Traditional ad agencies don't work for high-growth startups. We designed one that does.

Traditional agencies aren’t built for startups. They’re built for big clients and their own margin, which means an army of junior account managers, standardized playbooks, and bloated meeting cycles. Worse, they’re built to sell, not deliver. You meet their polished executives during the sales process, hear all about the awards they’ve won and how elite their team is, and sign. Then, unbeknownst to you, you’re handed to a junior team, shielded behind an account manager who’s really a salesperson in a strategist’s clothing. Meanwhile startups sit at the bottom of the priority list while the senior people stay on the bigger accounts.

We flipped that model on its head. Everyone here is a senior growth expert, no juniors, no middlemen, not even in sales. The people you talk to from day one are the real deal. And our terms prove it: most agencies lock you into long contracts because it’s the only way to keep clients they know they’ll underdeliver for. We work month to month. We’d rather earn your business every single month than trap you in a year of work we haven’t earned yet.

Here’s the dirty secret of our industry: growth at a big company isn’t that hard. The machine already works, the budgets are huge, the data goes back years. It’s mostly optimization, running playbooks someone else already wrote. But who wrote those playbooks to begin with? Inventing what works from scratch, with no machine and every dollar counting, is the hard part. That’s why startup growth is so difficult, and why so few people are truly great at it. But those are the only people we hire.

Most agencies are wrapping the same off-the-shelf tools everyone else has, trained on the same public data, so they get the same average outputs. Signal is our own AI, trained on a decade of data no one else has from 7,000+ startups, our Growth Engine methodology, and a community of 110,000+ operators sharing what’s working directly from the front lines. It gives our strategists superpowers, helping them move faster and spot opportunities they’d never spot alone, while the highest-leverage work, the strategy and the hard problems, stays firmly with our people.

Any agency can manage your channels. But how many are a distribution channel themselves? We are. Our newsletter reaches 110,000+ founders and operators, and our broader media property, The Frontier, reaches over a million people a year. But the real value isn’t the reach, it’s the trust. We’ve been one of the most trusted voices in startup growth for a decade, and the people in our world put weight on what we recommend. We can bring you into that world: a high-trust distribution channel that would take a decade to build yourself, and one that no other growth partner can offer.

Our sweet spot is a startup entering or already in its growth stage, typically Series A through C, or a bootstrapped company producing at least seven figures in revenue with healthy margins. Usually the job is one of three: building your first scalable growth engine, breaking through a ceiling you’ve hit, or layering new engines onto the one that got you here. On the vertical side, our bread and butter is consumer tech (software and hardware), B2B tech, and DTC. About the only company we’re not built for is a pure enterprise sales model with no marketing-led motion.

Yes. We’re startup people through and through, and we believe what most people call a product-market fit problem is usually a growth problem in disguise. When a startup fails, the autopsy almost always points at the product. But the real issue is upstream: they never understood that growth has to be engineered into the DNA of the business, and that the product is only one piece of it. They bolted growth on as an afterthought, and it showed. They never got the right market in front of the product to even judge fit. They never told a story that made that market understand its true value. They never shaped the product around the channel that should have carried it, or built a revenue model that channel could support. Each of those is a growth decision, made too late or not at all. So yes, we work with early-stage startups, and when we say we architect growth into your DNA from the start, this is exactly what we mean.

Our Launch Track, a program built specifically for early-stage startups, starts at $4,500/month, flat rate. Scale Track is custom, based on scope and goals. Fractional advisory starts at $3,000/month, and sprints are priced per project. No long-term contracts and no lock-ins, we work month to month, because we’d rather earn your renewal than trap you into one.