Proptech sells to a committee,
not a person.

A brokerage principal, an operations lead, an IT reviewer, and a finance approver all have to say yes — and each one is asking a different question. Story Mode builds the positioning, proof, and funnel discipline that gets a proptech product through a long, multi-stakeholder evaluation.
20yr
In growth marketing
100+
Clients led personally
90-day
To a working operating plan
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What this looks like in practice.

The stall was in evaluation, not at the top of the funnel.

A proptech startup was generating demos but losing prospects during evaluation. The messaging spoke to the operations lead and said nothing to the finance approver or the IT reviewer who could quietly veto. We rebuilt the message for each seat at the table, added mid-funnel proof the champion could forward internally, and addressed switching cost directly instead of avoiding it.

Stronger progression through evaluation and clearer sales-readiness signals

What they said.

Deep knowledge in marketing with a deep passion about crypto. Always quick to produce results.

Sergej KotliarCEO, Bitrefill

Helped kickstart our marketing strategy from concept to new product launch.

Nick CasaresHead of Product, Step3

Built for proptech founders
selling into complexity.

01
Selling to a committee

Founders whose deals need sign-off from operations, IT, and finance — where a single persona message stalls at the second stakeholder.

02
Interest without progression

Teams generating demos and pilots that stall in evaluation. The problem reads as a lead problem and is usually a proof problem.

03
Sales cycles that outlast forecasts

Companies where a deal can take longer than the quarter it was forecast in, and marketing has no way to keep a slow deal warm.

Sound familiar?

1
Your message lands with one stakeholder and loses the other three.
2
Deals reach evaluation and quietly stall there.
3
Your champion wants to sell internally but has nothing to send around.
4
Incumbent software is bad, and buyers still find switching harder than staying.
5
Pilots get agreed to, then take two quarters to convert.

Story Mode brings GTM clarity to complex proptech sales — with stakeholder-specific messaging, mid-funnel proof, and the follow-through a long cycle demands.

What actually gets built.

Proptech marketing fails in the middle of the funnel, not the top. The work below is aimed at the evaluation stage, where deals are genuinely won and lost.

01
Stakeholder messaging architecture

The same product framed for the operations lead, the IT reviewer, and the finance approver — because each is underwriting a different risk.

02
Champion enablement assets

The one-pager, ROI model, and security summary your champion forwards internally when you are not in the room. Most proptech deals are decided in that meeting.

03
Mid-funnel proof

Case studies, reference structures, and pilot frameworks that move a prospect from interested to confident.

04
Switching-cost narrative

Direct treatment of migration risk, staff retraining, and data portability, since inertia is the real competitor in real estate software.

05
Long-cycle nurture

Lifecycle sequences built for a six-to-twelve month evaluation, so a slow deal stays warm without a rep chasing it weekly.

06
Weekly operating rhythm

Ownership, reporting, and a decision cadence that survives a sales cycle longer than the quarter it started in.

The first 90 days.

Week 1–2
Map the committee

Who actually signs, who can veto, and what each of them is really underwriting. Built from your own sales calls and lost-deal reasons rather than assumptions.

Stakeholder mappingLost-deal reviewObjection audit
Week 3–4
Fix the middle

Rebuild the evaluation-stage assets: proof, ROI framing, and the switching-cost conversation your champion is currently having alone.

Proof assetsROI framingChampion enablement
Month 2
Build the operating plan

Channel priorities, campaign roadmap, lifecycle nurture for long cycles, and a KPI model that measures progression rather than volume.

Campaign roadmapLifecycle buildKPI model
Month 3
Run it and adjust

Weekly cadence, pipeline review, and iteration on the messages that are moving deals through evaluation.

Weekly rhythmPipeline reviewPlaybook handoff

How we work together.

Fractional CMO — Proptech

Embedded marketing leadership on a monthly retainer, scoped to a sales cycle that runs longer than a quarter.

Two to three days a week embedded
Stakeholder messaging architecture
Champion enablement assets
Mid-funnel proof and ROI framing
Long-cycle lifecycle nurture
Weekly reporting and KPI model
Slack and async communication
Month-to-month, no lock-in

Scoped as a monthly retainer against what the company actually needs. Reggie has personally led every one of these engagements.

Questions.

Why is proptech go-to-market so hard?
Because you are rarely selling to one person. A brokerage principal, an operations lead, an IT reviewer, and a finance approver all have to agree, and each cares about something different. Messaging written for a single persona stalls the moment it reaches the second stakeholder. On top of that, real estate buying cycles are long enough that a deal can outlast the quarter it was forecast in.
How do you market to a buying committee?
By writing for each seat at the table rather than averaging them into one message. The operations lead needs to believe it will not break their workflow. Finance needs a payback period. IT needs to know about integration and data handling. The same product, framed four ways, with proof assets that let your champion sell internally when you are not in the room.
Can a fractional CMO help before we scale headcount?
That is usually the right moment for it. You get executive-level marketing direction while the function is still being defined, without committing to a full-time hire before you know what the role should own. If the outcome is a clear plan and a first marketing hire who inherits a working system, the engagement did its job.
Do you work with both B2B and marketplace proptech?
Yes, though they are genuinely different problems. B2B proptech is a committee sale with a long evaluation. Marketplace proptech has the classic two-sided cold-start problem, where supply and demand each wait for the other. The diagnosis differs; the operating discipline that follows does not.
What should we fix first?
Almost always positioning and mid-funnel proof, in that order. Most proptech teams generate interest and then lose deals in evaluation, which looks like a lead problem and is actually a proof problem. More traffic on top of a funnel that leaks in the middle just makes the leak more expensive.
How is this different from hiring an agency?
An agency executes against a brief that someone on your side has to write. Long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles are exactly where that breaks down, because the brief needs to change as you learn what each stakeholder actually objects to. A fractional CMO sits inside the business, hears the sales calls, and rewrites the brief as the picture sharpens.

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