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A strategic marketing partnership. Not an agency.

SF Marketing Agency is the strategic marketing partner for established, well-capitalized companies that have outgrown execution-only vendors. Six diagnostic entry gates. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Clients across North America and internationally.

SF Marketing Agency is a strategic marketing partnership for growth-stage B2B companies and established traditional businesses. Six fixed-scope entry gates from $2,500 to $7,500 produce specific written deliverables. No open-ended retainer required to begin. The firm operates under Stan Consulting LLC and serves clients primarily in technology, professional services, and traditional industry sectors.

What the Firm Is

Strategy above execution. Not instead of it.

The firm exists because most established companies - growth-stage technology and traditional businesses alike - have the execution capacity but not the strategic architecture above it. Vendors execute. Freelancers execute. The work runs. Nothing compounds. The missing layer is a documented strategy that tells execution what to do, in what order, toward what measurable outcome.

The six entry gates are fixed-scope, fixed-price diagnostic engagements. Each produces a specific document. Each self-selects a different commercial problem. The gate model exists to make the first engagement low-risk and fast. The diagnostic either identifies the architecture that makes execution compound, or it surfaces why it has not. Either outcome is valuable. No open-ended retainer is required to find out.

Execution without strategy is expensive and random. Strategy without execution is paper. The partnership model covers both because separating them breaks the feedback loop.

The firm serves two client tiers. Growth-stage technology companies at $2M to $50M ARR: Series A-C SaaS, AI companies, fintech, and PE-backed portfolio companies. Established traditional businesses at $5M to $250M annual revenue: construction, legal, healthcare, manufacturing, wealth management, and real estate. The strategic methodology is the same. The vocabulary, benchmarks, and commercial motions are adapted to the vertical.

What the firm is not.

// Not this
A traditional agency. No retainer-first model, no monthly creative packages, no media buying desk. The relationship starts with a fixed-scope diagnostic that produces a document. Retainers are available post-diagnostic and are optional, not default.
// Not this
A fractional CMO service. No embedded operator. The output is documents and strategy, not execution headcount. The firm does not fill a seat on your leadership team. It produces the architecture your team executes from.
// Not this
A consulting firm in the McKinsey sense. No 200-page reports. No slide decks that live in a drawer. Every engagement produces a specific, actionable document written for operator execution - short enough to read, specific enough to use.
// Not this
A vendor. The relationship is structured as a partnership. The firm does not accept briefs, execute against spec, and invoice. The engagement is diagnostic first, strategic second, and execution third. The sequence is intentional.
// Not this
A search-ranking provider. The firm does not sell search ranking services, keyword ranking retainers, backlink campaigns, or local search packages. AI visibility is handled as an authority, structure, and positioning diagnostic, not as a ranking service.
The Methodology

Four commercial axes. One documented system.

Every strategic engagement covers the same four commercial axes. The specific depth on each axis depends on where the diagnostic identifies the most leverage. The document your team receives maps recommendations across all four, with 30-60-90 day sequencing for execution.

Axis 01 · Positioning and product narrative

What the product is, to whom, and why they should believe it.

Category narrative, product narrative, ICP definition with firmographic and psychographic criteria, claim architecture with proof hierarchy, and competitive narrative map. The foundation under every word the company writes, says, and ships. When this axis is wrong, execution cannot fix it.

Axis 02 · Pricing and packaging architecture

How the product is structured, priced, and bundled.

Price strategy, packaging structure, margin architecture, and buyer willingness-to-pay analysis by ICP. Most companies leave measurable revenue on the table at this layer because pricing has not been revisited since the ICP moved. Usually the highest-leverage axis and the most undermanaged one.

Axis 03 · Go-to-market motion

Which channels, in what sequence, with what buyer journey.

Distribution channel portfolio, sales-marketing alignment, buyer stage sequencing, and motion definition - inbound, outbound, partner, or product-led. The commercial architecture that connects marketing activity to revenue. Defines what success looks like at each stage before execution begins.

Axis 04 · Demand generation

How the top of pipeline is built, measured, and compounded.

Paid acquisition audit by channel, content investment architecture, PR and thought leadership prioritization, AI visibility, and measurement framework with attribution boundaries. The execution layer - with a measurement structure that lets the other three axes receive signal from what actually happened in the market.

The Network

Four properties. One connected commercial architecture.

SF Marketing Agency operates inside a focused network of specialist practices. Each property handles a distinct scope. When an engagement falls outside our lane, it routes to the right specialist in the network. Not referred. Routed. The difference: we know where it lands.

