — before you commit to a retainer.

Request the Audit →

Qualification

Be honest with yourself
before you apply.

The fastest way to kill a growth engagement is misalignment on what you bring to the table. These aren’t aspirational requirements — they’re the minimum conditions that let us move fast and deliver results. If you can’t check these boxes today, start with the Funnel Audit.

Growth Retainer — $9,500/mo
What you must bring
ARR
$1M minimum at engagement start
Monthly ad budget
$10,000–$30,000 across one channel
Tracking
GA4 functional, UTM tracking consistent
CRM
Deal stages in HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive
Existing motion
A defined ICP and at least one channel generating demos or trials
Approval speed
Creative and copy feedback within 48 business hours
Availability
Thursday 30-min call + async response within 24 hrs
Scale Retainer — $18,500/mo
What you must bring
ARR
$4M minimum at engagement start
Monthly ad budget
$30,000–$75,000 across two channels
CRM data quality
Closed-won and closed-lost reasons logged for last 6 months minimum
Attribution setup
UTM tracking consistent across all channels, CRM source data clean
Sales data access
Full pipeline view, deal stage timing, and win/loss data
Customer access
3–5 recently closed-won customers available for 20-min interviews in month one
Sales lead
One person who owns pipeline attends weekly 15-min sync
Existing channels
At least one paid channel with 6+ months of performance data to audit
Approval speed
Creative and copy feedback within 48 business hours — non-negotiable at this volume
Founder availability
Thursday call + async response within 24 hrs
Not there yet on some of these?

The $1,500 Funnel Audit doesn’t require all of this to be in place. It’s specifically designed to identify what’s missing, what’s fixable, and whether a retainer makes sense at all. It’s where most clients start.

Start with the Audit →
Not the right fit? I'll tell you that too.

I only take clients I believe I can win with. If you apply and the fundamentals aren't there — wrong stage, channel not ready, data too thin — I won't take the engagement. I'll tell you what needs to be true first. The Funnel Audit exists specifically for that situation.

Apply Anyway →

Not sure which tier fits? Start with a Funnel Audit.

A one-time diagnostic that maps every stage of your funnel, identifies your highest-leverage intervention, and tells you exactly what to fix first — before committing to a retainer.

$1,500 one-time
Request Audit →

Related resources

Deep-dives on fractional leadership, agency alternatives, marketing metrics, and channel strategy — useful before or after you talk to us.

Services FAQ

How fast can an engagement start?

Most engagements begin within 7–10 days of signed agreement. The first week is diagnostic — the operator reads your CRM, ad accounts, attribution dashboards, and produces a written “what’s broken” assessment by end of week one. The first experiment is live in week two.

What happens after the 90-day pilot?

The 90-day window exists to prove the operator can produce measurable change on your funnel. Most engagements continue past day 90 on a month-to-month basis at the same retainer rate. There’s no automatic renewal and no minimum past the initial 90. If the diagnosis-fix-measure cycle produces results, you keep going. If not, you stop.

How is paid media spend handled?

Ad spend flows through your accounts, not gRO’s. The operator builds campaigns inside your Meta, LinkedIn, or Google Ads accounts; reviews spend allocation weekly; and reports performance against your CAC and CPL targets. There’s no markup on media spend and no agency commission — the operator’s retainer is the only fee.

What’s NOT included in the retainer?

The retainer covers strategy, execution, and weekly optimization across paid acquisition, positioning, lifecycle email, copy, and analytics. It does not cover: ad spend itself, third-party SaaS subscriptions (CRM, attribution tools, etc.), video/photo production budgets beyond standard ad creative, or specialist trades like enterprise sales motion design. Those are itemized separately when needed.