Startup Growth Marketing Specialists

The digital marketing agency for startups that need traction, fast.

You don't have time for an agency that takes six months to show results. As the digital marketing agency for startups, we start lean, prove what's working inside the first 30-60 days, and only scale spend once the data says so.

  • No lock-in contracts
  • Budget-flexible packages
  • Pay month-on-month
Book a Free Call With Director →30 mins · no pitch deck · honest advice

Proof, not promises

A brand built from scratch that became worth ranking for.

Home Services · California · Landscape & Christmas Lighting · Landscaping · Turf Installation · Irrigation · Outdoor Lighting

Elevated Seasons: from a wasted budget to market visibility.

8.76x

ROMI in 2 years

11.26x

ROAS (ad spend only)

2.28x

Lower cost per lead

3.82x

Lower customer acquisition cost

Elevated Seasons came to us after a previous agency spent their budget and delivered almost nothing. Sound familiar? We rebuilt the brand, launched Google Search and Performance Max, and ran the SEO strategy that took their revenue from a near standstill to consistent growth, still climbing two years in.

Brand repositioningGoogle Search adsPerformance MaxSEO strategy2yr ongoing partnership
Nathan Murrell, Elevated Seasons
"I have been working with them for 2 years now and I am extremely satisfied with our working relationship. Communication has been clear, they are responsive and they follow through on what they say and do. They have been a crucial part in the growth of our business and we plan to stay partnered with them for many years to come."

★★★★★ 5.0 · Nathan Murrell, Elevated Seasons

Digital Fitness & eCommerce · Meta Ads

Deliciously Fit, with Chris Powell

2,000

Books sold

<3mo

Time to sell out the run

Deliciously Fit is a digital recipe book with hundreds of high-protein recipes built for weight-loss and GLP-1 audiences. Our team ran the Meta Ads strategy behind the launch, selling 2,000 copies in under three months.

Meta Ads strategyRecipe eBook launch2,000 copies sold
Chris Powell, Deliciously Fit
"I've been working with them for nearly 10 years, and they've been an incredible partner every step of the way. From developing my fitness app and nonprofit app, to helping maintain and grow my website, their team has consistently delivered with professionalism and precision. They're responsive, reliable, and deeply knowledgeable, always guiding projects with care and expertise. I trust them fully and plan to continue working with them for years to come."

★★★★★ 5.0 · Chris Powell, Deliciously Fit

Startups · Brand Building & Content Strategy

The Growth Alchemist LLP

0→1

Brand built from scratch

Full stack

Positioning to content

SEO ready

Worth ranking for

An early-stage brand that needed a market identity before it needed more traffic. Our team leads the brand-building and content strategy work that gives the SEO and paid campaigns something worth ranking: positioning, market identity, and an SEO foundation built in from day one.

Brand positioningContent strategySEO foundation
Mihir Shah, The Growth Alchemist LLP
"Working with this team gave our brand a real identity and a clear direction, something we didn't have before. They understood our vision quickly and translated it into a strategy we could actually execute."

★★★★★ 5.0 · Mihir Shah, The Growth Alchemist LLP

eCommerce · Hair & Beauty

Hair Bar NYC

320%

Organic revenue increase

38%

CAC reduction

8mo

To hit results

SEO, Google Shopping, and Meta Ads combined. Over 8 months, that drove a 320% increase in organic revenue and cut customer acquisition cost by 38%.

SEOGoogle ShoppingMeta Ads
"Their SEO, GEO, AEO, bottleneck analysis and dedicated tech support boosted our product sales and appointments, helping us scale revenue and grow our brand."

★★★★★ 5.0 · Hair Bar NYC

Services we offer

What a digital marketing agency for startups should own.

Most agencies spread across ten services and master none. We stay on the channels that prove traction fastest, and bring in supporting work only when a campaign needs it to convert. Packages scale to what you can invest, and pivot as fast as your product does.

01

SEO

Every month without SEO built in from day one, a competitor's post outranks yours right as investors start googling your category.

