A senior marketing brain, two days a week, no overhead.
Most growth-stage companies do not need a full-time CMO. They need a senior operator in the room, owning the strategy, sitting next to the founder, and making sure the work actually ships. That is what I do, with a small number of teams at a time.
The right fit looks like this.
You are a founder or CEO somewhere between two hundred thousand and ten million in revenue. Your marketing is working but you suspect it is leaving real money on the table. You do not want another vendor. You want someone senior who will actually own the outcome.
You sell something with a real consideration cycle, where buyers do research before they buy. SaaS, B2B services, AI products, premium consumer brands.
You are comfortable with sharp opinions. I will tell you what I think before I tell you what you want to hear.
Where I am not the right call.
You need someone to run paid ads as a single channel. There are excellent specialists for that. Hire one.
You want a CMO title for the investor deck but no real authority. The roles I take on come with real ownership of strategy and budget.
You are pre-product-market-fit and trying to use marketing to compensate. We should talk, but the engagement will look more like advisory than CMO.
Three ways to work together.
A 4-week teardown. Fixed scope, fixed fee.
Two interview rounds, a data audit, a competitor read, an AI visibility scan, and a ranked 90-day action plan you can execute with or without me. The shortest path to a real diagnosis of where growth is leaking.
Two to three days a week, embedded as the senior marketing brain.
I own strategy, hire and manage the operators, sit in leadership meetings, and report directly to the founder. Six-month minimum, renewable in quarters after that. This is where the compounding happens.
A focused 90-day program built around TopSlot.
Tracking, content rewrites, schema, citations, and the messaging shifts that travel through LLMs. Designed for teams that want a step-change in how AI models recommend them, not a checklist of generic SEO fixes.
The first 30 days, every time.
Listen, read, ask hard questions.
I sit with the founder, the head of sales, customer support, and anyone who talks to buyers. I read everything: the data, the docs, the deck. No recommendations yet.
Diagnosis, written down.
A document that says what is actually working, what is not, what the next 90 days should look like, and what I think we should stop doing. Disagreement welcome.
Operating cadence in place.
Weekly leadership sync, monthly scorecard, quarterly plan. By the end of week four, you should be able to feel the difference in how marketing decisions get made.
Thirty minutes is enough to know if this is a fit.
Bring a real problem. No deck on my side, no scripted discovery on yours.