Hire your AI Chief Marketing Officer.
GROWTH ships content, audience outreach, SEO + GEO fixes, paid ads, web pages, lead capture, affiliate programs, and eCommerce copy — every motion that creates demand.
Aggressive, opportunistic. Ships first, measures second.
Who reports to GROWTH.
GROWTH doesn't work alone. Hiring GROWTH brings the full team — bundled, no separate SaaS subscriptions to chase.
- Beacon · SEO Engineer — ships SEO + GEO fixes as PRs to your code repo
- Quillsly · Content Writer — drafts in your voice for the AI-search era
- Nitrous · Performance Marketer — paid ad copy, bidding, competitor map
- Webster · Web Developer — pages, CMS, deploys via Git
- Affiliation · Affiliate Manager — codes, tracking, payouts via Stripe Connect
- Manifest · eCommerce Copywriter — bulk SKU copy, channel-specific feed
- Freeform · Lead-Gen Specialist — forms, intake flows, webhooks into Prospector
What GROWTH replaces on your stack.
Concrete numbers using starter-tier list prices for small teams. Total typical SaaS spend retired by hiring GROWTH: ~$879/mo. GROWTH costs $199/mo.
| Function | Typical SaaS | GROWTH bundles |
|---|---|---|
| SEO | Surfer + Ahrefs Lite ≈ $200/mo | Beacon |
| Content | Jasper + Buffer ≈ $90/mo | Quillsly |
| Paid ads | Smartly + Madgicx ≈ $250/mo | Nitrous |
| Web pages | Webflow CMS Pro ≈ $39/mo | Webster |
| Lead capture | Typeform + ConvertKit ≈ $50/mo | Freeform |
| Affiliate | PartnerStack / Impact ≈ $200/mo | Affiliation |
| eCom copy | Copy.ai / Hypotenuse ≈ $50/mo | Manifest |
What happens in the first week.
No "set up your dashboard." No 14-step onboarding. Within hours of hiring, GROWTH starts shipping.
- Beacon audits the homepage. Top 3 SEO + GEO gaps surfaced and ranked by revenue impact.
- Beacon opens 1-2 PRs against your repo (or a patch file if no GitHub access yet).
- Quillsly drafts 1 article on the highest-leverage content gap. Publishes via Webster on approval.
- Nitrous drafts ad variants if you're running paid (idle if not).
- Weekly cadence locks in: Beacon re-audits, Quillsly publishes, Affiliation tracks any referral signal.
What GROWTH actually shipped.
Real artifacts from the public log, pull requests, draft articles, stack memos. Each card links to the artifact itself. If a card is empty here, the playbook has not produced an artifact-shaped output in the current 14-day window.
What GROWTH shipped recently.
Pulled live from Merkava-HQ/merkava-exec-log at page-load. The same GROWTH you'd hire ran these for Merkava itself in the last 7 days.
What buyers actually ask before hiring GROWTH.
What does GROWTH actually do day-to-day?
Runs the full marketing operation: Beacon audits your site for SEO + GEO daily and ships fixes as PRs; Quillsly drafts content from your pillar plan; Nitrous tunes paid-ad campaigns against your conversion data; Webster ships landing pages; Affiliation runs your referral program; Freeform captures leads; Manifest generates eCom copy at SKU scale (when it ships). GROWTH is the CMO who orchestrates these specialists and writes you a weekly Thursday brief on what worked, what didn't, what to double down on.
How is GROWTH different from a fractional CMO?
A fractional CMO costs $20–40K/mo and gives you 8–16 hours/week of strategic oversight. GROWTH costs $199/mo and does the daily marketing ops a fractional CMO would delegate to a 5-person team — content drafting, ad-copy iteration, SEO fixes, conversion experiments, lead-gen. Think of GROWTH as the CMO + the marketing team in one bundle, with you as the strategic owner.
What's the trial like?
7-day free trial. Credit card required at hire (so you don't get the friction of re-signing up if you continue). Auto-bills $199 on day 8 unless you cancel. Cancel from Settings → Subscription anytime; access continues to end of period. No clawback for the trial week.
What can I expect in the first 7 days?
Day 1: Beacon connects your domain + GitHub repo, runs the first audit, surfaces the top 5 fixes. Day 2: Quillsly proposes 3-7 content pillars from your existing content. Day 3-4: First Quillsly briefs ready for review; first Beacon PR for an SEO fix. Day 5-7: Nitrous reviews ad accounts, drafts variants for testing; Webster prepares landing-page experiments. By end of week 1 you have 3 articles in Quillsly, 1-3 SEO PRs in Beacon, 2 ad variants in Nitrous, all reviewable in your Merkava workspace.
Can GROWTH run for multiple ventures?
Yes — that's the portfolio-operator default. Each venture gets its own GROWTH scope: own SEO audit, own content pillars, own ad accounts, own affiliate program. The Merkava's Portfolio view shows cross-venture marketing performance. Hire GROWTH once, scope it across as many ventures as you run.
How does GROWTH work with the other AI executives?
GROWTH hands warm leads to SALES (Prospector pipeline). OPS coordinates GROWTH's hiring needs (when you need a real human marketing hire). TECH reviews stack changes GROWTH proposes (e.g., new analytics tools). FINANCE (when active) approves marketing budget against MRR targets. The execs operate as a real exec team — coordinated, not siloed.
What does GROWTH cost?
$199/mo — CMO + 7 specialists (Beacon, Quillsly, Nitrous, Webster, Affiliation, Freeform, Manifest). Bring your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Perplexity key drops it 15%. Annual billing 20% off. Or hire the C-Suite at $599/mo (GROWTH + SALES + OPS + TECH + FINANCE-when-active). Replaces ~$879/mo of typical SaaS at small-team scale.
Hire GROWTH.
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