Advisory
The Work
Behind the Results.
digitalCORE does not hand you a framework and send an invoice. We work alongside your team, deploying operator-level expertise across sixteen service areas, matched to your challenge, your market, and your stage.
16
Service areas
25+
Years average operator experience
$1B+
Revenue closed by teams we led
Why digitalCORE
Practitioners.
Not consultants.
Every engagement is led by operators who held the seat, made the call, and delivered the number. Former GMs, revenue chiefs, operations leads, and executives inside private equity backed companies. No generalists. No junior team doing the heavy lifting.
We match the expertise to your specific challenge, your industry, and your stage of business. You get the people who have done it, not someone who studied it.
Our operators have run revenue inside media, technology, information services, and professional services. The system does not care what you sell. It cares whether your team has a plan and works it.
Every service area is staffed from The Expert Network, our bench of operators who have held the seat. See who is on the bench.
Coverage map
Twelve core services.
Four media specialties.
Twelve of these apply to any company with a sales team. Four are built specifically for publishers and media owners, drawn from twenty five years inside the business. Pick the gap. We staff it.
Revenue Foundations
Revenue Architecture
Build the right revenue stack.
Product strategy, offer prioritization, and execution playbooks matched to your market, your team, and what you actually sell. We map what fits, retire what does not, and build the playbook to run it.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationSmart Automation
Automate to accelerate.
AI and automation across revenue operations. CRM, proposal generation, reporting dashboards, and the operational infrastructure that scales without adding headcount. We install what frees your team to sell.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationGrowth and Business Development
Growth Capture
Grow what you have. Win what you do not.
Business development strategy that captures untapped revenue inside existing accounts while opening new doors with the right prospects, in the right sequence.
3 Specialists on Bench
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Stop leaving money on the table.
Price architecture, packaging, discount discipline, and the sales behavior that protects margin. Pricing that reflects what you are actually worth, and a team that can defend it.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationHidden Revenue
Revenue you are not collecting yet.
Partnership identification, licensing, channel structures, and co-branded products. New revenue streams that do not require new headcount or new inventory.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationOperations and Leadership
Sales Talent
Build the team that closes.
Hiring strategy, role architecture, compensation design, interview frameworks, and ninety day onboarding built specifically for revenue organizations.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationOperational Discipline
Make the number predictable, not accidental.
Forecasting cadence, pipeline accountability, quarterly planning rhythm, and the management infrastructure that holds it. This is where the six operating frames get installed.
3 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationRevenue Operations
Fix the plumbing under the pipeline.
CRM architecture, stage definitions, data hygiene, territory and quota design, and the reporting a leadership team can actually make decisions from.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationCustomers and Data
Customer Intelligence
Own your customer data before someone else does.
First-party data strategy, capture architecture, segmentation, and the packaging that turns what you know about your customers into a durable revenue asset.
3 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationRecurring Revenue
Turn one-time buyers into a book of business.
Subscription and retainer architecture. Pricing models, renewal mechanics, expansion motion, and the retention work that keeps churn low and lifetime value high.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationTransactions and the Future
PE Navigation
Survive and thrive under private equity ownership.
Reporting cadence, EBITDA management, operational improvement plans, and board communication, from people who have been in that room.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationValuation Readiness
What your company is really worth.
Understanding what buyers look for, what kills deals, and how to build clean financials and predictable revenue that command a premium at exit. Hire us before the banker, not after.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationMedia and Publishing Specialty
Four services built for publishers and media owners, drawn from twenty five years inside the business. If you are not a media company, skip this group.
Ad Tech and Yield
Make your ad stack work harder.
Full programmatic audit. SSP selection, floor pricing, header bidding configuration, and yield reporting that recovers what most publishers leave behind.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationAudience Monetization
Turn audience into revenue.
Registration and data capture, audience segmentation, advertiser packaging, and the newsletter and subscription architecture that makes an audience pay.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationEditorial Commerce
Build a newsroom that pays for itself.
Content strategy, audience growth, and monetization working together. Org design, editorial and commercial protocols, and the cultural shift that makes it stick.
2 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationIndependent Publisher Growth
Scale on your own terms.
Revenue infrastructure, sales discipline, and strategic clarity for independent publishers growing without outside capital. Bootstrapped growth, built to last.
3 Specialists on Bench
+ Start the ConversationWhy digitalCORE
Built for operators.
Not for decks.
Operator-led, every time
Every engagement is run by people who have held senior revenue or operating roles inside real businesses. We have managed the P&L, built the team, closed the deal, and sat in front of the board.
Built around your business
No off-the-shelf playbooks. Every engagement starts with a revenue diagnostic of your specific team, market, and gaps. Then we build against where you actually are.
Sixteen areas. One partner.
From pricing to talent to exit readiness, we cover the full revenue lifecycle. You do not need five vendors. You need one team that understands how all of it connects.
Results, not reports
We measure success the way you do. Revenue generated, deals closed, margin improved, team performance lifted. We stay until the numbers move.
Engagement
These sixteen are how an Advisory engagement gets spent.
Advisory is not a menu you order from. It is the menu inside an Advisory engagement. We build the plan with your head of sales, install the six operating frames, and pull from these sixteen areas as the work calls for them.
Start
A revenue diagnostic and a scoped plan. Free, and yours whether you engage or not.
Six months
A semi-annual engagement. Long enough to see the frames hold.
Twelve months
An annual partnership at a lower monthly rate. Long enough to make them permanent.
Monthly, paid at the start of each month, plus a commission on deals we close. The engagement is scoped after the diagnostic, and the terms come with it.
Ready to start
Tell us the gap.
We will staff it.
Thirty minutes, with your head of sales in the room. You will leave knowing which of the sixteen actually applies to you, and which do not.