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- Pricing

Published, in dollars,
before you get on a call.

Every agency you are comparing me against makes you book a consultation to find out what they charge. Here are the numbers. Start with a fixed piece of work if you would rather see how I think before committing to a month, and put what you spend on it toward the first one.

Diagnostic

$1,500one-time

For founders who want to know what is actually wrong before committing to anything monthly.

  • Read access to your stack

    Analytics, Search Console, your CRM, and the repo or CMS if you'll have me

  • A written diagnosis

    What's working, what's leaking, and what to ignore. A document you can forward.

  • A sequenced 90-day plan

    What to do in what order, with what each piece depends on

  • One 60-minute call

    To walk the plan and argue with it

The credit

Start a retainer within 30 days and the whole $1,500 comes off month one. You never pay twice to find out whether this works.

Start with the Diagnostic →
Most chosen

Operator

$2,500/month

Positioning, technical SEO and the content engine, run every month by the person who diagnosed it.

Positioning & content

  • Positioning and messaging

    Maintained as the product changes, not written once and filed

  • 2 researched articles / month

    Written and published, aimed at the searches your buyers actually run

Technical

  • Technical SEO and AI search visibility

    Site architecture, fixes, and content a crawler can read and an AI answer will cite

  • 1 landing page / quarter

    Conversion-focused, built and measured

Full site builds are scoped as projects, never folded into a retainer

Lifecycle & reporting

  • 1 lifecycle email flow / quarter

    Onboarding, activation or winback, built CASL-compliant from the start

  • Monthly written report, calls every two weeks

    45 minutes, recorded, with a written recap

Choose Operator →

Embedded

$4,500/month

Everything in Operator, plus paid acquisition and launches, with a standing strategic role.

  • Everything in Operator

  • Fractional product marketing

    A standing weekly call, and the strategic work between them

  • Paid acquisition, managed

    LinkedIn and Google, judged on pipeline rather than impressions

  • One launch / quarter, end to end

    A product or feature launch: assets, sequences and the answers sales needs

Ad spend is billed to your own account, so you own it and can see every dollar
Talk about Embedded →

For pre-seed

Too early for a retainer? Pay in equity.

Founding Marketer

Paid in equity

For pre-seed founders who need marketing built, or run, before there is revenue to pay for it. I work hands-on as part of the team: building it from scratch, or running a strategy you already have.

The stake

The stake depends on the company and the work it needs, so there is no number on this page. We agree one that works for both of us, in writing, before any work starts.

It is the role I played for a healthtech founder who had a working MVP and no paying clients. Read how that went.

Who it's for, and how it runs

  • Pre-seed

    Under $5K a month in revenue, and under $500K raised

  • Incorporated in Canada

  • Six months, minimum

    The stake is earned month by month, so equity only changes hands for work that has been done

  • Two places at a time

    It's hands-on work, and I'm one person

Book a strategy call →

All email marketing and outreach services are designed to comply with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Clients are advised to verify obligations at canada.ca/casl and consult legal counsel where applicable.

- Not what you were looking for?

The main pricing page starts at $997 a month, and it is cheaper because it is different work: Google Business Profile, local SEO, directory cleanup, the things a business with a catchment area needs. If that describes you, start there instead.

See the main pricing page

- Before you book

The questions that come up
every single time.

Is there a contract?

No annual contracts, ever. Both retainers are priced by the month. Two months' notice to stop, and there is no annual commitment underneath to buy out. Founding Marketer is the one exception to monthly: it runs six months minimum, because the equity is earned across them.

Do the prices include tax?

No. Every price here is before tax. Canadian sales tax is added on the invoice.

What if I only want the Diagnostic?

That is a real outcome and it is priced to stand on its own. You get the written diagnosis and the sequenced 90-day plan, plus a call to walk it and argue with it. Start a retainer within 30 days and the whole $1,500 comes off month one.

Can I move between the two retainers?

Any time. The new tier starts the day you ask for it, and that month is prorated on the days left in it.

Is ad spend included?

No, and it should not be. Ad spend is billed straight to your own account, so you own the account and can see every dollar in it. Embedded covers the management, not the media.

Who actually does the work?

I do. This is a one-person studio, so the person on the call is the person doing the work. It also means I take a small number of clients at a time.

- Enquire

Tell me which one fits.
I'll reply within a day.

Click a tier above and your message says which one. It reaches Mayank directly, and you will hear back within one business day.

- Still deciding?

Thirty minutes, no decks. Bring the problem and I'll tell you which of these is worth your money, including when the answer is none of them.

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