Fractional CMO. Carlsbad, California.

Four exits. $2.5 billion. I led the marketing on all of it.

Twenty-five years building that record. At Google and AT&T, then at Flock Freight, then for the founders who have raised more than $425 million on the story we built together. You get me, weekly, in the CMO seat.

Client outcomes 25 years

Raised for the companies I have led marketing for

$425M+

Across four exits totaling over $2.5 billion

1,384%

Revenue, year over year

MGO Global

619%

Increase in MQLs

Flock Freight

83%

Revenue in six months

WARP

71%

Lower acquisition cost

Cricket Wireless

AT&T acquisition $1B unicorn $318M exit $800M+ in new revenue

Narrative debt

Narrative debt compounds quietly, then arrives all at once.

Most founders do not have a marketing problem. They have a narrative problem. Narrative debt is the gap between what you actually do and what the market believes you do. It never shows up as a marketing metric. It shows up in the raise, in the pipeline, and in the exit multiple. Every quarter you leave it unpaid, the interest goes up.

Where it shows up

In the raise. Investors reprice what they cannot summarize in a sentence.

In the pipeline. Sales rebuilds the story on every call, differently each time.

In the exit. Acquirers pay for a category position. A feature list gets a feature-list multiple.

Client success

What happens when the narrative gets paid off

Cricket Wireless

From regional carrier to AT&T acquisition.

A regional prepaid carrier built into a national eCommerce engine. $80M+ in eCommerce revenue and a 71% drop in traffic acquisition costs.

$80M+ In eCommerce revenue, 2013 40M+ Visitors to the website, 22% year over year 71% Improvement in traffic acquisition costs
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Flock Freight

From quiet challenger to $1B unicorn.

Named the pooled-freight category and built the language to claim it. $300M+ revenue, a 619% MQL increase, and $375M+ raised.

$300M+ Company revenue, up from a fraction of that 619% Increase in MQLs, driving over 30% of revenue, up from under 5% 400%+ Website traffic increase
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WARP

Story aligned, margins recovered.

Repositioned a logistics platform that was being sold like a freight broker. 83% revenue increase and a 49% drop in customer acquisition cost in under six months.

83% Revenue increase in less than 6 months 49% Decrease in customer acquisition cost in the same window 2% to 17% Inbound share of all sales leads
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Blue Sky

Trust, priced and proven.

Moved 24 years of client trust out of the relationship and onto the page. Demos doubled in under two months and cost per lead fell 66%.

2x Product demos doubled in less than 2 months 17% to 28% Repeat customer rate increase 66% Decrease in cost per lead
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AiFleet

From me-too to investable.

Named the audience and positioned the technology as the differentiator. Close rate more than doubled, and a new product line triggered another round.

19%+ Revenue increase in 3 months 31% Inbound lead growth in the same window Under 10% to 22% Sales close rate, more than doubled
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MGO Global

Top line and bottom line, both moved.

Separated a portfolio of consumer brands that had been marketed as one funnel. Revenue up 1,384% year over year, and a $318 million acquisition.

1,384% Revenue, year over year 99% Net profit margin, year over year 86% Net income, year over year
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Twenty-five years of work

Where the work has been

Some of this work I did as a full-time CMO or VP. Some of it I did fractionally. The problem was the same, the method was the same, and so were the numbers.

Services

Three ways in

The CMO seat, filled Monday

I take the chair. Weekly stand-up with you, monthly strategy, quarterly board pack. The same person in the discovery call, the strategy session, and the board prep.

How the retainer works

A story your lead investor repeats back to you

Category design, positioning, and the go-to-market architecture underneath it. The work that decides which game you are playing before you spend a dollar playing it.

How the narrative work runs

A qualifier that works while you sleep

Custom assessment tools and lead qualifiers, built on your domain and wired to your CRM. Yours to keep when the engagement ends.

See what I build

Deployed on your domain

A scored conversation, not a form fill

A visitor describes their situation in their own words. The tool scores the fit, writes a qualified lead into your CRM with the full context attached, and triggers a warm follow-up before they close the tab. On one engagement this work produced an 88% increase in inbound pipeline in 90 days.

Built, not advised

Every engagement ships a tool that runs without me.

Interactive assessments and lead qualifiers, built and deployed on your domain, wired into your CRM. You own the code, the data, and every lead they generate. That is the test of whether marketing is infrastructure or theater.

Pricing, without the theater

Here is the number.

Most pricing guides bury it 1,200 words down. Ballparks up front so you can decide quickly, qualify fit, and get back to building.

6 to 9 hrs weekly

Board-ready

From $6,000

per month

10 to 15 hrs weekly

The seat

From $10,000

per month

16 to 25 hrs weekly

Seat plus build

From $16,000

per month

25+ hrs weekly

Full-time equivalent

From $26,000

per month

Every tier is a flat monthly fee, agreed before kickoff. No overages, no hourly true-up.

Project sprint pricing
Project sprintRange
Investor or sales narrativeFrom $15,000
Brand and positioning sprintFrom $12,000
Go-to-market launch planFrom $12,000
Demand generation pilotFrom $12,000 plus media
Website messaging and CRO liftFrom $10,000
Website design and build, via Ascendly (opens in a new tab)From $5,000

Why publish what most agencies hide?

Pricing transparency is a credibility signal. If the number is wrong for you, both of us find out in ten seconds instead of on the third call. The full page has the math behind each tier, the AI tool pricing, and the questions founders actually ask.

The book. September 22, 2026.

Nobody Knows What You Do

Twenty-five years of pattern recognition, written down. Why the strongest products lose the room when the story has not caught up, and the five layers of strategic clarity I use to pay the debt down. Twenty-seven chapters, hardcover and paperback. The Power of Relationships was the prior work.

A clear, actionable framework for how founders should think about brand, messaging, and go-to-market before they scale. This is the book I’ll be recommending to every early-stage founder I work with.
Kal Amin, Managing Partner, 1848 Ventures; former VP, Google & Spotify
Hardcover of Nobody Knows What You Do by Jeff Lerner

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