Fractional Head of Growth

Pipeline for founders who can't hire an SDR yet

A fractional Head of Growth that runs your AI outbound engine and owns every reply, so early-stage B2B SaaS teams get a working pipeline in weeks — not a $70k hire in months.

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The gap

Software finds the signal. Someone still has to close the loop.

A seed or Series A round buys you 12–18 months to show growth. A first SDR hire usually eats 6–8 weeks to source, another 4–8 weeks to ramp, and becomes a fixed cost the moment growth slows.

AI outbound tools promise to close that gap on their own — monitor buying signals, draft the sequence, book the meeting. What they don't do is decide which signals actually matter for your ICP, keep the message from reading like a bot, or turn a reply into a founder actually showing up to a call. That's the part this service handles.

How it works

Outbound pipeline run as a function — not a subscription

01 — Setup

Configure against your real ICP

The AI outbound stack gets connected to your CRM and tuned to your actual buyers and voice — not the default template. What "qualified" means is agreed before anything sends.

02 — Run

Weekly tuning, live replies

Signals and sequences get reviewed weekly, what isn't landing gets rewritten, and every reply, objection, and reschedule is handled directly — in your voice.

03 — Report

A number you can trust weekly

Meetings booked, source attribution, message performance — a short async update, plus a monthly 30-minute check-in on where to point the engine next.

Why Meridian

Sales background, operator's context

Five-plus years in B2B SaaS business development and account management, with hands-on HubSpot use throughout, split between in-house roles and independent SDR work across South Africa, the UK, the US, and Australia — so this isn't "software that runs itself," it's a team that has carried quota in your market.

That background also spans general management and marketing/ops roles, which is usually what matters most to a founder: reading a GTM report the way someone who's owned a P&L does, not just the way an SDR does.

5+ yrs
B2B sales & account management
4
markets sold in: SA · UK · US · AU
USD / GBP
billed abroad, delivered from a ZAR cost base
Pricing

Two ways in

No long-term lock-in. The engagement earns its way from a pilot into a retainer, not the other way around.

Growth retainer
$2,000–3,500/mo
  • Multi-channel outbound + full reply/booking ownership
  • Monthly strategy check-in with founder
  • Month-to-month, cancel with 30 days' notice
  • Scope and price scale with sequence volume, not headcount

Already mid-trial on an AI outbound tool? Send it over — the rest of that trial gets run for you, with a pipeline snapshot handed back at the end of it, as a working demonstration before any retainer conversation.

Get in touch

Book a 20-minute call

Share a little about your team and your current pipeline, and the call will start with a first read on where the gaps are.