Go Back Up

Building impact Lifecycle Innovation

Moving the needle with mavericks.

Building capital and portfolio value. Crafting high-ROI strategies through design, value and industry intelligence. Elevating physical and digital footprints. Scaling tech in the built world with:
  • AECO firms
  • B2B SaaS, AI/ML & IoT
  • Climate, energy & cleanTech
  • GeoAI, conTech & propTech startups
  • Venture capital (VC) firms
Next Section
  • Logo-Toric-1000x300px
  • Logo-LetsBuild-1000x300px
  • Logo-Source-1000x300px
  • Logo-BeckTech-1000x300px
  • Logo-Buildertrend-1000x300px
  • Logo-Revizto-1000x300px
  • Logo-Exodigo-1000x300px

"It has been a great experience with Karissa who was able to very quickly deliver quality material, while being highly valuable in the shaping and polishing of our products’ messaging, and remaining flexible and responsive in her cross-team interactions. Her creativity, conTech expertise and copywriting skills make her a great asset to reinforce any marketing team in the sector and beyond."
Gregory Culpin

Gregory Culpin
VP Marketing & Customer Success, LetsBuild

"The context was a website refresh/rebrand and launch of a suite of new products on LetsBuild. Karissa was essentially missioned on capturing the key value proposition of the offering, each product and owning the master copy in English of the website's main pages. The experience was excellent with Karissa. She very quickly grasped the essence of our offering (helped by her architecture/construction background) and tone of voice for the branding reinforcement we wanted to achieve. She was punctual, responsive, provided both high quality copy/content and proactive in bringing new ideas to the table. It was very easy to work with her and she was also transparent with the overall level of investment and time spent on the project in terms of budget management. I believe she could also bring much more to the team than just the scope she handled with us, and I would work again anytime with her."
Gregory Culpin

Gregory Culpin
VP Marketing & Customer Success, LetsBuild

"My team worked with Karissa on an energy & utilities whitepaper and were impressed with her industry expertise, design skills, and speed of execution. Her attention to detail and ability to quickly incorporate new ideas and feedback were outstanding. I’m excited to engage her again on similar projects in the future."

Caroline Ang Wright
Head of Marketing, Exodigo

"Working with Karissa was a fantastic experience for us at Exodigo. She took our brief and ran with it, creating a beautiful and informative asset that will serve as a cornerstone for marketing campaigns now and into the future. She was collaborative, turned around feedback quickly and effectively, and delivered assignments on time or even early. Most of all we appreciated Karissa being a thought partner for us, not just taking our direction but truly helping us shape a final product we love."

Casey O'Brien
Content Marketing Manager, Exodigo

Subject Matter Expertise_1

Backed with domain expertise

Industry-Specific Intelligence

Expertise gets buy-ins. Build trust every step of your customer journey with our hands-on field experience. Made by your trusted SME, for key industry players powering up from 0 to 1:

  • Startup Founders and C-Suite
  • Enterprises & Innovation Labs
  • Accelerators & Incubators
  • Limited Partners (LP) & General Partners (GP)
+

B2B SaaS Clients Served

$ M

Total Estimated Client Valuation

$ T

Global Construction Market Size

filter by

Industry Verticals

pexels-tara-winstead-8386440

AI/ML & B2B SaaS

Climate & Sustainability

Climate & Sustainability

Energy & Utilities

Energy & Utilities

Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

GeoAI

GeoAI

Construction

Construction

Industry 4.0 & IoT

Industry 4.0 & IoT

Smart Buildings

Smart Buildings

Architecture

Architecture

Engineering

Engineering

Interior Design

Interior Design

Real Estate

Real Estate

Hospitality

Hospitality

Material Science

Material Science

Supply Chain & Logistics

Supply Chain & Logistics

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Preconstruction

Preconstruction

BIM/VDC

BIM/VDC

Strategy use cases

Conversion Playbooks

Power up the rocket ship of startup UVPs and grow VC portfolios into ROI 🚀

Product Marketing

 

Product Marketing

Communicate with maximum impact through the right messaging and differentiation. Break down the silos between cross-functional teams, identify your product's UVP, and scale strategically through network effect.

Brand Positioning

 

Brand Positioning

Increase your market share through share of voice. Lay the lean groundwork for tailored content experience with customer journey maps & market segmentation, and increase ARR, ACV & ARPA with a high CLTV/CAC ratio.

GTM Strategy

 

Go-To-Market Strategy

Lead with confidence using market intelligence. Create a business strategy roadmap with your metrics and KPIs, and conduct competitive analysis alongside your agile business profile for a sustainable ROI and ROV.

Sales Enablement

 

Sales Enablement

Connect the right content at the right place and right time to convert MQLs to SQLs. Align your marketing & sales touchpoints with revenue operations tech stack to drive a holistic customer experience & close more B2B deals.

Thought Leadership

 

Thought Leadership

Build your runway with a predictable pipeline & create value with inbound marketing. Establish market leadership with topical authority and subject matter expertise, and inspire innovation across verticals with content that resonates.

