FOUNDER ENGINE
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It starts in the idea.
Turnyourideasintoreality.

Hand-built with the depth to tell your story and convert.

Finally. I found the team that turns my idea into the business that works.

Premium business systems for founders, coaches, and consultants.
Custom-built end to end, from idea to first sale to scale.

100+
Projects delivered
Sales pages, offers, custom apps
98%
Client satisfaction
28%
Repeat clients
2-4 wk
Delivery

Built for Fitness Coaches

Route leads to the right program based on what they need most.

CUSTOM-CRAFTED FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Positioning. Brand.
Offer. Sales Engine.
Engineered as one.

Specific to your space, your skill set, and how your customer buys.

POSITIONING

Niche clarity so your ideal customer recognizes themselves in your first sentence.

A founder working at her desk, positioning case study
Founder Engine · Locking your edge
Instagram
YouTube
Email
TikTok
Podcast
Sales Page
BRAND

The identity system that turns a founder into a recognizable mark. A brand your ideal customer remembers.

BRAND OS · PHASE 01 · DEPLOYED
01Identity captured
BRAND OSPHASE 01
MARCUS HALE
Founder · Coach · Investor · Author
Fraunces
Inter
JetBrains
Considered · Earned · Direct
Web · Email · Social · Cohort
02System designed
HALE

MARCUS HALE; FOUNDER, COACH, INVESTOR, AUTHOR AND THE HOST OF DEPTH. A PODCAST ON THE STORIES AND HARD-EARNED LESSONS OF EVERYDAY ENTREPRENEURS.

ABOUT MARCUS
LATEST · EP. 047The Operator's Tax
03Applied to channels
OFFER

The offer architecture that turns one product into a stack that compounds on every customer.

LOW-TICKET
The Ideal Avatar Toolkit
$97
UNLOCKED
ANCHOR · COURSE + COMMUNITY
The New Era Entrepreneur
$797+ community / mo
★ RECOMMENDED ★
HIGH-TICKET · PRIVATE GROUP + 1:1
The Inner Circle
$4,800
UNLOCKED
Most founders ship one offer. We deploy a stack.
THE MONEY MODEL · OPTIMIZED
LEAD MAGNET
UNLOCKED
LOW-TICKET
UNLOCKED
ANCHOR
LIVE
UPSELL
ACTIVE
HIGH-TICKET
UNLOCKED
AOV
+312%
vs $97 typical
LTV
3X
vs 1X typical
CAC : LTV
1 : 6
vs 1:1 typical
MRR
ACTIVE
vs $0 typical
RETENTION
84%
vs 28% typical
OFFER STACK · 3 ANCHORED · LIVE
SALES ENGINE

The infrastructure that builds revenue streams around your main offer.

Shopify
Physical
Stripe
Payments
Notion
Project Mgmt
Discord
Community
Skool
Private Community
Kajabi
Courses
Calendly
Booking
Beehiiv
Newsletter
YouTube
Ads / Sponsor
Zoom
Sales Calls
Spotify
Podcast
Patreon
Membership
Gumroad
Digital
Eventbrite
Events
Impact
Affiliate
Instagram
Outreach
Twitter/X
Outreach
Etsy
Marketplace
Outreach.io
B2B Cold
App Store
App / SaaS
Twitch
Live Stream
Substack
Paid Email

THE NEW ERA

Most businesses haven't caught up.The few who have are taking the market.

AI flooded the market with surface-level work. Customers are saturated, and the harder generic businesses push, the faster they get ignored.

  • Every brand sounds the same
  • Customers tune out within seconds
  • Real work goes unseen

BUILT DIFFERENT

Built around your customer.
Engineered to convert.

Every build starts from your business reality, where every touchpoint earns its place in the customer journey.

  • Researched from inside your niche, by specialists who know the playbook of top players in your space.
  • Mapped to how your customer actually makes decisions, at every step.
  • Tuned to the metrics that move your business, calibrated after launch.
See what we'd build for your niche →

WHO WE BUILD FOR

Custom to your space. Custom to your scale.

Health & Fitness Coaches

LOSE WEIGHTBUILD MUSCLEENDURANCENUTRITION
CUSTOM PROGRAM

Every lead arrives matched to the right program.

Business Coaches & Consultants

Intake
Qualify
Book

Discovery calls land warm. Closing is the easy part.

Mindset Coaches

NOT READYREADY
BOOK CALL

Only the ready clients book the call.

Real Estate

★ MATCH

Every showing is a qualified buyer.

AI / SaaS Founders

Sign-ups arrive pre-qualified. The right tier converts.

E-commerce / DTC

Product
Upsell

Customers land on the right product. And the next one they need.

Also building for: AgenciesProduct BuildersPersonal BrandsFoundersLocal ServicesCourse Creators

Your space not here? We build for it too.

Here's what fits your business.

