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Fractional Pricing Leader

Your pricing practice.
Launched and led by an expert.

Most companies don't need a full-time pricing team. They need the output of one. A fractional pricing leader gives you enterprise-level pricing leadership on retainer, starting with one standard engagement that gets a real practice running in your first quarter.

20 years of pricing leadership
Fortune 100 to startup experience
A working practice in your first quarter
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Quarterly Readout Delivered to your leadership team
PRICING PRACTICE DASHBOARD
Active Engagement
Realized Price
96.4%
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Avg Discount
11.2%
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Pocket Margin
31.8%
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Price dispersion by product line
Pro
Core
Basic
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Price-volume-mix bridge run for Q2
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Dispersion review, 12 accounts flagged below median
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Discount impact model on the Basic line, in progress
The consultant who doesn't leave.

The problem with pricing consulting was never the advice. It's that the person who wrote the recommendation is gone before anyone finds out whether it worked. A fractional pricing leader is the opposite arrangement: the same diagnostic and the same plan, followed by the person who wrote it staying in your business while the numbers move.

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We find the opportunity first

Every engagement opens with a full diagnostic of your own transaction data. You know what better pricing is worth in your business, in dollars, before anything else gets built.

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We build what tracks it

A pricing dashboard built from what the diagnostic found, wired to your own systems, and managed by us so nobody on your team inherits a monthly chore.

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Then we stay and run it with you

Quarterly readouts to your leadership team, and a named pricing leader available in between for the decisions that come up. Price moves, discount requests, launches, competitor responses.

Why it matters
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Hours per year the average company under $50M spends on active pricing strategy. A dedicated practice changes that, and the results follow.

$80K+

Base salary alone for a pricing analyst worth hiring, before benefits or the six months it takes them to learn your business. A fractional leader costs less and starts in weeks.

$50M+

Where the pricing industry recommends companies begin investing in a dedicated practice. We make that same capability available well below that threshold.

One standard engagement. A working pricing practice in your first quarter.

We standardized the way a fractional engagement begins, so there's no scoping exercise and no proposal phase before the work starts. This is the front door, and for most companies it's the whole thing.

Standard Engagement

Fractional Pricing Leader

The full diagnostic, the dashboard that tracks it, and twelve months of a named pricing leader inside your business. Quarterly readouts your leadership team can act on, and a direct line open the whole time.

$36,000 Twelve months
Everything included
โœ“Pricing Opportunity Report. Two years of your transactions analyzed, your opportunity sized in three tiers, and a sequenced roadmap. Delivered in month one.
โœ“Pricing KPI dashboard. Built from what the report found, on the stack you already use, refreshing from your own systems.
โœ“Quarterly pricing review. A written report with findings, recommendations, and what changed since last quarter, delivered live to your leadership team.
โœ“The dashboard managed for you. We keep it current and watch it between reviews, so it never becomes somebody's monthly chore.
โœ“A named pricing leader. The same person all year. Dedicated Slack channel, same-day answers, live sessions whenever a decision can't wait.
โœ“The full tool library. Every Pricing Power Tool we've built and every one we release during your term.
โœ“Judgment on every real decision. Price moves, discount requests, launches, competitor responses. Bring them as they come up.
โœ“Everything is yours to keep. The report, the models, the dashboard, the tools. Nothing switches off at the end of the year.
Pricing Opportunity Report with dashboard$11,000
Pricing on Demand, twelve months$30,000
Dashboard management and quarterly readoutsNot sold separately
Bought separately$41,000 ยท you pay $36,000

The first quarter is billed at signing, covering the diagnostic and the build. The balance is monthly across the remaining nine months. If the diagnostic doesn't find enough opportunity to justify continuing, we say so and the engagement converts to the standalone report fee and ends there. We'd rather tell you that in month one than take a year of your money.

Built for smaller companies. Open to larger ones.

Our core mission is making enterprise pricing power accessible to companies that haven't had it. But fractional leadership scales, and we work with larger companies that have specific, defined pricing needs too.

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Growing Company

You need a pricing practice, not a pricing person

You're past the early stage but haven't hit the scale where a full-time hire makes sense. We start the practice and lead it, so pricing gets real attention without a salary line.

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Existing Pricing Team

Your analyst is strong. The leadership layer is missing.

One of the most common failure points in pricing practices: a great analytical mind with no cross-functional leadership above them. We step in as that layer without replacing what's working.

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AI-Forward Company

You want AI integrated into your pricing function

AI is changing what's possible in pricing. We implement AI tools and workflows inside existing pricing functions, bringing both the pricing expertise and the implementation know-how.

