The model  /  No mystery

How a Purple Frog engagement actually works.

No 47-page onboarding deck. No "discovery sprint" that takes six weeks before anything ships. Here's the actual play, week by week. Including what we charge, what we don't do, and how to fire us if it isn't working.

At a glance
Engagement Month-to-month
Min commitment None
Time to first ship Week 2
Cadence Weekly + monthly
Ownership Senior strategist
The first 90 days

Days zero to ninety.

Most agencies will tell you "the first 30 days are about discovery." That's a stall. Here's what actually happens — every engagement, no exceptions.

Week 1

Audit + access

Read access to Google Ads, Meta, GA4, GSC, CRM. We review 90 days of data and produce a 5-page diagnostic before you sign past month one.

Week 2

First ships

Paused-budget reallocations, three to five fixed pages for AEO, the first new ad creative pushed live. You feel the engine running before month one closes.

Weeks 3–4

Foundation

Conversion tracking rebuilt. Schema markup added. Cold-traffic audiences rebuilt. You get the 90-day playbook — yours to keep, even if you walk.

Days 30–60

Compounding

Now we're optimizing rather than fixing. Weekly experiments. Negatives. Asset rotation. AEO mention tracking. Month-over-month lift starts here.

Days 60–90

Strategic review

90-min review with the senior strategist. If we're not delivering, we say so first. Most agencies coast here. We make it the most rigorous review of the year.

The cadence

Boring weekly updates. Forever.

The single biggest predictor of whether an agency relationship survives past month six is whether the agency is publishing a Monday morning update — even when the news is dull. Here's our standing rhythm.

Weekly
Monday

Written updateFive bullets: what shipped, what's testing, what we're worried about. Sent before 11 AM ET. Never missed.

Weekly
Wednesday

Optimization sweepBid adjustments, search query mining, creative rotation, AEO citation check. Internal — surfaces only if material.

Weekly
Friday

Weekend prepBudgets verified. Pacing set. On-call protocol active. We don't run scared on Saturdays.

Monthly
Strategy

60-min reviewLed by your senior strategist — the same person who sold you. If it's been handed to a junior, fire us.

Quarterly
Honest review

90-min auditWhat we got wrong. Where we're underperforming. What to change. The call most agencies skip — we make it mandatory.

The principle:  Boring weekly updates are how you build the trust that lets us have the hard conversation in month nine — without it feeling like surprise bad news.
Pricing  /  What it costs

Transparent pricing.

No "let's get on a call to discuss budget." Three paths, all priced upfront. The same offer ladder we use publicly.

Tier 01 / Self-serve
Free Marketing Score
$0
Forever

A senior strategist hand-audits your domain, scores 8+ competitors, and emails a 90-day playbook within one business day. Get it at /free-score. No credit card.

Best for: Anyone exploring. Most businesses can DIY from this output.
Tier 03 / Done-for-you
Managed Engagement
$5–10K
/ month

Fully managed. Weekly optimization, monthly strategy reviews, all three services running together. Month-to-month — no annual lock-in. 30-day notice. Refund the last month if you walk because we underperformed.

Best for: $5K+/mo ad spend, $1K+ avg revenue per customer. Below that, the math doesn't work.
Anti-scope

What we don't do.

Most agencies will say yes to anything to win the deal, then scramble. Here's what we explicitly don't take on. If you need these things, we'll refer you to people who do them well.

WordPress development

We don't build sites. We optimize them, write for them, and make them rank — but if you need a new site built, you need a Webflow/Framer specialist or a Wordpress developer.

Influencer campaigns

Influencer outreach is a different muscle than performance marketing. We respect it. We don't run it. There are agencies who specialize in this.

PR & press relations

We can support digital PR for AEO mention-building, but if you need a true press strategy with embargoes and journalist relationships, hire a PR firm.

Chatbot or app development

That's our sister brand Dyntyx's lane. They build internal AI ops — chatbots, automations, custom apps. Different beast.

Anything below $5K/mo

The math doesn't work for either side. Below that spend tier, you're better off with our $99 self-serve playbook and a freelancer for execution.

Industries outside our six

We're specialists in legal, finance, B2B SaaS, healthcare/fertility, premium e-commerce, and independent insurance. We turn down fits outside these. The expertise compounds. Generalist agencies don't have that.

The exit

How to fire us.

Most agency contracts make this hard. Ours doesn't. The fact that you can leave any month is exactly why we work hard every week.

The contract

  • Month-to-month. No 12-month commitments. No 6-month minimums.
  • 30-day notice. Email is fine. No exit interviews unless you want one.
  • You keep everything. All ad accounts, all creative, all reports. We hand off cleanly.
  • If month four feels worse than month one, fire us. We'll refund the last month if you're walking because we underperformed.
The promise

"If month four doesn't feel as sharp as month one, fire us. And we'll refund the last month."

Bob Clary  /  Founder, Purple Frog

Ready when you are

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