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Frank Growth – Episode 201 – Building Your Growth Operating System with Cait Anderson

by Jason

Episode #201: Cait Anderson — Building trust into a repeatable growth system

Trust breaks faster than funnels.

This episode is for operators trying to make growth predictable without killing speed.
Cait Anderson is Chief Marketing Officer at Winston Francois. In this conversation, she and Jason unpack what actually makes a growth system sustainable: predictable returns, clear operating rhythm, and trust that compounds instead of resets. They walk through concrete examples, including a B2B SaaS company spending $1M/month in paid media, how experimentation budgets are set at different stages, and why breaking a product promise can wipe out downstream revenue faster than any channel issue.

WHAT YOU’LL HEAR
How Cait defines a growth operating system across acquisition, nurture, and conversion
Why early-stage teams need wide flexibility, while later-stage teams cap experimentation at ~10–20%
A real example of reallocating spend that moved ROAS from 2:1 to 20:1—and why that was still not the end goal
How broken trust (not missing features) kills retention, referrals, and revenue

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