Fractional CRO · Founder-led B2B

I own your revenue strategy — and build the engine to deliver it.

A fractional Chief Revenue Officer for founder-led B2B companies. Not another rep. Not a consultant with a deck. The operator who owns the commercial strategy, directs your sales leaders, and builds the system behind the number.

Currently taking 1–2 new engagements. Capacity is capped at five.
Nick Steiner, Fractional CRO
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The shift

You don’t need more reps. You need someone to own revenue.

Most founder-led B2B companies at €2–15M try to grow by adding salespeople — then ask them to create pipeline from cold, with weak messaging, an invisible founder, and no system behind them.

The bottleneck was never rep effort. It’s the absence of a commercial strategy and the system to execute it. That’s a revenue-leadership job, not a hiring problem. And at your stage, you don’t need a full-time CRO’s salary to solve it — you need the strategy, the ownership, and the build, fractionally.

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What I own

A revenue chief, fractionally.

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Revenue strategy & the number

I own the commercial strategy and the forecast, and I’m accountable for the pipeline and growth that come out of it — not just advice you’re free to ignore.

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A strategy your team can actually run

I set the revenue strategy and priorities so your team executes against a clear plan instead of improvising — working alongside your founder and sales leadership, not over your people.

03

The distribution machine

Positioning, founder-led content and visibility, outbound infrastructure, and sales enablement — built once, run weekly, measured against revenue.

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One operating rhythm

A weekly operating cadence that pulls sales, marketing, content, and outbound into a single coordinated machine instead of disconnected activity.

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What I build

The systems I use.

Not advice you file away. Working systems I install and run, built from the same stack I operate every day.

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Cold outbound infrastructure

Multi-domain sending built for deliverability and warmup. ICP pools built vertical by vertical and city by city, segmented sequences, reply routing — accounts opened from cold without burning domains.

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RepRoute Technology

Outbound orchestration software I built. It wires your data, sequencer, and CRM into one motion, routes every lead to the right rep with dedup and ownership rules, and runs scoped automation per channel. One system in place of a stack of disconnected tools.

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Strategy above your Head of Sales

I don’t replace your sales leader, I work above them. Modern tooling, sharper targeting, and the big-picture revenue strategy — then I get your Head of Sales running the software and they run the day-to-day.

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Content engineering

Content built from your team’s real call transcripts and internal expertise, shaped into posts that sound like your operators. The substance your people already have — not generic AI slop.

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RevOps & single source of truth

CRM schema, lifecycle stages, attribution, hygiene and suppression rules — so the number you’re looking at is one you can actually trust.

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What you get

Outcomes.

The first month is the build. Everything after is the system compounding. Targets are set against your baseline in month one and reviewed every quarter.

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Month one: the system is live

The full build ships in the first month — domains warmed, ICP pools built, sequences and CRM wired, RepRoute running. A working system, not a pilot.

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A modern outbound motion

Your team running targeting and tooling they didn’t have before, opening cold accounts that used to go untouched.

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Predictable qualified meetings

A steady cadence of meetings booked from cold, measured against a clear baseline instead of guesswork.

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A new market, no new headcount

Reach into the US or UK opened through the system, without hiring a team to do it.

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One number you can trust

Pipeline and forecast in a single source of truth, so what you report is what’s actually real.

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Honest fit

Who this is — and isn’t — for.

A fit if you’re…

  • Founder-led B2B, roughly €2–15M revenue, with a sales team in place
  • In B2B services, distribution, vertical SaaS, industrial, or deeptech
  • Ready to be visible — in content, as the face of growth
  • Willing to grant real authority over revenue strategy and decide fast
  • Investing in a growth system, not a freelancer line item

Not a fit if you want…

  • Someone to “just do outbound” with no mandate
  • Brand-strategy theater or generic content marketing
  • Standalone lead-gen with no commercial integration
  • A founder who stays invisible
  • To start small and “see how it goes”
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The conviction

SDR-only prospecting is broken at the €2–15M stage. Reps are asked to manufacture warmth from cold — bad data, weak messaging, an invisible founder, no system behind them. Companies try to scale this way and burn years of salary before realizing the bottleneck was never rep effort.

The fix isn’t more reps, and it isn’t a CMO. It’s one operator who owns revenue and runs the entire commercial system as a single machine — with a weekly operating rhythm and clear accountability to the number.

That’s what I do.

Nick Steiner — Fractional CRO. Based in Prague, working across Europe, the UK, the US & Canada.
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Questions

The things founders ask first.

Why fractional instead of a full-time CRO? +
At €2–15M you need a CRO’s strategy and ownership, not a CRO’s full-time salary and equity. Fractional gives you the seniority and the build for a fraction of the cost, with a six-month minimum and quarterly go/no-go reviews so it stays accountable.
What about my existing Head of Sales or reps? +
They stay and they execute. I work above them — setting revenue strategy, directing priorities, and building the system around the team. Your Head of Sales runs the day-to-day; I own the number and the machine that feeds it.
How is this different from an agency or an SDR shop? +
An agency owns a slice and optimizes for their slice. An SDR shop sends volume. I own the whole commercial system — positioning, content, outbound, founder visibility, enablement — integrated under one rhythm and accountable to revenue, not activity. It’s ownership, not a vendor relationship.
What does it cost? +
Engagements are scoped per company and discussed on the call. They’re structured as a six-month minimum with a quarterly go/no-go, and a performance component tied to pipeline, new markets, or channel partners where it makes sense. If budget is a constraint, the call surfaces that quickly — for both of us.
How fast can we start? +
Capacity is capped at five clients, and I’m currently taking one to two. If there’s a fit, we can usually begin within two weeks of the first call.
Let’s talk

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