Evidence-Led Growth Leadership

Growth leadership for companies that are done guessing.

Your growth moves at the speed of your weakest lever. We measure the nine, find the one holding the rest back, and lead the work to fix it.

Does this sound familiar?
Growth has slowed.
Marketing wants more budget. Sales wants more leads. Finance wants profitability.
Everyone has a different answer, and nobody agrees what actually moves the business.

None of these is the problem. They are symptoms. Nobody can say, with evidence, which single lever moves the business. That is where we come in.

Why CEOs call us
ExperienceEighteen years building growth across brands and agencies.
JudgementA senior operator, not a junior team on your account.
MethodEvidence before opinion, on every engagement.
FocusOne constraint, fixed first, in the order that compounds.

What that looks like in practice.

Representative example · redacted
The signals
RevenueFlat · 3 qtrs
Marketing spend↑ 42%
Cost per acquisition↑ 18%
Sales conversion29%
Every advisor's answer: "get more leads."
The 9X finding
Pricing, not demand.

Discount-by-default had eaten the margin that funds acquisition. The funnel converted; too little budget reached it. More leads meant more discounting, not more growth.

Projected Score68 → 76one quarter · on an 18% larger budget

† Figures representative; client identity redacted.

How we work.

Two engines · one methodology
01 · Diagnose

Growth Diagnostic

We score all nine levers on evidence and name the one constraint to fix first.

You receiveYour Growth Intelligence Brief: score, current state, binding constraint, ranked priorities.
02 · Plan

Growth Blueprint

A sequenced 90-day and 12-month plan: moves, owners, metrics.

You receiveA board-ready roadmap you can act on Monday, in the order that compounds.
03 · Lead

Fractional Growth Office

Senior operators embed with your team and drive the work until the levers move.

You receiveGrowth leadership in the room, accountable to the numbers, not a deck and a handshake.
An engagement runs:Executive Growth ReviewDiagnostic · 2–3 wksBlueprintLeadership90-day reassessment

Nine levers. Three pillars. One constraint.

The 9X Model · fig.01
01

Foundation

Are you built to scale?
Positioning · Pricing · Measurement
02

Demand

Can you reliably win customers?
Channels · Acquisition · Conversion
03

Compounding

Does growth sustain and multiply?
Retention · Expansion · Execution
demand · weak 9X
One shape. The dent is where growth leaks.

What you actually receive.

Sample · Growth Intelligence Brief
Sample
Growth Intelligence Brief — FindingsRef. GIB-0412 · v1 · confidential

The constraint is demand, not conversion.

Binding constraint · Demand & pipelineLevel 2 · ad hoc
Highest-leverage first move · Pricing & packagingfunds demand
90-day plan · owners, metrics, sequenceincluded
Projected Growth Score, 90 days68 → 76

See a full sample brief →

"Most companies do not need more ideas. They need the honesty to name the one constraint that is really holding growth back, and the discipline to fix it first."

Vinayak Mudgal
Cofounder | Executive Advisor
Scale9X
A fit if
  • You have real revenue and a real team, and growth has stalled.
  • You want an answer you can act on, from someone who's done the work.
  • You're willing to fix the right thing first, even when it isn't the obvious one.
Not a fit if
  • You want the cheapest execution of a channel you've already chosen.
  • You want a report to file, not a change to make.
  • You're pre-revenue and still searching for product-market fit.
Built from
Eighteen years of growth leadership across agencies, technology, finance, healthcare and consumer businesses.
Applied through
Nine evidence-based growth levers, scored and sequenced.
Delivered in
Ninety-day execution cycles, until the numbers move.

Ready to find your constraint?

A complimentary Executive Growth Review. A focused, no-pitch conversation about where your growth is stuck, and the one lever most likely to move it.

Book an Executive Growth Review →