May 11 — Production vs. Blind v3

What this is: Production (currently live) vs. blind pipeline output revised against Connor's May 11 feedback. v2 was produced by 6 parallel subagents that read the blind-v2 output, the new feedback memories, and Connor's specific audit checklist — then iterated /writing-qa until Tier-2 ≥ 60/61.

v2 guardrails passed across all 6: iPod headline rule no "operator" no calendar-bound no "runs itself" no outcome timelines beyond match intake = consultation call differentiation agitates

Earlier versions still accessible: primed-pipeline A/B at mh-may11-copy-ab.marketerhire.com · blind-v2 A/B at mh-may11-blind-ab.marketerhire.com.

role-specific

mh-may11-501-lifecycle-specialist

v2 Tier-2: 62/67 Open production live →
Source ad
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AngleLifecycle / Email Specialist
ICPCMO or Marketing Director whose lifecycle / email programme is underperforming
HypothesisWe believe the role portrait format will replicate for Lifecycle given the same intent-match mechanism — buyer knows exactly what they need.
Ad headlineLifecycle Marketing Lead. Matched in 48 Hours.
Ad CTAGet Matched in 48 Hours
Message matchLP must be the Email / Lifecycle role page — role name must appear in H1.
Production (currently live)
Lifecycle marketing

Senior lifecycle marketers, matched in 48 hours.

Operators who own strategy and the sends. Vetted at companies with mature email programs.

  • ▢ mail Strategy and execution from one operator
  • ▢ badge-check Klaviyo, Iterable, HubSpot, Customer.io
  • ▢ timer Two-week trial. Monthly billing.
Get matched 48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Email programs stall under shared ownership.

Most lifecycle stacks lack a single accountable operator.

▢ file-text

Strategy without execution

A playbook lands. Campaigns never go out.

▢ users

Fractional generalists

One person on six channels. Email gets the leftovers.

▢ alert-triangle

Junior at the console

ESP access without the seniority to call deliverability.

One operator. Strategy and sends.

Every match has run lifecycle at a company with measurable email revenue.

▢ briefcase

Single owner

The operator who briefs is the operator who sends.

▢ layers

ESP fluent

Klaviyo, Iterable, HubSpot, and Customer.io covered.

▢ bar-chart-3

Attribution by week two

Revenue per send tracked from the first campaign.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

Fifteen minutes on your ESP, list, and revenue goals.

▢ handshake

Match

A senior lifecycle operator in your inbox within 48 hours.

▢ timer

Trial

Two weeks of work. Wind-down on us if it misses.

Different from the alternatives.

Three ways the match defeats common lifecycle failure modes.

▢ user-check

vs. agency

A senior operator runs the account end-to-end.

▢ shield-check

vs. freelancer

Vetted at scale, with references from senior leaders.

▢ zap

vs. in-house hire

Working in 48 hours. Hiring takes a quarter.

What the first month produces.

A senior operator running the channel from day one.

▢ mail

First flow live

Welcome series or win-back shipped inside the trial.

▢ trending-up

Channel under ownership

One person accountable for the email program.

▢ target

ESP fluency day one

No ramp on tooling you already pay for.

▢ bar-chart-3

Attribution wired up

Revenue per send tracked from the first campaign.

▢ layers

Segmentation built

List organized for the next quarter of campaigns.

▢ badge-check

Sender reputation defended

Deliverability handled before the first send.

Get matched this week.

Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

Get matched
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
Lifecycle and email

Master your dormant email channel. Senior lead in 48 hours.

A vetted lifecycle marketer who has built the channel at brands the size of yours. They inherit the list and start growing it.

  • ▢ badge-check Top one percent of lifecycle talent
  • ▢ handshake Strategy and the sends, one set of hands
  • ▢ rotate-ccw Two-week trial. Cancel anytime.
Match me with a lead Two-week trial. Cancel anytime.

Your list grew. Nobody owned it.

Revenue is sitting in your list. The next send has no name on it.

▢ hourglass

Your list doubled. The owner never showed up.

Two summers of subscriber growth. The welcome flow was set up by an agency that left. The draft folder gathers dust between launches.

▢ alert-triangle

Sixty percent stopped opening ninety days ago.

More than half the list has gone quiet. The win-back cohorts are not built. Revenue waits in segments nobody has touched.

▢ mail

Every send still needs the CMO's eyes.

Subject lines route to the head of marketing at 6pm. Cadence drifts. Engagement decays each quarter.

Master the channel that's been ignored.

A lifecycle lead who has shipped this exact program at brands like yours. They inherit the list and grow it from day one.

▢ shield-check

A senior who's grown this channel before.

They have run lifecycle programs at companies the size of yours. Five cycles of learning sits behind them when they touch your list. Day one feels like cycle ten.

▢ target

Cart-recovery flows that finally ship.

Welcome series rebuilt. Cart-recovery wired to your store. Sleeping segments waking up. The flows your stack runs, finally tuned to your buyers.

▢ workflow

Strategy and execution from one set of hands.

Your lead writes the brief and ships the sends. No deck-to-account-manager handoff. The person on the call is the person on the keyboard.

Diagnose the channel. Match the senior. Trial the work.

Three steps. Two of them happen this week. The first one is free, and the takeaways are yours either way.

▢ phone

Free strategy consultation

A live call with a matching strategist. They audit your list, ESP, current flows, and revenue gaps. Walk out with a channel diagnosis whether or not we match.

