GTM advisory · Fractional · Talent · Partnerships

Strategy is cold.
Execution burns.

We help B2B SaaS founders turn early traction into compounding revenue. GTM leadership, the people the plan needs, and the partnership motion, on one mandate.

Executive Advisory GTM Diagnostic Sprint GTM Advisory Partner Fractional GTM / CMO
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Receipts, not decks

Fifteen years inside the engine room of hypergrowth.

0Years in B2B GTM & Talent
0Companies advised & operated
0Avg. annual revenue growth, multiple
0A-players hired
The team

Spark GTM is a small operator team.

You hire a mandate. The right people on this list join that mandate. They do not arrive as extras on an invoice.

GTM

Loic Jeanjean

Founder

Fifteen-plus years building marketing engines at companies including Pleo, Ledger and Circula. Advises and operates through Spark GTM; later-stage work also through Hypergrowth Partners. Writes the scorecard. Owns the GTM number when that is the seat.

Descript · Attention · Ledger · Pleo
Talent

Gabriela Zibes

Talent Partner

Fifteen-plus years in HR, recruitment and talent acquisition. Runs GTM, marketing, growth and RevOps searches against the scorecard Loic writes, not against a generic spec. Candidate experience is the product, not a side effect.

Dentons · Target · NGE
Partnerships

Thomas Le Cun

Partnerships Partner

Co-founder of Partnership Club. Former Head of Partnerships at Spendesk. Ten-plus years in partnerships and B2B GTM across scale-ups and enterprise accounts. Advises on partnerships and alliances in Europe and the US. Designs the motion with Loic: who is actually a channel, which bets to kill, what the next 90 days look like.

Spendesk · Doctolib · Attention
GTM leadership

How we work.

Four ways to buy the GTM mandate. You buy capacity and a problem, not a pile of hours. Calls, preparation, reviews and async all sit inside the cap. Unused capacity expires.

Quoted in your market's currency, not converted from our place of work.

Sparring partner

Executive Advisory

For founders or VPs who already own execution.

  • Two 75-minute sessions a month
  • One document or plan review a month
  • Monthly read of the numbers that matter
  • Async Slack or email, 48-hour reply
$3,500 / month 3-month minimum · billed quarterly
Four weeks · fixed fee

GTM Diagnostic Sprint

Why GTM is stalling, and what to do in the next 90 days. Numbers, not strategy theatre.

  • ICP and positioning teardown
  • Funnel and pipeline audit on your real data
  • 6–8 leadership and customer interviews
  • 90-day execution plan and executive readout
$20,000 fixed 50% at kickoff · 50% before readout
The core engagement

GTM Advisory Partner

Ongoing operator counsel while your team still owns the work.

  • Weekly leadership session
  • Positioning, pipeline math, channel and budget calls
  • Hiring input: scorecards, interviews, offer calibration
  • Async access, 24-hour reply
$8,500 / month 6-month initial term · monthly in advance
Embedded owner

Fractional GTM / CMO

When there is no marketing owner, or the team needs one for a defined season. Authority has to match accountability.

  • Owns GTM strategy and a written pipeline number
  • Runs the operating cadence, team and agencies inside the cap
  • Weekly exec meeting and board reporting
Standard seat$16,000
Heavy seat, 2–3 days a week$22,000
Per month · 6-month initial term · 60 days' notice

On the same mandate

The plan usually needs people, or a partnership motion, or both. That work sits on the same mandate as the GTM seat. Separate line on the invoice. Same team in the Slack.

Talent · Gabriela

We hire against a scorecard written by the operator who will work with the person. Flat fees, not a percentage of salary. GTM, marketing, growth and RevOps only.

Option A

Role Search

One defined GTM seat. Flat fee. You meet three people who can do the job, not a folder of CVs.

Gabriela runs the search against a scorecard we write with you. Eight weeks. Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Growth or RevOps.

IC / specialist (demand gen, PMM, lifecycle, content, RevOps IC)$9,000
Manager / lead$12,000
Director / VP GTM$18,000 by quote

Half to start, half when they sign. No shortlist of three in six weeks, you do not pay the second half. Ninety days if we got the hire wrong.

Option B

Talent Embed

The team is being rebuilt, not one spec filled.

Gabriela works as your part-time GTM recruiter for the quarter. Two seats live. Weekly pipeline. No percentage of salary.

Per month, up to two live searches$5,500

3-month minimum, then 30 days' notice.

Three hires in a quarter cost what one agency hire costs.

Partnerships · Thomas

When distribution is the problem, not "more marketing." GTM + Partnerships Express with Thomas Le Cun: who is actually a channel, which bets to kill, what the next 90 days look like.

$15,000 · Four weeks · Joint readout · Cash only
Angel

Small checks, big conviction. Pre-seed to Series A B2B SaaS, fintech and AI, where distribution is the unfair advantage. Hands-on GTM, not a logo on the deck. This is not a substitute for a paid engagement.

Talent and Partnerships, answered

How is this different from an agency?

