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About Salient

Salient is run by GrowthSpree, a B2B growth agency since 2017.

The people who built Salient are the people in your channel.

GrowthSpree is a B2B SaaS marketing agency headquartered in New York. We've run paid ads, ABM and HubSpot for 300+ B2B companies, and in 2026 we built Salient to run AEO the same way. Done for you, tracked to pipeline.

4.9/5 on G2 Trusted by 300+ B2B teams B2B and B2B SaaS only
growthspreeofficial.com
GrowthSpree at a glanceSince 2017
300+B2B SaaS companies served
$60M+ad spend managed
$50M+pipeline generated
4.9/5from 48 reviews on G2
Google PartnerHubSpot Solutions PartnerB2B only
Headquartered in New York. Figures from GrowthSpree, September 2026.
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Team runs your growth and your AEO. The people who built Salient are the people in your channel.

Founded
2017
Headquarters
New York, USA
Works with
B2B and B2B SaaS only
Case studies
GrowthSpree and Propelius
4.9/5 on G2 16x AI citations on our own site 0 to 5,630 AI-crawler visits for a client Run by the GrowthSpree team

01The company

Who is GrowthSpree?

GrowthSpree is a B2B SaaS marketing agency, founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York. It runs paid ads, ABM, HubSpot and now AEO for B2B and B2B SaaS companies, and nothing else.

GrowthSpree, the factsUpdated September 2026
Company
GrowthSpree
Founded
2017
Headquarters
New York, USA
Works with
B2B and B2B SaaS companies only
Services
Google, LinkedIn and Meta Ads, account-based marketing, demand generation, HubSpot and RevOps, and AEO through Salient
Scale
$60M+ ad spend managed and $50M+ pipeline generated across 300+ B2B SaaS companies
AEO product
Salient, done-for-you answer engine optimization
G2
4.9 out of 5From 48 verified reviews
GP
Google PartnerSince 2020
HS
HubSpot Solutions PartnerSince 2022
GA
Google Ads case studyNamed in Google's 2026 case study for PriceLabs

B2B teams GrowthSpree has worked with include

  • Rocketlane
  • LambdaTest
  • PriceLabs
  • ClearTax
  • Locus
  • Gumlet
  • LimeChat
  • Toplyne

02Why Salient exists

Why did GrowthSpree build Salient?

Buyers started asking AI tools for shortlists, and the companies named weren't always the best ones. We built the fix, then proved it on our own site before offering it to anyone.

  1. 2017

    GrowthSpree starts

    A growth agency for B2B SaaS. No ecommerce, local or consumer brands, then or since.

  2. 2020

    Google Partner

    Paid search for B2B SaaS becomes a core service.

  3. 2022

    HubSpot Solutions Partner

    CRM and RevOps, so every campaign traces to pipeline.

  4. Feb 2026

    Salient runs on our own site

    About 900 Copilot citations a month for growthspreeofficial.com.

  5. Jul 2026

    16x in six months

    About 14,600 citations a month, and 60+ new sales opportunities a month.

  6. Sep 2026

    Propelius: 0 to 5,630

    A client's AI-crawler visits in ten weeks, with 48 of 56 posts in AI indexes.

Every number, its source and how strong it is: GrowthSpree and Propelius case studies.

03The team

Who runs GrowthSpree and Salient?

Four co-founders, and a named pod for every client. The people who built Salient are the people in your channel.

KS

Kushagra Singh

Co-founder and CTO

Leads Salient: the engine and the pods.

MT

Maalav Thakkar

Co-founder

Leads operations.

NG

Nilesh Gupta

Co-founder

GrowthSpree founding team.

IM

Ishan Manchanda

Co-founder

GrowthSpree founding team.

Your pod

Named people in a shared Slack or WhatsApp channel, plus a weekly call. Median first response under an hour. See what they do each week.

  • AE
    A named account leadRuns your weekly call
  • GTM
    B2B marketersPick topics your sales team wishes existed
  • ED
    EditorsCheck every draft before it goes live
  • SEO
    Technical SEO specialistsSchema, internal links, indexing
  • ENG
    EngineersIntegrations and edge cases
  • YOU
    YouApprove topics on one short weekly call

04How we work

How does GrowthSpree work with clients?

Six rules every Salient account runs on.

01

B2B only

No ecommerce, local or consumer brands. Every playbook is built for long B2B buying cycles.

02

Proved on ourselves first

No client got Salient until it worked on our own domain: 16x more Copilot citations in six months.

03

Pipeline, not traffic

Every page is tracked to demos and pipeline in your CRM.

04

People answer

A named pod in your Slack or WhatsApp. Median first response under an hour.

05

Your domain, your content

Pages live on your domain and stay yours if you stop working with us.

06

Read-only access

We never change your settings. Switching a connection off ends our access.

05Questions

Questions about Salient and GrowthSpree

Who owns Salient?

Salient is owned and run by GrowthSpree, a B2B SaaS marketing agency founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York. The same team that runs paid ads, ABM and HubSpot for GrowthSpree's clients runs Salient accounts.

Is Salient software or a service?

A service. There's no dashboard for you to run. A named GrowthSpree pod researches, writes, publishes, tracks and refreshes the pages, and you approve topics on a short weekly call.

Who founded GrowthSpree?

Nilesh Gupta, Ishan Manchanda, Kushagra Singh and Maalav Thakkar. Kushagra Singh, co-founder and CTO, leads Salient.

Where is GrowthSpree based?

GrowthSpree is headquartered in New York, USA. Pods work with clients remotely, through a shared Slack or WhatsApp channel and a weekly call.

What else does GrowthSpree do?

Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Meta Ads, account-based marketing, demand generation, HubSpot and RevOps for B2B and B2B SaaS companies. Salient adds answer engine optimization (AEO) to that list.

Why trust GrowthSpree with AEO?

Because it works on our own site and a client's. Monthly Microsoft Copilot citations to growthspreeofficial.com grew 16x between February and July 2026, and GrowthSpree now sees 60+ new sales opportunities a month. For our client Propelius, AI-crawler visits went from zero to 5,630 in ten weeks. GrowthSpree is also rated 4.9 out of 5 from 48 reviews on G2.

Does Salient work with companies outside B2B?

No. Salient and GrowthSpree work only with B2B and B2B SaaS companies. Ecommerce, local and consumer brands are not a fit.

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