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We do not know what we should be spending on marketing and sales.
Every proposal you have received says it depends. It does depend, on your stage, your deal size, and your market, but the ranges are known, and the vendors who will not name them are protecting a sales process, not you. Here are the numbers, including ours.
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Four published tiers on a 12 month term: Ground State $3,000, Excitation $5,000, Amplification $10,000, Quantum Leap from $25,000, all per month, plus ad spend in your own accounts where the tier runs ads. Every tier is a 12 month term and includes the $15,000 website build. Every add on is priced on the pricing page. No discovery call required to learn a price.
The channel prices, 2026
SEO retainers at credible quality: $2,000 to $10,000 a month. Google Ads management: $1,500 to $7,500 a month plus spend, with spend from $3,000 to $50,000 depending on market. Appointment setting: $3,000 to $8,000 flat, or $150 to $800 per meeting on performance models, with dedicated senior teams at $10,000 to $25,000. Connected TV media: about $26 per thousand impressions with 10 to 20 percent managed service fees on top. Buy them separately and you own the handoffs between them.
The in house prices
A marketing manager at $110,000 to $140,000 costs about $140,000 to $175,000 once tax and benefits are included. An SDR costs about $70,000 to $90,000 the same way. Tools and data add $20,000 a year. Ramp takes a quarter or two, and B2B sales hiring misses near half the time. One marketing lead plus one agency retainer runs $160,000 to $190,000 a year with the handoff between marketing and sales still unowned.
A budget by stage
Under $1 million: $3,000 a month on content and a site that says something, and the founder sells. That is Ground State. $1 million to $3 million: $5,000 a month plus $3,000 to $10,000 in ad spend for content, one campaign, and a landing page per audience. That is Excitation. $3 million to $10 million: $10,000 a month plus spend for the full pipeline with a dedicated person calling and emailing your prospects and meetings verified against the meeting quality standard. That is Amplification. Past $10 million or more than one brand: from $25,000 with TV, two seats, and a board ready quarterly review. That is Quantum Leap.
As a share of revenue, those land between 3 and 8 percent for most companies, which matches what growing B2B companies spend when they are actually growing.
The number that makes the budget a decision
Divide everything by qualified meetings so you can see the cost. As an illustration, a $10,000 program that produced ten meetings in a month would be $1,000 per meeting before spend. At a one in five close rate and a $25,000 deal, that is $5,000 of cost against $25,000 of revenue. The same program producing three meetings is $3,333 each. We agree what counts, check that each meeting was held, and report the cost. We do not promise how many.
Questions on this problem
Because our buyer is a founder who hates a wasted discovery call as much as we do, and because the page that answers the question everyone types and nobody answers is the page that ranks.
No. Landing pages and campaign builds inside the ramp are included. The $15,000 website build is included at every tier as part of the 12 month term.
Ad spend and media, which go to the platforms in your own accounts. Add ons like the MLR gate, the HIPAA stack, and extra people making calls and emails are priced individually on the pricing page.
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.
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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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