An agency learns the role from a spec and takes 20% of salary. We write the scorecard with the operator who will work with the hire, Gabriela runs the search, and the fee is flat. You are not paying someone to discover GTM on your dime.

Role Search or Talent Embed?

One defined seat: Role Search. A rebuild with two seats open, or one open and another coming this quarter: Talent Embed. Do not buy three months of Embed for a single Demand Gen hire.

Do we have to be on a GTM retainer?

Yes for Embed. Role Search sits on Partner, Fractional, or within 30 days of a Sprint readout. We do not run a standalone recruiting shop. If there is no GTM mandate, there is no scorecard owner.

Which roles?

Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Growth, GTM and RevOps. Specialist through VP. We do not hire AEs, CS, engineering or finance on this mandate.

What if you cannot find anyone?

Role Search: no shortlist of three interview-ready people in six weeks, you do not pay the second half. Embed: if a live role has no shortlist of three in six weeks, we pause that seat and extend two weeks or credit two weeks.

What does the 90-day replacement cover?

They resign, or you fire them for performance, inside 90 days of start date. One replacement search, no second fee. It does not cover a role you changed or a team you cut after the offer.

Who does the work?

Gabriela sources, screens and runs the process. Loic writes the scorecard and sits in finals inside the existing GTM cap.

Why is the fee not a percentage of salary?

A percentage rewards inflated offers and punishes you for paying someone properly. The fee is the work. Comp is your call.

What happens after you book

One call. One recommendation. One contract.

Day 0

Discovery call

30 minutes on the problem, the stage and who owns what today.

Same day

The problem, in writing

A short note naming the problem as I heard it, and the product I'd recommend.

Within 48 hours

One scope

Scope, cap, exclusions and price for that one product. Not a menu.

When you say yes

SOW and start date

A statement of work with a single schedule attached. Then we start.

How an engagement runs

From first call to compounding pipeline.

/ 01

Diagnose & blueprint

ICP, funnel math, channel reality. You leave with a 90-day growth map, not a 60-slide deck.

/ 02

Build & instrument

Priorities locked, dashboards wired, the boring infrastructure that makes growth measurable.

/ 03

Execute & hire

Sprints, message tests, the seats the plan actually needs. Pedal meets metal. Most consultants disappear here. We don't.

/ 04

Scale & hand over

A 12–18 month roadmap, an investor-ready story, and a team that runs the engine. Playbooks stay yours.

Commercial posture

How the money works.

Your currencyQuoted in USD, EUR or GBP: your market, not a Lisbon conversion.
Cash firstEquity only as a structured exception at pre-seed or seed.
Everything countsEvery hour of prep, review and Slack on a GTM seat counts. Unused hours expire. No banks.
Separate linesTalent and Partnerships are separate lines. They do not eat the GTM cap, and the GTM cap does not buy them for free.
No quiet creepWork beyond a cap is a written change order.
What founders & operators say

Trusted by ambitious teams.

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In a world full of advisors who tell you what you want to hear, Loic will tell you what you need to hear. When he joined Attention, we were at $800K ARR. We're now above $15M. That's rare, and it's invaluable.

Anis BennaceurCEO, Attention
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Loic is a brilliant, analytical and highly strategic marketer adept at managing complex concepts and implementing high-impact, scalable solutions. Under his leadership, our organization enjoyed continuous growth.

Berk DikmenHead of Marketing Ops, Lucanet
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I have strongly benefitted from Loic's extensive experience in structuring and managing a growing team. Building solid and transparent sales processes in just a matter of months.

Yann PetrettiMarketing Lead, Notion
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They bring the kind of strategic firepower you'd expect from your cofounders. But they execute like elite operators.

Thomas MoussafierCo-founder & CEO, Jimo
Before you book

Questions founders ask first.

Why are the hours capped?

Because a cap keeps the work on the priorities that matter. Every engagement has a monthly capacity cap written into the SOW, and calls, prep, reviews and async all count toward it. Unused capacity expires; it does not bank.

What if we need more than the cap?

I flag it in writing before the cap runs out. Extra work is a written change order, priced as a separate project or at an hourly extra-work rate, subject to availability. If you regularly need more, the right answer is usually the next tier up.

Do you take equity?

Cash first. Equity is a structured exception for pre-seed and seed companies, on Executive, Partner or Fractional engagements, with reduced cash and standard vesting. Never on the Sprint.

Can we start with the Sprint and move to a retainer?

Yes, and that is often the best path. If you sign a Partner or Fractional engagement within 30 days of the readout, 20% of the Sprint fee credits toward it.

Can you work with teams outside Europe?

Yes. Clients are across the EU, UK and US, and pricing is quoted in USD, EUR or GBP. Sessions are scheduled across time zones by agreement.

Is Fractional the same as an interim CMO two or three days a week?

The standard fractional seat is roughly one focused day a week. Two to three days a week is the heavy seat. Either way, I only take the seat when the mandate and authority are written down.

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