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.
Thursday morning, 11:08 AM. The board pre-read goes out in nine days. Item three says "agency replacement decision" and you have not made a call. The current agency is mid-renewal. The next conversation cannot be vague.
Built for Bay Area operator with one specific decision stalled before a board meeting, fundraise, or operational milestone. Applies to Founders, VPs of Marketing, Heads of Growth, marketing-responsible CFOs, and similar operators with one focused strategic question.
Ad-hoc Strategic Intervention is a Bay Area specialist engagement priced at $5,000-$15,000. Format: 1-3 weeks · intake plus focused review plus follow-up call. Deliverable: 4-8 page intervention document plus 60-minute follow-up call. Built for Bay Area operator with one specific decision stalled before a board meeting, fundraise, or operational milestone. 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 Series A B2B SaaS in Menlo Park had stalled on whether to replace their incumbent agency three weeks before a board meeting. Strategic Intervention intervention reviewd the agency was correctly executing against a wrong brief; replacement was not the answer. The board pre-read referenced the Strategic Intervention intervention document directly. Three months later: same agency, new brief, pipeline up 1.8x.
Strategic Intervention is paid, fixed-scope, document-as-output. The deliverable is a 4-8 page intervention document the founder can hand to the board. A free strategy call produces a sales pitch, not a document. Different products, different commitments.
Scope determines price. A scoped channel-exit decision with clean data lands at the floor. A pre-board strategic intervention requiring data integration, competitive review, and risk modeling lands at the ceiling. The scoping call locks the price before the work begins. Fixed once locked.
Yes. A positioning-focused Strategic Intervention produces a 4-8 page positioning intervention scoped to one specific buyer-state (the wrong-fit lead pattern, the category collapse pattern, the evaluator-trust gap). Not a full positioning architecture; that is Full Marketing Review territory.
If it is a single stuck decision, Strategic Intervention. If it is a complete strategy reset across all four marketing axes, Full Marketing Review. The scoping call reviews scope correctly; we redirect to Full Marketing Review if the question is bigger than Strategic Intervention can hold.
Yes. The document is the operator's. We do not publish, share, or reference it externally without written approval. The recommendation lands inside the operator's strategic context.
Then the intervention document recommends doing nothing, with the evidence that supports it. "Do nothing" is a real strategic answer when the current course is correct and the pressure to change is wrong. Founders sometimes most need that read.
Yes. Strategic Intervention credits toward Full Marketing Review if the buyer escalates within 30 days of Strategic Intervention close. Scope determines the upgrade pricing. The Strategic Intervention intervention document folds into the Full Marketing Review marketing review as the starting frame.
Use this page when the service question is no longer abstract: One stuck decision resolved with a focused intervention, in one to three weeks.
Decide what the service has to produce for the buyer, what proof is missing, and what scope should come before execution.
Use the review when leadership needs a written priority map and 90-day path before more spend.
Marketing Strategy Review →Ad-hoc Strategic Intervention · $5,000-$15,000 · 1-3 weeks · intake plus focused review plus follow-up call. 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.