Fractional leadership · Senior operators

Your GTM leadership and expertise gaps, filled immediately.

A full executive search takes months you do not have, for a seat you may not need forever. We install senior go-to-market leadership that sets the strategy, runs the engine, and owns the number from week one.

★★★★★5.0 on Clutch  /  senior-led  /  project and retainer options
The leadership gap

Agencies hand you deliverables. New hires need a year to ramp. The number needs an owner now.

Between founder-led marketing and a full-time executive sits the most expensive gap in the company: strategy by committee, vendors without direction, and a board asking questions nobody owns. That gap is exactly the seat we take, for as long as you need it and no longer.

Set the strategy

Positioning, plan, and priorities argued for in the room and defended to the board, not delivered as a slide deck and left on your desk.

Run the engine

An operating cadence with teeth: the experiment portfolio, the checkpoints, the vendor direction, and the weekly review where the number gets owned.

Build your bench

We write down what wins and design the hires who will run it, so the seat we cover eventually belongs to your own team.

What you get

Leadership, forward-deployed.

Principals only. The people in your meetings are the people doing the work.

1

GTM strategy and planning

The plan the whole company can repeat, and the sequence to run it.

Positioning and storylineAnnual and quarterly planningBudget and channel mixCompetitive intelligence
2

Operating leadership

Your marketing or growth function, run to a cadence.

Fractional CMO and VP rolesVendor and agency directionExperiment portfolio managementWeekly operating reviews
3

Team and staffing

The org you should hire, in the order you should hire it.

Org designFirst-hire scorecardsInterview supportOnboarding and playbooks
4

Executive and board reporting

The narrative and the numbers, ready for the room upstairs.

Board decks and reportingForecasting and coverageCAC and payback storyInvestor updates
Proof, not buzzwords

Leadership clients keep.

"And they deliver all of this as a senior strategy partner, which gave us the horsepower of an experienced commercial leader without committing to a full-time hire before we were ready."
"They operated like an extension of our team and took real ownership."
Michael Averbook
Chief Growth Officer, CloudResearch
★★★★★5.0 · Verified review on Clutch

Senior leadership, without the search.

Tell us which seat is empty. In the first thirty minutes we will tell you exactly what we would do in it.

Talk to us directly  /  keith@dantontensix.com
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