▢ user-check

Senior match in 48 hours

A lifecycle lead screened for your stack. Klaviyo, HubSpot, Iterable, Customer.io, Braze. You meet the person, not a shortlist.

▢ rotate-ccw

Two-week trial with the match

They start in your tooling, not a sandbox. Two weeks to feel the fit. Free replacement if it misses. Monthly billing after.

Every alternative drops the list in a different spot.

Recruiters lose the quarter. Agencies trade the senior for a junior. Marketplaces ghost.

▢ hourglass

vs. recruiter

The recruiter charges a year-of-salary fee for a six-week candidate slate. Email leaks the whole search. You start over in Q3 with the same role unfilled. We skip the slate and put a vetted lead in front of you in two days.

▢ x

vs. agency

The senior partner runs the pitch. By week three the account manager is your contact, and they cannot read your reports. Strategy decks ship. Sends do not. We put the person on the call on the keyboard. Same lead through every cycle.

▢ users

vs. freelancer marketplace

Marketplace picks are unvetted. Price wins the bid. Week three the work goes quiet and the list is yours alone again. Our talent passes a three-round screen and stays under monthly billing, not a one-off project fee.

Quarter by quarter, the list compounds.

Month one is the floor, not the ceiling. The longer the marketer stays, the more the channel earns.

▢ trending-up

Revenue per send keeps climbing.

The right segment hits the right subject line. Conversions arrive inside the first cycle. Revenue per thousand sends moves from cents to dollars, then keeps moving.

▢ badge-check

Win-back wakes the silent half.

A re-engagement series brings back the customers who stopped opening. Each quarter, the engaged portion of the list grows. The decay stops.

▢ crown

Send day stops landing on the CMO.

Calendar approval shifts to a weekly review. The lead drafts, segments, and ships. You read the dashboard and brief the next quarter.

▢ gauge

Senior judgment shapes every send.

Angle picks, segmentation choices, the cutoff for re-sends — the calls move to the marketer. The seniority shows in the small decisions inside each cycle.

▢ award

Lifecycle programs already proven.

The marketer placed has run this exact shape of program at companies your buyers compare you to. They bring the playbook. You skip the learning curve.

▢ zap

Your ESP works from day one.

No setup quarter. No platform migration. The marketer reads your tables, your flows, your reporting and starts shipping changes from the first send.

Book the call. Keep the diagnosis either way.

Thirty minutes with a matching strategist. You leave with a channel diagnosis, an ESP audit, and the role shape that actually fits, whether or not we match you.

Match me with a lead
social-proof

mh-may11-502-reddit-cmo

v2 Tier-2: 61/61 Open production live →
Source ad
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AngleSocial Proof — Reddit CMO
ICPCMO / fractional leadership buyer in peer community
HypothesisWe believe the Reddit thread format lowers ad scepticism for senior buyer personas who self-identify as community members.
Ad headlinepost: anyone found a reliable way to get CMO-level thinking without the full-time exec hire?
Ad CTAGet Matched Now
Message matchLP must match the fractional / CMO framing — not a generic homepage.
Production (currently live)
Fractional CMOs and senior operators

Fractional CMOs, matched in 48 hours.

CMO-level thinking without the full-time exec hire. Vetted operators, trialled before any long-term contract.

  • ▢ crown Fractional CMOs and Heads of Growth
  • ▢ shield-check Three-step vetting
  • ▢ timer Two-week trial. Monthly billing.
Get matched 48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Most senior marketing 'experts' just spend money.

Three patterns the bench keeps producing for fractional and CMO-level roles.

▢ dollar-sign

Strategy-deck operators

Frameworks land. The channel does not move.

▢ users

Pitch team, delivery team

The senior on the call is gone by week two.

▢ x-circle

Full-time exec overkill

A six-figure hire for a fractional engagement.

Vetted before they meet you.

Every operator clears intake, work-sample, and a senior reference.

▢ shield-check

Three-step vetting

Intake, work-sample, senior reference. Pass rate around one percent.

▢ briefcase

Senior on the keys

The operator you meet is the operator who runs the work.

▢ timer

Trial first

Two weeks together before any long-term commitment.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

Role, channel, timeline. Fifteen minutes.

▢ handshake

Match

One senior operator, vetted to your brief.

▢ rotate-ccw

Trial

Two weeks of work. Wind-down on us if it misses.

Different from the alternatives.

Three things peer-search and direct hiring can't ship.

▢ shield-check

vs. agency

A senior operator on the account. Monthly billing.

▢ badge-check

vs. freelancer marketplace

Vetted by humans, not by portfolio sorts.

▢ zap

vs. in-house hire

Working in 48 hours. Hiring takes a quarter.

Senior judgment from day one.

A senior operator running the work, not learning it.

▢ zap

Working day one

Brief to live inside the trial window.

▢ briefcase

Operator-grade pedigree

Done it before, at scale, at a recognisable company.

▢ bar-chart-3

Outcome visibility

Trial-window metrics reported, not promised.

▢ user-check

Direct operator access

Talk to the person shipping the work.

▢ shield-check

Accounts stay yours

Brand voice and ad accounts in your control.

▢ rotate-ccw

Replacement built in

Wrong fit? The next match is on us.

Get matched.

Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

Get matched
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
Fractional CMO matchmaking

CMO-tier leadership without the $300K hire.

A vetted fractional marketing leader matched to your stage in two business days.

