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Growth & Performance Retainers

Growth & Performance Retainers

Replace 3 agencies and the spreadsheet that reconciles them.

An embedded pod of 4 to 6 specialists, strategist and channel leads with an analyst and a designer, running paid, organic, lifecycle and CRO on one plan and one dashboard. Weekly experiments, monthly budget reallocation, and a single number we are accountable for.

Three specialist agencies and an in-house marketer who spends Friday reconciling their reports is not a growth team. It is a coordination cost with a media budget attached. A pod is 4 to 6 people, one plan, one channel in Slack, and one set of figures nobody has to reconcile.
Onboarding runs 90 days: audit in week 1, first fixes live by week 4, a strategy session on day 30, scale from day 90. Month one is mostly plumbing: tagging, tracking, access. It's the least interesting invoice you'll get from us, and the reason the rest of them work.

What you get

Deliverables, specifically.

8 things you can point at. Scope is agreed in writing before the first invoice.

  • A named pod lead, a weekly stand-up you sit in on, and a shared Slack channel with the specialists in it
  • A full-funnel growth plan built as a KPI tree, so every metric traces up to revenue
  • Execution across paid media, SEO and AI search, lifecycle, CRO, social and content
  • A weekly experiment cadence with a hypothesis backlog and a written record of what failed
  • Creative production for the tests: ads, landing pages, emails and video cutdowns
  • Monthly budget reallocation across channels, with the reasoning written down before the money moves
  • One growth dashboard and a weekly scorecard, built in your analytics rather than ours
  • A monthly growth review, a quarterly forecast, and a fractional CMO layer when you want one

How it runs

3 steps. Then it compounds.

Our method, narrowed to this service. Every step ends with a document, a build or a number you can check.

  1. 01

    Audit and 90-day plan

    A tracking, data and channel audit, a growth model with its assumptions visible, and the first experiments queued before the first invoice.

  2. 02

    Sprint

    Weekly experiments across channels, creative produced in-house, and budget reallocated each month on evidence rather than habit.

  3. 03

    Scale and forecast

    Scale what won, retire what did not, and forecast the next quarter with the range attached to the number.

Questions

Asked often.

  • 3 months to onboard and reach signal, then month to month with 30 days' notice. We would rather earn the renewal than write it into a contract.

Start with growth pod.

30 minutes, no deck. We'll tell you what we'd fix first, and whether it needs us.