High-value use cases
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The Focused Growth Retainer · Ongoing Strategic Advisory
You have proof something's working. Now the decisions get harder.
Monthly strategic advisory for founder-led businesses with traction and too much noise. The Focused Growth Retainer gives you a senior strategic advisor who helps decide what matters now, what can wait, and where the team should focus. It is not a fractional CMO seat or a task dump. It is an ongoing rhythm for making fewer, better growth decisions.
Start the ConversationBegins at $3,500/month · 90-day minimum
01 · The Problem
The problem is not a lack of opportunities. It is deciding which ones to work on.
At this stage, every decision matters because it overlaps.
A new offer affects the website. A campaign exposes a positioning problem. A hire raises questions about structure and capacity. A freelancer needs direction before the work can move. And now AI has added another layer: new platforms, automations, agents, and workflows your team is being told it should adopt, whether or not they solve the right problem. Without a clear strategic filter, the founder becomes the filter.
You carry the context, answer the questions, correct the work, and make the final call, often while wondering whether the team is focused on the moves that will actually matter six months from now. The retainer gives you a consistent place to make those decisions before they become scattered execution, unnecessary spending, or another tool your team never fully uses.
02 · Every Month
A defined advisory rhythm.
Not an open tab.
Six things arrive every month. Select a row to see more.
Two focused 60-minute sessions to make decisions, pressure-test opportunities, and keep the business moving around the priorities that matter most.
A written, ranked view of what to start, stop, and double down on, so you and your team start and end each month clear on where the time, budget, and attention should go.
This may include a landing page, campaign concept, offer, sales deck, messaging draft, or another high-priority item. You receive senior strategic direction before the work goes live, not full production or rewriting.
One agreed-upon communication channel for focused questions and decisions, with quick responses.
Clear recommendations that help the people executing the work understand the strategy, make stronger choices, and stop relying on you to translate every decision.
As opportunities arise, I identify where AI could improve the workflow, reduce repetitive work, strengthen consistency, or help your team move faster. Technical builds, integrations, and formal team training are scoped separately.
03 · The AI Lens
AI is part of the strategy.
I am AI-trained, not simply AI-curious. I have completed AI boot camps and use AI skills and agents across everything I do.
Inside the retainer, I bring that lens to the decisions we are already making. I flag when your team is relying on a manual process that should become an AI-supported workflow, when a custom agent or skill could reduce repetitive work, when the platform does not fit the job, and when more technology would create more noise than leverage.
This can include:
The right platform
The right type of platform, agent, or custom skill recommended for the workflow.
A defined use case
Inputs, outputs, guardrails, and an owner before anything gets built.
Working workflows
A review of whether your team’s current AI workflows are producing useful work.
Human-led decisions
Clarity on which decisions should remain human-led.
06 · The Gate
How retainers begin.
If we haven't worked together
Growth Clarity Diagnostic
A focused way to assess the situation and begin with clear priorities.The strategic foundation
Strategic Compass Sprint
Where deeper repositioning is needed before ongoing advisory.Then, and only then
The Focused Growth Retainer
Ongoing advisory, built on clear priorities from day one.07 · The Investment
Three months.
Enough time to establish the priorities, see the work move through your team, and adjust the direction based on what the market and the execution reveal.
Focused Growth Retainers begin at $3,500/month · 90-day minimum
Ongoing strategic advisory
Fewer, better moves every month
Your priorities are clear. Your team knows what to do. Your AI investments solve real business problems. And you are no longer carrying every meaningful growth decision alone.