  • ▢ zap Senior on the keys from day one
  • ▢ shield-check Top 1% accepted into the network
  • ▢ rotate-ccw No lock-in, no replacement fees
Get matched Two-week trial. Cancel anytime.

The senior title arrived. The senior work didn't.

You paid for a strategist and got a junior on the keyboard.

▢ alert-triangle

The deck looked sharp; the channels still drift.

Strategy slides land in the inbox. Acquisition still misses every number that matters.

▢ hourglass

Half a year to find someone qualified.

Recruiter retainers stretch past two quarters. The growth window closes first.

▢ dollar-sign

The exec offer locks in before the first test ships.

You commit to a base salary before you've seen a single experiment land.

Grow the channels you've stopped trusting.

Every match comes from a pool filtered the way growth-stage CMOs screen.

▢ trending-up

The channel you'd given up on pays again.

A marketing lead who has carried the same channel through a turnaround opens with a hypothesis and the willingness to execute on it.

▢ shield

A growth plan your CFO won't pick apart.

A roadmap with named bets, expected returns, and a clear story for what gets paused and what gets doubled next quarter.

▢ layers

One owner across paid, lifecycle, and content.

Top-of-funnel stops fighting retention. One judgment sets the sequence, calls the trade-off, and owns the result.

Diagnose the channel, then meet the match.

A diagnostic call, a match in days, and zero risk on the first cycle.

▢ phone

1 — Free strategy call.

Thirty minutes with the matching team. We walk through your tools, your channels, the gaps. You keep the audit even if you pass on the match.

▢ user-check

2 — Meet your match in 48 hours.

One leader shaped to the diagnostic call. You meet them, you decide whether to start.

▢ trending-up

3 — Work the channel for two weeks.

Live priorities, real shipping, side by side. Cancel cleanly if the fit's off. Free replacement if you want a different leader.

Skip the bait-and-switch hire.

Three alternatives, three ways they break. One match designed to defeat each.

▢ x-circle

vs. the agency.

You meet the partner on the pitch. By the third standup, you're emailing an account manager who can't read the dashboards. The partner was a sales prop. Here, the leader on the call is the leader on the keys. Same person from intake through delivery.

▢ x-circle

vs. the freelance marketplace.

Open marketplace, race-to-the-bottom pricing, no quality bar. The contractor who looked sharp on the proposal disappears after the second invoice. Here, 99 out of every 100 applicants get rejected before a single profile reaches you.

▢ x-circle

vs. the full-time hire.

Six months in recruiter fees, three more in ramp, a year on the offer before you can prove the hire. Here, the match arrives inside a week of the call and the first two cycles are zero-risk.

Compound the channel quarter over quarter.

Month one is the floor. The wins stack the longer your marketer stays on.

▢ trending-up

Tests stack into a system.

Each cycle builds on the last. The winners scale, the losers cut, the channel keeps moving forward.

▢ target

Six months in, the marketer knows the brand cold.

Voice, customer, motion, all in one head. The output gets sharper and faster every cycle.

▢ rotate-ccw

A board number the marketer can defend.

Pipeline, payback, top-line. The same leader walks the room through every quarterly review.

▢ zap

The waiting ends week one of the engagement.

Vendor selection, platform decisions, performance triage. The questions that piled up for a quarter resolve in the opening cycle.

▢ lightbulb

Plays your prior leads never proposed.

A marketer who has scaled the channel at a bigger company brings tactics your bench has not seen, plus a strong instinct for which one moves first.

▢ briefcase

The marketing line earns its place on the P&L.

Every dollar gets a thesis, a measurement, and a payoff your finance org can verify. The annual sign-off turns from a fight into a formality.

Diagnose the channel on a call.

Thirty minutes with a fractional-leadership specialist. You leave with a read on the channel either way.

Get matched
timing

mh-may11-503-q2-loss-aversion

v2 Tier-2: 61/61 Open production live →
Source ad
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AngleQ2 Loss Aversion
ICPCMO or Marketing Director behind on Q2 targets
HypothesisWe believe loss aversion framing tied to Q2 timing will convert better than benefit framing because the cost of inaction is live and felt.
Ad headlineEvery Week Without the Right Marketer Is a Week Your Competitors Pull Ahead.
Ad CTAGet Matched Now
Message matchLP must have urgency — 48-hour match and trial prominently above fold.
Production (currently live)
Q2 is already moving

Every week without a senior marketer costs the quarter.

A vetted senior operator in seat in 48 hours. Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

  • ▢ zap 48-hour match
  • ▢ timer Two-week trial
  • ▢ rotate-ccw Monthly billing
Get matched 48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Hiring channels move on quarters.

Three failure modes a slower process keeps producing.

▢ trending-up

Competitors ship first

Their tests run while your plan waits for staffing.

▢ dollar-sign

Budget keeps spending

Spend continues without senior judgment behind it.

▢ hourglass

Hiring drags a quarter

Recruiters take weeks. The miss takes a quarter.

An operator in seat this week.

Brief to senior operator in 48 hours. No long-term commitment.

▢ zap

48-hour match

One senior operator, vetted to your brief.

▢ briefcase

Senior on the keys

The operator is the person running the work day one.

▢ timer

Trial first

Two weeks together before any long-term contract.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

Role, channel, and the quarter you're chasing.

▢ handshake

Match

Vetted senior operator in your inbox within 48 hours.

▢ timer

Trial

Two weeks of work. Decide at the end.

