Fractional CMO

Senior marketing leadership, sized to the stage you are in.

For founders who have outgrown freelancers and agencies but cannot yet justify a full-time CMO salary, a Fractional CMO brings decades of operator experience to the table at a fraction of the cost.

Three shifts happen at once.

Strategy stops being invented in the space between urgent campaigns, and begins living inside a plan the business can actually hold itself to.

Execution stops being judged by what is easy to count, and starts being judged against the commercial outcomes the team cares about. And the team you already have gains a senior operator who can coach, challenge, and raise the quality of every decision the function makes.

The full arc of senior marketing leadership, not a single slice of it.

Strategic leadership

We lead the annual plan, the quarterly roadmap, and the monthly performance review, holding every initiative against the commercial outcomes that matter.

Cost-effective senior capacity

Marketing leadership priced against your stage, with the plan, the budget, and the measurements aligned around your revenue goals rather than an agency's retainer target.

Cross-functional team management

We work inside your existing team, lifting performance, resolving bottlenecks, and modelling the standards a modern marketing function needs to meet.

Data-driven decisions

Every recommendation is anchored in evidence, from attribution and cohort analysis to cost of acquisition and lifetime value, so you invest in the lever that moves the number rather than the channel that happens to be popular.

Brand development and positioning

We sharpen how the business is understood in the market, anchoring the visual identity, voice, and narrative around the customers you are trying to win.

Hiring help that pays for itself

Identifying and hiring the right marketers is hard for non-marketers. We help you write the brief, run the process, and choose the candidates who will still be making an impact in two years.

The right moment to bring us in.

Most Fractional CMO engagements run for twelve months or longer, with a typical week of leadership meetings, a standing team session, async reviews of campaigns and reporting, and quarterly deep dives into strategy.

  1. 01

    Spend without a strategy

    The channels are running and the budget is material, but nobody owns the number or can explain why the spend is allocated the way it is.

  2. 02

    A team without direction

    You have capable marketers or contractors executing without a clear plan, and the results show it. They need a senior operator to lead and coach them.

  3. 03

    Growth has stalled

    The business is past product-market fit but revenue has plateaued between roughly $2M and $50M, and the cause is unclear.

  4. 04

    A big bet ahead

    A raise, an inflection, a new market — moments where a wrong strategic call is expensive and senior pattern recognition pays for itself.

$9.2M

ARR reached, from a $3.5M base

247%

SQL growth in a ninety-day window

24x

Return on ad spend, strongest quarter

21

Years building growth engines

A CMO at the table, without the CMO salary.

A short consultation is enough to know whether the fit is right. If a Fractional CMO is not the call for where you are now, we will say so.