The Done-For-You Execution Retainer · $1,500/mo · 3-month minimum
Hand me the search channel. I run it like it's my own.
Strategy, content, on-page, conversion, and monthly revenue reporting. Handled end to end. No account managers, no junior hand-offs, no vanity-metric dashboards. The strategist doing the work is the person you talk to: me.
Start with the Blueprint: $497 → Rather own it in-house? →
$1,500/mo · 3-month minimum, then month-to-month · your Blueprint fee credits to month one.
Run personally by Israel Obiagba, a software engineer of 8+ years turned revenue-first SEO strategist, and creator of the 6-Pillar AI SEO Framework. No buffer between you and the work.
Why most SEO retainers disappoint
You've probably rented an agency before. You know how it goes.
You sign up excited. Then you get passed to a junior, handed an account manager to email, and sent a monthly dashboard full of "impressions" and "keyword movements" that never quite connect to a single new customer. Months pass. You're not sure it's working, but the contract is long, so you keep paying and hoping.
This is the opposite of that. One operator runs your channel, reports to you in revenue, and earns the next month every month. And the Blueprint proves the opportunity before you commit a cent to a retainer, so you start from certainty instead of hope.
What you get every month
A senior strategist owning your channel, not a queue ticket.
- Strategy ownership. I prioritise and adjust off live performance data, not a static plan written once in month one and then forgotten.
- On-page and content execution against your buyer-intent keyword map: the high-value terms, in revenue order.
- Conversion work across your key pages, so growing traffic turns into enquiries instead of just visits.
- Competitor and SERP monitoring. When your market moves, your strategy moves with it.
- A monthly report that speaks revenue: rankings won, traffic value captured, leads generated. Never vanity metrics.
- Direct access to me. Questions answered inside working hours, no account-manager buffer.
The difference, side by side
Agency-level execution, without the agency overhead.
A typical agency
- A junior does the work. A senior closed the sale
- You talk to an account manager, never the strategist
- Dashboards full of impressions and rankings
- Long lock-in contracts you can't easily exit
- Your account is one of dozens in a queue
This retainer
- I do the work myself, the person who built the framework
- You talk directly to me, every time
- Reports in revenue: traffic value and leads, not vanity
- 3-month minimum, then month-to-month, no trap
- A deliberately small client list, run personally
What winning looks like
Once a month, you'll know exactly what your $1,500 bought.
You open one report. It won't brag about impressions. It shows the rankings you won, the ad-spend equivalent of the traffic you captured for free, and the leads that came out of it, each tied to the live commercial value of the term. No guessing whether it's working. The number is right there.
The math
Why $1,500 a month is the easy part.
Most agencies charge $1,500–$5,000 a month for an SEO retainer, often with a junior on your account and the senior you met in the pitch there only to close the sale. This is founder-led execution at the floor of that range. The strategist who built the framework, running your channel personally.
And the maths usually dwarfs the fee. In a market where a single click costs $57.28 to buy through ads, one client won organically can cover the retainer for months. The whole point of the channel is that it keeps delivering them, month after month, without you paying per click.
So the real question was never whether $1,500 is a lot. It's whether your search channel is worth winning. Every month a competitor runs this and you don't, their lead compounds and gets more expensive to overtake. Waiting doesn't make the work cheaper. It just widens the gap. The Blueprint tells you what the channel is worth in your own numbers, before you commit a cent.
Real reactions
Even agency owners rate the work.
“I'm just done going through it. It was well detailed.”
Gbenga, SEO agency owner
When someone who runs SEO for a living calls the work well detailed, that's the standard your channel gets every single month. See the data and more reactions →
An honest fit check
Right for you? Let's be straight.
This is for you if…
- Your team's time is worth more than the retainer, and you'd rather it was just handled.
- Organic search is a channel you want won properly, not dabbled in.
- You want one accountable operator instead of an agency org chart.
- You'd take a report that ties to revenue over a dashboard that doesn't.
It's not for you if…
- You'd rather own the system in-house. That's the Install.
- You want results next week. SEO compounds over months, not days.
- You're not ready to give it three months to prove itself.
Who runs your retainer
The person who sells it is the person who runs it.
I'm Israel Obiagba. For 8+ years I built mission-critical software for institutions including the NNPC, the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Army, then turned that rigour on revenue-first SEO, most recently as fractional CMO for a Canadian B2B SaaS. No org chart here. You get me, directly, owning your channel and answerable for the number in your monthly report.
Questions, answered
Because SEO compounds, and anything shorter would be selling you false expectations. Three months is the honest floor for showing real movement. After that you're month-to-month, so you stay because it's working and not because you're locked in.
Revenue, not vanity metrics. Rankings won, traffic value captured (the ad-spend equivalent of what you earned for free), and leads generated, each one tied back to the live commercial value of the term.
No buffer. You get me directly, the strategist doing the actual work, with questions answered inside working hours.
A deliberately small number, because I run every account myself. When the slots are full, new clients join a waitlist. That's why the Blueprint is the fastest way in.
After the 3-month minimum you're month-to-month and can stop whenever you like. And you don't go in blind either. The Blueprint proves the opportunity in live data before you ever start a retainer.
Israel Obiagba is a software engineer of 8+ years turned revenue-first SEO strategist, most recently fractional CMO for a Canadian B2B SaaS, and creator of the 6-Pillar AI SEO Framework. The person doing the work is the person you talk to.
Let me run the channel. You watch the enquiries arrive.
It starts with the Blueprint. That proves the opportunity in your own numbers and credits toward your first month, so you commit from certainty instead of hope. I only take on a handful of retainer clients at a time, because I run every one myself, so the Blueprint is also the fastest way in.
Start with the Blueprint: $497 →
$1,500/mo · 3-month minimum, then month-to-month · Blueprint fee credited to month one · you work directly with me.