// Parent firm

Stan Consulting LLC

The parent firm. Handles Shopify and direct-to-consumer ecommerce, consumer brand strategy, and US-market engagements outside the SF Marketing Agency scope. When a diagnostic surfaces ecommerce or DTC as the primary commercial motion, the engagement routes here.

stanconsultingllc.com →
// Cross-border market entry

Global Marketing Agency

International market entry and cross-border commercial architecture. International companies entering the US. US companies entering DACH, CIS, APAC, and the UAE. When the engagement has a geographic complexity dimension beyond the US domestic market, it routes here.

globalmarketing.agency →
// Brand positioning

The Brand Archive

Live editorial archive of branding decisions and their consequences. Source-cited case studies on rebrands, repositionings, packaging changes, logo changes, and brand recoveries. Operated by Stan Consulting LLC's Research Desk. Reference material, not a consulting service.

growyourbrand.net →
// Founder advisory

Private Advisory

For founders at irreversible capital and ownership decision points. Operator-level strategic advisory that extends beyond the marketing function: company architecture, partnership structure, succession, and exit. A separate engagement, separately available.

stantscherenkow.com →

// Engagements routed across the network through the contact form at sfmarketing.agency/contact/

SF Marketing Agency operates under Stan Consulting LLC. Strategic engagements are executed by the SF Marketing Agency team using the firm's established diagnostic methodology.

For founder-level strategic advisory beyond the marketing function, private engagements are available at stantscherenkow.com.

Industries Served

Two client tiers. Ten industry verticals.

Tech · Growth-stage
Traditional · Established
The Six Entry Gates

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Every engagement starts here.

The gate model exists because the first engagement should be low-risk and specific. Each gate addresses a different commercial problem. Each produces a document your team owns. No open-ended retainer is required to start.

Marketing Strategy Diagnostic
Full four-axis strategy document covering positioning, packaging, go-to-market, and demand generation. 10 business days. The broadest entry point - for companies where the problem spans multiple commercial axes.
$5,000 flat
Read the scope →
Positioning Sprint
Category narrative, ICP precision, claim architecture, and messaging architecture. 14 business days. Five documents. For AI companies and B2B SaaS where positioning is the specific bottleneck.
$7,500 flat
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Paid Media Architecture Audit
Channel-by-channel audit of paid media with attribution reality-check, unit economics analysis, and 30-day reallocation priorities. 5 business days. For teams spending $20K+ per month on paid with declining efficiency.
$2,500 flat
Read the scope →
Conversion Review
Website, landing page, and funnel conversion audit identifying the specific friction points causing drop-off. 7 business days. For teams with healthy traffic and weak conversion.
$3,500 flat
Read the scope →
Strategy Partnership
Monthly retainer for ongoing strategic oversight post-diagnostic. Strategy sessions, quarterly priorities, on-demand access. 3-month minimum. For teams that want continuous strategic alignment without a fractional-CMO commitment.
$4,500/mo
Read the scope →
Frequently Asked

Questions about the firm.

Who runs SF Marketing Agency?

SF Marketing Agency is operated by the team at Stan Consulting LLC. Engagements are executed using the firm's established diagnostic methodology. For engagements with a founder-level advisory component beyond marketing, Stan Tscherenkow is available directly.

Where is the firm based?

The firm operates from the San Francisco Bay Area. Engagements are conducted remotely or on-site depending on scope. There is no geographic restriction on clients - the current client base spans Bay Area technology companies, national B2B SaaS, and established regional businesses in multiple markets.

What is the relationship between SF Marketing Agency and Stan Consulting LLC?

SF Marketing Agency operates under Stan Consulting LLC as a focused brand for strategic marketing engagements with growth-stage technology companies and established traditional businesses. Stan Consulting LLC is the parent firm and handles engagements outside this scope, including Shopify, direct-to-consumer, and ecommerce work.

Why is the firm anonymous on its own website?

The firm operates under a brand, not an individual. This is intentional. The output of every engagement is a document your team owns and executes. The value is in the work, not in the personality of the person who produced it. Clients who need to know who is doing the work can review the methodology and the cases. Clients who want a named individual as the relationship can engage Stan Tscherenkow directly.

What kinds of companies are not a good fit?

Pre-revenue companies without product-market-fit signal. Companies seeking search ranking services, ranking retainers, or execution vendors for running campaigns without strategic architecture above them. Companies at or below $500K ARR that have not validated a repeatable commercial motion. Direct-to-consumer and ecommerce companies (those engagements are handled by Stan Consulting LLC). Companies that need a named individual as the primary relationship rather than a firm with a documented methodology.

How does the firm handle conflicts with companies in the same industry?

The firm does not take engagements with direct competitors - companies with materially overlapping products, ICPs, and go-to-market motions. Within the same broad vertical (for example, two B2B SaaS companies in adjacent categories), engagements proceed only when the strategic positioning overlap is minimal and both clients consent. This is disclosed upfront, not retroactively.

Where This Starts

Six fixed-scope entry points.
No retainer required to start.

The most common first engagement is the Marketing Strategy Diagnostic. $5,000 flat. 10 business days. A written strategy document your team owns in perpetuity.