PAID MEDIA PROGRAM

Paid media managemt built for your stage of growth.

PPC management services provided by practitioners with genuine depth in both business strategy and channel execution.

Clever, tenacious, precise.

Deep Technical Expertise

Advanced capabilities in expert hands

Compliance Mastery

Forged by securing classified systems.

SEASONED EXPERT OWNERSHIP

Matched to your work – owns the results

SDVOSB CERTIFIED

Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned

WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT

You've run paid before. You know how this usually goes.

What usually goes wrong

  • Your budget gets thrown at whatever the platform recommends this week
  • Your account manager can’t answer a technical question without escalating to someone else
  • Reports show you what looks good — not what’s actually moving your business
  • When you leave, the creative, the pixels, and the accounts go with the agency

What we do instead

  • Strategy drives the spend — not whatever the platform recommended this week
  • The expert running your account can explain any metric or decision directly — building the kind of working relationship where their depth in the subject helps you understand your own business better
  • Reports are comprehensive and hide nothing — your expert walks you through what moved, what didn’t, and what changes next
  • Every asset, every pixel, every account is yours — in your name, handed off at any time

PAID MEDIA PROGRAMS

Three tiers. Start where you are.

Each tier runs the same strategy-first approach. The difference is surface area — how many channels, how aggressive the optimization cadence, how frequently you’re reporting, and how often you’re working with your S5T Principal Investigator.

Focused Performance

For businesses that need expert paid media ownership on a focused set of channels.

Monthly working call with your PI. Written report delivered same week. Ad spend billed separately as a direct pass-through. No markup.

  • Monthly PI strategy session
  • Up to 2 platforms
  • Up to 3 active campaigns
  • Up to 1 concurrent split test
  • Continuous algorithmic monitoring
  • Monthly performance report

Growth Performance

For businesses ready to scale channels and increase optimization cadence.

Bi-weekly working calls and performance reporting. Ad spend billed separately as a direct pass-through. No markup.

  • Bi-weekly PI sessions
  • Up to 3 platforms
  • Up to 6 active campaigns
  • Up to 2 concurrent split tests
  • Continuous algorithmic monitoring
  • Biweekly performance reporting

Full Performance

For businesses running aggressive paid programs across multiple channels.

Weekly working calls and performance reporting. Ad spend billed separately as a direct pass-through. No markup.

  • Weekly PI sessions
  • Up to 4 platforms
  • Up to 10 active campaigns
  • Up to 4 concurrent split tests
  • Continuous algorithmic monitoring
  • Weekly performance reporting
  • Quarterly strategy refresh
  • Priority PI access

Not sure which tier? A discovery call allows us to determine which plan is best for you.

HOW WE STAFF IT

The person you meet is the person who runs it.

Most retainers put a seasoned name on the pitch and a junior hand on the work. We don’t. A Principal Investigator — a working expert matched to your situation — owns the engagement from kickoff to reporting.

They have the technical depth to do the work themselves, and they deploy a curated network of specialists — each at the top of their discipline — when the engagement calls for it. They are not an account manager. They are not an outside advisor who briefs you from a distance and disappears between calls. They are the person whose name is on the work.

Your Principal Investigator

Who a PI is not:

  • Not an account manager — someone who owns the relationship but not the output
  • Not a coordinator who manages deliverables they can’t evaluate themselves
  • Not a vendor representative whose incentive is retention, not outcomes

HOW IT RUNS

What the first 90 days look like.

No surprises. No ‘discovery phase’ that never ends. Here’s the actual cadence.

01

Discovery & scoping

A 30-minute discovery call, then a scoped proposal with tier, cadence, and expected outcomes. You decide whether to proceed.

02

Audit & instrumentation

Week 1–2: your PI audits existing setup, closes the instrumentation gaps, and brings you into the picture. Work starts informed. You see what they see.

03

Execution at cadence

Week 3 onward: execution begins at the tier’s cadence. No gaps, no silence. You always know what happened and why.

04

Reporting & recalibration

At the cadence your tier specifies: what performed, what didn’t, and the direction forward.

PUBLISHED WORK

What the PI model looks like in practice.

Write-ups of actual engagements — what we were hired to do, what we actually did, and what changed. 

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    Cybersecurity & Compliance
    Digital Marketing
    Digital Transformation
    Web Development

    Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Prime MD’s Journey Toward a Sophisticated Digital Enterprise

    A premium med spa needed to escape vendor lock-in, rebuild their entire web presence in three weeks, and begin building toward HIPAA compliance. One PI owned every line of effort — from the emergency rewrite through the first compliance milestone.

