For Agencies Between $2M and $10M
Your biggest clients deserve senior attention. Your calendar can’t give it to them.
I’m a fractional account manager for growing agencies. I take ownership of your key client relationships: the check-ins, the QBRs, the renewal conversations. That’s how your best accounts get the attention that keeps them.
No pitch. Bring a rough picture of your top accounts, and I’ll send back a one-page Account Risk Read, free and yours to keep either way.
ACCOUNT RISK READ
Prepared for [Agency] · [Date]
- Accounts reviewed
- 8
- Combined monthly revenue
- $214,000
- Revenue in top 3 accounts
- 61%
| Account | Monthly | Health |
|---|---|---|
| $52k | Red | |
| $44k | Red | |
| $34k | Amber | |
| $28k | Amber | |
| $21k | Green |
Illustrative sample.
The Problem
Accounts don’t leave loudly. They go quiet first.
You won the account. The work is good. But the founder who closed the deal is buried in delivery and new business, and the coordinator running point can’t hold the attention of a client spending $30k a month.
So the calls get shorter. The QBR slips a quarter. And by the time anyone notices, the renewal isn’t a formality anymore. It’s a rescue mission.
Agencies between $2M and $10M live in this gap: too big for the founder to personally own every key relationship, not ready for a $100k+ full-time account hire.
That’s the gap I fill.
The Engagement
What I take over.
01
Account ownership
I run the relationship. Your clients get a senior point of contact who returns calls the same day; you get your calendar back.
02
Retention cadence
Structured check-ins, health checks, and QBRs that surface risk while there’s still time to act on it.
03
Renewals
Renewal conversations planned 90 days out, not scrambled in the final week, run by someone who has handled pricing conversations with clients spending six figures a month.
04
Expansion
Upsell that comes from solving the client’s next problem, so growth lands as a recommendation, not a quota.
What you keep
The playbook you keep
The cadence, the health scoring, the escalation paths: documented in your systems from day one. When you hire full-time, they inherit a working machine, not a blank page.
The Model
The person you talk to is the person who does the work.
There are collectives and platforms that will match you with a fractional account manager. Here’s what you’re looking at instead: the person writing this.
I’m the one on the discovery call, the one on your client calls, and the one accountable when a renewal lands or doesn’t. No pyramid, no junior taking notes behind a senior name, no platform fee built into the rate. You evaluate me directly, and if the fit is wrong, you’ll know in 20 minutes instead of after a matching process.
About
I’ve spent my career keeping demanding clients happy. Now I do it for agencies.

I’ve spent nearly a decade retaining and growing accounts.
Marketing agency
Account Manager
Their largest accounts, serving professional-services firms: individual clients spending six figures a month on campaigns.
Construction technology
Business Development Manager
A hybrid account management and sales role, selling into heavy equipment and construction firms.
Compass
Account Manager
Top-producing agents in the Los Angeles market, principals whose business every competitor was courting.
Oracle NetSuite
Business Development
Where I started, selling CRM software into wholesale distribution.
Across all of it, one thing held true.
The product matters, but the biggest factor in whether an account stays and grows is the relationship you build with the client.
That’s not a secret. Most people know it. The problem is that companies in a certain revenue range simply can’t find the time to give their clients the attention they need. That’s what Tenure is for.
I’m here to build and keep those relationships for you, and to act as a liaison for your team. I stay in front of your most important clients, making sure they’re getting the attention they need, that they understand what your product can actually do for them, and that the conversation about doing more with you happens naturally.
Outside of work, I compete in Hyrox and travel internationally as often as I can, both for the same reason. I like putting myself somewhere that requires me to keep learning.
I’ve won accounts and I’ve kept them. What gets promised in a sale becomes someone else’s retention problem eighteen months later. I’ve been on both sides of that handoff.
A Case
The account that was already gone.
