Understand what is holding back your growth, and what it is costing you.
Markspeed works with owner-led and executive-led companies to examine how they attract, convert and retain customers. We identify the constraint that limits the rest of the business and give your leadership team a clear, costed plan for what to address first.
Introductory calls take 15 minutes. Requesting one takes two.
As a company grows, its growth becomes harder to see.
In the early years, an owner can follow every lead, quote and customer personally. Beyond a few million in revenue, that view breaks apart. Marketing, sales, operations and outside providers each manage one part of the process, and each reports on it with its own figures.
The questions that matter most to leadership sit between those parts: what a new customer costs, how many inquiries turn into revenue, and which part of the process is holding growth back. These answers rarely appear in any single report, because no single function is responsible for them.
Markspeed brings those parts together into one view, built from your company's own records.
We examine the whole system, then show you where to focus.
Growth depends on six areas that work in sequence. When one of them falls short, it limits everything that follows. Strong marketing cannot make up for slow follow-up, and faster follow-up cannot fix a channel that attracts the wrong customers.
Our assessment identifies the area that is limiting your company today, measures what it costs, and sets out what to do about it.
- 01Attracting customers
- 02Converting inquiries
- 03Retaining clients
- 04Measuring results
- 05Testing and learning
- 06Investment decisions
Three ways to work with us.
Each engagement has a defined scope, a fixed fee agreed in writing before work begins, and a set end date.
Baseline Assessment
Where most clients beginThe core figures behind your growth: what you invest in marketing, what each new customer costs, and what happened to every inquiry over the last ninety days.
DetailsGrowth System Diagnostic
A full assessment of the six areas, with the main constraint identified and costed, and a written ninety-day plan for your team and providers.
DetailsQuarterly Oversight
A review each quarter of progress against the plan, ending in a clear recommendation on the next decision.
DetailsOur commitments to every client.
What you can expect from the first conversation to the final presentation.
Evidence from your own records
We work from your invoices, accounts and inquiry records. Every figure in our reports shows its source, and every assumption is written down.
Senior attention throughout
The person you meet on the first call leads the work and presents the findings. No part of it is passed to a junior team.
Clear scope and fees
Scope, fee and delivery date are agreed in writing before work begins. Nothing recurs unless you ask for it.
Confidential by default
A mutual NDA is signed before any access is granted. Client names and results are never published without written permission.
We work with the leaders responsible for growth.
Founders, CEOs and CFOs, together with the marketing and sales leaders who run the work day to day. Findings are presented to the leadership team as a whole, so every decision starts from the same facts.
Our clients are owner-led and executive-led companies, typically between $2M and $15M in revenue, that invest in marketing and want confidence in what that investment returns. We bring senior expertise in a format scoped and priced for companies of this size.
- Technology and managed IT services
- Professional and technical services
- Distribution and wholesale
- Healthcare and clinic groups
- Home services and trades
- Manufacturing and e-commerce
Founder-led, with a decade in media and consulting.
- Carat (Dentsu), Head of Performance and Programmatic
- MEC (GroupM), Interaction Manager
- Accenture, Lead Project Manager
- Ingenia Soluciones, Head of Digital Business
- Founder of a digital consultancy, five years
- Canadian MBA, 2024
Marco Gamero founded Markspeed after a decade in media and consulting. He led performance and programmatic media at Carat, part of Dentsu, managed delivery between a European hub and a telecommunications client at Accenture, and spent five years running his own consultancy for mid-sized companies.
He has also built and run businesses of his own. That experience shapes how Markspeed works: the questions we answer are the ones an owner asks before approving the next budget.
What leadership teams ask first.
How is this different from the reports we already receive?
Agency and team reports describe the activity each of them manages. We examine the whole system using your invoices and records, and connect what you invest to the customers and revenue it produces.
What does an engagement cost?
Every engagement has a fixed fee, agreed in writing before work begins. Because scope depends on the number of channels, systems and locations involved, we confirm the fee after the introductory call.
What do you need from our team?
Read-only access to the accounts where your marketing runs, a record of inquiries with personal details removed, and the relevant invoices. From leadership, a short initial interview and a session to review the findings.
How long does it take?
A Baseline Assessment takes five business days from the day we receive the information. A Diagnostic is scoped for each company, with a delivery date agreed in advance, and usually takes a few weeks.
Who carries out the recommendations?
In most cases, your own team or your current providers. Our plans are written to be carried out with the people you already have. Where additional support would help, we discuss the options with you once the assessment is complete.
Do you work outside Vancouver?
Yes. We work with companies across Canada and the United States. Engagements run remotely, with on-site sessions where they add value.
Start with an introductory call.
Fifteen minutes to understand your situation and decide together whether an assessment would be worthwhile. If it would not be, we will tell you.
Request an introductory call