Fractional CMO

Stop running marketing off the side of your desk.

A fractional CMO usually means one person and a slide deck. You still do the hiring and most of the work. We send a marketing leader and the team that builds what they plan.
The ceiling

You've hit the

limit of doing it yourself.

The motion works. What's missing is someone to own it. And the three usual fixes each cost you something.

Everything runs through you
Marketing moves as fast as you have time for, and lately that isn't fast. The strategy lives in your head, so it stops the moment you get pulled onto something else.
You bought help, not clarity
Freelancers and agencies each do their slice. Nobody ties the spend back to pipeline. So when the board asks what's working, the honest answer is you're not sure.
A full-time CMO is a big swing
A good one runs $250K, takes three months to find and six to ramp. That's a lot to commit before you even know what the role should be.
The difference

A strategist with
no team is just advice.

Both put a senior marketer in the room. Only one of them builds the thing once the plan is done.

Solo fractional CMO

Writes the strategy, hands the doing back to you
You hire, brief and chase every channel yourself
One person's calendar caps the output
Reporting waits on tools you haven't set up
Things slow down the week they're away
The mandate

What your 
fractional CMO owns.

This is a job, not a retainer. Here's what lands on their desk.

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GTM strategy & positioning

Who you sell to, what you say to them, and the plan that connects spend to revenue.

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Demand generation

Paid, search and content run as one system, not four line items pulling different ways.

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Pipeline accountability

They carry the marketing number to the board. When it slips, it's on them, not you.

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Team leadership

They run your marketers and ours. Hiring, briefing, and letting people go when it comes to that.

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Martech & RevOps

The tools, the tracking and the data cleanup that make your dashboards worth trusting.

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Board & founder reporting

The story and the numbers your investors want, ready before they ask for them.
The horsepower

The engine behind the leader.

The leader sets the direction. This is what carries it out, so the plan turns into shipped work instead of a doc that ages in a drive.

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Slate

Agents that plan, write and tune your organic and AI-search presence faster than a content team could keep up with.

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Command Center

Leverage maps the campaigns. Jarvis pushes performance into Slack, so you fix what's off in hours, not at the next monthly review.

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MarkOps

The plumbing. It wires your tools together and keeps attribution honest from click to closed deal.
How it works

What the first

ninety days
look like.

No open-ended retainer. You know what happens at each stage and who's on the hook for it.
Week 1-2
Diagnose
We pull apart the funnel, the spend and the team, then agree on the number to hit.
Week 2-4
Plan
A ninety-day plan with names against tasks and the metrics we'll be judged on.
Month 2+
Build
Channels go live. RevOps gets fixed. Reporting starts telling you the truth.
Ongoing
Diagnose
Pour into what works. Hand you a function that's ready to hire around when you are.
The outcome

Senior leadership.
Not the senior price tag.

Swap these placeholders for your real engagement numbers before launch.

~60%

of a full-time CMO's cost, same level of person

<30 days

from kickoff to a plan you can act on

1 owner

on the hook for every marketing dollar spent

Meet the team

Shiyam
Co-founder &
Managing Director
Sabarinathan (Sab)
Co-Founder,
Head of Paid Media
Manoj
Co-Founder,
Head of SEO & Content Operations
Jayakumar (JK)
Co-Founder,
Head of Revenue Operations
Mahesh
Director of Growth
SN
Director,
Operations & US
Shiyam
Co-founder &
Managing Director
Sabarinathan (Sab)
Co-Founder,
Head of Paid Media
Manoj
Co-Founder,
Head of SEO & Content Operations
Jayakumar (JK)
Co-Founder,
Head of Revenue Operations
Mahesh
Director of Growth
SN
Director,
Operations & US
How it works

What founders ask on the first call.

How is this different from hiring an agency?

An agency runs the scope you hand it. A fractional CMO decides what the scope should be, owns the outcome, and manages the people doing the work — us included. You're paying for the person who makes the calls, not just the hands.

And different from a solo fractional CMO?

A solo one gives you a plan and wishes you luck executing it. Ours shows up with a team already, so you're not left hiring against a strategy you just paid for.

What stage of company is this for?

Mostly Seed to Series B SaaS — past the founder-does-marketing phase, not ready to lock in a full-timer. Earlier or later, tell us on the call and we'll say whether it fits.

How much of the CMO's time do we get?

We scope it in days per month against your goals. The leader's days cover strategy and management; the delivery team's hours sit on top of that.

How quickly can we start?

Usually a week or two after the call. The diagnosis starts right away, and you'll have a plan inside the first month.

What happens when we're ready for a full-time CMO?

That's the point. We build a function that's documented and ready to hand over, help you write the role, and step back. Plenty of clients keep us on for execution afterward — your call.

Put someone

in charge of growth.

Thirty minutes. We'll tell you if a fractional CMO makes sense for you, or if it doesn't.