One senior leader accountable for the whole revenue engine: sales, marketing and customer success working from the same pipeline, metrics and forecast.
Stage definitions, pipeline hygiene and a forecast built on how your deals actually close.
One revenue plan, shared targets and clean handoffs from first touch to renewal.
The data, tooling and reporting layer a revenue team needs to manage itself.
A repeatable sales motion that doesn't depend on the founder closing every deal.
Typically one to three days a week on a monthly engagement, working inside your team rather than handing over a report. Every engagement starts with a scoping call so the mandate is clear before day one.
A revenue diagnostic: pipeline quality, conversion by stage, forecast accuracy and where revenue leaks.
A revenue operating system: stages, metrics, cadence and comp plans aligned across teams.
A forecast leadership trusts, and a clear view of the permanent revenue leaders you need.
For scale: the 2026 national average rate for a fractional CRO is $202 an hour (Go Fractional, 2026 State of Fractional Work). One day a week at that rate is about $7,000 a month.
We help you decide before we recommend anyone. Sometimes the right answer is no full-time hire at all.
A fractional CRO fixes a specific, urgent issue and hands off a function that runs.
A fractional CRO holds the seat while we run a retained search for the permanent leader.
Senior experience alongside the leader you already have. Nobody is replaced.
Part of the ETHOSLINK Fractional C-Suite: 18 vetted executives covering every seat.
A VP of Sales runs the sales team. A CRO owns the entire revenue engine, including marketing, sales and customer success, and is accountable for how they work together. Smaller companies often need the sales leader first; see our fractional sales leadership page.
Yes. Pipeline hygiene, forecasting, tooling and reporting are part of the engagement, and our advisory practice can go deeper on RevOps where needed.
Fractional executives work on a monthly engagement sized to the days per week you need, with no recruiting fee, benefits or equity. We agree the scope and fee before work begins.
As soon as you're ready. Our 18 fractional executives are already vetted, so there's no search to start from scratch. Timing is set by your schedule, not ours.