Growth consulting for startups and churches

Helping startups and churches grow.

We're Kindling Growth Partners. We've spent the better part of 15 years doing growth marketing for everyone from seed-stage startups to Vercel and IBM. Now we do it for clients, and we've added something a little different to the mix: helping churches.

  • Vercel
  • IBM
  • Compose.io
  • Serverless
  • InfluxDB
  • Teleport
  • Skyportal
  • Beyond
  • St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Church
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Tulsa
  • Church of the Redeemer, Okmulgee
  • Cranmer House
Why both?

Fair question.

Thom, our founder, is a priest serving in a parish, with a master's in theology and years of nonprofit work behind him. And he kept noticing that churches wrestle with a lot of the same stuff the companies he worked for did. How do people find us? What happens when they show up? Why do some stay and others drift off? Who's doing all this work, and are they burnt out?

The answers look different in a parish than they do at a SaaS company, and we treat them differently. But the work underneath is pretty similar, and honestly, each side has made us better at the other.

By the numbers

Some of what we've done

~15 yrsin growth, marketing, and community
$3.2M+in enterprise pipeline from a single paid program
$25M+in capital campaigns for nonprofits
5xsignup growth while cutting acquisition costs
Startups and tech

Where we've done the work

  • Vercel
  • IBM
  • Compose.io
  • Serverless
  • InfluxDB
  • Teleport
  • Skyportal
  • Beyond
Churches

Churches we've worked with

  • St. Antony Antiochian Orthodox Church
  • Saint John's Episcopal Church, Tulsa
  • Church of the Redeemer, Okmulgee
  • Cranmer House

Want to talk it through?

Grab 30 minutes with us. Tell us what you're working on and where you're stuck. If we can help, we'll tell you how. If we can't, we probably know someone who can.