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Embedded growth team

An embedded growth team, not another agency retainer

We run go-to-market and user acquisition for seed to Series A B2B SaaS and AI companies from inside your team: your Slack, your numbers, your channels. Built for founders stuck under 10,000 users.

What embedded means here

Most agencies sell a list of deliverables and report on activity. An embedded growth team works the other way round. It sits inside your company, takes ownership of a number on your dashboard, and is judged on whether that number moves.

We don't do agency theater. If you want a strategy deck, hire someone else. If you want your next 100 signups, keep reading.

Embedded growth team vs a traditional agency

Traditional agencyEmbedded growth team
Who does the workOften a junior team, after a senior pitchThe operators who plan it
Whose attentionShared across a client rosterPointed at your metrics
Judged onDeliverables and activityThe number it owns
ContextResets when the account changes handsCarries forward inside your team
OutputReports and recommendationsRunning channels and shipped experiments

Deciding between the two models for your stage is its own question. The full comparison, including growth pods and when to hire in-house instead, is in embedded growth team vs agency: which fits your stage.

The channels we run

We run go-to-market and acquisition directly, concentrated on the channels that work for early B2B SaaS and AI companies without a large paid budget:

The approach behind all three is our stealth GTM framework, and the clearest example of it at work is how ZuAI reached 2 million users.

Who this is for

Not a fit if what you want is a strategy deck to run yourself.

How it starts

  1. A free intro call. Where you are, what has been tried, and where growth is stuck. Book one here.
  2. A GTM teardown. We look at your funnel and channels and tell you what we would do about them, specifically, on your numbers.
  3. We run the channels. From inside your team, reporting on the metric we agreed to move.

If you are not sure yet whether you need outside help at all, the free growth tools will show you where your funnel is losing the most, with no signup.

Questions

What is an embedded growth team?

A small group of growth operators who work inside your company like staff, in your tools and meetings and measured on your metrics, without being on your payroll. It sits between a traditional agency and an in-house hire.

How is an embedded growth team different from a growth agency?

An agency is usually paid for deliverables and spreads its attention across many clients. An embedded team owns a number on your dashboard, keeps context inside your company, and the people who plan the work also run it.

Is a growth pod the same as an embedded growth team?

Not quite. A growth pod is defined by scope: a cross-functional unit focused on one metric, which can be internal or embedded. An embedded growth team is defined by how it works with you. An embedded team can operate as a pod on a single metric.

Who does ScaleMyStartup work with?

Venture-backed seed to Series A B2B SaaS and AI companies, typically founders stuck under 10,000 users who want go-to-market and acquisition run for them rather than advised on.

How does an engagement start?

With a free intro call, then a GTM teardown of your funnel and channels. If it is a fit, we run the channels from inside your team and report on the metric we agreed to move.

Talk to us

Tell us where growth is stuck.

We run go-to-market directly for seed and Series A B2B SaaS and AI companies. Send this and you get a real reply from the team that would run the work, not a sequence.

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