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Growth that compounds, not campaigns that fizzle.

I help B2B SaaS and DTC brands build repeatable growth engines — strategy, funnels, and the team to run them. 11 years in-house and agency-side, now fully independent.

$38M+revenue influenced
40+growth teams advised
11 yrsin growth marketing
KZ
↑ 320% organic traffic San Francisco, CA

Trusted by growth teams at

Northwind Labs stackpine Meridian Pay Loomly.ai Cobalt Health
Services

Three ways to work together

Clear scope, flat pricing, no retainers-that-never-end. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute intro call.

Growth Audit

A two-week deep dive into your funnel, analytics, and channel mix. You get a prioritized 90-day roadmap you can execute with your existing team.

$1,500 one-time
  • Full-funnel & analytics review
  • Channel-by-channel scorecard
  • 90-day prioritized roadmap
  • 60-min walkthrough call

Team Workshop

A one-day intensive that turns your marketers into experimenters — hypothesis design, prioritization frameworks, and a live testing sprint.

$2,500 per day
  • On-site in the Bay Area or remote
  • Up to 12 participants
  • Experiment backlog built live
  • 30-day follow-up check-in
Case Studies

Results, not vanity metrics

A few recent engagements. Company names shortened for confidentiality — happy to share details on a call.

B2B SaaS · SEO
+320%
organic traffic in 6 months

Stackpine — from invisible to page one

Rebuilt the content engine around bottom-funnel comparison pages and programmatic docs SEO. Organic signups went from 4% to 31% of new pipeline.

DTC · Paid Media
2.8× ROAS
while scaling spend 4× in one quarter

Cobalt Health — profitable paid at scale

Restructured Meta and Google accounts around creative testing velocity. Cut CAC 38% and unlocked a new subscription tier that now drives 45% of LTV.

Fintech · Lifecycle
+64%
activation rate in 90 days

Meridian Pay — fixing the leaky bucket

Rebuilt onboarding emails and in-app nudges around one activation moment. Payback period dropped from 14 months to 8, funding the next growth phase.

Testimonials

What clients say

Most of my work comes from referrals. Here's why.

"

Kevin walked into a mess of dashboards and half-finished campaigns and gave us a plan we actually followed. Two quarters later, organic is our #1 channel. He's the rare consultant who leaves your team stronger than he found it.

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Sarah Lin
Co-founder & CEO, Stackpine
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We'd burned through two agencies before Kevin. In his first month as fractional CMO he killed 60% of our ad spend — and revenue went up. The board asks for his reporting format by name now.

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Marcus Tran
CEO, Cobalt Health
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The workshop paid for itself before lunch. My team shipped 14 experiments in the following month — more than we'd run in the entire previous year. Book him before your competitors do.

PD
Priya Desai
VP Marketing, Meridian Pay
Writing

Recent insights

Notes from the field — no fluff, no recycled LinkedIn wisdom.

Why your CAC doubled and your dashboard didn't notice The attribution blind spots quietly eating Series A budgets. The 90-day fractional CMO playbook I use at every client Exactly what I do in weeks 1–12 — steal it. SEO isn't dead. Your content calendar is. How AI search changed intent — and what still ranks.
Let's talk

Ready to stop guessing at growth?

Book a free 30-minute intro call. Come with your numbers — leave with at least three things to fix, whether or not we work together.

Book a call Prefer email? hello@kevinzhao.co
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