Different from the alternatives.

Three things slower channels can't deliver this quarter.

▢ zap

vs. recruiters

Working in 48 hours. Slates take weeks.

▢ shield-check

vs. agency

A senior operator on the account. Monthly billing.

▢ badge-check

vs. freelancer

Vetted at scale, with references from senior leaders.

What the next two weeks deliver.

A senior operator working — not interviewing.

▢ zap

First test live

Inside the trial, not in a planning doc.

▢ trending-up

Weekly performance read

Trial-window metrics reported by week two.

▢ briefcase

Senior judgment on budget

An operator who has spent at scale before.

▢ layers

Channel depth day one

No ramp on the platform.

▢ user-check

Direct operator access

Talk to the person shipping the work.

▢ rotate-ccw

Replacement built in

Wrong fit? The next match is on us.

Get matched.

48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Get matched
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
For CMOs whose quarter is already slipping.

Save Q2. Match a senior in 48 hours.

A vetted senior marketer in your inbox, ready to start the channel you can't leave another week.

  • ▢ clipboard-check Diagnostic call. Channel audit included.
  • ▢ user-check Shortlist action-anchored to your intake.
  • ▢ badge-check Two-week trial included.
Get matched now Free replacement, monthly billing.

Every week of recruiting widens the gap your board will see.

Search, screen, onboard. Each step eats the calendar Q2 doesn't have.

▢ search

Sourcing burns the first three weeks.

Posting the role, sifting resumes, scheduling intros, reposting on a new job site. The pipeline keeps missing while the inbox fills with the wrong specialists.

▢ alert-triangle

Interviews eat the next two weeks.

Three rounds, four interviewers, two reschedules, a take-home assignment. By the time a finalist signs an offer, the next reporting cycle has closed.

▢ hourglass

Onboarding takes another three weeks.

Tooling access, brand voice docs, account permissions, kickoff context. A new hire ramps on the work that should already be running.

Recover the quarter, week by week, the moment the senior arrives.

The plan stops shrinking. The channel starts moving. The board cycle has a different story.

▢ trending-up

Your next board update lands as a motion report.

One reporting cycle in, recovery is the lead story. The CFO sees numbers worth verifying for the first time this quarter.

▢ rocket

The channel ships work the week the senior signs on.

Brief on the table, tooling access granted, the marketer is shipping inside the same week. The work the calendar was eating starts moving.

▢ calendar-plus

Q3 opens with the senior already three weeks into the channel.

The marketer who recovered Q2 carries that context into the next quarter. The next quarter inherits the work already in motion.

One call, one shortlist, one senior in your inbox.

Three steps. Every interval is anchored to your action, not the calendar.

▢ phone-call

A strategy call. Free audit either way.

Thirty minutes with a matching strategist. We diagnose the channel, the gap, and the shape of the role you actually need. The audit is yours to keep, even if you don't hire.

▢ user-check

Shortlist of vetted seniors, inside two business days.

We send one to three vetted seniors matched to the call. You meet them on your schedule and pick the marketer who fits the brief.

▢ handshake

Direct access to the marketer doing the work.

You meet the marketer who'll own the channel and the brief. No account manager layer. The marketer can be on your tooling and priorities the day you sign.

Inherit a pool ready months before your brief existed.

Every alternative resets the clock the moment you start.

▢ briefcase

The senior on the pitch vanishes by week three.

An agency contract buys you the partner at signing and an account manager by month two. The senior was the sales prop. Here, the match you meet is the marketer who stays on the brief through the engagement.

▢ users

The marketplace bid favors the cheapest, not the right specialist.

An open brief on a freelance marketplace lands in a race to the bottom. Whoever responds is your pool, and quality screening still falls on your team. Here, every candidate cleared paid sample work, channel-fit checks, and a reference loop before reaching you.

▢ x-circle

An in-house hire is a quarter to source and another to onboard.

Posted roles, sourcer briefs, four-round interview loops, a take-home assignment, then a ninety-day ramp. The next quarter ends before the offer signs. Here, the match is on your account inside the week.

Compound the channel quarter after quarter.

Month one is the floor. Month six is when the work stacks.

▢ layers-2

Month one: the channel works at senior depth from the first sprint.

From day one of the engagement, the marketer brings the channel decisions a senior makes: budget pacing, audience structure, creative testing rhythm. The channel inherits judgment from the first work session.

▢ layers

Quarter one: each test builds on the last.

Every test the marketer runs accumulates on the last. Segments refine. Hooks get sharper. The channel's learning curve compounds with each cycle the marketer stays on it.

▢ target

Month six: the marketer knows the brand cold.

Brand voice, customer language, channel quirks, the team's tempo, all internalized. New tests ship faster because the context is already there. The marketer carries six months of build into the next quarter.

▢ line-chart

Week two: the channel has a measurable read on what works.

By week two, the senior has pushed work live, read the signal, and landed the first concrete view of where the channel responds. The team has a fresh number before the next review.

▢ wallet

Spend gets redirected before the next budget review lands.

A senior reads the channel's last quarter, sees what stopped earning, and routes the budget toward what's working. The CFO sees discipline before they ask for it.

▢ award

The senior who arrives has scaled this play at companies you know.

The match is sourced from a network that ran the same channel at named-brand companies. The team you're up against probably hired from the same pool.

Book the consultation. Meet your senior match.

Save Q2. Match a senior in 48 hours.