At Compass, one of the larger agents in my Los Angeles book had gone quiet. I’d actually come to ask her for something: introductions to agents in her network. Instead, I found the real story: her service experience had been breaking down for months, nobody internally had noticed, and she was quietly planning her exit. A seven-figure producer, halfway out the door, and no one knew.
The fix wasn’t complicated. It just required someone to own it. I listened until I understood exactly where things had broken down. Then I went inside the company and pushed the internal teams to deliver what she should have been getting all along. And I kept showing up: regular check-ins, quick visits, small consistent gestures. Not a save-the-account campaign, just attention, applied on purpose, from someone who genuinely wanted her to have a good experience.
She stayed. And once she was happy, she did what unhappy clients never do: she opened her network and made the introductions I’d originally come for.
Retention and expansion aren’t two separate projects. Clients grow with you when they’re happy, and they’re only happy when someone senior is paying attention. She didn’t stay because of a rescue effort. She stayed because someone finally noticed.
The Process
From first call to full ownership in about three weeks.
The whole process, including what you get before you’ve committed to anything.
- 1
Account Review
Week 0A 20-minute call, then a short review of your account list. I map your book by revenue concentration, relationship depth, and renewal timing. Within 48 hours you get a one-page Account Risk Read: which accounts are healthy, which have gone quiet, and which are already halfway out the door. It’s free, and it’s yours whether or not we work together.
- 2
Scope & Priority Accounts
Week 1We pick the accounts where senior attention matters most, usually your top 5–15. We agree on cadence, deliverables, and how I show up: your email domain, your title convention, your tools. To your clients, I’m part of your team.
- 3
Warm Handoff
Weeks 2–3Structured introductions to each priority account, positioned as a service upgrade, “your account now has dedicated senior ownership,” never as a founder stepping away. Clients read it as investment in them.
- 4
The Operating Rhythm
Ongoing- Scheduled check-ins and QBRs on every priority account
- A monthly account-health report to you: risk flags, expansion signals, renewal timeline
- Renewal prep starting 90 days out
- A documented playbook that grows with the engagement
- 5
The Exit Is Built In
Everything I build is documented for handover from day one. When you’re ready to hire full-time, I help you scope the role, and your hire inherits a functioning system. However it ends, you keep the machine.
The Deliverable
What the Account Risk Read looks like.
Sample Account Risk Read. Illustrative data: client names and figures are not from a real engagement.
ACCOUNT RISK READ
Prepared for [Agency] · [Date]
- Accounts reviewed
- 8
- Combined monthly revenue
- $214,000
- Revenue in top 3 accounts
- 61%
- Accounts with a named senior owner
- 4 of 8
- Renewals in next 120 days
- 3
- No senior contact in 30+ days
- 5
The one-line read: 61% of revenue sits in three accounts. Two renew before year-end, and neither has had senior contact in six weeks.
| Account | Monthly | Owner | Last Senior Touch | Renewal | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $52k | Founder | 6 weeks | Nov | Red | |
| $44k | Coordinator | 9 weeks | Dec | Red | |
| $34k | Founder | 2 weeks | Auto | Amber | |
| $28k | Nobody named | Unknown | Mar | Amber | |
| $21k | AM | 5 days | Feb | Green | |
| $16k | AM | 11 days | Jun | Green | |
| $12k | Coordinator | 7 weeks | Apr | Amber | |
| $7k | AM | 9 days | Aug | Green |
- Monthly
- $52k
- Owner
- Founder
- Last Senior Touch
- 6 weeks
- Renewal
- Nov
- Monthly
- $44k
- Owner
- Coordinator
- Last Senior Touch
- 9 weeks
- Renewal
- Dec
- Monthly
- $34k
- Owner
- Founder
- Last Senior Touch
- 2 weeks
- Renewal
- Auto
- Monthly
- $28k
- Owner
- Nobody named
- Last Senior Touch
- Unknown
- Renewal
- Mar
- Monthly
- $21k
- Owner
- AM
- Last Senior Touch
- 5 days
- Renewal
- Feb
- Monthly
- $16k
- Owner
- AM
- Last Senior Touch
- 11 days
- Renewal
- Jun
- Monthly
- $12k
- Owner
- Coordinator
- Last Senior Touch
- 7 weeks
- Renewal
- Apr
- Monthly
- $7k
- Owner
- AM
- Last Senior Touch
- 9 days
- Renewal
- Aug
Flag detail: $52k/mo account, renewal in November, no senior contact in six weeks, and response times have doubled since summer. This is the quiet-before-exit pattern, winnable now, much harder in October.
