Team Integration · White Label Marketing

Supplement your team with marketing expertise

We alleviate the carrying cost of employees and take the pain out of sourcing inexperienced, low-commitment contractors. Senior marketing help that plugs into your team, under your brand or ours.

Engage as
ContractPart-timeFractionalWhite labelFull-time
30+ years

22 in corporate marketing and product management, 11 with agency marketing teams.

Why hire a consultant

Senior help, without the overhead

A full-time senior hire takes months to find and carries salary, benefits and ramp time. A marketplace freelancer is quick to book and hard to rely on. A consultant sits between the two, offering vast experience and extensive marketing expertise.

01

Senior from day one

Thirty years of strategy and hands-on execution start on the first call, with no learning curve on the platforms.

02

No carrying cost

No recruiting fees, benefits or idle months. You pay for the work your team needs, when it needs it.

03

Scope that flexes

Scale up for a launch, down after it, or keep a steady few hours a week. Contract, part-time or white label.

04

An outside view

Someone who has seen dozens of verticals can see solutions and pressure-test ideas your team is too close to recognize.

 
Full-time hire
Marketplace freelancer
Westward Marketing Lab
Time to start
Months of recruiting
Days
Days
Seniority
Depends on budget
Varies by gig
30+ years
Carrying cost
Salary, benefits, ramp
Low
Only the work you need
Commitment
High
Often short-lived
Steady, on your terms
Brand system and AI tools
Built from scratch
Rarely
Brand Biome and custom agent development
White label services

Plug in where your team needs depth

Brand

Brand Strategy

Messaging, positioning and creative direction aligned into one foundation, so campaigns stay consistent and brand signals compound.

Strategy

Marketing Strategy

Senior guidance that strengthens your team rather than overriding it, so decisions get validated faster and the roadmap stays tied to business goals.

Media

Paid Media Platforms

Planning, launch and optimization alongside your marketers across search, social and retail media, without another hire.

Media

Programmatic Advertising

Strategy, execution and optimization handled for you, with your team informed and in control of reach and brand safety.

Media

Connected TV

Platform selection, targeting and optimization for large-screen storytelling that fits how your team already plans media.

Search

SEO / GEO

Visibility across traditional search, generative engines and AI discovery, built into your existing content workflow.

Data

Analytics

What to measure, how to measure it, and how to read fragmented results so they improve GTM decisions.

Data

Dashboards

Role-specific views built for decisions, not vanity metrics: one shared source of truth across channels.

New · Build

Custom Marketing Software

AI agents, internal tools and integrations designed around how your team actually works.

How we build →
Every engagement runs on the Brand Biome

Your team gets a model of your brand, not just extra hands.

Before we touch a campaign, we decode your brand into the Brand Nucleus and map Goals, Environment, Strategies and Execution against their ideal states. Your team and ours work from the same reference, so the work adds up instead of resetting each quarter.

Core
Brand Nucleus
01
Goals
02
Environment
03
Strategies
04
Execution
Custom marketing software development

When the tool you need doesn't exist, we build it.

We run our own practice on software we wrote, including the Brand Biome app. The same approach is available for your team: small, focused tools that remove recurring manual work.

AI agents

Agents that draft monthly performance narratives, research and verify prospects, and run client onboarding, with a person approving every output.

Reporting and dashboards

Pipelines that pull platform data into one view and write the summary your stakeholders actually read.

Web apps and integrations

Client portals, brand audit tools and connections between your CRM, sheets, email and ad platforms.

Built in-house: the Brand Biome app, the Website Brand Audit, and the agents that run our reporting, prospecting and onboarding.

See the tools →
Meet your consultant

Tom Sullivan

Founder · Lead marketing sapien

A 30+ year track record leading performance and growth marketing: 22 years in corporate marketing and product management, and 11 years with agency marketing teams. Available for full-time, part-time and contract roles, or through Westward Marketing Lab as a white label partner.

Certifications
Google AdsGoogle AnalyticsYouTube AdsMicrosoft AdsMeta AdsBing Ads
Media platforms

Google Ads · Microsoft Ads · Meta · TikTok · LinkedIn · Reddit · Pinterest · Amazon Ads · DV360 (CTV) · MNTV (CTV) · Vibe (CTV) · StackAdapt · Xandr · AdRoll

Experience
2014 – Now
Contractor, AI-Accelerated Marketing
Westward Marketing Lab · Charlotte, NC | Pittsburgh, PA | Grover Beach, CA
11 yrs agency
Agency marketing teams
Leap Group [Amp] · Mercenary Marketing · Mission Web Marketing · NINE15 · Protiviti Digital (Robert Half) · R2Integrated
2004 – 2014
Marketing Director / Product Manager
Gamma Sports · 1,200+ products in 6 categories; new products reached 55% of revenue
2000 – 2004
Vice President, Marketing
ModelGolf / CompuSport Academy
1997 – 2000
Vice President, Marketing
Total Training · 60%+ annual revenue growth
1997
GTM Consultant, Software Development
The Tiffen Company
1995 – 1997
Senior Product Manager
MetaCreations · Kai's Super Goo: 150,000+ licenses, $12M OEM revenue
1993 – 1995
Marketing Manager · Channel Manager
Wavefront Technologies · Alias | Wavefront · 6 quarters over $3M in VAR sales
Education
B.S., Business Administration
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Add a senior marketer to your team this month.

Contract, part-time, fractional or white label.