Founding International Cohort: Applications Open

A fully documented growth strategy for your business, funded by generosity, not an invoice.

I'm opening my complete eight week digital strategy engagement to a small group of international founders. Instead of paying my fee, you make a donation to a cause you choose.

08Weeks, start to results
04Phases, fully documented
$0Paid directly to me
01Cause of your choosing, funded
How the exchange works

Four steps between your application and your first working session.

01

Apply

Tell me about your business in a short application: what you sell, where you operate, and the growth problem you're trying to solve.

02

Get approved

I review every application for fit with the cohort and confirm, usually within 5 business days.

03

Choose a cause

Pick a nonprofit from my curated list and make a donation in the amount you choose. A suggested range of $50 to $200 USD.

04

Start

Forward your donation confirmation email and I open your file the same week. Phase 01 begins.

The process

The same four phase engagement I run for every client, documented week by week.

This is the process I've refined with local clients over the past year, now offered to founders outside Mexico for the first time.

PHASE01

Diagnosis

I research your business from the inside and the outside: internal interviews and competitor research. You receive a written market report before we move forward.

WEEKS 1 TO 2
PHASE02

Strategy

A full SWOT analysis with a CAME matrix applied to your real opportunities, your single key problem named, and a digital strategy built around it, with KPIs and one SMART goal, presented and agreed on together.

WEEKS 3 TO 5
PHASE03

Execution

I put the strategy to work across your channels, with scheduled check-ins to track real progress against your KPIs and adjust course as needed.

WEEKS 6 TO 8
PHASE04

Results

A final results review measured against your original goal, a documented success story of the engagement, and, if you're willing, a testimonial that becomes part of my next founding cohort.

CLOSE OUT
A win for both sides Why a donation, not an invoice

You get the full engagement. A cause you care about gets funded. I get the success story.

I've run this exact process with local businesses for over a year. But I'm new to serving founders outside Mexico, and I'd rather earn that track record honestly than ask you to pay full price before I've proven it internationally.

So instead of an invoice, I ask you to direct that value to a nonprofit you choose. You still get the complete eight week strategy engagement, start to finish. This arrangement is only open while I build my first international success stories. After this cohort, the engagement moves to a standard fee.

Suggested Donation
$50 to $200 USD

You choose the exact amount and the cause. Donation confirmations are verified directly from the platform before I open your file.

Curated causes

Pick the cause your donation supports.

Every donation supports one of three causes I care about most. Each donation is made directly through the organization's own platform, with an automatic confirmation email as proof.

CAUSE

Animal Protection

The Humane League works to end the abuse of animals raised for food through corporate campaigns and policy change.

Donate via Every.org →
CAUSE

Feminist Causes

Equality Now is an international organization advancing the legal rights and protection of women and girls worldwide.

Donate via Every.org →
CAUSE

Environmental Protection

Rainforest Trust protects threatened tropical habitats by funding land purchase and protected status for local partners.

Donate via Every.org →
Diana Serrano Real photo, not AI generated
Who's behind this

One consultant. One process. No committee.

Before I built strategy for anyone else's business, I was running one without knowing it, as a marketing assistant at a psychology clinic in Guadalajara. My job was editing video, managing ads, and writing copy. What I was actually watching was a full growth engine: consistent expert content, a clear brand voice, and free community events pulling in new clients almost every week, without a single cold outreach.

That's when I got obsessed with the mechanics underneath it: what makes a flywheel spin, and what breaks it. I kept building on it running marketing and editorial operations at El Tintero, an independent publishing house, then spent the past year refining this exact process with local business clients. This cohort is the first time I'm bringing that process to founders outside Mexico.

I'm also studying Marketing, Design, and Advertising at ITESO, one of Mexico's top universities, under professors with 20+ years of industry experience, and their teaching shapes the method behind every strategy I build. It's the discipline of a full team of specialists, distilled into one person who already knows which questions to ask.

Apply

Apply for the founding cohort

Spots are limited to keep every engagement personal. I respond to every application within 5 business days.

Applications are sent directly to dianaserrano@digitalsolutionstrategy.com.

Application received.

I'll review it and follow up by email within 5 business days.