For owners of companies under $20M

Get your entire marketing department off your plate.

You didn't start your company to manage freelancers, learn six channels, or babysit an agency. Hand us your growth. We run all of it, from strategy to execution, for one flat price. And we don't get to keep you unless it works.

Based in the Dayton area, serving the Miami Valley and small businesses across Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

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Every best practice included.
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Month to month. No contract.
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Guaranteed to pay for itself.

AI Visibility Report

summit reach

Buyer asked ChatGPT:

"top CNC machine shops near Dayton"

AI answered:

1Apex Precision MachiningOur client
2Miami Valley Tool
3Buckeye CNC Group
4Dayton Metalworks
5Riverside Manufacturing

AI mentions this month+312%

Why Owners Come To Us

You don't want marketing. You want it handled.

You have been burned before. A freelancer who ghosted. An agency that billed hours and shipped decks. A tool you never had time to learn. At your size, you don't need another vendor to manage. You need one competent team that takes the whole thing off your plate and is on the hook for results.

So we built the firm you actually wanted. Here is what that means.

A firm that knows what it's doing
Operators who have built and sold companies, not junior accounts learning on your dime.
A proven playbook
Proven marketing tactics that align with current best practices. Executed for over 100+ companies, not a fresh experiment every month.
Strategy through execution
We set the plan and we do the work. You are not left holding a strategy deck.
One flat monthly rate
No hourly billing, no scope games, no surprise invoices.
Month to month
No annual lock-in. We keep you by producing, not by trapping you in a contract.
A real ROI guarantee
If we don't generate more than you pay us, we work for free until we do. We carry the risk.

Exactly What You Get

A full growth department, in one price.

No à la carte menu. No "that's an add-on." Everything below is included, run by one team, reported through one dashboard.

Strategy

GTM strategy & roadmap

Positioning, offer, and channel plan, plus a 90-day roadmap we execute against and revisit every quarter.

Quarterly roadmap, ongoing

Web

Website Design & Development

Redesigned & rebuilt website focused on conversions with hosting, updates, and security built in.

One-time

Data

Analytics & attribution

Tracking, dashboards, and source-of-truth reporting so you always know what works and what a lead costs.

Ongoing

SEO

Technical and on-page optimization, keyword targeting, and internal linking that gets your site and content ranking.

Monthly, ongoing

Visibility

AEO / GEO

Optimization for AI answer engines, so you show up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI.

Monthly, ongoing

Local

Local SEO

Google Business Profile optimization, localized pages, and citation building.

Monthly, ongoing

Content

Blog posts

Original, expert-level articles written and published for you every month, built around what your buyers actually search for.

Minimum 3 per month

Demand

Paid ads management

Ongoing management across Google, Bing, LinkedIn, remarketing, and emerging channels like ChatGPT ads. We deploy the mix that produces pipeline for the budget you have.

Ongoing management

Social

Social media management

Planned, written, and posted for you across your core channels, on brand and on schedule.

Minimum 2 posts per week

Retention

Email & newsletter

A monthly newsletter plus nurture and lifecycle emails that keep your list warm and moving to a buy.

Minimum 1 per month

Creative

Design

The graphics, ad creative, landing pages, and assets everything above needs, produced in house.

As needed

Enablement

Sales & marketing collateral

One-pagers, sales decks, case studies, and campaign assets, designed and written for you at least once every two months.

Minimum 1 every 2 months

One team. One price. One point of contact. The whole department, off your plate.

✦ Always Current

And whatever comes next.

The list above is what works today. When a new channel or tactic proves itself, a new AI platform, an ad network, a content format, we build it into your program automatically. No change request, no upsell, no increased fee. Staying ahead of the current and next best practices is part of the deal.

How It Works

From access to momentum in one quarter.

You give us access and 45 minutes. We do the rest. Here is what the first 90 days look like.

Days 1–30 · Audit & foundation

We audit your funnel, set up tracking and attribution, lock the strategy and roadmap, and ship the first quick wins. You end month one knowing exactly where the money is.

Days 31–60 · Build & launch

Content engine live. Paid campaigns and social calendar running. Email and newsletter in market. Landing pages and creative shipped. The machine starts turning.

Days 61–90 · Optimize & compound

We double down on what is creating pipeline and cut what is not. Your first full reporting cycle shows cost per lead, pipeline created, and trajectory.

Who Runs It

Run by operators who have done it, not by consultants who read about it.

We're Zach and John. Between us we've built and led 5 of our own companies with 3 exits, 4 Inc. 5000 awards, and 4 Fastest Growing Company in Cincinnati honors. We ran the go-to-market ourselves. We know small business marketing because we've lived it.

We've done the same thing for more than 100 companies your size over the last 10 years.

So you're not paying an agency to figure it out on your budget. We've already made the expensive mistakes, learned what works and what to never touch again, and we bring that straight to your business. You're buying the judgment to skip to what moves your number and leave the rest alone.

And it's not all us. We've built a senior team to help execute, so you get the output of a full department, not one person spread thin.

Companies we've built

100+

Others we've done this for

4 yrs

Inc. 5000 awarded, in a row

Pricing

Three ways to climb.

Flat monthly pricing. Month to month, no contract. Every plan includes the strategy, execution, and reporting.

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Base Camp

$699/month

Start ranking. Start growing.

For: Small businesses ready to treat growth as an investment, not an expense.

What's Included:

Website design & development: Included
Managed website: hosting, updates, security
Core SEO setup: technical, on-page, schema
AEO / GEO setup (optimized for AI answer engines): ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini
Google Business Profile optimization
Monthly growth report: rankings, traffic, leads
Email support
Summit Signal analytics baked in

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Ascent

$1,299/month

Turn on the engine.

For: Businesses ready to actively outgrow their competition.

What's Included:

Website design & development: Included
Managed website: hosting, updates, security
Analytics & attribution: Ongoing
Technical SEO: Monthly
AEO / GEO visibility: Monthly
Local SEO: Monthly
Blog posts: Min. 2 / month
Monthly growth report: rankings, traffic, leads
Direct access: phone, email & Slack: Under 24-hr reply

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Summit

$2,499/month

Own your category.

For: Businesses claiming the #1 spot in their market.

What's Included:

GTM strategy & roadmap: Quarterly + ongoing
Website design & development: Included
Managed website: hosting, updates, security
Analytics & attribution: Ongoing
Technical SEO: Monthly
AEO / GEO visibility: Monthly
Local SEO: Monthly
Blog posts: Min. 3 / month
Paid ads management: Ongoing
Social media management: Min. 2 / week
Email & newsletter: Min. 1 / month
Design & landing pages: As needed
Sales & marketing collateral: Every 2 months
Live reporting dashboard: Live
Quarterly business review: Quarterly
Direct access: phone, email & Slack: Under 24-hr reply

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Who We Serve

Built for the businesses that build the Midwest.

We run growth for small businesses on both sides of the market: the ones selling to other companies, and the ones selling straight to people in their community.