An AI exec team, activated by the department, for scaling SaaS
Hold team size flat while doubling output. Activate the departments, skip the seven-person leadership team.
Past $1M ARR, you're hiring a VP of every function. Each VP wants a team. Each team wants tools. Burn doubles before output does. You want senior-level operating discipline without a 7-person leadership team eating equity.
Outcomes you'd otherwise need to hire for.
- Activate Marketing: SEO, content, and paid as one motion, run by your CMO
- Activate Operations: cadence, hiring, and performance kept honest by your COO
- Activate Finance: a real CFO view, not a bookkeeper — $49/mo, free in the Full C-Suite
- One cockpit on a shared data layer, not seven VPs running ten silos
Activate your first department.
The Marketing department runs SEO, content, paid ads, web, and campaigns as one motion — a CMO and the specialists who execute, not a pile of tools you operate yourself.
The Operations department keeps the shared task board, project execution, and knowledge base running on a calendar — a COO who owns the back office, not another board you maintain.
The Finance department owns unit economics, AR, and cash position — a real CFO view, not a bookkeeper. $49/mo on its own, and free inside the Full C-Suite.
The Engineering department runs honest stack reviews and engineering tracking (the Chassis view, with bidirectional GitHub sync) — a CTO who'll recommend non-Merkava tools when the math favors them.
The plugins that do the actual reps.
audits the site weekly and ships SEO/GEO fixes, ready to approve
drafts content in your voice; SAM distributes it
weekly cadence, accountability, focus
1:1s, reviews, individual KPIs
people, comp, performance reporting
ATS, sourcing, candidate screening
Stop hiring one at a time. Start activating departments.
Run a free audit on your domain — see what the Marketing department would ship in week one.
Run auditCommon questions.
Who is Merkava actually for, beyond post-pmf saas founders?
Operators who need more work without more payroll. Post-PMF SaaS founders fit because the back-office work compounds faster than the revenue does — you activate the Marketing, Operations, and Sales departments, each run by its own AI exec (CMO, COO, VP Sales), without the $30K+/mo loaded cost of hiring those people.
How is this different from buying a stack of point tools?
Point tools give you software you still have to operate. Merkava gives you departments. Each one's exec makes decisions and ships work — PRs to your code, content to your CMS, ads to your accounts. You audit; they execute. The tools are the cheapest part of what you're getting.
What does it cost?
Activate one department from $49/mo (Finance) or $99/mo (Engineering); Marketing is $249, Sales and Operations are $199 each, HR is $149. Activate all six — the Full C-Suite — for $749/mo, with Finance included free. 7-day trial on every department.
Can I start without committing to a full team?
Yes. Hire one department, see the work ship for a week, then expand. Most post-pmf saas founders start with Marketing since that's where the highest-output specialists live.