We started EmployNow because good consultants were losing work to louder ones.
The best consultants we knew were winning business almost entirely through referrals and repeat clients. Great outcomes, thin pipelines. Meanwhile, less qualified competitors filled the air with content and cold messages. We built a consultant personal brand agency with one goal: help you become a known consultant in your specialty, so buyers come to you already convinced.
The people behind EmployNow
Rafay spent years watching capable consultants lose pitches to firms with better marketing, and started EmployNow to close that gap. He works directly with every client: the person on your first call is the person doing the work.
His approach is simple: learn how you actually win work, say it clearly, then make sure the right buyers see it. No hype, no lock-in, and no advice he would not take himself.
“I have sat on both sides of the hiring table: as the consultant waiting for a callback, and as the person reviewing the applications. The difference between getting placed and getting ignored is rarely talent. It is visibility. My job is to make sure the right people already know your name before the role opens.”
Ayesha leads our flagship job placement practice. She works one-on-one with consultants to position their expertise in the language recruiters actually search for, so good careers stop depending on luck.
Why we exist
EmployNow began after years of watching extremely capable consultants lose pitches to firms with better marketing. Not better thinking. Just better stories, better timing, and a habit of showing up in the buyer's world before the RFP did.
Most agencies are built for e-commerce, SaaS, or consumer brands. Consulting was always an afterthought, and the playbooks never transferred. Buyers of consulting work behave differently. They are risk-averse, evidence-driven, and deeply allergic to hype. So we built the agency we kept wishing existed: one that offers genuine consultant visibility services, from technical consultant marketing to personal brand work, all designed so the right buyers and recruiters find you first.
How we work
A small, senior team built around one belief: marketing for consultants only works when it sounds like the consultant. We sit with you, learn how you actually win work, and build from there. Then we hold ourselves to it:
- Every engagement starts with a real conversation, not a package
- You approve the plan before anything starts
- Everything we build is yours. no lock-in, no dependency
- We measure ourselves on conversations with the buyers you want
If your problem is pricing or capacity rather than visibility, we tell you on the first call instead of selling a retainer that cannot fix it.
Your positioning, your content library, your outreach list. You keep all of it. Hired help with a specialty, not a dependency.
Genuinely free and genuinely useful. a mini-consultation, not a sales script. Most people leave with something they can act on immediately.
What we hold to
Consultants first
We only work with consultants and consulting firms. Specializing means we know the buying cycle, the objections, and what actually converts.
Honest over impressive
If your pipeline problem is pricing or capacity, we will say so instead of selling you content you do not need. Long term trust beats a quick invoice.
Systems, not stunts
Viral moments are luck. Positioning, content, and outreach are systems. We build systems that keep working when we are not looking at them.
Say the real numbers
We report what happened, including the parts that flopped. You cannot improve a pipeline you are not allowed to look at directly.
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Thirty minutes in, you will know whether we are the right agency for your practice.
No pressure, no pitch deck. Just a straight conversation about where your pipeline stands.