What got you to €1M won't get you to €10M
Fractional CMO for B2B SaaS Companies
I combine evidence-based marketing strategy, AI-engineered growth systems, and psychology-based coaching to turn your marketing from a cost center to a compounding growth engine.
After leading marketing at a B2B infrastructure company (€16M ARR)
3.7×
Revenue Growth
5:1
LTV/CAC Ratio
30%
YoY Growth
7
Team Built From Scratch
What's wrong?
Random Acts of Marketing
You've proven product-market fit. Now you want growth. You're investing in marketing — hiring people, running campaigns, testing channels. But the results do not compound. Every quarter feels like starting over.
Strategy by intuition
Two thirds of SMEs in the UK don't have a marketing strategy. Uncertainty is a painful drag when you want to grow your company.
When it's missing:
- You sell to "everyone"
- You cannot plan sales revenue
- You struggle with priorities
- You have no synergy between projects
- You work hard but nothing compounds
Undefined processes
80% of SMEs don't have clearly defined processes that act like a hard ceiling to your company growth - it's impossible to handle more volume without hiring more staff.
When it's broken:
- Inconsistent customer experience
- What should take hours takes days
- If key employee leaves, operations stop
- Competitors move faster with smaller teams
- You work hard but nothing compounds
Skilled people, stuck
Only 46% of employees clearly know what's expected of them at work. Without clear ownership, shared context, and feedback loops, even the most talented people underperform.
When it's broken:
- Projects get started, rarely finished
- Same problems resurface every quarter
- Everyone's busy, but nothing aligns
- Feedback doesn't land, quality doesn't improve
- Energy goes into activity, not progress
Sounds familiar?
You’ve Tried This Before
Most technical founders follow the same path before something changes.
DIY Marketing
“We have no distribution.” You run marketing from your inbox, write copy, approve every spend. It works until the board asks for a pipeline forecast.
The Junior Hire
“We need bandwidth.” You hire a marketing generalist. Misalignment is the #1 reason marketing hires fail in early-stage SaaS. You end up reviewing everything anyway—now you’re managing someone too.
The Agency Experiment
“Nobody knows about us.” You outsource to an agency. They can’t own the bigger picture. One wrong agency wastes 6 months and burns capital. You’re back to square one with less runway.
What Breaks the Cycle
“I need marketing that runs without me.” You stop being the bottleneck. Documented systems, AI automation, a coached team that operates independently. You go back to building product.
How companies thrive?
Growth Velocity Framework
The companies that break out of random acts of marketing fix three things altogether. Ignore one and your growth stalls.
Direction
Strategy grounded in data
Marketing strategy - a clear roadmap rooted in your business reality. Not gut feel. Not competitor mimicry. Every decision points in the same direction.
When it's working:
- Marketing and sales aligned on one ICP
- Budgeting backed by data, not opinion
- Your sales cycle gets shorter
- Decisions take minutes, not meetings
- Initiatives compound - nothing starts from zero
Velocity
Systems of leverage
Execution infrastructure — systems, frameworks, SOPs, and AI automation that make marketing repeatable and fast. Not through hustle, but through engineering.
When it's working:
- AI automation across every workstream
- Campaigns launch in days, not weeks
- Playbooks the team runs autonomously
- Founder out of the operational loop
- What takes competitors 40 hours takes you 15
Capability
A self-managing team
Good systems fail when people don't use them. Coaching applied at the right layer — individual, relationship, or systemic — is what makes strategy stick.
When it's working:
- Everyone owns their work from start to finish
- Work blockers get surfaced and fixed
- Same problems do not recur quarterly
- People say what's true, not what's safe
- Output quality improves without adding headcount.
Shall we connect?
Three Ways to Work Together
Start with a focused session, go deeper with a diagnostic, or get ongoing strategic leadership.
Growth Velocity Quick Win
Focused session
€250
90-minute focused session on one specific growth problem. Diagnosis and actionable next steps included.
- Pre-session research into your funnel
- 90-minute live session
- Deep dive in your #1 bottleneck
- Written action plan with priorities
- 7-day follow-up
Growth Velocity Audit
Full diagnostic
€2,500
A 2-week strategic diagnostic that maps your entire marketing function and identifies the highest-leverage fixes.
- Marketing Segmentation & Targeting
- Positioning & Competitive Landscape
- Analytics & Attribution Review
- Funnel & Conversion Analysis
- Growth Systems Inventory
- 90-Day Priority Roadmap
Growth Velocity Retainer
Ongoing partnership
€5,500/mo
I become your fractional CMO. Strategy, systems, and coaching across a 3-month engagement — everything documented for your team to run independently.
- Monthly strategic sessions
- Growth systems delivery
- AI automation embedded
- Bi-weekly coaching
- Documented SOPs & playbooks
- Slack access
I take on no more than 2 retainer clients at a time.
How about some robots?
AI-Native, Not AI-Adjacent
I don't simply recommend the latest AI tools. I engineer marketing workflows myself with only as much AI automation as required to amplify signal, not generate noise.
With Growth Velocity Retainer you get a single growth system every quarter that consists of a mix of automated workflows, AI reasoning, and enabled humans.
n8n Workflows
Marketing automation that embeds industry best practices
LangGraph Agents
AI that handles the judgment calls automation can't
RAG Applications
AI trained on your products, customers, and data
Why this model?
Why Not Just Hire an Agency or Consultant?
Most options give you one piece of the puzzle. I combine strategy, execution, and human enablement - three disciplines that almost never exist in one offer.
| Marketing Agency | Consultant | Traditional Fractional CMO | Growth Velocity with Mantas | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy | Campaign-level | Advisory only | Strategy + oversight | Full-stack + systems |
| Execution | They execute | Recommends | Directs your team | Installs growth systems |
| AI & Automation | Basic tools | Theoretical frameworks | Recommends vendors | Builds custom automation |
| Team Development | None | Training workshops | Management | Behavioral team coaching |
| Measured by | MQLs, new sales | Recommendations delivered | Activities & processes | LTV:CAC, MRR, churn rate |
| When You Stop | Work stops | Knowledge gaps remain | Momentum slows | Systems keep running |
| Typical Cost | €2-10K/mo | €10-30K project | €4-15K/mo | €5.5K/mo (strategy + AI + coaching) |
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Ready to stop the random acts of marketing?
Start with the Growth Velocity Audit. In 2 weeks, you'll know exactly where the bottlenecks are, what to fix first, and what the ROI looks like.