Senior Marketing Leadership for B2B Companies
Most growing B2B companies have the same problem: marketing spend with no senior judgment behind it. An agency optimizing for activity. An internal marketer executing without direction. A CEO who knows something is broken but can't name what.
I find what's broken. Then we fix it.
"For the first time, we could actually explain why our best clients chose us. That changed everything downstream."
How It Works
Step 1
Eleven questions, about five minutes. You see your score right away, and no email is required. Take the Foundation Check.
Step 2
A free 30-minute call. I'll ask what you're spending, what it's producing, and whether Reveal is the right fit. If it isn't, I'll tell you.
Step 3
The Keystone Diagnostic comes first, then the Blueprint, then ongoing fractional CMO leadership if it makes sense. Each phase stands alone.
A fractional CMO hired before the problem is named spends the first months finding it, on your payroll. Starting with the diagnosis means the leadership that follows has a plan to work from.
Where Reveal Works
Reveal works with B2B firms that grew on reputation and relationships and now need a deliberate way to win business from buyers who don't know them yet. Pick the page closest to your firm.
Construction and Specialty Trades
General contractors, builders, and trade firms with a strong name among the people who already know them. The Diagnostic shows what is bringing in the right jobs, what isn't, and what to do first.
See how it works for contractors →Engineering, Architecture and Professional Services
Engineering, architecture, law, and accounting firms where partners sell between billable hours. The Diagnostic shows where your best clients and projects come from and what to do about the gaps.
See how it works for professional firms →Based in Indianapolis, with a regular presence in Tampa Bay. Indianapolis · Tampa Bay
The Pattern
You hired someone to run marketing. Maybe you brought in an agency too. The activity is there: posts, campaigns, monthly reports. But the pipeline doesn't reflect it, and you can't quite explain why. After 20 years working inside B2B companies at your stage, I can.
"You can't hang the deck until the pilings are driven. Most companies are running campaigns before the foundation is set, and wondering why nothing sticks."Rob Higley, Reveal
The fix isn't a new agency, more content, or a bigger ad budget. It's senior marketing judgment applied to your specific situation, the kind that used to require a full-time CMO hire. It doesn't anymore.
The Keystone Process
Every engagement starts with a clear diagnosis. No campaigns are built before the story is right. No ongoing engagement begins before we know what we're solving for.
Phase 1
A structured audit of your marketing, brand, pipeline, and team. Clear findings. A prioritized 90-day action plan. An honest read on what's broken and what to do first. A CEO should be able to read it in one sitting and feel like someone finally said the quiet part out loud. You leave with a written document: specific, prioritized, and yours to keep regardless of what comes next.
Keystone Report + 90-Day Action Plan
$7,500 to $12,000 · 3 to 4 weeks
Phase 2
Your full marketing operating system: positioning, messaging architecture, channel strategy, campaign calendar, and team structure. Built with your team, not handed to them. As opinionated about what not to do as what to do.
Complete Marketing Operating System
$15,000 to $22,000 · 4 to 6 weeks
Phase 3
Ongoing embedded senior marketing leadership: monthly direction-setting, agency oversight, a performance dashboard with my written commentary, and a senior voice in the room when decisions need to be made. Scoped so you always know exactly what you're buying.
Weekly Check-In · Dashboard Commentary · Agency Oversight · Campaign Reviews · Six-Month Engagement Review
$7,500 to $12,000/mo · No minimum term
Right Fit
Free Self-Assessment
The Foundation Check is eleven questions B2B CEOs should be able to answer clearly. It takes about five minutes. Most find two or three questions harder to answer than expected. That's where the conversation starts.
The Foundation Check
Four sections · Eleven questions · About five minutes · No email required
Take the AssessmentSelected Results
Every one of these started the same way: finding the actual problem before spending a dollar on campaigns.
A global software company entering U.S. commercial construction with zero brand recognition. Built positioning from scratch, targeted early adopters with precision, landed them in the top three of a saturated category in under two years.
Led interim marketing for a national semi-truck company acquired out of bankruptcy. Repositioned around fleet buyers, built the marketing program from scratch, and moved more than 3,000 trucks in nine months while two acquisition conversations reached late-stage due diligence.
Built a coordinated ABM program for a B2B product launch, identifying and nurturing the right targets rather than broadcasting broadly. More than $4 million in qualified pipeline resulted.
"Rob seamlessly embedded with our sales and production teams to define the brand and quickly build interest in the Kinetics Hybrid, managing the multiple marketing channels in a cost-effective and impactful way."
Merritt B., former CEO, Crosspoint Kinetics / Cummins
Read the full stories
Transportation · Turnaround
A company acquired out of bankruptcy had the wrong customers, no measurement discipline, and a hard deadline to find a buyer. The fix wasn't a new campaign.
Read the story →B2B Software · Market Entry
2% brand awareness. A modest budget. Dominant incumbents. Sharp positioning and a focused channel strategy turned it into 300% revenue growth in two years.
Read the story →Sustainable Tech · Launch
A startup with zero recognition, skeptical buyers, and competing technologies built a $4M pipeline in one year by owning the right use case instead of the whole category.
Read the story →About Rob Higley
I started in radio, where you learn fast that no one owes you their attention. You earn it in the first sentence, or you lose them. That discipline, lead with what matters and cut everything that doesn't, is the same one I bring to every engagement.
My PR career began at a top Indiana agency, where I learned how buyers form opinions long before a salesperson ever calls. From there I built and ran a nine-person marketing agency for a decade, which means I've sat on the other side of the table you're across from right now, before going inside companies as a marketing director and VP, owning budgets and being accountable for pipeline. Most consultants have lived one of those roles. The combination of all three is what makes the diagnostic work, and it's why Reveal exists. The fractional model is not a compromise. It's the role where all three perspectives are actually useful at the same time.
Reveal is not an agency. I don't produce content at scale or manage your ad spend. What I do is sit at the senior leadership level, give you an honest read on your marketing, and build the operating system your team can actually run: defined deliverables and measurable outcomes at every stage.
"Rob seamlessly embedded with our sales and production teams to define the brand and quickly build interest in the Kinetics Hybrid, managing the multiple marketing channels in a cost effective and impactful way."
Merritt B., former CEO, Crosspoint Kinetics / Cummins
The first call is 30 minutes. No pitch deck. I'll ask about your situation and give you a straight read on whether Reveal is the right fit. If it's not, I'll tell you that too.