Fractional Chief Growth Officer
Growth Leadership for San Jose Law Firms, Sitting Above the Silos
You spend on marketing, field the leads, and chase business development — but each one runs on its own metric and qualified leads slip through the handoffs. We work above the silos and unifies demand, intake, conversion, and retention under one owner.
The Short Version
What does a fractional CGO do for a San Jose law firm?
A fractional CGO is a seasoned growth leader who runs the full path from lead to signed client to repeat business on a part-time, contracted basis. Rather than owning one function like marketing or ops, the CGO orchestrates across the silos — keeping marketing, intake, business development, and retention pulling toward one revenue number instead of optimizing alone while good leads slip through the gaps.
- Top-tier growth leadership at a fraction — roughly 20–40% — of a full-time CGO
- A fit for $1M–$100M+ firms whose marketing, intake, and sales report separately
- Most last 6–18 months before shifting to a lighter advisory rhythm
Above the Silos
The revenue relay a fractional CGO owns
Marketing, intake, sales, and retention each run their own leg. A fractional CGO owns the baton — so qualified leads stop getting dropped between teams.
Demand
Pointed at qualified pipeline and cost-per-signed-case, not clicks.
Speed-to-lead
No good lead left to go cold.
Sales & BD
Disciplined follow-up that turns interest into signed clients.
Referrals
Happy clients recycle into new pipeline.
Before & After
Leaking vs. sealed: where the revenue goes
Same marketing spend, two very different outcomes — depending on whether anyone owns the whole path.
Siloed
- Three teams, three dashboards, no shared number
- Good leads slip between teams
- More revenue requires a bigger budget
- No one owns the revenue number
Aligned
- One unified growth scoreboard for the whole firm
- Speed-to-lead under five minutes, every time
- Revenue grows on the spend you already have
- One executive owns the number
One Number
The growth a fractional CGO is accountable for
The number
One growth number the whole firm runs on, with a single owner on the hook for it.
The Mandate
The four legs of the revenue engine
Demand
Marketing and agencies held to qualified pipeline and cost-per-signed-case — not vanity metrics.
Intake & speed-to-lead
The marketing-to-intake handoff owned, so no qualified lead goes cold.
Conversion & business development
Structured pursuit that closes.
Retention, referrals & LTV
Every client feeds the next.
From the Record
Representative growth engagements
Representative of what one accountable owner can change.
Personal Injury · $28M revenue · scaling
Heavy spend brought leads, but qualified prospects leaked between marketing, intake, and follow-up — with no one owning the full funnel.
We built one growth scoreboard, pulled speed-to-lead under five minutes, and ran a consultative follow-up cadence across intake and BD.
~35% lift in lead-to-signed on the same budget.
Employment Law · $5M revenue · expanding
Demand was strong, follow-up was hit-or-miss, and every team reported its own numbers.
We stood up a unified scoreboard, set a BD cadence, and aligned marketing and intake on the same conversion targets.
~25% revenue growth with no added budget.
What Clients Say
What law firm leaders say
“Our teams used to run on separate tracks; now they all answer to one scoreboard, and one person owns it.”
“We grew revenue without spending another dollar on marketing — we just stopped leaking the leads we’d already paid for.”
Representative testimonials based on typical engagements; attributions are role-based. Individual results vary.
FAQ
Common questions
Q.What is a fractional Chief Growth Officer for a law firm?+
A fractional Chief Growth Officer is a senior revenue executive who owns your firm’s whole growth engine part-time — keeping marketing, intake, business development, and retention aligned to one number so growth stops leaking between teams.
Q.How is a fractional CGO different from a CMO or COO?+
Where a CMO handles marketing and a COO handles operations, a CGO orchestrates across them — owning the whole revenue engine rather than a single function.
Q.How much does a fractional CGO cost in San Jose?+
Most engagements run on a fixed monthly fee well below a full-time growth executive’s $250,000–$450,000+ compensation, set during the diagnostic by size and scope.
Q.What does a fractional CGO actually own?+
The revenue number — marketing oversight, intake and speed-to-lead, conversion and business development, and retention, referrals, and lifetime value, all on one unified scoreboard.
Q.What size law firm benefits from a fractional CGO?+
Firms in the $1 million to $100 million+ range get the most value, especially when marketing, intake, and sales each work hard but report separately and qualified leads slip through the handoffs.
Q.Do you work with law firms in San Jose, CA?+
Yes. We work with firms in San Jose, CA and nationwide, mostly remote with on-site time when it helps.
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