Growth Collective or Levered: a freelance marketer or someone to run growth?
Choose a freelancer marketplace when you know the specialist you need and can manage them. Choose Levered when you need one operator to own priorities and run the work across channels.
As of 23 Sep 2026, growthcollective.com shows Toptal’s marketing talent marketplace. If you searched for Growth Collective, that is what you will find there today.
Marketplace or service
A marketplace gives you access to people. You still write the plan, manage the work and own the result. Levered is the plan, the work and the result, run by one operator.
Priorities
Set with you, not handed to you.
Range
All eight services on every plan.
Management
One operator runs it.
Start
A free first week of real work.
| Levered | Growth Collective (Toptal) | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | An operated service | Vetted freelance marketers |
| Who sets priorities | Levered, with you | Your team |
| Scope | All eight services on every plan | The specialist you hire |
| Trial | First week of work free | Up to a two-week trial, billed only if satisfied |
| Engagement | Weekly plan | Hourly, part time or full time |
Reviewed 23 Sep 2026 at https://www.growthcollective.com/ Terms can change.
Who this is for
Choose Levered if
- Nobody owns growth day to day.
- You need several services moving.
- You do not want to manage freelancers.
Choose Growth Collective (Toptal) if
- You know the exact skill.
- You have a manager.
- You want to hire hourly or full time.
Named results
3.6×
Return on ad spend
Colonial Heart: $8,040 in spend, 35 patients matched to clinic records, $29,121 attributed in the first 115 days.
+277%
New paid orders, year over year
PE-held industrial distributor: 5.5 to 20.8 new paid customers a month.
4
Client workstreams at once
Aux Insights: one embedded operator across four PE-consulting clients.
How it works
- 01
Connect the accounts.
Ads, analytics, site, CRM, whatever is live. The work happens in your systems.
- 02
Week one is real work.
The first week is free and scoped to low-risk changes, so the work starts inside your stack instead of in a slide deck.
- 03
Pick a plan.
Every plan is the full stack. Plans change how many services move at once and how often you get a strategy call.
- 04
One project is one service.
Setup, ongoing work, measurement and iteration. Inside it, ask for anything. A new service is a new project. Swaps are free.
Weekly plans
Growth I
$450 / week
$1,600 / month · Save 10%
- Full stack
- Projects at once: 2
- Strategy call: 30 min every 2 weeks
- Vendor oversight: none
- First week free
Growth II
$900 / week
$3,200 / month · Save 10%
- Full stack
- Projects at once: 4
- Strategy call: 30 min every 2 weeks
- Vendor oversight: 1
- First week free
Growth Lead
$1,800 / week
$6,400 / month · Save 10%
- Full stack
- Projects at once: 6
- Strategy call: 30 min every week
- Vendor oversight: 2
- First week free
Monthly is prepaid. Vendor oversight means outside vendors and contractors, not your employees. Team training is custom.
Want this run in your accounts?
Book a call if you want to talk first. Get started if you already know you want work to begin.
Common questions
What happened to Growth Collective?
As of 23 Sep 2026, growthcollective.com shows Toptal’s marketing talent marketplace.
Is Levered a freelancer marketplace?
No. Levered is a service with one accountable operator.
When is a marketplace the better choice?
When you know the specialist you need and have someone to manage them.
How many people work on my account at Levered?
One operator owns it. AI handles the repeatable work.
What does Levered cost?
The first week is free. Then $450, $900 or $1,800 a week.