SFMA handles this as Bay Area marketing agency work: define the buyer, fix the page or campaign path, and make the offer clear enough for qualified leads to take the next step.
Friday afternoon, 4:18 PM. The founder pings. "Quick read on whether we should kill the trade show booking before the deposit lands Monday." The answer is not on a deck. It needs a senior outside read by Sunday.
Built for Bay Area founder or operator with one specific marketing question. Applies to ex-FAANG operators learning startup marketing, post-Series-A scaling-cliff teams, SV-agency-burn recovery buyers, and similar single-question buyers.
Bay Area Marketing Review Call is a Bay Area specialist engagement priced at $500. Format: 60-minute Zoom + 1-page marketing review note within 48 hours. Deliverable: 60-minute call plus a 1-page written marketing review note delivered within 48 hours of the call. Built for Bay Area founder or operator with one specific marketing question. Reached through ICP pages, problem pages, and referrals when the buyer has matched their situation to the offer. Each engagement is fixed-scope at the start and cannot drift mid-engagement.
A founder in San Francisco called Friday before a Monday board meeting about whether to renew an underperforming agency contract. Marketing Review Call produced a recommendation and a 1-page note Sunday evening. Monday's board meeting referenced the note directly. The agency renewal was paused; a focused Strategic Intervention intervention was scoped for the following week.
Marketing Review Call is paid, scoped, and produces a written 1-page marketing review note. A free strategy call produces a sales pitch. The $500 fee filters for buyers who want a real read, not a pitch deck.
$500 is low enough to be tested without committee approval and high enough to filter out buyers who do not have $500 in marketing decision authority. Bay Area buyers above the floor cross it without friction. Buyers below the floor self-point to sub-$500 alternatives elsewhere in the network.
The 1-page note says so directly. "This is not yet diagnosable; here is the data I would need; here is the next-best step." Honest "do nothing yet" answers are real strategic answers when the data does not support a recommendation.
Yes, up to 3 attendees. Larger team formats lose marketing review precision. The format is one founder or one operator plus optionally a CFO or co-founder; not a workshop.
Yes. The note is the buyer's. We do not publish, share, or reference it externally without written approval.
Yes. Marketing Review Call fee credits 50% toward an Ad-hoc Strategic Intervention if the buyer escalates within 30 days. The note often becomes the Strategic Intervention scoping brief.
Within 5 business days of scoping. Same-week scheduling is common for time-pressured questions (board meeting, fundraise milestone, contract renewal deadline). The note follows within 48 hours of the call.
$1,500/month · For founders who want monthly senior reads, not one-off.
Read the tier →$5,000-$15,000 · For one decision that needs more depth than a 1-page note.
Read the tier →Bay Area Marketing Review Call · $500 · 60-minute Zoom + 1-page marketing review note within 48 hours. Bay Area engagement, fixed-scope at intake.
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This form goes to the same intake queue as the contact page, with this page already attached. Name the problem, the company, and the decision you need to make.