Get matched now
risk-removal

mh-may11-504-bad-hire-fb-test

v2 Tier-2: 67/67 Open production live →
Source ad
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AngleSkip Bad Hire (FB test)
ICPStartup CMO / Founder burned by bad hires
HypothesisWe believe Facebook placement will deliver at or below Instagram CPA on this proven angle, validating the platform re-inclusion.
Ad headlineSkip your next bad marketing hire.
Ad CTAHire the World's Best Marketing Talent
Message matchLP must lead with vetting credibility above the fold.
Production (currently live)
Vetted senior marketers, in 48 hours

Skip the next bad marketing hire.

Every operator clears intake, work-sample, and a senior reference before reaching you. Two-week trial before any long-term contract.

  • ▢ shield-check Three-step vetting
  • ▢ timer Trial before commitment
  • ▢ rotate-ccw Free replacement if the trial misses
Get matched Two-week trial. Free replacement.

Marketing hires take 90 days to evaluate.

Three patterns the bad hire repeats.

▢ alert-triangle

Senior on paper

The resume reads senior. The output reads junior.

▢ x-circle

Long onboarding

Three months of ramp before the work shows.

▢ dollar-sign

Six-figure cost

Salary clears. Metrics do not.

Vetted before they reach you.

Three steps before any operator gets matched.

▢ shield-check

Three-step vetting

Intake, work-sample, senior reference. Pass rate around one percent.

▢ badge-check

Trial first

Two weeks of work before any long-term contract.

▢ rotate-ccw

Free replacement

If the trial misses, the next match is free.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

Role, channel, timeline. Fifteen minutes.

▢ handshake

Match

One senior operator vetted to your brief.

▢ timer

Trial

Two weeks together. Decide at the end.

Different from the alternatives.

Three things the in-house, agency, and freelancer path can't promise.

▢ shield-check

vs. in-house hire

Trial first. Three months of risk avoided.

▢ user-check

vs. agency

A senior operator on the account. Monthly billing.

▢ badge-check

vs. freelancer marketplace

Vetted by humans, not by portfolio sorts.

What the trial reveals.

Two weeks to see the operator before any long-term commitment.

▢ zap

Working day one

Brief to live inside the trial window.

▢ briefcase

Operator-grade pedigree

Done it before, at scale, at a recognisable company.

▢ bar-chart-3

Trial-window metrics

What moved in two weeks, reported.

▢ user-check

Direct operator access

Talk to the person shipping the work.

▢ shield-check

Accounts stay yours

Brand voice and ad accounts in your control.

▢ rotate-ccw

Replacement on us

Wrong fit? The next match is free.

Get matched.

Two-week trial. Free replacement.

Get matched
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
Pre-screened marketing talent.

Hire the senior your last hire only looked like.

A screened pool, a match returned, two weeks of paid work before any contract is signed.

  • ▢ clipboard-list Consultation call with a matching strategist
  • ▢ user-check Three independent rounds of vetting
  • ▢ handshake Paid trial before the contract
Book the consultation Two-week trial. Free replacement if it misses.

The senior on paper sank the channel.

The résumé held up in the interview. The first ninety days held nothing. Three patterns show up in almost every story we hear.

▢ clock-alert

The work moved sideways for months.

The channel slid and the new hire was still ramping. By the time the call to part ways happened, the work had been miles off-strategy long enough that catching up was no longer the plan.

▢ file-search

The résumé out-talked the work.

Polished portfolio, the right logos, an interview that closed the room. Then week six arrives, the work is getting redone in-house, and the résumé is the only impressive thing on the file.

▢ scale

A six-figure exit, same posting.

Severance, the search fee, lost runway, and another posting cycle. The role reopened with the same description from four months ago. Nothing the team built around the hire carried forward.

Reclaim the channel the last hire stalled.

The buyer who lands here is one cycle behind on the channel that matters. The next person on the seat shortens that gap instead of widening it.

▢ compass

Channel decisions made on day one.

The new marketer reads the channel, picks the priorities, and starts moving the work in the first week. The founder reviews the direction instead of setting it.

▢ badge-check

Output that holds up to review.

Briefs come back finished. Numbers in the recap reconcile. The work the team scrutinizes in week two is work the team would have shipped itself if it had the hours.

▢ inbox

The daily marketing thread closes.

Slack pings about copy, channel pacing, and recap formatting stop landing in the founder's inbox. One person owns it, runs it, and answers for it.

Match in two business days from consultation.

Three steps from the first call to paid work. Each step is timed against the action before it, not against a calendar.

▢ phone-call

Strategist audits the channel live.

A thirty-minute call covers the role, the channel, the budget, and what good looks like. The takeaways are yours either way. Buyers who do not move forward still leave with a read on the role shape they actually need.

▢ user-plus

Match comes back with call notes.

One candidate, work samples included, reviewed against what the call surfaced. Reply to lock the start.

▢ rocket

Paid window before any contract.

The window happens on real budget, on your dashboards, with weekly check-ins. The decision to keep the seat or release it happens with output on the table.

Three hiring paths burn three different ways.

The buyer who lands here has usually tried one of three before. Each card names the failure the path produces and what this pool does instead.

▢ user-x

Retainers bill, hires miss.

You hand the search to a recruiter and wait for the slate. Two months later you have paid the retainer, sat through four interviews, and the one you picked walks back in carrying the same red flags you already burned on. The retainer cleared. The seat sits empty into month three. This pool only earns when the engagement starts.

