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Engagements

Three ways to bring us in.

Every engagement starts with the diagnosis, done alongside your team. Then you choose how much of the work you want us to carry.

What we fix

Five things that get in the way.

Some are problems. Some are the price of winning. You usually know which one you've got. Sometimes it's two.

01 / 05Scale

We can't keep up with our growth.

Orders, locations, hires, markets. The business is winning faster than the story, the systems, and the team can carry, and the things that used to be easy are starting to slip. It is the best problem a company can have, and the one that breaks it if nobody owns it.

  • Capacity planning for marketing and sales
  • Launch and rollout calendars that hold
  • Teams and vendors built to the new scale
  • Production that ships under pressure: creative, film, web
02 / 05Growth

Growth has stalled.

Revenue is flat. The pipeline is thin. The plays that built the business stopped working and nobody can say exactly when. The instinct is to spend more. The fix is almost always to aim better.

  • Positioning and offer architecture
  • Go-to-market and demand programs
  • Sales and marketing alignment
  • Measurement that tells the truth
03 / 05Brand

The brand has drifted.

You've outgrown your own story. Customers can't say what you stand for, and neither can half your team. The logo is fine. The meaning behind it went missing.

  • Repositioning and narrative
  • Identity systems and design
  • Messaging architecture
  • Launch and rollout
04 / 05Leadership

The team has lost clarity.

Too many priorities and no owner. Marketing that reacts instead of leads. Good people doing busy work because no one senior is setting the agenda. You don't need another hire. You need a head in the room.

  • Fractional CMO leadership
  • Operating cadence and priorities
  • Team and vendor design
  • Board and leadership reporting
05 / 05Perspective

I need a fresh perspective.

Nothing is on fire. You've been looking at the same plan, the same numbers, and the same room for a long time, and you want senior eyes with no stake in the answer. The diagnosis is built for this: two to three weeks inside the business, a view you can argue with, and a plan you can act on.

  • An independent read on strategy, brand, and team
  • Customer and market conversations you don't have time for
  • A problem statement you can argue with
  • A plan, a budget, and no commitment past the diagnosis

Engagements

Three ways to bring us in.

Every engagement starts with the diagnosis, done alongside your team. Then you choose how much of the work you want us to carry.

01

Advise

Fractional CMO · Advisory

You have a team. You need a seasoned head at the table. We set the strategy, pressure-test the plan, review the work, and give leadership a senior marketing voice without the senior marketing salary.

  • Monthly strategy and priorities
  • Review of plans, creative, and spend
  • Seat at the leadership table
  • Direct line to a principal

For companies that are winning and intend to keep it that way. A CMO's judgment without a CMO's headcount.

02

Lead

Fractional CMO · Embedded

We join the company, not just the project. A seat in the leadership meetings and the team meetings. We set the plan, run the cadence, lead and develop your people, and report to leadership on what moved. Your team gets a leader who's in the room, and a culture that grows with the work.

  • Seat in leadership and team meetings
  • Ownership of plan, budget, and results
  • Team leadership and development
  • Cadence and culture that outlast the engagement

For companies whose marketing team needs a leader in the room, not another vendor.

03

Build

Fractional CMO · Built team

We lead, and we staff the work. From our collective of preferred specialists in strategy, creative, film, PR, and digital, we assemble the exact team the problem needs. Fast to form. Accountable to the outcome. Dissolved when the job is done.

  • Everything in Lead
  • Hand-picked team built to the brief
  • Full production: creative, film, PR, digital
  • One point of accountability

For companies with a problem bigger than their bench.

No price list. Every engagement is scoped to the problem, and you'll get a number quickly. If you're not sure which one you need, that's what the first conversation is for.

How we work

Diagnose. Fix. Elevate.

Step 01

Diagnose

We find the real problem. It's rarely the one in the brief.

Two to three weeks inside your business. We talk to your customers, your people, and your numbers. We come back with a diagnosis you can argue with, a plan you can act on, and a team built for it.

Step 02

Fix

We build the right team for the job, not the team we happen to have.

Seasoned operators, hand-picked from a collective we've worked with for years. Weekly cadence. Clear owners. Decisions made in days, not quarters. You see the work as it happens.

Step 03

Elevate

We leave you stronger than we found you.

Systems that run without us. A cadence your team keeps. A brand that can carry itself. Then we get out of the way, and we're a phone call away when the next problem shows up.

Questions we get

Straight answers.

We know something's wrong but not what. Is that enough to call?

Yes. That's most calls. You don't need a brief, a budget, or a diagnosis. You need to be able to say "it's not working," and we take it from there.

We're doing well. Is this for us?

Yes. Most of our current slate is companies growing faster than their story, their team, or their launch calendar can carry. The discipline that fixes a hole is the same one that breaks a ceiling: find what's in the way, build the team for it, and clear it.

Are you a marketing agency?

No. We were, for years. An agency sells you its services. We find the problem, build the team it needs, and solve it. Sometimes that's a strategy and a new org chart. Sometimes it's a large-scale commercial production. We start with the problem, not the deliverable.

How are you different from consultants?

Consultants hand you a deck and leave. We stay and do the work. The diagnosis is where we start, not what we sell.

Do you use AI?

Yes. When a tool makes the process better, faster, or more efficient, we use it. We don't sell AI and we don't hide it. What you're paying for is twenty years of knowing what to do next. The tools just get us there faster.

How much does it cost?

It depends on the problem, and we won't pretend otherwise. Tell us what's not working and you'll get a scope and a number fast. No retainer you don't need. No team you don't need.

How quickly can you start?

The first conversation can happen this week. The diagnosis takes two to three weeks. If it's urgent, say so. We move at the speed the problem requires.

Who will I be working with?

A principal, start to finish. We bring in specialists from our collective as the work demands, but you will never be handed off.

What industries do you work in?

Heavy industrial, education, consumer brands, hospitality, financial services, technology startups. The industries change. The problems don't.

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What's not working?

Tell us in a few lines, or pick a time. A principal reads every message and you'll hear back within one business day.

Start a fix Book a 20-minute call Or email rstpierre@valencellc.com. It goes to the principal, not a queue.