The Fit
Built for agencies between $2M and $10M.
You’re a fit if
- Your founder or a senior partner is still the de facto account manager for your biggest clients
- Losing your largest account would materially hurt the year
- You’ve thought “we need someone senior on accounts” but can’t justify a full-time salary yet
- Your roster includes medical, dental, home services, B2B/SaaS, franchise, e-commerce, or financial-services clients
You’re probably not a fit if
- You’re under ~$1M and every dollar goes to delivery
- You have a functioning AM team and need volume coverage rather than senior ownership
If it’s the second case, I’ll tell you on the first call and save us both the time.
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Fewer than a full-timer, on purpose. Engagements are scoped to 5–15 priority accounts at 1–3 days per week. This is senior ownership of the accounts that matter, not volume coverage of your whole roster. And if volume coverage is what you actually need, I’ll tell you that on the first call.
Usually within two to three weeks of our first conversation. There’s no recruiting process, no notice period, and no ramp on the fundamentals of the job. The first week is scoping and the second is introductions to your accounts, so you’re covered before the end of the month rather than the end of the quarter.
Less than you’d expect. An account list with revenue and renewal dates, access to your CRM and email, and one working session to understand how you position the work and what each client cares about. After that I’m building the cadence myself. The point is to take work off your plate, not to add an onboarding project.
I’ve managed accounts across marketing services, real estate, enterprise software, and construction technology, so most rosters have something familiar in them. But the honest answer is that industry knowledge is the fastest part to learn. What doesn’t transfer easily is knowing how to read a client who has gone quiet, or how to run a renewal conversation with someone spending six figures a month. That part is the same everywhere.
Yours. I work inside your CRM, your email, your project management, and your reporting, on your domain. I’m not going to ask your team to adopt anything new. If your systems are messy, I’ll tell you what’s missing and help clean them up as I go, but the setup follows your stack, not mine.
Your call. The standard setup is your email domain and your title convention: to clients, I’m part of your team. What clients register is that a senior person now owns their account and their calls get returned the same day.
The model supports a small number of agencies at once, under strict confidentiality: I don’t take on directly competing agencies simultaneously, and nothing travels between clients, not pricing, not playbooks, not client lists. I’ve spent years managing competing principals inside the same book; the walls hold.
My account background spans marketing services, real estate, enterprise software, and construction tech, so most agency rosters are familiar ground: medical and dental, home services, B2B and SaaS, franchise, financial services, e-commerce.
90-day initial term, then month-to-month. If it stops making sense, you’re not locked in.
I ask about your top ten accounts: revenue, renewal dates, who owns each relationship today, and when each client last heard from someone senior. Within 48 hours I send back a one-page Account Risk Read. If the honest answer is that you don’t need this yet, that’s what you’ll hear.
No catch, and there’s no obligation attached to it. It takes me an hour or two, and it’s the most honest sample of my thinking I can give you: you’re seeing how I read a book of business before you spend anything. Some agencies read it, fix the gaps themselves, and never hire me. That’s a fine outcome.
The Next Step
Find out where your book is leaking.
Twenty minutes. I’ll ask about your top ten accounts, when each last heard from someone senior, and what your renewal calendar looks like. Within 48 hours you get a one-page Account Risk Read, free, whatever you decide about working together.





