Ready to hire a Kickstarter consultant? Start with a £60 call.

The honest answer is: start small. Book a £60 strategy call before you commit to a bigger engagement. One hour tells you whether you like working with the person and whether their advice matches your project. If it does, upgrade to coaching or done-for-you and credit the £60 against the bigger fee. If it doesn't, you're out £60, not £5,000.

Six things, in order. One: have they actually launched a campaign themselves (not advised on one — launched one). Two: are they in Kickstarter's official Expert Partner directory. Three: do they publish their prices, or make you book a discovery call to find out. Four: do they charge flat fees or a percentage of your raise. Five: can you talk to them directly, or is there a team filtering emails. Six: do they say no when your idea isn't Kickstarter-suitable, or do they take everyone's money.

It depends on the tier. Strategy calls should be £50–£150. Ongoing coaching, £500–£1,500. Full done-for-you campaign build, £3,000–£10,000. Anyone quoting above £15,000 for a solo campaign is either an agency (paying for overhead) or optimistic. Anyone taking a percentage of your raise is charging you for traffic Kickstarter delivered — walk away.

Percentage-of-raise deals. Guarantees of a Projects We Love badge or funding success. Hidden pricing behind discovery calls. Testimonials with no verifiable client names. Track records that only mention totals with no campaign links. A team that filters your emails so you never talk directly to the person doing the work. Any of these should make you cautious.

For a launch under £500k, a solo consultant almost always makes more sense. Agencies charge for overhead — account managers, junior copywriters, project managers, office rent. A solo consultant charges for the work. For mega-launches (£1M+, tight timelines, multiple stakeholders), an agency's team may be worth the premium. Everything below that, consultant wins.

Ideally 8–12 weeks before launch. Pre-launch is where the campaign is really made — building the email list, writing the page, iterating on the video, structuring reward tiers. Founders who hire two weeks before launch are usually asking for damage limitation, not a launch plan. If you're in that spot, a £60 strategy call is the fastest way to find out what's fixable.

Yes. That's what the £60 strategy call is for. One hour, any question — pricing, timing, page copy, list size, launch goal, whether your category even fits Kickstarter. You leave with a clear answer on the specific thing you're stuck on. What you don't get is someone going off and doing the work afterwards. That's on you, or on the £750 coaching / £5,000 done-for-you if you want me to.

Yes. I'm an official Kickstarter Expert Partner — Kickstarter itself vetted me and added me to their small, hand-picked list of consultants they refer creators to. I've personally launched 30+ campaigns raising £3M+, all funded, all earned Projects We Love. The full explainer on what the Expert Partner badge means is on the dedicated page (kickstarter-expert-partner).

No, and I'll be honest about why. Free discovery calls are how agencies work you up to a five-figure quote — that's their sales process. Mine is different. The £60 strategy call IS the discovery call, and it's actually useful whether you hire me afterwards or not. Sixty minutes of me, any Kickstarter question, £60. If you upgrade to a bigger engagement, I credit it against the fee.

Depends on the tier. Strategy call — we book the call, you bring the question, we work through it. Coaching (£750) — we schedule a kick-off, agree the cadence, and I'm on call between sessions. Done-for-You (£5,000) — kick-off within the week, timeline agreed for the 8–12 weeks of pre-launch, deliverables shipped in order. Everything's clear before you pay.