Your next CMO client just posted a job for a VP of Marketing.
Right now a founder somewhere is budgeting $250K for a marketing leader they need ten hours a week of. Every morning by 7am we send you the companies that just posted VP Marketing, Head of Marketing, and CMO roles, with contacts and outreach drafted.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a VP Marketing posting is your best lead signal
A company posting for a VP of Marketing just told you three things. Budget is approved. The need is public. Nobody is hired yet. They set aside a full-time salary for the exact seat you fill on a retainer. You are not adjacent to that posting, you are the direct replacement for it. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other fractional CMOs chasing the same titles. What lands in your inbox is companies you can actually win.
VP of Marketing
Northbeam Industrial Supply
“Northbeam is a $22M industrial distributor. Our sales team is strong, but marketing is one coordinator and a website from 2019. We need a VP of Marketing to own strategy, rebuild our lead generation, manage our agency, and build out a team over time.”
Why this is a lead:
They just budgeted $250K+ a year for marketing leadership at a company that needs direction, not a full-time seat. Everything in that posting, strategy, lead generation, agency oversight, team building, is exactly what a fractional CMO does at $5K to $15K a month. Reply this week and you are the alternative before the search gets serious. One signed retainer here is worth $60K to $180K a year.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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You are a practice of one, so every hour spent hunting for clients is an hour you cannot bill.
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Referrals come in waves, then dry up right when a client rolls off.
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By the time a founder asks for fractional CMO recommendations on LinkedIn, twenty of your competitors are in the comments.
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The founders who need you most are not searching for a fractional CMO. They are posting a VP Marketing job instead.
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Every marketing search you never heard about is a $60K-a-year retainer that went to a salary instead.
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Full-time VP of Marketing
$250K-$370K+ first year
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
Fractional CMOs
$5K-$15K/month
A $10M or $30M company does not need forty hours a week of CMO. They need a strategy, a plan the team can actually run, and a leader who has done it before. You deliver that for a fraction of the salary they just budgeted, and you can start Monday instead of after a 90-day search.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one fractional cmo firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
They posted a full-time job. Why would they hire us instead?
Because the posting is your job description. Fractional CMO work is the rare service where the seat they posted and the seat you fill are the same seat. A first-year VP of Marketing runs $250K to $370K with benefits and equity, and most companies under $50M need ten hours a week of that brain, not forty. Postings stay open 30 to 60 days, so you have a real window to offer the same leadership at $5K to $15K a month while the chair is still empty.
How do you avoid ghost jobs and reposts?
We watch postings nightly on LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, like Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. Listings that keep getting reposted, sit stale for months, or come from staffing agencies and recruiters get filtered out before they reach you. Every lead shows when the posting went up and why it scored, so you can judge it yourself.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. Our first client, an owner’s rep construction firm, got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. We would rather send you two companies worth a real email than pad the list with maybes.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
You send it, from your own inbox. Each lead comes with an email drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, like the rebuild-our-lead-generation line in a VP Marketing listing. It includes the decision-maker’s name, title, LinkedIn, and a verified email when we find one. Copy it, tweak it, or rewrite it.
Do you work with other fractional CMOs in my market?
No. One firm per niche per market. If you take the fractional CMO spot in your market, the companies we find there go to you and nobody else. That matters more in this niche than most, because half your competitors are pitching the same postings.
What is the risk if it does not work?
Not much. We run the engine free for 7 days first, real reports, then it stops unless you sign up. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. One month of a single $5K retainer covers your whole year.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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