Marketing & growth for early-stage startups

Every category has a moment it tips. We build for it.

Numenity is a marketing and growth consultancy for founders who've built the product and now need it to meet its market — senior go-to-market leadership, available when you most need it. Think of us as your one-stop marketing experts: the team who takes a startup from zero to one and helps it scale against category leaders, across brand, communications, community, AEO/SEO, paid search, and paid social.

Who this is for

You've found something that works. Now it has to work at scale.

What we do

Six ways in, one job to do: get the market to notice.

01

Go-to-market strategy

Positioning, messaging, and launch planning for new products and features — from first release to category leader.

02

Growth & demand generation

Acquisition programs built against real pipeline and subscriber targets, tuned for efficient CAC, not vanity metrics.

03

AI product marketing & pricing

Packaging and usage-based pricing for AI-enabled features — built from having done it inside an AI-native product.

04

Brand, community & influencer strategy

Community-led growth and creator partnerships that build word-of-mouth at scale, not just reach.

05

Interim & fractional leadership

Stepping in as interim CMO or head of marketing while you build the function — or the search for who leads it next.

06

Fundraising narrative

Sharpening the story behind the deck — market framing, proof points, and positioning that hold up under investor scrutiny.

Track record

Twenty years of helping startups reach their inflection point.

350M
users reached, 25% global market share at peak
Mozilla / Firefox
200%
YoY growth in new user acquisition
Automattic / WordPress.com
180%
B2B revenue growth in a single fiscal year
Klout
40%
YoY subscriber growth at efficient CAC
Splice
30%
annual B2B revenue growth, to sustainable profitability
Issuu
$1B
run-rate product family, most successful launch in company history
Adobe Creative Suite 2
60%
growth in first-time visitor traffic via influencer partnerships
Splice
New
pricing & packaging model built for usage-based AI features
Descript

Advised as principal, interim, or fractional lead

SpliceCrunchbaseManyChatScalable.inc CEAi Venture StudioSocial Print StudioTheFabulous.co
Principal

Paul Kim

Paul has spent twenty years joining platforms and helping them reach their inflection point — open source at Mozilla, prosumer SaaS at Automattic and WordPress.com, the creator economy at Splice, and AI-native tools at Descript — and building the marketing function each one needed to get there.

He's led global teams of 30+, launched a $1B product family at Adobe, and built go-to-market from scratch as an interim and fractional CMO for startups ranging from pre-seed to category leader. Numenity applies that same experience to founders building the next inflection point.

MBA Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
AB Stanford University
How we work

Three ways to bring Numenity in.

4–8 weeks

Growth sprint

A focused engagement to solve one problem well: a launch, pricing model, repositioning, brand campaign, or optimizing your distribution channels.

Retainer

Founder advisory

Ongoing counsel for founders and executives navigating marketing decisions without a marketing background of their own, or building a new fundraising narrative.

Ongoing

Fractional leadership

An embedded, part-time head of marketing: setting strategy, running the team, and owning the number, without a full-time executive hire.

Get in touch

Tell us where you're stuck. We'll tell you if we're the right fit.

No deck required for the first conversation — just where your marketing is today, and where it needs to be.

Based inThe San Francisco Bay Area
Contacthello@numenity.org