You told the board we'd grow. The line isn't moving fast enough.
Hiring a VP takes months to ramp. We embed by week two and put numbers in the board deck.
Our best proof is the clients we'll never name.
Rent it. Or own it.
Most Series A founders don't yet know which shape the job needs. Embedding senior operators buys you the answer before you commit a full senior hire to the wrong one.
Hire the VP
A full senior salary, loaded. 6-mo ramp.
A full senior salary, loaded. Six months to ramp. Coin flip on fit.
If they don't work out, two quarters are gone. Credibility problem with the board.
3-6 months after a 3-6 month search.
Outsource to an agency
Junior staff. Rote work.
Junior staff. Slow reporting. Optimized for retainer.
Your board won't believe their numbers. Neither will you.
30-60 days. Execution only.
Embed until you hire
Underboss. Senior operators. Week 2.
Operators on your numbers by week two.
90-day commitment. When you later hire a VP, they walk into a working system.
Real numbers by board meeting #3.
What we build for Series A companies.
Fractional growth leadership
Senior strategy without the six-month VP search. Board-integrated from day one.
Embedded execution
Live in weeks. Not quarters. Content, distribution, and dashboards from week two.
Board-ready reporting
The metrics your board actually asks about: audience and retention for consumer, CAC and payback for B2B, and the organic mix behind both.
An audience you own
For consumer products, the organic distribution that drives installs and signups (one Series A consumer co: 50M views in 5 months, $0 paid). For B2B, the pipeline that replaces paid. It builds on itself quarter over quarter.
Team integration
Whoever you already have gets better, not replaced. Senior reports to senior. No re-orgs.
Demand creation
New category? We build the narrative first. Then we build the pipeline that follows it.
The results are the resume.
For client results under NDA, we offer direct reference calls before you commit.
Three phases. The first ninety days.
Diagnostic
We look at everything. Unit economics, positioning, what's working, what isn't. Output: growth brief and a roadmap for the first 90 days.
Build
We embed with your team and start shipping. Content goes live, dashboards go up. Output: live campaigns and real-time dashboards.
Scale
Weekly sprints. Monthly board updates. Full knowledge transfer so your team owns it. Output: CAC going down, pipeline going up.
What Series A founders ask.
Hire a VP of Marketing when you know what the job actually is. Most Series A founders don't yet. Embed until the shape of the job is clear. Then hire.
Your new VP walks into a working system. Dashboards live, processes documented, pipeline already coming in. They start at month four, not month one.
Diagnostic week 1. Content live week 2. Full system by week 4. No workshops, no decks.
Founder-led sales usually breaks after product-market fit. We build what replaces it before it does.
CAC curve, organic pipeline mix, attribution by channel, cohort retention. The slides your Series B deck will need anyway. Same format every month.
Month-to-month after 90 days. If we're not moving the line by week 8, we'll tell you before you have to ask.
Three board meetings from now, someone's going to ask for numbers.
Series B gets raised on a real growth line. Extensions get raised on aspirational ones. Build the real one while there's still time on the clock.
This conversation stays between us.