✦ How we work

Three ways to work with us. One way we work.

Fixed-price projects. Time and materials. Retainers. Pick the engagement model your work fits: the operating standards behind them stay the same.

✦ Pick your shape

Three engagement models.

Fixed-Price Project

Defined deliverable. Defined price. Defined end date.

Time & Materials

Allocated team. Billed by the hour. Scope can flex as you go.

Retainer

Monthly fee for monthly ownership of a defined slice of your marketing.

✦ Engagement model 1

Fixed-price projects.

When you know what you want built, and you want one price for it. Not a meter running.

How we get to the number.

01

Scope the deliverable

A conversation about what you actually want built.

02

Break it into tasks

Every task required to take it from zero to live.

03

Estimate hours per task

Per specialist. Honest, not optimistic.

04

That total → your price

One fixed number. No surprises later.

05

Refine on your feedback

You push back, we adjust scope or estimate.

What we've built like this.

✦ Engagement model 2

Time & materials.

When scope is going to shift, and you want the team you actually need on the day you need them.

Right people for what's in front of you

Allocated from the bench, not a fixed account team. Swap specialists as the work changes.

Transparent reporting

Bi-weekly reports plus a real-time paid-media dashboard. You see the hours, the work, and the outcomes as they happen.

Shared project tool

Tasks, owners, due dates, and hours logged: all visible on your side, not behind ours.

T&M is how most Spark relationships start. Most graduate to a retainer once we know what the rhythm looks like: retainers are more cost-effective, T&M is more flexible. We don’t push either way; the work tells us.

✦ Engagement model 3

Retainers.

When you want us to own a slice of your marketing month after month, and you’re tired of switching gears.

Built around your goal.

Most retainers combine multiple disciplines around a single business goal. Common shapes: we adapt the mix to your situation.

✦ Paid-media transparency

We don't make money on your media spend.

When we run paid media for you, you pay the platforms directly. We don’t mark up ad dollars and we don’t take a cut. More of your budget reaches the channel, and you get the leads and sales, not us a percentage.

"We don't hold clients in with minimum commitments. If we're not doing good work, we shouldn't be working for you. We'd rather earn our keep every month and show we're worth more than what you're paying."

How we think about retainers

Retainers in flight.

✦ The work

What this model produces.

Numbers from real engagements. Not projections.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

Let’s see what we’d do for you.

Book a 30-minute intro call: we come with an opinion, not a deck. Or grab a free assessment and see the gaps first.