Growing companies need senior thinking — but not three full-time hires. DakJen Creative puts an experienced leader inside your business on a retained basis: marketing, business infrastructure, and AI strategy — at the level you need, by the month.
We step in where you need the seniority: steering the brand, running the operations underneath it, or figuring out where AI actually belongs in how your team works. One pillar or all three.
Your brand hasn't kept up with your business. We fix that — fast.
Personal brand alongside the company. LinkedIn, thought leadership, earned media.
Important work that deserves to be seen clearly. We make it visible.
Retained, by the month, at the level you need. Take one, or combine them — most engagements start with a single pillar and grow into the others as the work compounds.
Brand direction, campaigns, content, and collateral — a creative leader embedded in your business, or your production handled on a flat monthly rate.
From $1,500/mo →The layer underneath the business — where files live, who approved what, which renewal is due, and what happens when someone new starts. Built, written down, and run.
From $1,500/mo →Where AI actually fits in how your team works — strategy, setup, and the automations themselves. Steered month to month, not handed over in a deck.
From $1,500/mo →Two ways in. Retain a creative leader by the month and they steer the brand from inside; or send us the work and we produce it on a flat subscription. Plenty of clients run both.
Senior brand direction on your team by the month — plus the business management that keeps it running.
Your brand: better.
Your brand, actively led.
Your creative brain, in the room.
Each engagement is scoped to what your business actually needs — brand and creative direction, plus the business management that keeps it running: planning, process, budgets, and vendor and team coordination. Travel, ad spend, and production costs are scoped and billed separately.
Your content and collateral, handled on a flat monthly rate. A dedicated design-and-copy team, without the cost of a full in-house team or the ballooning project fees of a traditional agency. You send the requests; we ship the work.
Collateral + light strategy.
Collateral + active strategy.
Collateral + full marketing leadership.
Each tier's requests and pages are a monthly allowance, and unused requests and pages roll over for one month. Pause anytime and bank unused days. Annual option: pay for 10 months, get 12 on the first two tiers. Website builds, photo & video, and media buying are available as add-ons; hard costs are billed at actual cost with no markup.
Where the files live. Who approved the invoice. Which renewal is due next month. What happens when someone new starts on Monday. Most growing businesses have all of this in one person's head — and that person is usually the founder. We build the layer underneath, write it down, and then run it.
The inbox, the calendar and the paperwork, handled.
The systems, the money tools, and the savings.
Judgment, not hours. The layer above the back office.
At Tier 3 we direct and oversee rather than administer; hands-on execution stays available at the tiers below, or scoped separately. Payroll we coordinate with your provider — for teams of five or fewer we will run it directly. Honest about the edges: we do not keep your books or file your taxes — your bookkeeper and CPA do, and we make sure they get clean, complete handoffs. We prepare and coordinate banking, insurance, and certification filings; the account holder, the broker, and the filing specialist stay who they are. Anything that touches your money runs under a separate signed authorization.
A retainer, not a deck. We find where AI genuinely helps, where it does not, and what it would cost you to get wrong — then we set it up, write the rules, and stay in the room while your team adopts it.
A one-time review of your workflows, your tools, and your team. You leave with a short, prioritized roadmap: where AI earns its place, where it does not, and the risks worth naming up front — data, privacy, and how your staff actually feel about it.
A steady hand on the strategy.
Built, not just recommended.
Your AI lead in the room — steering, not staffing.
Tool and subscription costs are yours, or passed through at cost. Hands-on build and done-for-you production are available alongside any tier, scoped and capped separately. Every engagement includes a written data-handling clause covering which of your data goes into which tools.
Earned media landed with authority — Black Enterprise, Bisnow Innovator of the Year, Inc. 5000 (659% revenue growth), Crain's, Bloomberg Radio, BBJ Top 100 Women. The infrastructure made the coverage matter more.
Dakotah doesn't hand clients a strategy deck and walk away. She builds the thing — writing the content, designing the assets, directing the creative, and showing up month after month with the consistency that actually moves the needle.
Every engagement is driven by the same founding belief: amplifying underestimated voices, elevating underrepresented brands.
Dakotah writes The Fractional Founder — on running a business and a brand at the same time, from inside both. It is the fastest way to find out whether the way we work fits the way you work.