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 Layer 2 engagement product 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. Routes through ICP funnels, problem pages, and referrals; reached when the buyer has matched their state to the tier. 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. SF-3 intervention diagnosed the agency was correctly executing against a wrong brief; replacement was not the answer. The board pre-read referenced the SF-3 intervention document directly. Three months later: same agency, new brief, pipeline up 1.8x.
SF-3 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 SF-3 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 SF-4 territory.
If it is a single stuck decision, SF-3. If it is a complete strategy reset across all four marketing axes, SF-4. The scoping call diagnoses scope correctly; we redirect to SF-4 if the question is bigger than SF-3 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 The document is the operator's. We do not publish, share, or reference it externally without written approval.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. SF-3 credits toward SF-4 if the buyer escalates within 30 days of SF-3 close. Scope determines the upgrade pricing. The SF-3 intervention document folds into the SF-4 diagnostic as the starting frame.
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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