The most common questions we get from founders and SMB operators evaluating a Fractional Executive bench. Plain language, no infrastructure jargon, no fabricated metrics.
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What PQV is, who runs it, and where it operates.
Pilon Qubit Ventures is a Fractional Executive bench based in San Antonio, Texas. We run marketing, sales, and operations end to end for founders and SMB operators who need senior operating capacity without senior payroll. Named operators do the work and a human review pass runs on every output.
Sergio Beltran. His arc is cook, then operations director for multi-location restaurant chains, then founder of this fractional executive platform, which he built by shipping it. He still holds the human review pass on the work that leaves the building.
San Antonio, Texas. We work with clients across the United States as a service-area business, with no physical storefront. The team is bilingual in English and Spanish, and the mailing address used for legal correspondence is on the public footer.
Yes. PQV is a registered Texas business with a public mailing address, a Google Business Profile, a published founder, a service catalog, and a documented operating model. Every output ships through an audit trail you can read line by line.
The five published tiers, what each includes, and how setup works.
Five tiers are published with monthly retainer plus one-time setup. Get Found Locally is $750 per month with $400 setup. Content Velocity is $1,800 per month with $500 setup. Pipeline Builder is $3,800 per month with $1,000 setup. Revenue Operations is $6,500 per month with $2,000 setup. Custom Stack is scoped on the discovery call.
Get Found Locally covers local search and map presence. Content Velocity ships a search-visibility stack. Pipeline Builder adds an outbound and lead-response layer. Revenue Operations runs marketing plus sales plus pipeline as one motion. Custom Stack is a full bench deployment with board-ready reporting and a security review. Each tier runs everything below it.
Engagements are month to month. There is no multi-year lock-in. The setup fee is one-time and covers operator onboarding, brand absorption, channel access, and the first audit pass. Specific cancellation terms are written into the service agreement before kickoff.
Operator onboarding to your business, brand voice absorption, channel and tool access, the first audit of existing assets, and the first 30-day operating plan. Setup runs in parallel with the first month of shipping, so the engagement does not stall waiting on access.
How the complimentary scoping engagement works and what you walk away with.
The Discovery Sprint is a structured working session that maps the operating function you are trying to fill, audits the surfaces buyers see, and produces a written 12-month roadmap. It is complimentary for qualified prospects. There is no fee and no obligation to continue into a paid engagement.
You keep the written roadmap. It names the function, the operators that would run it, the cadence, and the first 90 days. The deliverable is yours whether or not we move forward together. The Sprint is built to be useful even when the honest answer is no.
Book a 15-minute scoping call. We confirm fit on the call. Most qualified prospects are founders or SMB operators carrying marketing, sales, and operations off one desk, with enough revenue to support a fractional retainer. We will tell you if the timing is wrong.
Operating cadence, who does the work, and the audit trail.
Named operators do the production work. Each operator owns a single domain with a defined charter and a service-level agreement. Every output passes a human review pass before it leaves the building. Every action lives in an audit trail you can read at any time.
We ship on a weekly cadence inside the engagement. Build phases are scoped in weeks, not quarters. The retainer covers ongoing shipping plus the maintenance of work already built. We flag the moment a deliverable is going to slip, before the deadline, not after.
Every brief, every operator action, every model call, every handoff, and every human review pass. We can replay a week, a campaign, or a single ticket. Nothing is hand-waved. When something needs attention, you can scroll back and see what happened.
A chatbot answers questions and waits. A SaaS tool waits for you to operate it. PQV owns the function. Named operators write the briefs, draft the work, ship the deliverables, and post the weekly digest. You hire a working bench, not a tab to open.
Where we work, where we hold the line, and what counts as guidance versus advice.
Not yet on the standard tiers. Healthcare requires a Business Associate Agreement template and a HIPAA program we are completing. We work with healthcare and dental practices as manual, one-to-one engagements only. Contact Sergio directly if you operate in a regulated medical vertical.
Not on the standard tiers. Legal engagements require a separate compliance review that we have not closed. Attorneys and law firms are handled as manual one-to-one engagements only. Reach out to Sergio directly if a legal practice wants to talk about a tailored scope.
No. Pilon Qubit Ventures provides operational guidance, not legal or financial advice. We can map processes, build decision frameworks, draft operational scaffolds, and model scenarios. For any binding legal or fiduciary decision, retain a licensed attorney or licensed financial professional in your jurisdiction.
How PQV stacks up against an agency, a SaaS subscription, a freelancer, and an in-house hire.
Agencies typically own one channel and bill for hours. We coordinate marketing, sales, and operations as one function and charge for shipped deliverables. The bench is named, the briefs are documented, and the audit trail is yours to read at any time, not handed over at the end of a retainer.
A fractional executive advises. We do the work. The retainer covers the strategic call plus the shipped output, run by named operators with a human review pass on every artifact. You get the function, not just the function head, and you get it across marketing, sales, and operations.
Hire a freelancer when the gap is one slice on a narrow scope. Hire in-house when the function is core, you can support the salary, and you can wait through a recruiting cycle. Hire PQV when the function needs to be running now, coordinated across marketing, sales, and operations.
How the human review pass works, who owns your data, and what happens at engagement end.
Yes. Every output passes a human review pass before it leaves the building. AI does the production. A human reads it before it touches your customers. The standard applies to copy, briefs, sequences, and any deliverable in scope.
You do. Work product is yours under the service agreement. The audit trail is exportable on request. At engagement end, work product, the audit trail, and access credentials are returned to you in a readable format. No claw-back. No surprise renewal terms.
You give written notice per the service agreement. The current month's work completes, the audit trail is exported to you, and the engagement winds down with a documented handoff. Setup is not clawed back. The work that shipped stays with you.
The shortest path from this page to a real conversation.
Two paths. Book a 15-minute scoping call at bench.pilonqubitventures.com/scope-call, or run the free audit at bench.pilonqubitventures.com/free-audit. Either path produces something written you can act on, with or without continuing into a paid engagement.
Bring the work that is actually on your desk. The shape of the room you are trying to run. Any existing surfaces (a website, a CRM, a pipeline view, a content backlog). We scope from real artifacts, not from a generic intake form, and we tell you the truth about fit on the first call.
Yes. The free audit runs in the browser, requires no signup, and works on any URL. Run it on your own site, run it on a competitor, run it on three competitors. The audit measures four vectors (SEO, AEO, GEO, Maps) and the result is yours to keep.
Bring it to a 15-minute scoping call. The Discovery Sprint is complimentary for qualified prospects. The roadmap is yours either way.