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Larger Company

You have a specific pricing challenge to solve

Repositioning a product line. Responding to a competitive move. Building a pricing model for a new market. Larger companies sometimes need targeted expert support without a long-term engagement.

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Scaling Business

Your pricing hasn't kept pace with your growth

What worked at $5M often breaks at $25M. If you've grown faster than your pricing infrastructure, we audit what you have, find the gaps, and build a practice that matches where you're headed.

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Private Equity / Board-Level

You need pricing diligence or a rapid transformation

Whether it's pre-acquisition pricing diligence or a post-close revenue improvement initiative, we bring Fortune 100 level pricing rigor to engagements measured in months, not years.

The full stack of a pricing practice.

The standard engagement covers the diagnostic, the dashboard, and the leadership. Beyond that, a scoped engagement can include any of the following, depending on what your business actually needs.

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Pricing Strategy Development

Building the foundational strategy for how your company thinks about, sets, and manages price, including value framework, competitive positioning, and pricing model design.

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KPI Dashboards and Performance Measurement

Identifying the pricing metrics that actually matter for your business and building the infrastructure to track, report, and act on them systematically.

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Board-Level Pricing Communication

Translating pricing performance into executive and board-level reporting, with the same rigor and clarity a Fortune 100 pricing team delivers to leadership.

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Cross-Functional Pricing Leadership

Bringing sales, finance, product, and marketing into alignment around pricing. The organizational coordination that's often the hardest part of building a practice.

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AI Integration Within Pricing

Implementing AI tools and workflows into your pricing function, from competitive intelligence to price modeling to elasticity analysis, with hands-on configuration and training.

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Existing Team Leadership and Advisory

Stepping in as a leadership resource for an existing pricing analyst or team, providing direction, prioritization, stakeholder management, and the strategic context they need.

What actually happens, month by month.

The first quarter is heavy because that's where the diagnostic and the build happen. After that it settles into a rhythm your team can live with.

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Month 1: The diagnostic

Your data, the analysis, and a live readout. You know the number and the roadmap before anything else gets built.

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Months 2 to 3: The build

Pricing goals set against your company goals, measures chosen, and the dashboard built and wired to your systems.

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Every quarter: The readout

A written report with findings, recommendations, and what moved since last time. Delivered live, with time to argue about it.

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In between: The decisions

Your line stays open all year. Price moves, discount requests, launches, competitor responses. Most things answered the same day.

A twelve-month commitment should be an easy yes or a clear no.

This isn't the right product for everyone, and we'll tell you that directly. Here's an honest look at where it fits and where something smaller is the better starting point.

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Pricing matters to your business and there's nobody whose job it is to think about it.
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You've had a pricing hire on a plan or in a conversation, and this is the same capability sooner and for less.
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You have a pricing analyst who needs a leadership layer above them.
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You're scaling and your pricing hasn't kept up with your growth.
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A board, lender, or sponsor is asking questions about pricing that you'd like a real answer to.
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You want the opportunity sized before committing to a year. Start with the Pricing Opportunity Report at $7,500.
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You want expert judgment on decisions you're already making, without the diagnostic and the build. That's Pricing on Demand at $2,500 a month.
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You'd rather run the analysis yourself with the right tools behind you. Pricing Power Tools start at $250.
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You have one specific question and want an expert on it this week. Book an analyst session for $750.
When leading it isn't enough and you want it run.

The standard engagement gives you a pricing leader: the diagnosis, the visibility, the judgment, and quarterly accountability. Some companies need us to operate the practice day to day as well. That's a Fractional Pricing Practice, and it's scoped rather than standard.

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Processes run, not just designed

Discount governance, price change execution, deal review. We operate the processes rather than handing them over and hoping they stick.

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Scoped by Statement of Work

Scope, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria defined before anything starts, and always built from a completed diagnostic rather than a blank page.

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Capacity limited

Two engagements at a time. That cap is why the answers come the same day and why the quarterly report is written rather than generated.

Start the Conversation โ†’
Tell us about your pricing situation.

Tell us what you sell, roughly what you do in revenue, and what's prompting the question now. We'll come back with a straight answer on whether this is the right engagement for you, including when it isn't.

We respond within one business day. If it's a fit, we'll schedule a call before anyone commits to anything.
No pitch decks. No generic proposals. Just a direct conversation about your situation.

Not ready for a full year?
Start with the report.

The Pricing Opportunity Report finds what better pricing is worth in your business in ten business days, for $7,500. It's the same diagnostic that opens the fractional engagement, and plenty of companies start there.