For fractional CMOs & GTM consultants

Your paid-media bench, on call.

LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads and pipeline attribution, delivered under your name, ours, or somewhere in between. You keep the strategic seat. We run the accounts. Three engagement modes, clear commercials, no poaching.

Why this exists
Fractional CMOs take the strategic seat and then need an operator for the ad accounts. The usual answer is a junior-staffed agency or a freelancer whose depth you can't verify. We're the other option, senior, two-channel, SaaS-native, and we work three different ways depending on how visible you want us to be on your client's call.
The two modes

Pick the level of visibility you want.

Same execution, different commercial and brand setups. Most partners start on mode 01 or 02, and move to 03 once we've delivered for two or three of their clients.
Mode 01

Transparent intro.

10%
of first-year retainer, paid quarterly
You introduce us to the client. We contract directly. You're credited as the person who brought the work in, and we never take a relationship off you.
  • Client knows who we are from day one
  • We contract and invoice direct
  • You keep strategic seat and retainer
  • Written no-poach clause in our agreement with you
  • Quarterly referral fee, transparent to the client
For CMOs who want clean handoffs
Most common
Mode 02

White-label.

15–20%
margin baked into your retainer
The client sees one bill and one team, yours. We run the ad accounts under your brand, join client calls as "our paid media lead", and you keep a 15–20% margin on top of our build.
  • We use your email, your slide templates, your voice
  • You set the client-facing price; we quote you net
  • Joint Slack with you, not the client
  • Weekly written update goes to you, not the client
  • You keep all client data, CRM access, ad account ownership
For GTM firms running a fractional bench
How partnerships start

Four steps, no mystery.

Every partnership starts the same way, regardless of which mode you pick. We over-invest in the first two weeks because the partnerships that work are the ones where nobody's surprised by anything in month three.
Step 1
Frame

Your book, your bar.

60-minute call. What your client base looks like, what "good" looks like on their paid accounts, where you've been burned before. We'll tell you on the call whether we're a fit.

Step 2
Agree

Mode, margin, no-poach.

Mode selected. Commercials written up. Mutual no-poach clause. Data handling and access protocols agreed. Nothing signed on the first client yet.

Step 3
Test

One client, end to end.

First engagement. You pick the client. We run the 90-day rebuild. Weekly written updates to you, not the client (unless mode 01). At day 90, honest read on whether this partnership scales.

Step 4
Scale

Or part ways, clean.

If it worked, we formalise. If it didn't, we exit the first engagement cleanly, no claim on the client, no hard feelings. Most partnerships hit step 4 "scale". Some don't, and that's fine.

Who owns what

You're the CMO. We're the operator.

We take real responsibility for the ad accounts and attribution. We do not take strategic ownership, board relationships, or GTM decisions. Those are yours, and the whole point of this partnership is that they stay yours.

You own

  • Client relationship, board access, QBRs
  • GTM strategy, ICP definition, positioning
  • Pricing and packaging decisions
  • Sales process, SDR motion, close motion
  • Content strategy, org design, hiring plan
  • Every client-facing strategic call

We run

  • LinkedIn Ads and Google Ads, end to end
  • Creative system: briefs, iteration, documentation
  • Pipeline attribution wiring into the client's CRM
  • Weekly written updates and monthly narrative reports
  • Platform audits, tracking fixes, conversion plumbing
  • The accountable "paid media lead" on the client's team
The real questions

Things fractional CMOs actually ask.

Short answers. If any of these would be a deal-breaker, we'd rather find out on email than on a first call.
01 Do you ever try to go direct to my clients? +

No. Every partnership agreement includes a written no-poach clause, 24 months after an engagement ends, we will not solicit or contract with that client without your written sign-off. We've never broken that clause. The business case is obvious: if we go direct once, the bench dies. We don't.

02 How do you handle it when the client wants to talk to the paid-media person directly? +

Depends on the mode. In mode 01 (transparent intro) the client talks to us directly, we're their vendor. In mode 02 (white-label) we join calls as "our paid media lead" using your email and your branding; the client doesn't know we're a separate company unless you tell them. In mode 03 (bench retainer) the visibility rule is set per engagement.

We don't have an ego about this. Whatever setup makes the client relationship cleanest for you is the setup we run.

03 What's your actual capacity, can you take on my next 3 clients? +

Honestly, depends on the month. We run a deliberately small book, 12–15 active SaaS accounts at a time. We'll always tell you on the first call what our runway looks like and when the next slot opens. If the timing doesn't match, we'll say so. We'd rather defer a partnership by two months than pretend we have capacity we don't.

04 What if my client already has an agency we want to replace? +

Common. We do the 90-day rebuild, kill what's broken in week 1, rebuild structure and attribution in weeks 2–3, run and tune from there. You sit on the transition conversation with the outgoing agency; we stay out of that until the handover is done. We won't trash-talk the previous agency to the client. It's not useful and it's not our style.

05 Do we need to be on mode 03 (€1,500/mo) to work with you? +

No. Most partnerships are on mode 01 or 02 for the first year. Mode 03 makes sense once we've run two or three of your clients successfully and you want the ramp guarantee. Starting on mode 03 is possible but unusual, we'd rather earn it.

06 Can we co-brand or put your logo in our pitch deck? +

Yes on mode 01. On mode 02 we stay invisible by design, no logo, no co-branding, nothing that signals a second vendor. On mode 03 it's case-by-case. We'll write a one-line trust statement you can put in a pitch deck ("our paid media is run by Demandgap, a senior B2B SaaS specialist") if the positioning calls for it.

07 What happens if the partnership isn't working? +

Either side can exit with 30 days' notice. We finish the current client engagement clean, transfer all account access, write a short handover doc for whoever takes over, and we don't solicit the client afterwards. We've ended three partnerships this way over seven years. None of them were dramatic.

First conversation is 30 minutes

Bring us your hardest client account.

Send a rough brief on the client base you'd want us to run. On the call we'll tell you whether we're a fit, which mode we'd recommend, and what our next open slot looks like. If there's no fit, we'll say so and point you at someone who is.