▢ building-2

Pitch partner gone by week three.

You sign with the agency because the founding partner walked you through the deck. Three weeks in, you are emailing an account manager who cannot open your analytics. The work coming back reads like it was written for a brand that is not yours. The partner who sold you was a sales prop. Here the person you meet on the consultation call is the person who does the work.

▢ archive

Three hundred applicants, no signal.

You post the role to a job board to skip the cost. Three hundred applications land in seven days. You spend ninety minutes on screening calls before you can sort who has run this channel from who has only watched one. By the time the month closes the pile has won; the seat is no closer to filled. This pool collapses the pile into one candidate who has already cleared what the screening call was meant to test.

Quarter over quarter, the channel compounds.

Month one is the floor, not the ceiling. The longer one person holds the seat, the more the channel returns.

▢ line-chart-up

Owned metric moves by week four.

CAC, MQLs, or retention, pick the one the channel has been missing. By the next monthly recap, the story behind the number lives inside it.

▢ layers

Winning treatments fund the next test.

Spring's winning ad funds the new test in summer. The losing one teaches what to cut. The test library deepens; the next bet gets sharper.

▢ feather

Voice deepens with time.

By month six the marketer reads your roadmap the way you read it. New campaigns ship in a tone the team recognizes.

▢ map

Roadmap writes itself by Q2.

Someone holding the seat through quarter two surfaces which bets are worth doubling and which to kill. The next plan arrives with attribution attached.

▢ shield-check

Hiring confidence holds for next time.

The next role you hire benefits from this one. The team learns what a good fit looks like in practice, and the bar moves from résumé to output.

▢ clipboard-check

Reports land before the founder asks.

Weekly recap, monthly readout, quarterly plan. Each one lands in the founder's inbox before the ask goes out, with the work attached.

Book the consultation. Meet your match in 48 hours.

The consultation is the only commitment up front. The match is reviewed against the call. The seat refills at no cost if it misses.

Book the consultation
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AngleQ2 GTM Gap
ICPFounder or CMO planning Q2 go-to-market who lacks the right team to execute
HypothesisWe believe tying the brief to Q2 planning creates a timely hook that outperforms evergreen messaging for buyers in active planning mode.
Ad headlineYour Q2 Plan Is Ready. Your Marketing Team Isn't.
Ad CTAGet Matched Now
Message matchLP must lead with speed-to-hire and trial — not a role-specific page.
Production (currently live)
Close the Q2 gap

Your Q2 plan is ready. Your team isn't.

A senior operator matched to your brief in 48 hours. Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

  • ▢ zap 48-hour match
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  • ▢ rotate-ccw Monthly billing
Get matched 48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Plans outpace team capacity.

Three patterns slow the team behind the plan.

▢ users

Generalists at scale

One person on six channels owns none of them.

▢ hourglass

Hiring takes a quarter

The role gets filled after the quarter ends.

▢ alert-triangle

Agency staffing drift

The senior on the pitch is rarely the operator.

A senior operator in 48 hours.

Vetted to your brief. Trial first. No long-term lock-in.

▢ zap

48-hour match

One senior operator, briefed and ready.

▢ briefcase

Senior on the keys

The operator is the person doing the work.

▢ timer

Trial first

Two weeks together before any long-term contract.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

The plan, the role, the targets.

▢ handshake

Match

Vetted senior operator in your inbox within 48 hours.

▢ timer

Trial

Two weeks of work. Decide at the end.

Different from the alternatives.

Three things slower channels can't deliver this quarter.

▢ zap

vs. recruiters

Working in 48 hours. Slates take weeks.

▢ shield-check

vs. agency

A senior operator on the account. Monthly billing.

▢ badge-check

vs. freelancer marketplace

Vetted at scale, with references from senior leaders.

What the next two weeks deliver.

A senior operator working — not interviewing.

▢ zap

First test live

Inside the trial, not in a planning doc.

▢ briefcase

Senior judgment on the plan

An operator who has run this play before.

▢ layers

Channel depth day one

No ramp on the platform.

▢ bar-chart-3

Weekly performance read

Trial-window metrics reported by week two.

▢ user-check

Direct operator access

Talk to the person shipping the work.

▢ rotate-ccw

Replacement built in

Wrong fit? The next match is on us.

Get matched.

48-hour match. Two-week trial.

Get matched
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
Built for Q2 execution.

Scale the Q2 plan with a proven senior.

The plan is signed. The role is open. The senior who arrives has already grown the channel your plan named, at the numbers your board wants.

  • ▢ zap Top one percent of marketing leaders
  • ▢ rocket Returned within 48 hours of intake
  • ▢ shield Trial ends cleanly if fit is wrong
Start the match Free to book. Match within 48 hours of the consultation call.

The hiring calendar buries Q2 under six weeks of waiting.

A signed plan needs a senior on it from day one, and the path to that senior takes longer than the quarter has.

▢ calendar-x

The recruiter slate lands in week six

Headhunters submit names weeks after execution was supposed to start. Half the quarter is gone before a single channel is staffed.

▢ layers

A signed plan needs senior judgment on day one

The doc assumes someone owns the channel end to end. A junior coordinator reads the brief and asks for more direction.

▢ user

The founder ends up running paid again

The person who wrote the plan starts executing it on the side. Product time evaporates. The roadmap slips after it.

Grow the channels your Q2 plan named.