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    Cloud Engineering
    Cybersecurity & Compliance
    Enterprise Systems
    Legacy Modernization

    SaaS Modernization: Empowering Multi-Tenant Architecture Development at Alessa

    S5T mapped the engineering gaps in Alessa’s aging cloud infrastructure, drove the multitenant modernization plan, and built the internal capability for Alessa engineers to own and operate the architecture going forward.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

What clients say after working with us.

QUESTIONS YOU'RE PROBABLY ASKING

The things prospects actually ask.

How is this different from the last agency I used?

S5T assigns each engagement a PI matched to your specific situation — someone with genuine technical depth suited to your engagement, real knowledge of how your industry operates, and the management background to scope and direct the work intelligently. Not a non-technical account manager handing out work assignments whose execution they cannot truly understand.

Will S5T comanage ad platforms or coproduce creatives with my staff?

We find that we work best with clients that are looking for a full-service provider who handles ad account and campaign management and creatives production for them, so that they can focus on their core business. Said more plainly, we do not comanage ad platforms or coproduce creatives with our clients' staff.

What does the PI actually do day-to-day?

The PI owns the engagement. They have the technical depth to evaluate what’s happening in the account directly — making the calls on strategy, creative direction, and execution, not relaying decisions between you and a team they can’t technically assess.

How long is the contract?

Variable. Term length is set per client during scoping, with a 90-day minimum — anything shorter doesn’t give you enough time to evaluate whether the work is moving what it should. We aim to build long-running client relationships over time, often spanning multiple engagements, but each contract covers only the scope it was written for.

What do I own when it’s over?

Everything we produce or run on your behalf is yours — ad accounts, creative assets, landing pages, tracking pixels, audience lists, data exports. The mechanics of ownership and access are set in your engagement agreement, but the principle is firm: on termination, everything transfers fully to your control.

How do you report?

Cadence is set by your tier. In every tier you get a PI strategy session plus performance reporting on the same rhythm — what the platforms are showing, what got changed, what’s coming next.

Who controls the ad accounts?

The accounts are yours, but are solely managed by us during the engagement — we don’t co-manage paid accounts. That’s how we can speak honestly to results: nothing is moving in the account that we didn’t move or approve. The mechanics of access and handover are set in your engagement agreement.

HOW PRICING WORKS

Clear scope. Clear number.

Programs are priced by tier. The discovery call surfaces which tier fits your situation; the proposal gives you the number. That number is what you pay — month after month, no surprises.

What doesn’t drive the price: How well you negotiate. What budget you walked in with. How urgently you need to start.

What the discovery call costs: Nothing. Typically 30 to 60 minutes — long enough to understand your situation, short enough to respect your time.

  • A recommended tier (with why)
  • A scoped written proposal, delivered promptly
  • A straight answer on whether we’re the right fit for your situation

What the discovery call produces

  • A recommended tier (with why)
  • A scoped written proposal, delivered promptly
  • A straight answer on whether we’re the right fit for your situation

WHO WE SERVE

Three kinds of clients.

If you see yourself below, a discovery conversation is worth your time.

THE GROWTH-STAGE OWNER

You built it. Then you outgrew it.

You run a successful small business in a regulated industry— a med spa group, a legal practice, a financial services firm. You’ve outgrown the patchwork of tools and part-time vendors that got you here. Now you want seasoned expertise. Someone that has built real systems and sophisticated marketing plans. Someone who will learn how your business operates and use holistic tech and marketing approaches to support your growth.  

THE COMPLIANCE-BOUND TECHNICAL BUYER

The spec is hard. The compliance floor is harder.

You’re a Director, VP, or CTO at a company whose software has to satisfy FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, or some other complex regulation. You’ve been burned by vendors who claimed compliance fluency and couldn’t perform. You want a team whose founders actually shipped advanced accredited systems, and who can walk your auditors through the work and achieve favorable outcomes.

THE MISSION OWNER

Government PMs, directors, and COs.

You’re a program manager, contracting officer, or technical lead inside DoD, the IC, or other heavily compliance-bound agency. You need contractors who deliver on time, own their deliverables, and have a history of building and successfully accrediting advanced software and cloud systems. Our founders have done exactly that. Checkout our capabilities statement to learn more. 

Discovery calls are a conversation, not a sales pitch. 30 minutes, no obligation.

How would you like to connect with us?

Use the button below to open our booking page and select a time that works for you. 

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