One-Time Consulting
Opinions are cheap. Diagnosis is useful.
A full read of your company health, what works, what needs repair, and the next actions to take. You can buy it without a retainer. You own the deliverables and can take them anywhere.
Most agencies offer a “free audit” to sell you a contract.
The audit is the hook. The real product is the retainer. You end up with a sales pitch dressed up as strategy, and nothing you can actually use.
We offer The Diagnosis as its own engagement.
The Diagnosis is a standalone product. You receive a usable set of deliverables, built to be used with or without us. Hand it to your internal team, a vendor, another agency, or come back and let us execute it.
We’re not here to prescribe ourselves as the solution.
Start With The Diagnosis
A full read of your company health.
You can buy it without a retainer.
The Diagnosis is for businesses that are choosing whether a full-service growth partner makes sense but need an honest, structured read on what is working, what is leaking, and what should happen next. Scope is confirmed after a brief conversation, and delivery is typically completed in 30 to 60 days.
01
Audits
A direct review of your marketing health across the areas that matter most to growth, waste, attribution, and conversion.
02
Strategy
A strategist-led interpretation of what the findings mean, where the highest-leverage opportunities are, and what should be prioritized.
03
Roadmap
A practical next-step plan you can use whether you move forward with Squid X, hand it to an internal team, or take it to another partner.
The Deliverables
A full read. Built to last.
Yours to keep.
At the conclusion of your engagement, you receive a full set of standalone documents, formatted, professional, and designed to be used immediately, with any team, anywhere.
Minimum of 4 Hours of Consulting Meetings
Dedicated sessions to align on objectives, establish priorities, and define what success looks like for your business.
Business Health Benchmark Report
Comprehensive performance evaluation across key marketing and operational indicators. Delivered as a formatted PDF + Excel files with revenue trends, benchmarks, and competitive analysis.
SEO Audit
Full assessment of organic search performance, keyword positioning, on-page optimization, and competitive visibility. Standalone format, owned entirely by you.
Up to 6 Hours of Research & Analysis
Audience profiling, market positioning, and competitive landscape evaluation, the intelligence the rest of the work uses.
Master Deliverable Deck
All findings compiled into a single Google Slides presentation exported as PDF. Clean, organized, designed to be shared internally or with any outside team.
Deep Dive Launch Meeting
Kick off the engagement, introduce our working framework, and map out the 30 to 60 day diagnostic process.
Website Health Audit
Standalone PDF built from technical crawl data and strategist-led analysis identifying technical issues, structural gaps, and UX opportunities with specific findings and recommended fixes.
Full Marketing Strategy Audit
Direct evaluation of all active paid channels, paid social, paid search, and any other active accounts. We assess optimization, identify messaging gaps, audience misalignment, and wasted spend.
3 Custom Marketing Strategies
Roadmap options built around your priorities, constraints, and growth objectives, tailored to your business, built around your priorities.
Final Review Meeting
A dedicated session to walk through each deliverable together before formal handoff. We answer your questions before handoff.
All deliverables are formatted for independent use and designed to be actionable with or without a continued engagement with Squid X.
Use The Diagnosis Your Way
The Diagnosis gives you the materials you need to move forward.
Hand it to your team, share it with a vendor, take it to another agency, or have us execute it. We’ll be honest with you about whether we’re the right fit, and if we’re not, we’ll tell you.
Your Internal Team
Hand off the strategies and let your team run with it. Your team gets files it can use right away.
A Vendor or Freelancer
The deliverables are built to work with any outside resource, designer, developer, media buyer.
Another Agency
You own the work. You own the files and formats. Take it anywhere you want.
Squid X
If you want us to execute, we will show you the execution plan. We will tell you if execution makes sense.
Thinking about having us execute it?
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
Book an intro call. We’ll confirm your tier, answer your questions, and get you started.