The agency built so it canstep back.
Give SMBs and founders the activation tools that funded startups buy at ten times the cost, then hand the keys over and step back.
The short version of a long road.
Years of running other people's marketing.
Nine years split between client portfolio work and in-house product roles. The pattern was the same everywhere. SMBs running 2 of 4 Activation Stack layers, leaking on the other 2, paying agencies to keep the leaks hidden. The Activation Audit format is the diagnostic we wished existed.
Built the products we needed.
Started shipping 8CRM, Team8s, 8Host, and the automations stack because off-the-shelf options didn't fit. We were going to use them ourselves either way; making them available to clients was the side effect.
WeActive8 launches the agency wrapper.
The website you're on now. One operator running engagements with a small team behind. Audit first, build second, step back third. No equity ask, no exclusivity, no auto-renewal.
The rules that govern every engagement.
These aren't aspirations. They're written into the Terms of Service and enforced by how we structure proposals.
Activate, then step back.
Every engagement ends with a hand-over, not a renewal. Recorded walkthroughs, documented systems, your team running it without us.
No retainer trap.
Marketing retainers are flat-fee, rolling-scope, cancellable at any time. We do not auto-renew, we do not minimum-commit, we do not lock you into a stack we own.
Bring your own stack.
Our products (8CRM, Team8s, 8Host, 8Automations) exist because we needed them. Use them if they fit. If you already run HubSpot or AWS, we work inside that.
Paid audits over free quotes.
Free signals desperate. The paid Activation Audit filters serious buyers, respects our team's time, and gives every prospect something useful even if they don't escalate.
Teach what we did.
Every project ships with a Loom-recorded walkthrough of the systems we built. Your team understands the stack. You graduate from us instead of depending on us.
Founder-led, not founder-fronted.
The founder runs every engagement personally up to the audit. After that, the team executes with weekly founder review. No account managers, no offshore PMs hiding the ball.
Small and medium businesses, founders, freelancers turning into agencies, and seed-to-Series-A startups.
- 1 to 100 employees
- US / North America primary, English-speaking SMBs globally welcome
- Retail, e-commerce, real estate, professional services, SaaS, coaches, hospitality, transportation
- $250K to $50M in revenue
- Fortune 500
- Agencies-of-agencies (white-label arrangements)
- Government RFPs
- Anything requiring exclusivity or equity
