Growth agency for software founders
You have a product. Now you need to grow it.
Maybe you have no customers yet, or a few from your network but no way to scale past them. We earn the market's trust through founder-led content, then run outreach to win customers who don't already know you. No ads.
Maya Chen
Head of Operations · Follows you
Saw your team is scaling field ops. I wrote about this exact problem recently, thought it might be useful.
Honestly, I've been reading your newsletter for months. Yes, let's talk this week.
Why she replied
Warm before the first message. That's the whole point.
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What we are
A growth agency for founders building software products. We take you past your network to customers who don't already know you.
Who we're for
Founders building a software product, including teams selling into enterprise, with no customers yet or a few from their network but no way to scale.
What you get
Your first customers and design partners, then an owned growth engine that keeps compounding as you scale.
How we do it
We build trust with the market through founder-led content, then run founder-led outreach to convert it. No ads.
The insight
No one buys from a stranger on the internet.So every business has to earn trust first.
Whatever you're selling, a buyer has to trust the person behind it before they hand over money, and online you start as a stranger. That's why normal go-to-market fails from 0 to 1: cold outreach asks for the sale before you've earned the right to make it.
You earn that trust by being helpful, not by selling. A local SEO tool doesn't win by pitching its tool. It wins by teaching local businesses how to market at all, then showing where it fits. Be useful first, and the trust follows.
Your edge
It's the small things
you obsess over.
Trust isn't won with grand claims. It's won with the details you obsess over behind the scenes, the way a great pizza place cares exactly where its cheese and tomatoes come from.
The founder showing that, on camera and in writing, is the most credible content you can make. We find that story and build the narrative with you.
How we work
Two systems. Trust, then outreach.
We're growth engineers, not campaign runners. We build two owned systems: one that earns trust and compounds, and one that converts the attention it earns. No ads.
Earn trust
It starts with the website, often the first place a buyer checks you out. Then for months we publish content that's genuinely helpful about your market's problem, not your product, and show the small things you obsess over. The goal is recognition and credibility, not leads yet.
A website that builds credibility on first visit (built or rebuilt)
Articles & guides found on Google and inside AI answers (SEO, AEO, GEO)
A newsletter to an owned list of the right buyers
Founder-led posts on LinkedIn and X
Short-form video, tuned per platform
Convert it
This is where we engineer the outreach system. We instrument who engaged with the content, turn those signals into a targeted list, and run personalized, founder-led sequences that reference what each person actually read, across email, LinkedIn, and X. Built to win design partners, not to blast a list.
Capture intent signals: who subscribed, read, and engaged
Enrich and target right-fit accounts from that warm audience
Personalized multi-channel sequences in the founder's voice
Deliverability engineering: domain health, warm-up, sending limits
Attribution and iteration: track replies, feed wins back into content
Outreach into a warm market converts far better than cold. The trust built in Phase 1 is what makes Phase 2 work, and it keeps working long after a paid campaign would have stopped.
Proof
Trust shows up as numbers.
Every result came from earning attention first. Real clients, no ad spend.
71%
Newsletter open rate
SunLead · new customers organically, every month
65%
Organic traffic growth
Sunny Energy · near-zero to top-ranking in 6 months
Top 3
Search ranking
Champions Studio · within weeks
Day 1
Launched with authority
Avenue 7 Media · credible, not cold
The work
How we've done it.
Health & FitnessTop local rankings and full classes for Champions Studio
A local kids' club that was invisible online. We built local SEO and content that drove walk-ins within the first month.
Solar EnergyArizona's Leading Solar Company for Residential and Commercial Solar
A fast-growing solar company needed steady lead flow. We built a search and AI-optimized website and content engine that delivered consistent, qualified leads.
Solar EnergyAn owned newsletter that brought SunLead customers every month
SunLead was dependent on paid acquisition. We built an SEO and newsletter engine that turned subscribers into paying customers, without ads.
Founder-led
Trust is personal, so the founder stays in the work
Content and outreach carry the founder's voice and conviction, because that's what early buyers actually respond to. We take a small number of engagements at a time to keep it that way.
Jai Jalan
Founder & CEO
Former Microsoft & Google engineer. IIT alumnus.
Leads a team that builds software products and takes them to market, from the first line of code to the first customers.
Work with usIn their words
What founders say after the trust is built
What changed once the market knew who they were.
"The newsletters created by the Better team have helped us attract new customers organically every month, something we weren't able to achieve before."
Jai Jalan
CEO, SunLead
"Their strategic approach transformed our solar installation business, delivering sustainable lead generation and measurable ROI."
Joe
CEO, Sunny Energy
"The team helped us drive organic traffic for relevant keywords, securing a top 5 ranking on Google within weeks, which directly translated into increased walk-ins."
Sonam Jalan
Co-Founder, Champions Studio
"We were able to foster meaningful connections between caregivers and families through their innovative efforts. This led to a significant boost in our platform's visibility."
Cooper
CEO, Kizuna
FAQ
Questions founders ask
You build trust before you sell. We spend the first months publishing content that's genuinely useful to your future buyers: articles that rank on Google and surface in AI answers, a newsletter, and founder-led posts on LinkedIn and X. Once people recognize and trust the brand, we run outreach into that warm audience.
For a first-time product, cold outreach into a market that doesn't know you almost never converts, and ads stop the moment you stop paying. Trust is the thing that makes outreach work and keeps compounding.
Founders and operators launching a new software product from zero, including teams building software to sell into enterprise. If you have a real product but no audience or market trust yet, that's exactly the gap we close.
No. We build owned, compounding channels: search and AI-discoverable content, a newsletter and audience you own, founder-led social, and direct outreach. It's slower than ads at first, and it lasts.
Trust is built over months, not days. Content typically takes a few months to compound into real discovery and recognition, at which point outreach starts landing warm. We're explicit that this is the slower, more durable path, because it's the one that actually works for a new product.
We map where your product stands, what trust you have today, and the trust-first plan that gets you to first customers. No pitch deck. You leave with a clear next step whether or not we work together.
Next step
Build trust first.
Then win your first customers.
One call to map where your product stands and the trust-first plan that gets you to first customers. No pitch, no ad-spend math.
Plan your go-to-marketWhat happens on the call
Trust audit
Where you stand today and what the market already knows about you.
Content plan
The channels and cadence that earn trust for your specific product.
Outreach plan
When and how outreach begins once attention is warm.
Honest fit
A straight answer on whether we're the right team, even if we're not.