Fractional CRO cost, on this site, means the fees I publish. I will not invent a salary, a day rate, or a market average for the category. Anyone who gives you a single number for "a fractional CRO" is averaging jobs that are not the same job. RAINCLOUD is not that seat.
What I charge is short. The 20 Minute Teardown is free. The 100-Point GTM Autopsy is $5,000 and takes five business days from access. The build is $25,000. From go-live, the system is $10,000 a month.
What do those numbers buy?
The teardown is the free 40-point Outside-In Teardown. It is the 40 points of the autopsy that can be scored from public sources. It is not the paid diagnostic.
The autopsy scores all 100 points against your CRM, pass, partial, or fail. You get the findings ranked by revenue impact, and the ten highest-impact gaps up front. The report is the build specification. The $5,000 is credited in full against the build. There is no cash refund. The autopsy page is the scope. Pricing is the schedule.
The build invoice is $20,000 after that credit. The 30 business days to go-live cover access, domains and mailboxes, warmup, the TAM, CRM mapping, the content plan, and the first sequences. From go-live, RAINCLOUD runs the system for a six-month minimum, billed quarterly in advance. Infrastructure is included. The first seven months, audit through the minimum, are $85,000.
What is not included in the price?
A full-time VP. A recruited placement. Closing your deals. Managing your reps. CRM administration beyond the fields RAINCLOUD writes. Paid media. Brand and creative. Fractional CRO vs VP of sales is that line. What a fractional CRO does here is the job, not the invoice.
If the program is the right shape and the budget is not, there is a separate hour a week of judgment at $2,000 a month. No execution. It does not go through the audit.
The list is free. The score is the 100-Point GTM Autopsy.
The 100 points are published so you can see what gets scored. Clients do not self-score. The 20 Minute Teardown covers the 40 points that can be read from the outside. The Autopsy scores all 100, pass, partial, or fail.
Book the 20 Minute TeardownWhere is the full schedule?
On the pricing page, including who it is for and who it is not. The category page is fractional CRO. If you want the number in context before you read a table, book the 20 Minute Teardown.
Questions this post answers
How much does a fractional CRO cost?
I publish my fees only. The 20 Minute Teardown is free. The 100-Point GTM Autopsy is $5,000. The build is $25,000, and $20,000 of that remains after the audit credit. Then $10,000 a month. I do not quote anyone else's rate.
Why is there no advisory tier?
Because RAINCLOUD does not hand the system back. After the build it runs the system at $10,000 a month, six months from go-live, billed quarterly in advance. A separate hour of judgment, with no execution, is $2,000 a month and does not go through the audit.
Is the $5,000 refundable?
No. There is no cash refund. The paid audit is the trial. The $5,000 is credited in full against the $25,000 build, and nothing skips the audit.
The list is free. The score is the 100-Point GTM Autopsy.
The 100 points are published so you can see what gets scored. Clients do not self-score. The 20 Minute Teardown covers the 40 points that can be read from the outside. The Autopsy scores all 100, pass, partial, or fail.
Book the 20 Minute Teardown