FAQ

Before the conversation.

Who it is for. Who it is not. Retainer versus mission. What to send. No dollar rate card — the shape is on Method.

Who is this for?: VPs and operators in American enterprise and growth-stage companies who already have a marketing function. Teams with a list, a platform, and a week that is not holding. Not a starter kit.
Who is this not for?: Companies shopping for a bench, a pitch team, a content mill, or a junior production studio. Founders who want a full-service agency costume. Anyone who needs a dollar rate card before they can name the constraint. If you want Nike-shaped logos on a wall, this is the wrong site.
Retainer or mission — how do you choose?: A stalled programme or a new stack is a diagnostic mission: four to eight weeks, architecture, a 90-day plan. A live channel that needs an operator is a retainer: six to twelve months on email or social. A team that wants a practice inside the function is embedded. Pretending one is the other is how programmes rot.
What happens in the first 30 days?: Access, the constraint named, a kill list, and the first operating week. Not a discovery deck. The first month is diagnose and install: who owns the week, which journeys or posts are theatre, which number the VP already believes. See Start a mission for the four-step shape.
Why a Casper, Wyoming LLC?: MBX CONSULTING MARKETING LLC is registered at 5830 E 2nd St, Ste 7000, Casper, Wyoming 82609, US. NAICS 541613 Marketing consulting services. The address is the legal home of the practice, not a claim about where the work is sat. English only.
Do you work with companies outside the United States?: The practice is built for American and English-speaking companies. The registered entity is a Wyoming LLC. Work is English only. If the function, the stack, and the week are in English, we can talk. If they are not, we cannot.
Email or social — or both?: Email is an operating system: calendar, journeys, deliverability, a number the business trusts. Social is an editorial seat: what ships, what never ships, a cadence a small team can hold. Missions sit across org and stack when the problem is the week, not the send. Many companies need one seat, not a bundle.
How does it start?: A conversation. Name, company, the mission, the team, the constraint, the 90-day outcome. Write hello@mbxconsult.com or use the form. There is no dollar rate card — the shape is the engagement model on Method. Start a mission lists what to send.
How do you treat confidentiality?: Selected work is anonymized by industry and channel. Names are withheld. It is not an endorsement. Inquiries and working files stay inside the engagement. The practice does not keep a shadow calendar as leverage after handover. The operating system you leave is yours.
What should we send?: Team (who can change the week), stack (what you already pay for), constraint (what is broken or missing), and a 90-day outcome (what “held” would look like). Optional: last four weeks of calendar or the admission that there is none. Do not send a brand book as a substitute for the constraint.
How is this different from an agency or a freelancer?: A traditional agency sits beside the function, with a bench and an account layer. A freelancer is a person with no org seat and no designed ending. A practice sits in the week, one principal, platforms you already own, knowledge transfer as the point. Table C on Method spells it out. It is not priced there either.
Is there a rate card?: No dollar menu. Diagnostic mission, channel retainer, or embedded practice — length, seat, and what you leave with. If you need a PDF of packages, you are shopping for a different shape of firm.

If the answers describe the work, write.

A conversation. Not a deck. The mission, the team, the constraint.