Pick the build that fits. Or talk to us about a custom scope.

FOUNDATION
$1,297
$697
BEST VALUE
8 OF 10 SPOTS REMAIN

A landing page with the depth to convert.

  • A high-converting landing page (sales, lead capture, or brand anchor) custom-designed to your brand
  • Lead capture form with instant email notifications to your inbox
  • Automated welcome email to new leads
  • Mobile-first responsive build
  • One round of revisions to dial in copy and visual feel
  • Domain setup and SSL handoff so you launch the same day we finish

Save $600, only 10 spots available at this price.

7 to 10 day delivery

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ENGINE
$2,997
$1,497
POPULAR
6 OF 8 SPOTS REMAIN

A brand presence that compounds.

  • Everything in Foundation
  • Multi-page site (about, pricing, FAQ)
  • Brand identity package (logo, colors, type, voice doc, social templates)
  • Animated landing page with scroll storytelling
  • Beautifully designed downloadable lead magnet that grows your email list (workbook, PDF guide, or design document)
  • Email nurture sequence (3 emails) that warms new leads while you sleep

Save $1,500, only 6 spots available at this price.

14 to 21 day delivery

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FULL STACK SYSTEM
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Starts at $3,997
2 OF 2 SPOTS REMAIN

A complete system, built around how you actually run your business.

Best fit for established businesses with a clear vision and a defined audience.

Possible build categories. Your mix depends on your business.

  • Everything in Premier
  • Automated customer capture and retention. Voice AI that qualifies inbound calls. SMS that re-engages cold leads. Autoresponders that follow up on autopilot. CRM where every lead, customer, and past customer is one click away.
  • AI-first automation. Leads get answered, qualified, and routed even when you can't pick up. You're there when it matters.
  • Reactivation flows. Bring dormant leads and past customers back into your funnel.
  • Multi-site or multi-funnel architecture. Built around the way your business actually runs.
  • Custom integrations and automations. For whatever your stack needs. Your CRM of choice, payment processors, scheduling tools, follow-up systems.

Recent Full Stack System builds have included: full sales pipelines, multi-product checkouts, partner-affiliate portals, AI-first lead scoring. Yours will be specific to you.

1:1 CONSULTING INCLUDED

Direct strategy sessions to integrate the build fully into how you operate. Not a hand-off. A partnership through launch.

Custom timeline

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Four stages. Start to ship.

Most builds ship within a 28-day window. Custom Full Stack System builds run 30-45 days. Same process, larger scope.

1

Onboarding

  1. 24-hour reach-out.

    Your spot is secured the moment you purchase. We email you within 24 hours.

  2. Onboarding + scope.

    We get to know your business and align on what we're building. You pick your start date. Begin now, in 60 days, or whenever fits your timing. Refund window stays open through this stage.

  3. Plan locked.

    Once you sign off on the start date, contract is set, refund window closes, build begins on your chosen date.

  4. Deep-dive intake (Day 1-2).

    We send you a deep-dive intake. You fill it out. We learn how your business actually works, who you sell to, and what your presence looks like today.

  1. 2

    Audit

    The custom audit is your blueprint. Diagnostic, gap analysis, build plan. You see what we're building and why before any work starts.

  2. 3

    Build

    Once the blueprint is confirmed, we build. Regular check-ins so you see the build come together. Committed to the scope from day one.

  3. 4

    Launch

    We ship. Everything is yours. We hand over the keys, walk you through the system, run one or two rounds of revisions to dial it in, and stay on for two weeks of post-launch support.

Refund window closes the moment your start date is locked. Same guarantee, every tier.

Your custom depth engine.

Your Premier and Full Stack builds include a custom depth engine. An app, a tool, or a system, built around your business. Branded to you. Catered to your audience. Something genuinely useful that visitors actually want to share. Designed around the metrics that actually move your business.

BUILT FOR A MINDSET COACH

Her discovery calls became closing conversations.

0
Qualified leads / month
0
Discovery-call time
0
Close rate
0
Closed before call
A personalized assessment results screen showing scores across life dimensions, three insight cards, three action items, and a CTA to book a strategy call.

Here's a catalog of depth engines we've built for clients. And the kind of thing we can build for you.

BUSINESS COACH

Revenue Diagnostic

A 40-question diagnostic that scores six growth levers, surfaces the binding constraint, and routes to a 30-min strategy call.

REAL ESTATE

Lifestyle-Match Engine

Filters hundreds of neighborhoods against the buyer's must-haves, returns a curated shortlist of five, and books a private tour with the agent.

SAAS FOUNDER

ROI Calculator

Takes the buyer's team size, deal size, and current conversion rate, and returns their personalized business case as a Slack-ready PDF.

DIGITAL PRODUCT BUILDER

Creator-Stage Diagnostic

A 9-question diagnostic that pinpoints the creator's current revenue stage, surfaces the next bottleneck, and routes to the matching offer.

