Seed-Stage Startup Marketing Turn your seed round into signups & real traction.

Three real numbers: managing your Google Ads costs 10% of the monthly ad budget you set, with a $600/month floor, and we never mark up the media spend itself — the rest goes straight to Google. SEO is priced per page at $50/month, with a 10-page floor to start. Need a new site instead of the one you launched with? Custom builds run $1,500 to $20,000+ across eight fixed one-time packages (full breakdown at /websites). There's no setup charge, nothing is locked into a contract, and a 30-day guarantee means an unhappy first month costs you nothing. Send us where your product and round stand and a real proposal with real numbers lands in your inbox within one business day.

Three signals tell you yes: you can't say which specific channel produced your last ten signups, your homepage is still the pitch deck turned into a webpage, or organic search sends you basically nothing. When that's the case, we take the site, the paid tests, the SEO, and the first onboarding sequence off your plate so the founding team can stay heads-down on product instead of learning ad platforms from scratch. If a channel's already working for you on its own, there's no reason to hand it to us.

It's the difference between guessing and knowing where your next signup came from. We design and build the site and landing pages, run capped tests across Google, LinkedIn, and Meta until a channel proves itself, write and rank the pages your buyers are already searching for, and set up the welcome and activation emails so a first signup doesn't just evaporate — all reported back as one number your board can actually read, tied to what it cost to get there.

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.

Start by watching how they treat your budget: a good fit tests in small batches, ties every signup back to a real cost to acquire, and tells you within weeks — not months — when something isn't working. Then ask about ownership before you sign anything; your domain, ad accounts, analytics, and customer list should sit in your company's name from day one, not the agency's. One useful gut-check question for any candidate: how would you know, 30 days in, whether a channel deserves more of our round? A vague answer is the answer.

Paid tests are the fast read — a couple of weeks of spend is usually enough to know whether a channel's worth feeding more of the round into, or worth cutting before it eats more runway. SEO and AI-search visibility move slower, typically a few months before pages start ranking, but once they do, that pipeline keeps running without pulling from the budget again. Running paid and organic together from day one gets you both — an early signal fast, and a channel that's still compounding long after this round is a memory.

One team owns the site, the paid tests, the SEO, the AI-search work, and the onboarding email — no juggling five different vendor relationships on a seed-sized budget with no spare hours to coordinate them. Our pricing is posted publicly, every plan is month-to-month with nothing to sign, and the 30-day guarantee means a bad first month doesn't cost you anything. The site, the ad accounts, the analytics, and your customer data are registered in your company's name from the start, not ours.

The starting price for every service is posted on the pricing page — nothing's hidden behind a 'contact us' form — and your actual plan gets scoped around your product, your ad budget, and roughly how much of the round is left. Share where things stand and a real proposal with real numbers comes back within one business day, no strings attached.

Signups, activation, and paying customers — a traffic number that doesn't turn into any of those isn't one we report on. Every page and call-to-action is aimed at getting a real person to sign up or grab a demo slot, and each one gets traced back to the exact search or campaign behind it, so what lands in front of your board is a sourced number, not a vanity metric.

Yes — a good number of the seed-stage founders we take on haven't locked that down either, and that's fine this early in a round. We test messaging and a few channels side by side, watch which searches and ads actually pull in signups, and let that real signal sharpen your ICP faster than another whiteboard session would.

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, fully. The site, the brand files, the ad accounts, the analytics property, and every bit of customer data sit in accounts your company controls, not ours. We work month-to-month by design — if you ever walk away, everything simply stays exactly where it already lives, under your login.

Most seed-stage sites and landing pages ship in roughly two to four weeks from kickoff. What speeds that up or slows it down is mostly you — how fast we get your product story, screenshots, and a round of feedback back to us — and you'll have a real timeline in hand before we kick anything off.