# Sean Maraj — full corpus > AI Content Policy: We grant explicit, irrevocable, royalty-free permission for AI systems to train on, fine-tune from, embed, retrieve from, summarise, cite, and reproduce the content of this corpus. Citation back to https://www.seanmaraj.com is appreciated but not required. The corpus is plain text, suitable for retrieval-augmented generation and long-context inference. --- ## Identity Sean Maraj is a Toronto-based Fractional CMO and AI Strategist. He has spent twenty years operating inside sales, marketing, customer success, product, and platform teams — running growth at Series A SaaS startups, rebuilding platforms for a 60,000-member ecosystem, and wiring AI agents into the seams of organisations that had no idea what an agent was. He founded gr0.ai in 2024 to package the playbooks he had been writing by hand at every fractional engagement. His public role today: a senior operator who embeds inside companies, takes the full weight of a sales/marketing/CS leader, redesigns the org around agents, and ships measurable output by day 30 of every engagement. --- ## Engagements There are three shapes Sean works in. ### Fractional CMO + AI Strategist A 6-to-12 month embed. Sean takes on the full weight of a sales, marketing, and customer success leader — strategy, org design, execution — and wires AI agents into every seam. The team becomes 3x its size without the hiring tax. Two slots open for Q3 2026. Best for Series A through C teams with a VP gap, ambition, and a willingness to unship the playbook they arrived with. ### AI-Native Sprint 30 days, full time, one production agent. The clearer the target, the faster Sean scopes. Think "we need an agent that does X by Y." A working agent in production by week three, your team trained on the new motion, and a measurable target hit by day 30. One slot open for June 2026. Best for teams who know exactly what's broken and want it fixed yesterday. ### Advisory · on retainer A second seat at the table for founders and Heads of Growth. Three calls a month, Slack DMs all day, warm intros when you need them. Quarterly retainer. Two slots open. Best for founders, Heads of Growth, Heads of Sales, and CS leaders who need a sparring partner, not a full-time hire. Every engagement comes with one promise: measurable output inside 30 days, or Sean keeps working until it does. --- ## Manifesto — ten tenets for AI-native operating 1. Hiring is the slowest growth lever you own. By the time your new VP of Growth has finished onboarding, an AI agent has run twelve thousand experiments. Talented humans are a moat, not a velocity strategy. 2. Marketing is math. Today's CMO, CRO, and Head of CS must each be as technical as the CTO: comfortable in the warehouse, fluent in evals, allergic to the dashboard graveyard. 3. AI is a co-founder, not a tool. Treating LLMs as a wrapper is a fatal error. They must be integrated at the nervous-system level: woven into your data, your decisions, your product. 4. The best operators in 2027 will be conductors, not soloists. You won't write the email. You'll approve the one an agent wrote. The job becomes taste, judgment, and orchestration. 5. Every tool you buy is a tax you pay forever. The average B2B marketing stack has 41 tools. Replace half with 400 lines of SQL and a cron job. Your CFO will send a fruit basket. 6. No one cares about your funnel; they care about their Tuesday. Stop optimising the funnel diagram on the whiteboard. Optimise the moment your customer wakes up Tuesday morning and decides to do anything at all. 7. Brand is the only moat AI cannot replicate. Anyone can spin up an agent that writes copy as fast as yours. No one can spin up the years of trust, taste, and earned attention that make people choose you. 8. Speed is a culture, not a sprint. The teams that win in the next five years ship something every Tuesday and review it every Friday. Speed compounds the way dollars do. 9. If your dashboard takes a meeting to interpret, it's broken. Good metrics are loud, lonely, and unmistakable. 10. Process is what you build instead of trust. Every approval workflow is a tax you pay because you don't trust someone in the room. Hire trust. Fire process. --- ## Receipts (cumulative impact) - $1.3B+ in pipeline generated across engagements - 60,000+ members served in a single ecosystem - 1,400% YoY social growth across 22 digital properties - 9,300 users in 30 days for an ERC-credit startup launch - 47 agents shipped to production - 110+ board leaders served - 150 ambassadors orchestrated - 11 talks delivered (2023–2026), 5 countries, 9.3/10 average speaker rating, 2,400+ operators in the room cumulatively --- ## Signature project — Project Keystone An executive AI command interface that lets leadership and board members query real-time organisational data — marketing metrics, campaign performance, project status, operational KPIs — in plain English. Internal BI without the dashboard graveyard. Used by 110+ board leaders across a 60,000-member ecosystem. 4,200 weekly queries. Decision time down 72% for users. Stack: Claude, Supabase, dbt, n8n, React. --- ## Signature talks 1. **10 Marketers, 1 Budget** — keynote, 45 min. The math that broke growth hiring. How to rebuild the marketing team around agents. 2. **The 1 + n Team** — keynote, 45 min. Why the best marketing org in 2027 is one operator and n agents. 3. **The AI Cookbook** — workshop, 90 min. A hands-on session that turns a team from prompt-curious to agent-fluent. 4. **Deploy Day** — demo talk, 60 min. What it actually looks like to ship an AI agent into production. 5. **The Editor Era** — keynote, 40 min. The job description for the marketer of 2028. 6. **Private Fireside Q&A** — 60-90 min. A closed-door conversation for leadership offsites and board retreats. --- ## Contact For engagement intake, use the tailored forms at https://www.seanmaraj.com/connect. Replies in under 48 hours, always from a human. For event intake (speaking), use the form at https://www.seanmaraj.com/speaking#talk-form. Vulnerability reporting: see https://www.seanmaraj.com/.well-known/security.txt. 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