Big-brand strategy for small businesses — and the ideas that haven't launched yet.
The strategy layer everyone else skips.
Long Island has plenty of digital agencies. What it doesn't have is someone who spent decades building major brands — now doing that thinking for small businesses and founders, and telling you the truth even when it isn't what you want to hear. I don't run your ads or build your site. I tell you what to say, to whom, and why — then help you execute or hand it to the right people.
Two ways in — both start free.
Whether you're running a business or sitting on an idea you haven't launched, there's a track for you. Each one starts with free work and earns its way forward.
Small Business Consulting
New Ideas
See the work. Then pay.
No retainers up front, no long contracts. Every engagement starts with the work, not the invoice.
Start with the work — free
A Growth Snapshot or a Spark Check, built before you spend a dollar. You see how I think first.
Go deeper, then get invoiced
If you want the full audit or validation, I deliver it — then bill you. Not the other way around.
Partner month-to-month
Ongoing strategy and execution support with no long-term contract. I earn the relationship every month.
Strategy, not execution. Truth, not flattery.
Built for operators and builders.
The framework works across categories — the research and strategy get customized to yours.
Questions I get asked first.
The short versions. Anything else, ask me on the form.
What actually happens in a Growth Snapshot?
You send me your business name, your website or social, and the one thing you'd most like to grow. I spend a few hours on it and send back a one-pager: three strengths, three opportunities, and one quick win you can run next Monday. No call required, no invoice. If it's useful, we talk about what's next.
How is this different from hiring a marketing agency?
An agency runs things — ads, social, your website. I don't. I'm the strategy layer above that work: what to say, to whom, and why — and which channels and tactics will actually reach them, whether that's local search, Meta ads, email, or a partnership nobody's thought of yet. Most small businesses skip that layer and pay an agency to execute a plan nobody wrote. If you already have an agency, my job is to hand them the plan and make their work land.
Can you help me actually use AI in my business?
Yes — and not with a slide deck. AI First Steps is a half-day working session. We look at how you actually spend your week, find the two or three places AI saves you real hours (quotes, follow-ups, scheduling, writing, research), set the tools up together, and I show you how to run them yourself. You leave with something working, not a list of ideas.
What does it cost?
The first read is free. A Strategy Session (full Growth Audit, 90-minute session, 30-day plan) runs $350–$500, and so does an AI First Steps working session. A Validation Session for a new idea runs $350–$500 and a Launch Blueprint $750–$1,200. Ongoing Growth Partner work is $750–$1,500 a month, month-to-month, cancel anytime. You see the work before you see an invoice.
Do you only work with Long Island businesses?
No. I'm based in Centerport, NY, and I like working with local owners face to face, but everything I do works over a call and a shared doc. Clients so far have been in New York, Florida, and California.
Big-brand thinking. Straight answers. See the work, then pay.
Start with a Growth Snapshot or a Spark Check — no pitch, no pressure, no invoice until you've seen how I think.