  • SEO built to compound with each funding round
  • Content infrastructure, not a rebuild later
  • Technical SEO foundation
  • One team for SEO and paid ads
  • Category and comparison pages that rank
See how it works →

02

Paid Ads

Every week your ad spend sits in an untested campaign is a week a leaner competitor spends that same budget on the channel that actually converts.

  • Google Ads tuned for a lean budget
  • Fast iteration, clear read within weeks
  • Meta & Instagram for category creation
  • Retargeting the searches you already won
  • Budget that scales only once validated
See how it works →

03

AI SEO & GEO

Someone is already asking ChatGPT or Perplexity for a product like yours, and right now it isn't recommending you by name.

  • Structured to get cited by ChatGPT & Perplexity
  • Named in Google's AI Overviews
  • Answer engine optimization
  • Beyond a standard ranked link
  • LLM visibility audits
See how it works →

+ Content & Automation

Brand storytelling, SEO content at scale, email flows and lead nurture. We add these when they serve the revenue channels above, not as standalone retainers.

Built for every stage

We work with startups at any funding stage.

Early stage

Pre-Seed & Seed

Lean spend, fast tests, and a straight answer on which one or two channels are worth your limited budget right now.

Growth stage

Series A

We scale what the early tests already proved, and layer an SEO foundation in behind the paid traction so it's not rebuilt from scratch later.

Scale stage

Series B and Beyond

Multi-channel systems, reporting your board will actually read, and category-leadership content that keeps compounding.

Why Wegile DGTL

Here are your four options, honestly compared.

Option one

The Freelancer

  • Who runs itOne person, splitting their week between you and everyone else who booked them.
  • If it stallsYou already paid. There is no clause to fall back on.
  • CommitmentNo cover. They get sick, get busy, or get a bigger client, and your growth stops with them.
  • CostUsually the cheapest hourly rate of the four, paid whether the work moves anything or not.
  • ChannelsStrong in one. Improvising in the other three.
  • What you keepWhatever happened to get written down along the way.

Option two

An In-house Hire

  • Who runs itWhoever accepted the offer, learning your market on your payroll.
  • If it stallsPayroll clears on the first of the month regardless.
  • CommitmentA salary, recruitment fees and a tool stack, all committed before month one produces anything.
  • CostThe most expensive of the four per channel once salary, payroll tax, benefits and tools are counted.
  • ChannelsOne or two. AI search is rewriting itself faster than any single hire can follow.
  • What you keepWhatever survives their notice period.

Option three

A Traditional Agency

  • Who runs itNot the senior who pitched you. Expect a junior and a shared inbox.
  • If it stallsThe retainer clears anyway, and the deck explains why next quarter is the one.
  • CommitmentSix to twelve months, signed before a single result exists.
  • CostA flat retainer regardless of results, often with ad spend and extra fees layered on top.
  • ChannelsBroad on the pitch deck. Quietly subcontracted after signature.
  • What you keepOften very little. The campaigns were built inside their accounts, not yours.

Option four

Wegile DGTL

  • Who runs itThe Director who scoped it, along with her team of experts.
  • If it stallsBenchmarks are written into the contract first. Miss them, no penalty to leave.
  • CommitmentMonth to month. No lock-in, no penalty.
  • CostPriced to what you actually spend and where you're starting from, not a one-size number.
  • ChannelsSEO, AEO, GEO and paid media, done in-house. Nothing subcontracted.
  • What you keepEverything we build stays yours, even if you go.
Before any of it: a free audit, and it is yours whether you hire us or not.Benchmarks in writing before you commit

The guarantee, clause by clause

Accountability isn't a claim on our About page. It's in the contract.

Here is exactly what it means.

§1

Clear benchmarks before we begin.

Every engagement starts with a detailed performance roadmap. For Paid Ads, we provide a 3-month cost and performance plan, while SEO projects include a 6-month roadmap. Each plan outlines budgets, timelines, and agreed benchmarks for ROAS, cost per lead, revenue, traffic, rankings, and conversions, giving you complete clarity on goals, expectations, and how success will be measured.

§2

Results, not lock-ins.

