Hire or retain. Brief the shortlist. Score the work.
The in-house versus agency worksheet sized from your own business: the loaded monthly cost of a marketing hire against the retainer you were quoted, the first-year cost of each, the cost per hour of the work you actually need, and whether one hire even covers the hours. Every answer becomes the brief, the shortlist and the retainer record you will hold the agency to.
Built for one side of the table, for one job
Retainvia is not an agency directory selling listings, an agency's own project tool, a staffing platform or a marketplace taking a cut, and it is not going to become one. Every field on every screen is there because the business hiring an agency needs it.
Compare the routes. Brief the shortlist. Hold the retainer.
- The comparison before the decision. The in-house versus agency worksheet puts the loaded cost of a marketing hire beside the retainer you were quoted, on a monthly, first-year and per-hour basis, from your own figures rather than an agency's pitch deck.
- The cost per hour of the work you need. Monthly and first-year cost of each route, the cost per hour of the hours you actually need, and whether one hire covers those hours at all. Computed on the page, from your numbers, beside the published pay figures.
- A record behind every agency. The brief the agencies pitch against, a scorecard per agency on the shortlist, and the retainer with what was agreed and delivered each month. Nothing on it is sold to an agency. Everything exports.
The free tools
Every tool computes its answer on the page, free, with no account and no trial clock. Put in the salary you would pay, the on-costs, the tools a hire would still need, the retainer and setup fee you were quoted and the hours of work you need, and the monthly cost, the first-year cost and the cost per hour of each route update as you type. The paid plan is about keeping what you decide: the brief, the shortlist, the scorecard and the retainer.
- In house marketing vs agency worksheet: Compare an in-house marketing hire with an agency retainer: monthly and first-year cost, cost per hour of the work you need, and whether one hire covers the hours.
Retainvia Pro
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your record of the hire: the brief the agencies pitch against, the shortlist with a scorecard per agency, the retainer with what was agreed and what was delivered each month, reminders to the person who owes a review, and a clean export when the board or the finance director asks what the agency has cost and done. Retainvia Pro is $49 per month for your whole business, billed monthly.
