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MONTHLY RETAINERS // A STANDING INSTRUMENT
Growth is not a one-time fix. It's a heading you hold and correct as the waters change. A Manara retainer keeps us on watch month after month — reading the signal, steering the spend, and charting your brand toward measurable growth. Three tiers, one promise: cut through the noise, find your course.
For founders and lean teams who need clean measurement and one or two channels working hard before they scale.
For growing companies running real spend across several channels that need an integrated team owning the whole engine.
For scale-stage brands and well-funded teams who want their full growth system owned, instrumented, and pushed at pace.
Placeholder pricing — your charting call produces a firm quote within each range, based on scope & managed spend. Ad spend & licenses passed through at cost, never marked up.
| What's included | Signal | Bearing | Beacon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active service lines | Up to 2 | Up to 4 | All 7, orchestrated |
| Strategy cadence | Quarterly | Monthly + biweekly | Weekly + quarterly board |
| Media / spend managed | ~$25K/mo | ~$100K/mo | Unlimited, multi-market |
| MarTech & data engineering | Health checks | Attribution + pipelines | Full stack + custom infra |
| Experimentation | 1 test live | 2–3 in parallel | Continuous, multi-surface |
| AI growth systems | Add-on | 1 workflow | Bespoke agents |
| Reporting | Monthly dashboard | + monthly readout | + weekly pulse & exec narrative |
| Response window | 2 business days | Same business day | Priority, shared channel |
| Your navigator | Shared strategist | Dedicated strategist | Dedicated + founder oversight |
Retainers run on a rolling three-month minimum, then continue month to month. Three months is the honest floor for building tracking you can trust, gathering enough signal to act on, and shipping work that moves a number. After that, you keep us because the results earn it — not because a contract traps you. Thirty days' notice to stand down, always.
Yes, and most clients do. Many start on Signal to establish clean measurement, then step up to Bearing once the data is trustworthy and there's more course to chart. You can move up at any time and down at your next renewal. Your navigator will flag when a change makes sense rather than letting you over- or under-buy.
Each retainer is a flat monthly fee covering strategy, execution, tooling we operate, and reporting. Media spend, paid software licenses, and third-party data costs are passed through at cost and stay in your accounts and your name. We never mark up ad spend. Your charting call produces a firm quote within the published range, based on scope and managed spend.
A project lights one beacon and leaves. A retainer is a standing instrument: we watch the signal continuously, adjust course as the market shifts, compound learnings month over month, and own the outcome alongside you. Growth is rarely a single fix — it's a heading you hold and correct, and that's what a retainer is built for.
Manara is a focused studio led by Nasser Saleh, a Digital Marketing and MarTech specialist. You work with senior practitioners who plan and execute, not a layer of account managers relaying instructions to juniors. On Beacon, founder oversight is built in. You always know exactly who is steering your account.
Every engagement starts the same way: a charting call where we read your current signal, name the growth you're actually after, and recommend the tier that fits your stage. No pressure, no pitch theater — just a clear bearing.
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