Straight Answers

Before anyone signs a proposal, the same questions come up. How long? How much? What's actually different about you? We'd rather answer them once, clearly, in writing — so the conversation on the call can be about your business, not ours.

Here are the fifteen questions we hear most often, and the honest answers.

How long does a typical engagement run?

Most client relationships run six to twelve months. The first 90 days install the growth machine — strategy, creative foundation, and marketing infrastructure. After that, the engagement compounds: we run, measure, refine, and expand. Short one-off projects (a brand identity, a single landing page) are possible, but the real leverage shows up over quarters.

How is pricing structured?

Engagements are scoped monthly — not hourly. A typical growth machine retainer ranges from $8K to $30K/month depending on channel mix, creative volume, and paid media footprint. Project-based work (a brand identity sprint, a site build) is quoted as a flat fee against a defined deliverable.

Ad spend and third-party platform costs (hosting, GHL, software licenses) sit outside the retainer and pass through at cost.

What actually makes Revelation different?

Most agencies sell a service. We build a system. Strategy, creative, and marketing are engineered as one machine — so the copy matches the ads, the ads match the site, the site matches the sales process, and every dollar compounds instead of leaking.

The other piece: we're honest about fit. We'll tell you when a campaign is the wrong investment, when a rebrand isn't the fix, and when the real problem lives inside the offer — not the marketing.

"Most agencies sell a service. We build a system — one connected machine where every dollar compounds instead of leaking."

What industries do you work with?

We're industry-agnostic by design, but the pattern is consistent: businesses doing $1M–$50M in revenue that have stalled, plateaued, or never built their growth infrastructure properly. Professional services, B2B SaaS, home services, health & wellness, and DTC brands make up most of the roster.

Regulated industries (finance, healthcare, legal) are welcome — we've built compliant funnels before.

Do you replace an in-house marketing team?

We can — that's what the Outsourced Marketing track is for. A fractional CMO plus the full delivery bench (strategy, design, media buying, content, analytics) for roughly the cost of a single senior hire.

More often we augment in-house teams — running strategy and creative while their team handles product marketing or internal comms. Either works. We scope to the gap.

How quickly can I expect results?

Paid media can move the pipeline inside 30 days. Organic channels (SEO, AEO, content, social) compound on a 90–180 day curve. Brand and positioning shifts show up in close rates and deal size — typically visible by month three.

If anyone promises overnight results on a tight growth channel, they're selling a lottery ticket. We build the machine so the compounding actually happens.

How does reporting work?

You get a live dashboard covering spend, pipeline, conversion, creative performance, and revenue attribution — not a monthly PDF nobody reads. We run a weekly 30-minute operating rhythm call to review numbers, decide next moves, and unblock anything on your end.

Quarterly, we deliver a strategic review — what's working, what's not, and what changes for the next 90 days.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes — mutual NDAs are standard before any deep strategic work begins. Our MSA includes confidentiality provisions by default, and we're happy to sign your paper if your legal team prefers it.

What happens after I book a strategy session?

You get a 30-minute call with a principal — not a sales rep. We diagnose the actual growth bottleneck, sketch a 90-day plan, and tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it.

If we're a fit, a scoped proposal lands in your inbox within 72 hours. If we're not, we'll tell you who is. Either way, you walk away with a plan.

Who owns the deliverables?

You do. Every asset we produce — brand files, copy, creative, site code, ad accounts, CRM builds — is yours. We work inside your ad accounts, your GHL instance, your hosting. Nothing is hostage to the relationship.

If the engagement ends, you walk away with a functioning system, full documentation, and clean handoff to whoever comes next.

What's the difference between SEO and AEO?

SEO ranks your site inside Google, Bing, and YouTube — the traditional search stack. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) optimizes for the surfaces where LLMs generate answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews.

A third of searches now end without a click. If you only optimize for SEO, you're invisible to that traffic. Our Search & AI Rankings track runs both in parallel.

Do you work with clients outside North America?

We work globally, but operate on Pacific Time. Most of our roster sits in North America; we also run engagements in the UK, EU, and Australia. Language support is English-first — localization partners handle multi-language creative when needed.

Can we start with one project before committing to a retainer?

Yes. A lot of our long-term relationships start with a Growth Machine Blueprint — a 30-day strategic sprint that maps positioning, offer, funnel, and growth plan. From there, you can take it to any team, or we roll into build-and-run.

Brand identity sprints, site builds, and creative production runs can also stand alone.

Do you do AI automation and workflow work?

Yes — the AI & Automation track inside Strategy covers CRM automation, lead routing, follow-up sequences, internal AI agents, and workflow systems that remove manual work from sales and ops teams. It's a core part of the growth machine for most clients.

What if we already have an agency we partially like?

That's common. We'll run the parts they can't — strategy, creative systems, paid media scaling, AEO — and coexist with the parts they do well. Our job is to install what's missing, not to displace what's working.

If the current agency turns out to be the bottleneck, we'll tell you that too. Straight.