What a growth marketing agency costs

Three retainers. Foundation is INR 15,000 a month ($179). Aggressive is INR 25,000 ($299). Elite is INR 45,000 ($539). Those are the real figures, published here rather than sent after a discovery call.

Websites are the exception. Website builds have three fixed tiers, listed above. If a site is the main thing you need, say so when you get in touch and we will scope it properly instead of forcing it into a monthly retainer.

The rest of this page covers what sits inside each tier, which one suits which kind of business, what the fee does not cover, and how to check whether any agency quote is fair, including ours.

The three retainers, in full

Foundation, INR 15,000 per month ($179)

• Strategic Brand Positioning
• High Performance Content
• 2-Channel Management
• Basic Growth Analytics
• Bi-Weekly Strategy Sync

Aggressive, INR 25,000 per month ($299)

• Full Viral Strategy
• Paid Ads Management
• Multi-Channel Takeover
• Weekly Expert Guidance
• High End Video Editing
• Priority Execution Team

Elite, INR 45,000 per month ($539)

• Full Funnel Ownership
• Dedicated Creative Director
• Unlimited Content Ops
• Influencer & PR Access
• 24/7 Priority Support
• Custom AI Tooling

The dollar figures are listed because we work with clients in the US and the UK as well as in India.

Which tier suits which business

Foundation fits a business that is already selling something and needs consistent output plus a clear position in its category. Two channels, run properly, with a strategy call every two weeks. It is deliberately not a daily-contact arrangement. If you want someone in your messages every morning, this is the wrong tier and we would rather say that now.

Aggressive is the tier once real money goes into ads. Paid campaigns need weekly attention, not a fortnightly review, because a badly targeted campaign can burn a month of budget before a bi-weekly call catches it. This tier also carries the video editing, which matters if short-form is the channel you are betting on.

Elite suits a business where marketing is the actual constraint on growth and the owner wants to stop running it. Full funnel ownership means we are accountable for what happens between the first impression and the sale, not just for producing assets. Custom AI tooling means we build software specific to your operation rather than renting you a generic dashboard.

If you are not sure which one applies, tell us what you sell and what you are spending now. We will say which tier we think fits, including when that is the cheapest one.

What the fee covers, and what it does not

Advertising budget is separate. Paid Ads Management is the work of building, running and optimising campaigns. The money that goes to Meta, Google or TikTok is yours and is set by you. Any quote that folds media spend into a management fee without breaking the two apart is hiding something, and the first thing you should ask any agency is which portion of the number is their fee.

Website builds are fixed price. Three tiers, because a five-page brochure site and a hundred-page site with a database behind it are not the same job: Launch at ₹25,000, Business at ₹60,000, and Growth from ₹1,50,000. Growth carries a floor rather than a flat price because a build with programmatic pages and a backend cannot be scoped before we have seen the data behind it.

Nothing here is a rankings guarantee. Search Dominance is topical authority work that compounds over time. Anyone promising you a position by a fixed date is selling certainty they do not have.

How to tell whether an agency quote is fair

Price on its own tells you very little. These are the questions that actually separate a fair quote from a bad one, and they work on us as well as on anyone else you are talking to.

• What is the deliverable count and the cadence? "Content" is not a deliverable. How many pieces, on which channels, how often.
• Who does the work, and is any of it subcontracted? A lot of agencies in this region sell strategy and outsource the build to someone you never meet. Ask directly.
• What does month one look like? A real answer names the setup work. A vague one usually means the first month is a discovery invoice.
• What number are you judged on? Reach, leads, bookings and revenue are different things. Agree which one before you sign, not in month four.
• Can they show you a measured result, with the source? Not a screenshot of a spike. A number from an analytics property, with the traffic source stated.

That last point is worth expanding, because rankings promises are where most local SEO quotes go wrong. On a client's own Search Console, over 90 days, 103 pages produced 34 clicks in total, and 30 of those came from a single branded query. A page sitting around position 40 for a commercial local term produced almost nothing. So "we will get you ranking" is not a result. Ranking below the fold is worth close to zero, and a quote priced against that promise is a quote priced against nothing.

Who does the work

The agency is run by Teja, an AI Content Strategist and self-taught software developer. He designs the growth strategy and writes the code that runs it. That is the genuine difference in what you are paying for here: the strategy and the build are not two separate vendors passing files between them.

It matters for pricing because most agencies in the region outsource the build, so anything technical gets quoted a second time through a third party you never deal with. Custom AI tooling in the Elite tier exists for the same reason. When the person setting the strategy can also build the thing that executes it, that stops being an upsell and becomes part of the work.

If you want to test any of this before committing to a month, ask us for the numbers behind a case study and where they came from. We will send the source, including the parts that are less flattering.

Sanchara Travels, a cab operator in Andhra Pradesh. We built the site and ran the ads. Measured over 28 days in GA4: 911 visitors, of whom 196 opened a WhatsApp enquiry, 138 tapped to call and 5 completed a booking form. The site is 103 pages on Next.js 16 with a Supabase backend and programmatic route pages for every city pair, and 64 of those pages earn Google impressions. One thing has to be stated plainly: 744 of the 911 visitors came from Google Ads and only 30 from organic search. It is a paid-acquisition result, not an SEO one. That is the level of detail you should expect from anyone quoting you a price. Read the full case study.

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