A personalized proposal for CoreStory

Anand, before you hire a Senior Director of Marketing, look at the math.

Your Senior Director, Strategic Marketing posting wants someone who operates as both strategist and hands-on contributor, shaping CoreStory's market position while producing the messaging, analyst story, and enablement themselves.

That spread is a department's job, not one hire's. This page is the counter-offer: The Zulu Method, an AI-native marketing department, live in 30 days.

The real math of the position you posted

Using an estimated $200,000 base for your Senior Director, Strategic Marketing posting (no salary listed), a standard 1.40x fully-burdened multiplier, against our Growth plan at $9,995/month.

Annual Savings
$160,100
57% less than your fully burdened hire
Time To Live
30 days
vs 3-6 months to gamble on hiring & ramping
Burn Avoided
$46,700
salary paid during the ramp without pipeline
The role you posted~5 months to productive
Hire
Ramp
Producing
The Zulu Method30 days to live
Onboard
Producing
5 Sr-Run Channels
vs 1-2 one hire can run
Live In 30 Days
no hiring cycle, no ramp
5x VP/CMO Led
senior judgment on every channel
Month-To-Month
no salary, no equity, never locked-in
Our Growth Plan @ $9,995/month vs fully burdened hire at $280,000/year.

The short version

I'm Hannon Brett, a 5x VP of Marketing/CMO with 20+ years of B2B SaaS go-to-market experience. I applied to your posting directly, which is an unusual way to reach out, but it respects your time more than a cold email.

I bring The Zulu Method, an AI-native marketing department, with me. You get a 5x VP/CMO to help harden your strategy and vision, a dedicated Sr. Marketing Manager, and 5 senior-run core marketing channels covering strategic marketing, executive messaging, analyst relations, and category positioning for enterprise AI software. Much more power than a single hire can ever hope to bring, for less than the fully burdened cost of the role you posted. And when you're ready to scale past 5 channels, our Marketing Team plan gives you your pick of 10.

And we go live across all channels in just 30 days, instead of the 3 to 6 month gamble on hiring and ramping internally.

Core competencies

Enterprise B2B Marketing Strategy · Product Marketing · Executive Messaging · Analyst Relations (Gartner, Forrester, IDC) · Category Strategy · Competitive Positioning · Sales Enablement · Thought Leadership · Technical Product Translation · Developer Audience Marketing · Partner Marketing · Market Research · SEO/GEO · AI Strategy & Leadership · AI Automation · AI-Native Go-To-Market · Holistic AI Transformation

The track record

VP Marketing & Partnerships, 8020 ConsultingJul 2024 - Jul 2025
Engaged to scale a local LA brand into a nationwide contender, rebuilt brand, content, social and ABM motion on a limited budget.
  • Completely redesigned the brand: strategic narrative, positioning, voice and tone, messaging, and digital presence across all channels.
  • Generated approximately 200 high-quality MQLs, over 10x the previous run-rate, accounting for 11%+ of all revenue generated within the first 10 months.
VP of GTM & Marketing, CisiveJun 2023 - Jun 2024
Recruited to build the company's first holistic GTM and Revenue Marketing ecosystem across 3 brands.
  • Drove a 2,192% increase in high-intent inbound MQLs (24 to 550 per quarter), delivering $30M in influenced pipeline and $6M in attributed revenue.
  • Rebuilt the GTM and sales techstack into an enterprise, exit-ready platform. Led and grew a small, inherited team of 4 into a 15-person team.
VP of Marketing, Integrate.io & DreamFactoryJan 2022 - Jun 2023
Built a PE fund's first formal Revenue Marketing platform, defining and relaunching two brands.
  • Established an SEO and content playbook that drove 6M+ inbound monthly views and average first or second page SERP ranking for 15 top keywords, accounting for 41% of inbound SQOs.
  • Delivered 287% SQO growth, driving $2.5M+ in new MRR pipeline (159%+ YoY increase).
CMO (Fractional), involve.aiSep 2021 - Jan 2022
Built a formal Marketing Department from scratch, relaunching the company's core strategic narrative and brand.
  • Delivered 117% SQO growth (~200 SQOs), driving almost $10M in new MRR pipeline (+78% QoQ) with ~$400K in new ARR in just 6 months.
  • Architected departmental infrastructure from scratch in under 5 months: strategy, playbooks, 2-week agile sprints, editorial calendar.

The onboarding plan

Meet Your Expert
We map CoreStory's growth vision, ICP, and GTM priorities with you and your team.
Onboarding
We gather your brand, product, and customer data and start building your core channel systems.
Beta Testing
Every channel is tested and reviewed with you before anything goes live.
Launch & Monitor
Campaigns launch across your core channels with twice-weekly performance reviews and continuous optimization.

The documents

The resume
The full 2-page version: track record, core competencies, and the complete cost math for the position you posted.
Download the resume
The cover letter
One page on why an AI-native marketing department beats the hire, written for you, not a hiring pipeline.
Download the letter

The Zulu Method

See the engine before you decide. 15 minutes.

We'll walk through exactly how The Zulu Method would run CoreStory's marketing: the channels, the AI systems, and the senior team behind them. Prefer to see it work first? The Pilot is a 3-week GTM foundation build: your funnel torn down and ranked, positioning and messaging rebuilt, one asset shipped live, and a 90-day plan. $4,995, credited in full toward any plan.

Ranked teardownPositioning + messagingOne asset, live90-day plan

Book 15 Minutes See the Pilot 3 weeks. 4 deliverables. Zero fluff.
Base salary of $200,000 is an estimate (no salary listed in the posting) from market data for Senior Director of Marketing roles at comparable companies. Fully burdened cost uses a standard 1.40x multiplier (benefits, payroll tax, overhead). All figures per The Zulu Method's published cost model. This page is private and not indexed.