Problem · Startups
Every agency we talk to starts at $10,000 a month and we do not have it.
The full service floor in this category was $8,500 a month for years, ours included. A seed stage company cannot put that in the model, so it hires a freelancer for the blog, another for the ads, and a founder's cousin for social, and owns every handoff between them. The floor moved. Here is what $3,000 and $5,000 buy when the same team that runs the $25,000 engagement runs them.
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Ground State at $3,000 a month: a newsletter, a post written to be found and cited, eight social posts, and a one page report. Excitation at $5,000 plus ad spend: content doubled, one Google Ads campaign, a landing page, lead follow up within a business day, a monthly call. Same team as Amplification. Pricing is published.
Why the floor could move
AI runs scheduling, deployment, data collection, research, and reporting on every account. Humans create, design, review, test, and engage. You pay for judgment, not for hours spent scheduling posts. That split is why a tier can start at $3,000 instead of $8,500 without a junior tier of staff behind the lower price. Ground State buys fewer steps of the system than Amplification, not a different team.
What $3,000 actually produces
One page a month that answers a question your buyers type, with the answer in the first 40 words, one number a reader can quote, and schema so search and AI engines can name the entity. A newsletter that repeats the answer to your own list. Eight social posts from the founder's account, which reaches several times what a company page does in B2B. Twelve months later you own twelve searches and a list that opens your email. That is the demand environment the eventual hire, or the eventual Amplification upgrade, lands in.
When $5,000 is the right number
When there is budget for paid demand and a closer to take the calls it produces. Excitation adds one Google Ads campaign against commercial intent terms, a landing page built for the query, and automated follow up on every lead within 30 seconds. $3,000 a month in spend is the floor for stable reading. A seed company at $5,000 plus $3,000 in spend has content, paid demand, and follow up for less than half a junior marketing hire, with the 90 day deliverables written down.
Questions on this problem
It is the content step of the same five step system, run by the same team, on the same stack. The pages are built to be cited and to become the landing pages when you add ads.
Up at any time. Everything built on Ground State is the foundation Excitation and Amplification run on, because the team that built it is the team that runs them.
Included at every tier, including Ground State, as part of the 12 month term. Repo and domain are yours.
George Stoff, Founder and Lead Engineer
Full-stack engineer with more than 30 years building the systems companies sell through. He built the method Isovertic runs on and stays on every account as the standards owner and the escalation path. When search algorithms shift or a compliance question comes up, you get his engineering judgment. Day-to-day execution runs on the team he trained.
LinkedInKristen Coughlin, Chief Operating Officer
Trained molecular biologist. Ten years selling translational research products, then institutional operations at the Yale School of Medicine. She documented George's method, trained the team on it, and built the operation so the same system runs the same way on every account.
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