You are three companies' strategist. Here is your research department.
The fractional problem
A fractional CMO, CRO or CFO is hired for judgment, and judgment is only as good as what it is applied to. You have three or four clients, a day a week for each, and the same question on every engagement: what is actually happening in this market, and what are the competitors doing that the client cannot see from inside?
The answer used to require a research team. You have evenings.
Intelligence you can act on in the first week
Each Rathvane product is built on a structured method and arrives as finished work: a one-screen verdict, the deliverable beneath it, and an Evidence Locker where every claim links to a dated capture. You read it, you decide, you present. The research is done.
| Your role | The question that comes up first | Intelligence |
|---|---|---|
| Fractional CMO | Why are we not found, and what are the machines telling buyers about us? | Public Perception, Online Positioning Diagnostic, Brand Positioning |
| Fractional CRO | Who are we losing to, and what does the team say when they come up? | Competitive Intelligence Core, Sales Playbook, Pricing Strategy |
| Fractional CFO | Is the growth plan credible, and will the next round's questions survive diligence? | Growth Strategy, Capital Strategy, Industry Outlook |
| Board advisor | Is this market doing what management says it is doing? | Industry Outlook, Competitive Intelligence Core |
Under your name, with the evidence under ours
You brief us; the client can add their own intake or stay out of it entirely. The deliverable is the client's to keep and yours to present. The method and the evidence are labelled as Rathvane's, which is what you want when someone asks "says who": the answer is a dated capture, not your reputation.
Ask Rathvane ships with every engagement, trained on that engagement only. Your client can ask it where to start between your visits, and it answers from the research with the citation.
Priced for a client budget, not a firm's
Every price is published. Most single products start between the price of a week of your time and a month of it, and the founding client rate takes thirty percent off every published price through the end of 2026. Advisors who brief us on several clients a year: tell us the roster and we will come back with terms.
And the guarantee: if we do not provide you value, you do not pay us a dime.
Start with the client you are newest to
The free snapshot is one page on what the answer engines say about any company, within the week. It is a good first week deliverable, and it tells you where the problems are before the client does.