The price
In 2025, Sortlist put the average agency-built marketing plan at $26,871, drawn from 80,000 agency projects — and that is the plan, not the build. This is €5,000 to find out which part is actually broken, in seven working days, before you commit to the bigger number. One month of ad spend that isn’t converting usually costs you more than this.
There are two ways to pay half, and both are on this page. Neither is a negotiation. If the budget still isn’t there, I scope down rather than take less for the same work.
Source: Sortlist, Marketing Plan Cost, updated May 2025. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
Not scarcity as a tactic. Two is what one person can deliver at this depth in seven working days.
My first three clients pay €2,500 ex. VAT, a 50% discount, in exchange for a documented case study. Same engagement, same guarantee. The pilot rate covers the first three clients, full stop.
Refer someone who books a diagnosis and you both pay €2,500 ex. VAT, a 50% discount each. Same engagement, same guarantee, on both sides.
What you actually receive
Eighteen cells. Each one either clean or named, with a severity and the behavior behind it. This is the first page of your report.
Illustrative report page, 27 findings, heaviest cluster in Deciding.
Illustrative findings, written in the format you receive. Yours will be about your go-to-market and your customers’ words.
Straight answers
“Isn’t this just AI output?”
Software does the first pass across the frameworks, faster and more consistently than I could by hand. The diagnosis, the ordering, and the decision about what doesn’t apply are mine, backed by a decade in growth. I’ll tell you plainly which part is which.
“How do I know you’ll find anything?”
Three reasons beyond the ones you listed at intake, or you don’t pay. Your list is the baseline, so this is checkable rather than a debate.
“We don’t have time for a project right now.”
It’s under an hour of your time in total: 45 minutes of intake and a 45-minute delivery call. There is no project for you to run.
“What are your results?”
I’m early. That’s exactly why the first three engagements are €2,500, half the price, with the guarantee attached. I’d rather tell you that than show you numbers I invented.
“Is there any way to pay less?”
Two, both fixed at 50%. The first three engagements are €2,500 ex. VAT in exchange for a documented case study. And a referral halves it on both sides: refer someone who books and you both pay €2,500. That is the whole discount list; there is no third rate to negotiate towards.
“Can you just fix it for us?”
Not this year. Implementation is unbounded scope and it would eat the capacity that makes seven working days possible. I’ll refer you to someone good.