We don't believe in locking clients into long-term contracts. We believe in delivering results that make them want to stay. That's why every project is driven by clear milestones, transparent reporting, and measurable progress, not exit clauses.

§3

Every recommendation has a reason.

From keyword selection to budget allocation, every decision is backed by real performance data, and we share the insights with you every step of the way.

§4

Full ownership from day one.

Every strategy, campaign, content asset, technical improvement, and account we manage belongs to your business. We don't lock away your work, we build assets that stay with you.

Why this matters: you see the plan before you commit, you judge us against numbers agreed in advance, you can leave the moment the results stop justifying the fee, and everything we build stays yours either way.

Book a call and get your benchmarks scoped →

FAQ

Straight answers for founders.

The questions every founder asks before hiring a marketing agency, answered honestly.

An established company is usually defending rankings it already has. A startup is starting from scratch: no backlink history, no existing keyword rankings, and often no market category that people are searching for by name yet.

That changes the strategy. We don't chase the same competitive head terms an established player already owns. We build topical authority through comparison pages, category-defining content, and technical SEO done right the first time, then layer paid search on top to fill the gap while that authority builds.

The upside of starting from scratch is that there's no old, undocumented technical debt to untangle first. What you build now compounds cleanly.

Both. We work with founders from pre-seed through Series B and beyond, and the engagement looks different at each stage.

Pre-seed and seed: lean spend, fast channel tests, and an honest read on which one or two channels are worth your limited budget right now.

Series A and beyond: scaling the channels the early tests already validated, plus the SEO foundation and reporting a board actually wants to see.

The packages scale to what you can invest. We'd rather scope something realistic for your current stage than oversell you a retainer sized for a company you aren't yet.

It happens often enough that we plan for it. Campaigns are built in short, modular checkpoints rather than one long locked-in flight, so a pivot mid-quarter doesn't mean scrapping months of work.

If your positioning shifts, we update messaging, landing pages, and targeting at the next checkpoint rather than finishing out a campaign built for a version of the product that no longer exists.

There are no lock-in contracts, so if the pivot changes what you need from us entirely, you can pause or cancel at the end of any month.

Yes, with the honest caveat that it's a slower lever than paid ads, so we're upfront about the timeline before you commit budget to it.

On a tight budget, we prioritize the highest-leverage work first: technical SEO fixes that remove obstacles search engines have with your site, and a small number of content pieces built around the terms your future buyers actually search, instead of a broad content calendar that spreads thin.

Most early-stage founders pair this with a lean paid ads test, since ads can start producing signal in weeks while the SEO foundation builds underneath it.

We'll give you the honest version rather than the version that sounds better in a pitch. Early channel signal, which channel is converting and at roughly what cost, typically shows up within our 30-60 day proof window.

Metrics investors actually scrutinize, like CAC trending down, retention curves, and payback period, take longer to mature because they depend on your product and sales cycle as much as on marketing. We'll tell you plainly which numbers are ready to show this quarter and which ones need another one or two cycles of real data first.

What we won't do is dress up early, noisy numbers as a trend before they're actually one.

Most SEO-only agencies hand off paid ads and AI search visibility to someone else, which means your channels never talk to each other. We run SEO, paid ads, and AI SEO & GEO under one team, so the keyword research feeding your content is the same research feeding your ad targeting.

We also lead with an audit before we ask for a retainer: a real look at your current positioning and channels, a lean test to validate what actually converts, and only then a case for scaling spend. Benchmarks go into the agreement before month one starts, and there's no lock-in if they're not met.

Wegile DGTL runs as the marketing arm of Wegile, a web and mobile development company with 10+ years building product for clients, which is part of why we understand the startup side of this as well as the marketing side.

One last thing

The first call costs nothing. The audit is yours either way.

Thirty minutes with the Director. Honest advice about your SEO, ads, and AI visibility, even if the advice is "don't hire us." If it makes sense to go further, you'll get a written audit and a scoped plan with real numbers, benchmarks included, before you pay anything.

Book your strategy call →

No pitch deck · No lock-in · Benchmarks in writing