A pre-vetted senior who has already shipped paid, lifecycle, growth, or brand at the kind of numbers your plan commits to.

▢ rocket

A senior who's already shipped this play

Pattern recognition from prior plans. The first tests they propose come from work they have already run, at the numbers your plan named.

▢ target

Plan targets reached before the cycle closes

First launch is just the start. The senior pushes the channel to the numbers your board signed off on before the cycle closes.

▢ git-merge

Cross-channel reads from a single senior

Paid, lifecycle, growth, brand. The senior reads how the plan compounds across them, so the full motion moves together.

Compress hiring into a consultation call and a 48-hour return.

Three steps replace a long recruit with a working senior in the channel.

▢ phone

Open with a consultation call

Thirty minutes with a matching strategist. Audit the channel, name the role-shape, identify what only a senior can move. The call is worth taking even if you do not hire.

▢ user-check

Meet your shortlist in two days

One to three role-fit seniors return with portfolios. Pick the one whose work reads like your channel and your numbers.

▢ zap

Kickoff with a senior who arrives running

The selected marketer comes in with pattern recognition from prior plans. They speak the brief back in their own work before the first week is out.

Cut the three hiring paths that leave Q2 unstaffed.

Every alternative has a failure mode a finalized plan cannot afford. Each one is named below, and defeated.

▢ hourglass

The recruiter takes longer than the quarter

You called a headhunter the day the plan was signed. The slate arrives a month and a half late. The candidate accepts after that. The channel goes live in month three. MH returns a vetted match in 48 hours from a pool that already exists.

▢ users-round

The agency partner disappears after the pitch

You almost signed with the agency because the senior in the room felt right. Three weeks in, an account manager you have not met is replying on the channel and rewriting the plan to fit a template. MH puts the same senior on the work from intake through delivery.

▢ book-open

The generalist treats a signed plan as a wishlist

A jack-of-all-channels looked safer than three hires. The Q2 doc reads to them like a buffet, and the channels the plan depends on stay half-staffed. MH matches a specialist who has shipped the exact discipline the brief names, at the scale the brief expects.

Compound four quarters of channel growth from one match.

The seat fills with a senior who stays. The longer they sit with the channel, the more the channel returns.

▢ line-chart

The channel deepens every cycle

Wins stack. Tests reuse what worked. Segments refine into the audience that actually buys. Quarter two reads sharper than quarter one because the same hands are on the work.

▢ package

Product time comes back to the founder

The person who wrote the plan stops running it. Roadmap reviews recover the hours that were going to paid pacing and creative review.

▢ presentation

Board updates read in the senior's voice

By the third cycle, the marketer presents the channel themselves. The plan-owner shows up on the dashboard, not just the doc.

▢ trending-up

Six months in, the senior reads the brand cold

Brand voice deepens. Customer language gets sharper. The senior knows what the pool ships, what the audience ignores, and what to try next without asking.

▢ flag

The first execution win lands early

The senior arrives ready, so a measurable channel win shows up in the early weeks of work. Month three is when other paths are still hiring.

▢ repeat

Q3 opens stronger than Q2 closed

Wins from one quarter carry forward to the next. The same senior knows what to keep, what to drop, what to push harder into the next cycle.

Book the consultation. Start the trial.

A two-week trial. No long-term commitment. Cancel cleanly if the fit is wrong and the quarter stays yours.

Start the match
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AngleNamed Company Social Proof
ICPMid-market CMO or VP in active consideration — comparing MarketerHire against alternatives
HypothesisWe believe a testimonial that names company type and outcome metric will outperform anonymous review cards because it answers 'is this for companies like mine?'
Ad headline'We went from zero paid social to $2M in pipeline in 90 days.' — Series B SaaS, Head of Growth
Ad CTAStart With a Trial
Message matchLP must feature proof elements prominently — 6,000+ companies, testimonials if available.
Production (currently live)
Series B SaaS, Head of Growth

"From zero paid social to $2M in pipeline in 90 days."

One outcome from the pool. Stage-tagged, role-tagged, channel-tagged. Matched in 48 hours.

  • ▢ trophy Outcomes tagged by stage, role, and channel
  • ▢ badge-check Trial before any long-term contract
  • ▢ zap 48-hour match
Start a trial Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

Generic proof loses signal for buyers.

Three patterns that strip identification from testimonial pages.

▢ users

Anonymous quotes

No stage, role, or metric. Nothing to identify with.

▢ x-circle

One-off outcomes

A single result does not prove a pool.

▢ alert-triangle

Logos without operators

Brand walls. No names of the people who shipped.

Stage-tagged outcomes you can sort by.

Every match comes with the company shape, role, and channel behind the result.

▢ trophy

Stage-tagged outcomes

Series B SaaS, DTC, marketplace. Sortable by company shape.

▢ target

Channel-deep operators

The person behind the outcome runs the channel.

▢ layers

Pattern at scale

30,000+ matches across 6,000+ companies.

Three steps to a senior operator.

Fifteen minutes to brief. Forty-eight hours to match.

▢ file-text

Intake

Company stage, role, channel.

▢ handshake

Match

An operator who has run this play, at this stage.

▢ timer

Trial

Two weeks of work before any long-term commitment.

Different from the alternatives.

Three things testimonial pages and review sites can't deliver.

▢ trophy

vs. logo walls

Tagged outcomes, not unattributed company names.

▢ badge-check

vs. anonymous reviews

Stage and role on every outcome.

