Propel

Business Advisory · Vancouver, BC

You're great at the work. So why isn't the business growing?

Propel Co. works alongside agency owners and business operators to diagnose what's actually holding revenue back — then helps fix it.

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The Problem

The agency world has changed.
The hardest part is seeing your own business clearly.

You win work through referrals, deliver well, and keep clients happy. But the moment things slow down, there's no pipeline, no process, and no clear answer why — just a lot of activity that doesn't add up to growth.

Revenue that plateaus

You're fully booked until you're not. There's no system underneath the work — just relationships and luck.

Proposals that don't land

You write strong proposals but can't figure out why some win and others go quiet. The gap is rarely the work.

No time to fix it

You're running the business and doing the work. There's no bandwidth left to step back and actually diagnose what's broken.

Advice that doesn't fit

Generic business coaching doesn't map to an agency's reality. You need someone who understands the model — and has lived it.

How It Works

Embedded. Diagnostic.
Inside your business. Outside your blind spots.

First

Diagnose before prescribing

Before anything else, we find the real problem. Not the symptom you came in with — the actual constraint on your growth. Most businesses are solving the wrong thing.

Then

Work alongside you

I don't hand you a strategy document and disappear. I work inside your business — on your proposals, your process, your conversations — until the change sticks.

Throughout

Treat it like it's mine

Your business gets the same scrutiny I'd apply to my own. That means honest assessment, not comfortable agreement. I'm not here to validate — I'm here to move the needle.

"Jieun doesn't just identify what's broken — she gets in it with you and changes how you think about it. We stopped losing proposals we should have won, and I finally understand why."
— Simon, Owner, Binary & Co.

About

Jieun Yi, Founder of Propel Co.

20 years of B2B revenue.
Now I help others build it.

I've never thought of myself as a salesperson. I think of myself as someone who sits in your seat, looks at your business honestly, and figures out what I'd do if it were mine. That instinct is what's driven every deal I've ever closed — and it's exactly how I work with clients now.

I started at eighteen, selling medical education programs to brand managers at Pfizer and AstraZeneca. I had no business being in that room — and I thrived anyway.

From there, telecom. Sixty cold calls a day, learning to read industries, spot opportunity in regulation changes, work smarter than the volume game. Four years in SEO. Then web, then full-service digital — brand strategy, paid media, analytics, technology stacks. Across all of it, I built something most people don't have: a complete picture of how a business generates revenue from first impression to closed deal. I know how all the lanes connect — and where they break down.

For the last decade I led business development at one of Canada's leading digital agencies. I closed complex deals, built long-term client relationships, and got deep into the operations of running an agency — resourcing, margin, profitability, and the trade-offs that determine whether new revenue actually makes the business healthier or just busier.

Now I work with a small number of agency owners at a time — embedded, direct, and focused on what actually moves revenue.

20+ Years B2B sales & BD
AGY Agency-first focus
YVR Vancouver-based

Get in Touch

Not sure if this is a fit?
That's exactly what the first call is for.

Send a note with a bit of context — what your business does, what's feeling stuck — and we'll figure out together if it makes sense to go further.

hello@propelco.ca