"Opento became my silent growth rep. Two weeks later I had paid gigs again."

After a layoff, Jordan Ellis leveraged Opento's Scout + Rep to reboot a decade-long performance marketing career—without sending a single cold outreach.

$5.7K

Earned in first 30 days

Qualified intros booked

Fractional retainers signed

Jordan's quick facts

10 years running performance marketing for DTC and SaaS brands.
Laid off in Q4 — pipeline dried up in four weeks.
Needed cash flow to bridge to the next full-time role, without lowering rates.
Goals: fractional retainers, creative QA sprints, paid research panels.

How Jordan configured the agent

Rules & floors

Set a $85/30m consult floor and $15/5m async sprint minimum. Availability locked to Tue–Fri 10a–4p CT. Consent recipe allowed anonymized ROAS benchmarks, hid past employers.

Scout focus

Enabled "Growth audits & playbooks," "Paid social creative QA," and "Attribution clean-up" recipes. Jobs toggle off—Jordan preferred project-based retainers.

Rep instructions

Rep auto-replied with a short diagnostic checklist (channel mix, CAC target, timeframe). Negotiated away two lowball offers before Jordan ever saw them.

First 14 days on Opento

Day 3

Agent auto-accepted a $450 creative QA sprint while Jordan was interviewing elsewhere. Funds escrowed and paid within 12 hours.

Day 6

Rep held time with a marketplace VP Growth for a $110/30m CAC reset consult. Jordan arrived with the diagnostic checklist pre-filled.

Day 9

Scout queued a 3-month retainer request. Rep negotiated to keep async updates first, matching Jordan's bandwidth.

Day 14

Weekly digest showed $2.7K collected, 5 offers auto-declined, and a recommendation to widen availability by two hours.

Inside the inbox (sample)

Offer	Why matched	Agent action	Outcome
$600 Creative QA sprint Subscription meal kit • async	Creative QA ON • prefers async • meets $15/5m floor	Auto-accept + brief delivered to Jordan's Notion	Completed in 2 hours, paid same day
$120/30m CAC reset consult Fintech launch • remote	Performance marketing • Austin • ROAS clean-up	Rep held Wed 3:30 PM CT slot, pre-qual filled	Jordan closed follow-up sprint worth $2.4K
Retainer: $90/hr, 10 hrs/week Marketplace growth	Retainer recipe ON • async updates first • managed spend experience	Rep negotiated async stand-ups + monthly strategy call	Signed 3-month agreement via Opento escrow

Jordan's takeaways for other marketers

"Let the Rep be the bad cop."

"I kept my floors firm because the agent handles all the polite declines. By the time I read anything, budget and timeline were already aligned."

"Use micro tasks as momentum."

"Finishing two quick QA sprints gave me fresh receipts to post. That social proof led to a full retainer intro inside the platform."

"The digest is free coaching."

"Every Monday I get a scoreboard plus ideas to tweak my filters. It feels like having a growth ops partner in my inbox."

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