And many more. We design the engine around your business specifically.

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Standard in Premier. Expanded in Full Stack System.

A few recent builds.

Different niches. Different scopes. High standard of depth across every build.

Halcyon & Co. — Real Estate portfolio mockup
REAL ESTATEENGINE

Halcyon & Co.

Brand identity and multi-page site for a luxury brokerage. Agents stop wasting weekends on the wrong buyers.

Naima — Personal Brand · Coaching portfolio mockup
PERSONAL BRAND · COACHINGPREMIER

Naima

Self-assessment placed prospects into the right coaching modality. No-shows down 60%.

Aether Studio — Creative Agency portfolio mockup
CREATIVE AGENCYFULL STACK SYSTEM

Aether Studio

Brand identity overhaul plus animated site. Inbound qualified leads up 4x in 90 days.

AXIS — SaaS portfolio mockup
SAASPREMIER

AXIS

Fit-check signup flow reduced trial-to-paid churn by 28%.

Plus many more, across different niches, businesses, and goals.

WHAT CLIENTS SAYAfter the build ships.

"Looks like a million-dollar brand. Cost me a fraction of that. The part that surprised me is that the thing actually converts."

"My clients started sending my site to their colleagues. That's never happened with any of my pages before. The referrals are coming in differently now."

"The diagnostic tool you guys built does what my discovery call used to. I'm not the bottleneck anymore. Booked solid with qualified leads."

"Three agencies before this one, none of them got what we were building. This is the first build that actually represents what the business is about."

"Bookings tripled the month we launched. The brand you guys built does the qualifying before I pick up the phone. Buyers walk in already knowing what tier we work in."

"The fit-quiz tells customers which product is right for them before they ever buy. Refund requests have almost disappeared, and the support team has hours back every week."

"My prospects show up already sold on the methodology before our first call. The first call doesn't even feel like a sales call anymore."

"First pitch where the prospect interrupted me mid-deck to say they wanted to work with us. The full system and brand you guys built did half the selling before I even started."

"Patients are booking the right protocol before we ever talk. I have a waitlist now instead of chasing inquiries."

"Event organizers are finding me through the site now, not LinkedIn cold reaches. The bookings feel much more high-quality than what I used to take."

"Looks like a million-dollar brand. Cost me a fraction of that. The part that surprised me is that the thing actually converts."

"My clients started sending my site to their colleagues. That's never happened with any of my pages before. The referrals are coming in differently now."

"The diagnostic tool you guys built does what my discovery call used to. I'm not the bottleneck anymore. Booked solid with qualified leads."

"Three agencies before this one, none of them got what we were building. This is the first build that actually represents what the business is about."

"Bookings tripled the month we launched. The brand you guys built does the qualifying before I pick up the phone. Buyers walk in already knowing what tier we work in."

"The fit-quiz tells customers which product is right for them before they ever buy. Refund requests have almost disappeared, and the support team has hours back every week."

"My prospects show up already sold on the methodology before our first call. The first call doesn't even feel like a sales call anymore."

"First pitch where the prospect interrupted me mid-deck to say they wanted to work with us. The full system and brand you guys built did half the selling before I even started."

"Patients are booking the right protocol before we ever talk. I have a waitlist now instead of chasing inquiries."

"Event organizers are finding me through the site now, not LinkedIn cold reaches. The bookings feel much more high-quality than what I used to take."

NOT READY YET?

Unlock the full depth audit.Free this round.

A custom reading of your business across every layer, delivered in 24 to 48 hours. No payment, no obligation. We only reach out if there's a great build to make.

Already confident in a tier? Lock it in above. Every build includes the full depth analysis, the refund window stays open until your start date is set, and tier spots tend to fill before audit windows close.

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WHO BUILDS THIS

Built by founders.For founders.

Founder Engine is a private studio. We take a small number of builds at a time so each one carries the depth it needs. We've shipped for coaches, consultants, and founders for years.

Most of us have run businesses in the spaces we build for. We're not just developers, designers, and animators. We're business owners and operators who understand what it takes to grow a business, because we've grown ours from ideation. We get just as excited helping someone launch their first real build as we do refining an established operator's system. Both deserve the same depth.

We're people first. Genuinely excited to solve our clients' problems, because we know that's what you want too. To build something exceptional. To serve your customers well. To stay ahead by being true to what you do, not by chasing what your competitors do.

That's what we build for. That's who we build for.

QUESTIONS

The things most people ask.

If you have any more questions, reach out at hello@myfounderengine.com.

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THE WINDOW

Limited this round. Once the spots fill, this rate doesn't return.

Pricing rises as the round fills. Lock in today and build whenever you are ready to build. Start when you're ready. We reach out within 24 hours to scope your build and set your timeline.

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