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NOT A CONSULTANT. NOT AN AGENCY. · ALL 50 STATES
Your growth advisor
with a team of specialists.
Whether your business is stuck, growing faster than your systems or just getting started, you work shoulder to shoulder with one senior strategist and the team of specialists behind her. High touch. No templates. No one size fits all packages.
An advisory relationship, not a transaction.
CRYSTAL PEÑA · LEAD ADVISOR, LEADING A TEAM OF SPECIALISTS
Every engagement starts with a real conversation about where you are, where you want to go and what’s honestly in the way. From there we build a plan that fits your business, and then we build it with you. Strategy, writing, design, systems and the calls nobody else wants to make.
We’ve run businesses in healthcare, medical billing, hospitality, construction and government permitting, so we advise like operators. It doesn’t matter if you’re a founder who hit a wall, a contractor buried in paperwork or a nonprofit stretching every dollar. We meet you exactly where you are.
We don’t hand you a package and disappear. We get in it with you.
Four ways we work. Start with the one that sounds like you.
Each service has its own page with the full scope, the process and a calculator for what the problem is costing you now. Not sure which one fits? Many clients need more than one. That’s what the first call is for, and it’s free.
Fractional COO
FOR STARTUP FOUNDERS · FROM $3,400/MONTH
“Every decision, question and problem still goes through me.”
A part-time Chief Operating Officer. We prove what customers actually want, then build the systems, team and rhythm to run it, without a full-time executive salary.
– Market research, concept validation and go-to-market strategy
– Systems, SOPs, vendors and the numbers in one simple view
– Hiring, onboarding and team structure that supports scale
Marketing
FOR BUSINESSES READY TO BE FOUND · FROM $2,000/PROJECT
“I’m posting when I remember and hoping the phone rings.”
Brand, websites, content and advertising under one plan, so every piece points the same direction. Organic first, then paid, and local relationships alongside the online reach.
– Brand strategy, visual identity and competitor research
– Wix websites, local search and email that converts
– Social content, paid campaigns and bilingual English and Spanish work
Bids, proposals and estimating
FOR ANYONE WHO ANSWERS AN RFP, RFQ OR GRANT · FREE BID CONSULT
“We do great work. We just keep losing the bid.”
We price the bid, answer the RFP or RFQ, build the grant and write the clauses that protect you once you’re awarded. Already wrote yours? Send it over for review before it goes out.
– Bid estimation checked against market and your real costs
– RFP, RFQ and grant responses written to the scoring criteria
– Contract clauses and exceptions that protect your margin
Construction management
FOR CONTRACTORS, OWNERS AND INVESTORS · FROM $3,400/MONTH
“I built the company, and now I run it from the truck.”
You run the field. We run the desk. Vendors, pay apps, change orders, permits, inspectors and closeout, plus capital projects advisory from raw land to a finished asset.
– Budget tracking, pay applications and change orders reviewed
– Permits, inspections, vendors and subs held to the schedule
– Punch lists, closeout and final payment driven to done
Apre + Grow = ApreGrow
We learn your customers, your margins, your market and your season before we recommend a thing. Then we build what grows it.
Apre
TO LEARN
Grow
TO GROW
ApreGrow
LEARN FIRST, THEN GROW
Results, not promises.
Growth built without buying a single click, and bids that come back signed.
$1M
DOCTOR-LED HEALTHCARE PRACTICE
Per year, up from $20K a month. Two years of organic social media, website and brand strategy. $0 on paid ads.
5,400
CONSUMER PRODUCT LAUNCH
First run, sold out. Idea to market through SEO, social and influencers. Reordered within six months. $0 on paid ads.
8x
LOCAL SERVICE BUSINESS
$10K to $80K a month. Social media, a new website and strategic partnerships in their own community. $0 on paid ads.
98%
BIDS, RFPS, RFQS AND GRANTS
Win rate on bids we submit. Priced right, complete, on time and written so nothing is left to argue about. Signed, not marked up.
How it works, whichever door you walk through.
HOW IT WORKS
You approve every step, and you own everything we build. Nothing is locked behind our login.
Listen
STEP 1
A free conversation about your business, your goals and what you’ve already tried. No pitch deck, no proposal on the first call.
Diagnose and map
STEP 2
We find the real problem, not the obvious one, then write a phased plan with priorities, timeline and a price in writing before we start.
Build
STEP 3
Your advisor leads the work with weekly check-ins and clear milestones. If something isn’t working, we adjust fast.
Grow and hand off
STEP 4
Monthly reporting and course correction. Keep us on as your advisor or take what we built and run with it.
What you get here that you won’t get from most firms.
One strategist. Every step. Start to finish. No account managers, no hand-offs, no wondering who’s actually doing the work.
You work with the founder
Crystal leads your work day to day and directs the specialists behind it, and your in-house team too if you want. No hand-off to a junior account rep.
We’ve been operators
Healthcare, medical billing, hospitality, commercial and residential construction and government permitting. We advise from the inside, not from a slide deck.
We know this ground
Rooted in Pinedale with deep local ties in Jackson Hole, Sublette and Sweetwater counties, and working with clients in all 50 states.
Bilingual by default
English and Spanish written by a native speaker, so your message lands with both audiences instead of reading like a translation.
Organic before paid
New marketing accounts build a 60 to 90 day organic baseline before any ad spend, so your budget follows real data.
Honest work, clear scope
You know what’s included before we start. Anything extra is quoted before it’s done, never slipped onto an invoice.
Simple ways to work together.
Every engagement is quoted on its own, in writing, before any work begins. Project and retainer prices are starting points, and we recommend whichever option costs you less.
Strategy call
FREE
Tell us your goals and what’s in the way. We’ll tell you honestly if we can help and what we’d do first.
Hourly
$250/HOUR
A bid review, a clause you need answered now or a plan you want pressure tested.
Project based
FROM $2,000/PROJECT
One defined deliverable with a clear finish line: a website, a launch, a validation sprint or a single job to closeout.
Ongoing retainer
FROM $3,400/MONTH
Your fractional COO, marketing department, bid desk or construction desk, run every week without the payroll.
Full representation
7% OF TOTAL PROJECT VALUE
For bids and construction projects, from the bid through the work itself. Only where solicitation or funder rules allow it.
Growth Advisor & Fractional COO, Nationwide
ApreGrow is your growth advisor and fractional COO, backed by a team of specialists and working with clients in all 50 states from Pinedale, Wyoming. Whether your business is stuck, growing faster than your systems or just getting started, you work with one senior strategist across fractional COO support, marketing, bids and proposals, and construction and healthcare operations. High touch, no templates.