Most businesses either can't get found, don't trust their own numbers, or can't prove marketing is working. I fix whichever one is costing you the most, as a business partner, not a rotating account team. I answer the phone. It's always me.
FIND A TIME FOR A FREE CONSULT →And most agencies hand you off to a team. Thomas (T.J.) Stave has done both, at different points in the same career: running the P&L and operations of a marketing technology company as COO, and separately doing the client-facing marketing work that got businesses found and made them money. When you work with Stave Collective, you work directly with him. I answer the phone, and I want to be the person you call to think through a hard decision, not just the person who sends the monthly report.
Whatever the engagement is called, the goal underneath it is the same: real value creation for your business, backed by numbers both marketers and finance can trust.
Visibility, Operations, and Impact, built to work together, always in service of real business outcomes.
AI Search, SEO, content, PR, and backlinks. Getting found by search engines and AI answer engines, turned into sales and revenue.
LEARN MORE →The strategy and systems that show you real margin and delivery performance, with AI infused where it actually removes manual work.
LEARN MORE →Data availability, accuracy, and accessibility, connected to real sales and revenue, so you know what's actually working.
LEARN MORE →Discovery and Audit happen once. Strategy, Execution, and Measurement run as a loop, driven by real data.
What are we actually trying to solve, before anything gets built.
Where things stand today, the good and the bad, backed by real data.
Using discovery and audit findings to build the recommendation engine.
Doing the work, directly or alongside your internal team.
What's working, what's not, and how that reshapes the strategy next.
STRATEGY → EXECUTION → MEASUREMENT → BACK TO STRATEGY
Most clients come through referral. Engagements start with a short discovery conversation to understand what you're actually trying to solve before any proposal or scope gets built.
Both, depending on the work. Strategy and ongoing measurement tend to work best as a retainer, since the strategy keeps evolving monthly as real data comes in. Some operations and systems work starts as a project, then moves to a lighter maintenance retainer.
Both. Some engagements involve building the system or executing the strategy directly. Others involve setting the strategy and directing an internal team through execution, depending on what the work needs.
Local services, B2B and manufacturing, ecommerce, tech and SaaS, and agencies, spanning everything from marketing visibility to operations to measurement.
Retainers generally run from $2,000 to $20,000 per month. Where a specific engagement lands depends on how much offsite work is involved, how frequently we meet, and how much is actively changing in your business. An acquisition that needs the website and offsite presence rethought looks different from steady-state maintenance. Every engagement gets scoped and priced around what you actually need and what fits your budget.
Most consultants have either run marketing or run a business, not both. Stave Collective has done both, at the same company, at the same time, and stays through execution rather than handing off a strategy deck.