Turn your seed round into signups & real traction.

Google Ads management is 10% of your ad budget with a $600-a-month minimum, and none of it is marked up — your full budget goes to Google. SEO is $50 per page, starting at 10 pages a month. If you need a new site, custom websites run from $1,500 to $20,000+ in eight one-time packages (see /websites for details). Setup is $0, everything is month-to-month with no contract, and a 30-day guarantee means if you're not happy, you don't pay. Tell us about your startup and we'll send exact numbers in a free proposal within one business day.

If you can't point to which channel is actually producing signups, your site still looks like the MVP you launched with, or you have zero organic pipeline, that's the gap we close. We build the site, run the paid tests, win the organic searches, and set up onboarding email — so you can spend your runway on the product, not on guessing. If growth is already working on its own, keep doing what's working.

It runs every channel that turns a limited seed round into signups, activation, and a growth number you can show a board. SearchPod builds your site and landing pages, tests Google, LinkedIn, and Meta ads until you know what's actually working, wins the searches your buyers make before they know your name, and sets up onboarding email so a first signup doesn't go quiet — one team, one pipeline, tracked back to real cost per customer.

A fractional CMO is usually a strategist who plans the growth roadmap for a few hours a week; an agency is the team that actually builds the site, runs the campaigns, and writes the content behind that plan. Most seed-stage startups don't have either yet and need both the strategy and the execution — that's what we run as one engagement, so you're not paying for a plan with no one to carry it out, or execution with no one steering it.

Look for an agency that treats your seed round like it's scarce, because it is — they should test small, track every signup back to its real cost, and tell you fast when something isn't working instead of running it for months. Then check ownership: your site, ad accounts, and data should stay in your name from day one. Ask any candidate how they'd know within 30 days whether a channel is worth scaling; a vague answer tells you everything.

Paid tests usually tell you something within the first few weeks — enough signal to know what to scale and what to cut before your runway forces the decision. SEO and AI-search visibility take longer, usually a few months to build, then keep compounding without eating more of your seed round. Running both from day one means you're not choosing between fast signal and a pipeline that lasts past this raise.

We run the whole system — site, paid acquisition, SEO, AI search, and onboarding email — so you're not stitching together five vendors on a seed-sized budget. Pricing is public, plans are month-to-month with no contract, and a 30-day guarantee means if it's not working, you don't pay. Your site, ad accounts, analytics, and customer data stay yours from day one.

Our pricing is public — the pricing page shows the real starting price for every service — and your plan is scoped to your product, budget, and how much runway you have left. Tell us about your startup and we'll send exact pricing in a free proposal within one business day, no obligation.

On signups, activation, and paying customers — never vanity traffic. We build landing pages and CTAs around getting someone to sign up or book a demo, then trace every signup back to the campaign or search that produced it, so you always have a real number to put in front of a board or an investor.

Yes — a lot of the seed-stage teams we work with are still figuring that out, and that's normal this early. We test messaging and channels in parallel and watch which searches and ads actually produce signups, then use that signal to help sharpen who you're really selling to, instead of guessing from a whiteboard.

This page is built around the seed stage specifically — after you've closed that round but before you have a proven, repeatable growth channel. Once you're heading into Series A with something already working, the job shifts from testing channels to scaling the one that's proven, which is a different scope. Tell us where you are and we'll scope the engagement to match.

Yes. Everything lives in accounts your company owns — site, brand assets, ad accounts, analytics, and customer data. We're month-to-month, and if you ever leave, it all simply stays where it is.

Most seed-stage sites and landing pages go live in about 2–4 weeks. The pace mostly depends on how fast we get your product story, screenshots, and feedback — you'll have a clear timeline before we start.