Hire a BDM.
Without hiring a BDM.
A senior business development manager, a sales operator or a strategist, at a fraction of the cost of a permanent hire. Booked by the week. Run from inside your business.
You're a local business owner doing £100k to £2M in revenue. You've hit a ceiling. You know what's wrong, whether it's sales, ops, marketing or hiring, and you don't have someone senior enough in the building to fix it.
You don't need an agency. Agencies sell you their process and walk away. You need an operator: someone who can sit inside your team, learn your business, and operate until the thing is fixed. That's what we do.
Agencies sell process. We sell operating.
We sit in your business and do the thing until it works.
Sales & growth operations
Pipeline build-out, scripts, lead generation, CRM setup, rep coaching, comp plan design, conversion teardown. If your sales aren’t where they should be, we go in and find out exactly why.
Web, brand & digital presence
The full Start-Up Academy website and care plan stack (£500 build + £50/month care), plus brand work, social media systems and review-generation playbooks. If your online presence is hurting you, we fix it as one piece.
Hiring & systems
First-rep playbooks, JD writing, screening process, onboarding documents, ops manuals. If you’re trying to hire your first sales person, ops manager or growth lead, we build the system around them so it sticks.
Discovery call
Free · 45 minWe listen. We’re not pitching. We want to know what’s stuck and whether we can actually move it.
Scoping document
Within 48 hours · no chargeA written scope: what we’d do, what we’d own, what success looks like at week 4 / 8 / 12, and what it would cost.
Engagement starts
We embedYou add us to Slack, Telegram, whatever you use. You get a single named BDM as your operator, a weekly written report and a weekly call.
Weekly cadence
We work the planNumbers move. We adjust. You see everything in a shared dashboard.
Off-ramp or extend
No lock-inAt the agreed end date you extend, hire your own permanent operator (we’ll help), or part ways amicably. No lock-in beyond the agreed term.
Three tiers. We talk through which fits on the discovery call.
Strategist
One day per fortnightSenior advice without operating. Best for owners who want a thinking partner.
- A named strategist on Slack
- Monthly written strategy doc
- Fortnightly call
- Audit of one function per quarter
Operator
Two days per weekEmbedded in your business. Owns one workstream end to end.
- A named BDM on your Slack
- Weekly all-hands and 1:1s as needed
- Written weekly progress report
- Full ownership of one of: sales / website + brand / hiring + onboarding
Embedded leadership
Three or more days per weekActs as a fractional director. Sits in your management team.
- A senior operator inside your business
- Owns multiple workstreams
- Reports to you
- Can hire, fire and run a team beneath them
Note: pricing is conversation-by-conversation. We don't list rate cards because every engagement is shaped to your business. Expect us to be more expensive than an agency hour-for-hour, and dramatically cheaper than a full-time senior hire.
Agencies sell process. We sell operating. An agency hands you a strategy doc and walks away. We sit in your business and do the thing until it works.
A senior BDM costs £80k to £120k+ in the UK plus equity expectations. We give you the same calibre of person for the duration you actually need them, at a fraction of the annual cost, with no employer overhead.
The first engagement is a four-week sprint. If we’re not the right fit by week 4, we part ways.
Even better. Many of our engagements augment an in-house team: building the script, coaching the reps, fixing the comp plan, operating the pipeline.
We’re part of The Start-Up Academy. Same founder, same brand, same standards. Our operators come from inside our own platform, and most have run sales teams before joining us.