Growth-Stage Strategic Partnership Retainer

📅 Date	March 2025
✒️ Author	Chris Hodson

Security, Product, and GTM Alignment for Scaling Cybersecurity Companies

Scaling a cybersecurity company requires tight execution across product, GTM, and leadership. Whether you’re raising Series B, expanding enterprise deals, or maturing your security narrative, you need a structured, results-driven partner—not just a consultant.

The Growth-Stage Strategic Partnership provides direct, high-impact advisory and execution support across product, GTM, and investor readiness. With two dedicated strategy sessions per week, this retainer ensures your sales and product teams are aligned on security messaging, feature prioritisation, and execution milestones.

Our Process

This careful groundwork enables us to create measurable, actionable OKRs specifically designed to accelerate your growth. From here, we assess your product-market fit, security narrative, and GTM strategy to create a customised quarterly OKR plan with clearly defined deliverables, ensuring every engagement has a structured execution roadmap.

Our weekly strategy sessions are purposefully structured around concrete deliverables and milestones established during our engagement kickoff. While you'll be driving the day-to-day execution, we're here to provide expert guidance, support, and battle-tested templates every step of the way. We track progress against these objectives through our transparent delivery framework.

Growth Accelerator clients also receive exclusive access to the echo5 Vault - a collection of enablement materials, including guides, whitepapers, and templates crafted by our founder, drawing from over a decade of proven strategies in Silicon Valley startups. Deliverables are unlocked as accelerators to achieving your defined quarterly objectives!

Unlike fractional consultants who may rush into engagements, we believe in meticulous preparation. Our process begins with comprehensive strategic discovery sessions. Before we meet, you'll complete our detailed onboarding survey — an hour-long investment that forms the foundation of our partnership. Whilst some might see this as excessive, we know it's essential to thoroughly understand your business.

Plus, all Growth-Stage partners receive exclusive discounts on echo5's transformative à la carte services. These in-person and cohort-driven workshops dive deep into specific challenges, providing intensive, time-bound instruction to elevate entire business functions. All workshop scheduling and materials are conveniently managed through the echoSphere platform.

Who is this for?

Series A-D cybersecurity startups building repeatable GTM and product execution frameworks.
Founders, GTM leaders, and R&D teams needing structured alignment across sales, security, and product development.
Companies preparing for enterprise expansion, compliance readiness, or major investor scrutiny.

What You Get

✅ Two Weekly Strategy Sessions (50 mins each) – Flexible format combining GTM, R&D, or Executive Leadership topics based on your needs and echo5 Vault deliverable priorities. Choose any combination that fits your weekly objectives.

✅ On-Demand Phone/Slack Support – Get priority access for fast response on critical product, sales, and investor challenges.

✅ Full Access to echo5OS – Your private single pane of glass for managing client deliverables, booking meetings, tracking execution progress, and budget allocation.

✅ echo5.live Membership – Premium access to exclusive cybersecurity product community, frameworks, and live workshops.

✅ Access to the echo5 Vault – A continuously growing set of ready-made tools, processes, instructional videos and templates to help you build and sell better products.

✅ Quarterly Executive Workshops – Deep-dive sessions with leadership teams to refine major security, product, and GTM strategies.

✅ Discounted à la Carte Services – Growth-stage clients receive 20% off additional projects (e.g., compliance prep, product security reviews, GTM enablement).

The echo5 Vault: Check it out!

The echo5 Vault is your go-to resource for accelerating growth and overcoming common cybersecurity product challenges. As a Growth Partner, you'll have unrestricted access to our extensive library of battle-tested enablement materials, including detailed playbooks, instructional videos, templated frameworks, and practical cheat sheets. These resources cover everything from security narrative development to enterprise sales strategies, helping you overcome common hurdles in building and selling cybersecurity products.

This isn't just a static repository - the echo5 Vault is continuously updated with fresh content, new frameworks, and refined methodologies based on real-world implementations. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, so do our resources, ensuring you always have access to current, relevant, and actionable insights that drive results.