▢ rotate-ccw

vs. one-off wins

A pool of operators, not a single result.

What the trial looks like.

Two weeks of work, with stage-matched proof under it.

▢ zap

First test live

Inside the trial, not in a planning doc.

▢ briefcase

Stage-matched record

Done it before at a company that looks like yours.

▢ bar-chart-3

Trial-window metrics

What moved in two weeks, reported.

▢ user-check

Direct operator access

Talk to the person shipping the work.

▢ shield-check

Accounts stay yours

Brand voice and ad accounts in your control.

▢ rotate-ccw

Replacement built in

Wrong fit? The next match is on us.

Start with a trial.

Two-week trial. Monthly billing.

Start a trial
Pipeline — Blind v3 (post-feedback)
Proof, sortable

Find the marketer behind a result that looks like yours.

Every quote on this page ties to a named person, a measurable outcome, and a business stage you can compare against your own. Sort by stage. Sort by role. Sort by channel.

  • ▢ building-2 6,000+ companies hired here
  • ▢ line-chart 30,000 matches reviewed
  • ▢ star 4.8 on Trustpilot
Start a two-week trial Refundable inside two weeks.

Stock testimonials collapse in a vendor review.

"We grew revenue" tells the board nothing. They want the source, the surface, and the person who shipped it — three answers your finance partner will ask before they sign off on the spend.

▢ user-x

Untitled, unattached

A win without a stage tag and a role tag reads like a banner ad. You can't filter it, sort it, or hand it to the hiring panel.

▢ chart-no-axes-column

No source, no surface

A headline number with no channel attached lands flat in a finance review. The figure the buyer needs is the line on the acquisition dashboard, by source.

▢ file-question

Nobody to ask

If the person behind the outcome isn't named, you can't ask whether they'd deliver yours.

Hire the marketer who already built your board's number.

The pool is indexed against the result you're hiring for. Every match has already run that channel, at your stage, for a P&L that looked like yours.

▢ briefcase

The marketer's last company looked like yours.

Every match has shipped the result you're hiring against, from a company at your funding stage and team size. The pattern transfers when the conditions do.

▢ route

The marketer's last channel is your next one.

Meta, Google, lifecycle, content, SEO. The match arrives with the surface already learned. The first session runs as execution.

▢ user-check

The marketer's last title is the one you're hiring.

Head of Growth, lifecycle lead, paid social specialist. The match has owned the role you're hiring for, on a budget the size of yours.

Book a strategy call. Match in 48 hours.

A diagnostic call with a matching strategist, then a senior marketer in your inbox within two business days. No campaign timeline promised — the work starts when the buyer says go.

▢ phone-call

A live diagnostic call

Thirty minutes with a matching strategist who reviews the channel, the stack, and the funding context. Walk away with a read on the role shape, whether or not the trial moves forward.

▢ users-round

A curated match, named

Within 48 hours of the call, a vetted match arrives in the buyer's inbox with a profile, prior outcomes, and the channels they've owned. Read before the intro.

▢ shield-check

A two-week trial, refundable

Run the engagement for two weeks. Refundable if the fit is wrong. Free replacement if the marketer doesn't match the brief.

Agencies pitch a logo. The pool pitches a marketer.

Every alternative the buyer is comparing to fails a specific way. The pool answers each one.

▢ user-cog

The senior on the pitch deck

The partner sells the engagement. Three weeks in, the buyer is emailing an account manager who can't read the funnel. The senior was a sales prop. The pool puts the same name on intake, kickoff, and delivery.

▢ trending-down

The race-to-the-bottom shortlist

Unfiltered marketplaces optimize for price floors. Quality screens are skipped, ghosting starts in week three, and the buyer eats the lost quarter. Under one percent of applicants reach this pool. The screen runs before the buyer sees a profile.

▢ calendar-x

The two-quarter recruiting tax

The recruiter charges a year of salary, the hire takes a quarter to seat, and another quarter to onboard. By the time pipeline moves, two boards have come and gone. The pool puts a senior on the channel inside the week from the strategy call.

Compound the channel, quarter over quarter.

Month one is the floor. Compounding shows around month six. The longer a senior marketer owns the channel, the more the wins stack.

▢ layers

Tests stack

Every audience, creative, and offer that landed last month informs the next test. The learning curve flattens at six months in, and the buyer feels it on the dashboard.

▢ message-square-quote

Brand voice deepens

Six months in, the marketer knows the brand cold. New campaigns ship without a re-brief and the founder stops correcting copy at 11pm.

▢ users

Segments refine

The audience that converted in Q1 splits into three by Q3. CAC drops as the targeting sharpens against the data the channel has accumulated.

▢ clock-9

Senior on the keys

Eight years of average experience reaches the work directly. The hire makes the inside-the-dashboard call. The buyer reviews the result.

▢ coins

Senior expertise without the FTE bill

Pricing lands fifty to seventy percent below a comparable salary plus benefits, equity, and recruiter fees. Capacity scales up or down with the quarter without an FTE headcount risk.

▢ repeat

The same hire across the next channel

When the mix shifts — new platform, new offer, new ICP — the lead pivots without an onboarding tax. The relationship deepens across the calendar, and the next channel inherits the brand context already built.

Pick the result that looks like yours. Book the call.

Refundable inside the window. Compounding outside it. The Head of Growth quoted above started here, and pipeline followed.

Start a two-week trial