Demand Generation

 

Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Flip the funnel and fish with spears. Target key accounts and convert at every stage of the funnel with a robust library of BOFU, MOFU and TOFU content assets to pull for your account-based marketing campaigns.

Our Mission

SmartSelect_20230809-093234_Gallery

Karissa A.

Founder, 8gile

Moving the needle with mavericks to supercharge ripple effects of impact across connected industries.

  • Architect
  • Construction Manager 
  • Strategy Consultant 

 

What drives the 8gile flow:

We are on the mission to help mission-driven teams create impact for good.

The way out is in and through.

We went in and through with the pain points.

Now, out to build impact in the built world.

To break new grounds with groundbreakers.

To do the work that matters.

Next Section
About

SmartSelect_20230809-093234_Gallery

Karissa Austria

Founder & CEO, 8gile

Moving the needle with mavericks to supercharge ripple effects of impact across connected industries.

  • Architect
  • Construction Manager
  • Strategy Consultant

How she keeps the 8gile flow: traveling, adventures, fitness, workout regimens, food tours, indie films, reading, stimulating conversations & music festivals 🔄

Next Section
infinity loop cyan gif
GILE

8 is flow. Agile is change. Change is constant.

sync cyan gif
GILE

Flow in changes. Changes in flow.

anchor
GILE

In brand. In strategy. In core.

rocket cyan
GILE

From A to Z. From 0 to 1.

why 8gile

Services

Driving lifecycle impact and ROI for the built world
Tabbed-Architecture
M I X E D - U S E  •  D E S I G N - B U I L D

Combining iterative human-centric design with tech-driven sustainable architecture for digital transformation

Tabbed-Construction Management
G R A D E  A  •  L E E D  O F F I C E S  •  M A S T E R P L A N S

Disrupting the industry with effective leadership and execution of consulting strategies

Toric Homepage
A E C O  L I F E C Y C L E  •  C X  •  A B M

Connecting industry UVPs that solve problems, drive revenue and inspire ripple effects of disruptive innovation

exodigo WHITEPAPERS thought leadership + product marketing + design

Building Tomorrow's Grid with AI: Underground Mapping for Grid Resilience

AI-Powered, Multi-Sensing Underground Mapping Platform

Exodigo Homepage

 

FC_Logo_2018_amgwhf time logo-cbinsights-white
Next Big Things in Tech 2022 TIME's Best Inventions of 2022 CB Insights' AI 100
 
 
Exodigo Closes $105M Series A Funding to Solve the Underground

Backed by: National Grid, Square Peg Capital, 10D, Zeev Ventures, Greenfield Partners, Israel Canada, Intel Ignite & Jibe Ventures

TORIC WHITEPAPERs ABM + SALES ENABLEMENT

Lifecycle Sales Decks

No-Code AI Data Analytics SaaS Platform for AECO

VC / Investors: Autodesk, Storm Ventures, Leaders Fund, Garage Capital, Real Ventures, Pathbreaker, Global Founders Capital

Connecting APIs for interoperability at scale:

Enterprise data across design, construction, energy, sustainability, operations, finance, capital planning & facility management

 

AUG-SEP 2022 LETSBUILD WEBSITE PAGES BRAND LAUNCH

Construction Site Management Apps

Scaling from 2 to 4 construction apps in a product-led growth business model

LETSBUILD WEBSITE PAGES PLG + BRAND LAUNCH + GTM + COPYWRITING

Construction Site Management Apps

Scaling from 2 to 4 construction apps in a product-led growth business model

VC / Investors: Nordic Makers, Sambrinvest, Inventures, Fortino Capital, KAYA, Matexi, Orbit Capital, Plug and Play, Solar

  • LB Geniebelt Logo
  • LB Aproplan Logo
  • LB Coordination Logo
  • LB Site Diary Logo
LB Geniebelt Hero
 

Cross-team agile feedback loops across product, marketing, sales, design, commercial and customer success:

Elevating product marketing, messaging, value propositions, branding, product roadmaps and website UI/UX design

 
LB Aproplan Hero
 

Cross-team agile feedback loops across product, marketing, sales, design, commercial and customer success:

Elevating product marketing, messaging, value propositions, branding, product roadmaps and website UI/UX design

 
LB Coordination Hero
 

Cross-team agile feedback loops across product, marketing, sales, design, commercial and customer success:

Elevating product marketing, messaging, value propositions, branding, product roadmaps and website UI/UX design

 
LB Site Diary Hero
 

Cross-team agile feedback loops across product, marketing, sales, design, commercial and customer success:

Elevating product marketing, messaging, value propositions, branding, product roadmaps and website UI/UX design

 
LB Homepage Hero
 

Cross-team agile feedback loops across product, marketing, sales, design, commercial and customer success:

Elevating product marketing, messaging, value propositions, branding, product roadmaps and website UI/UX design

 

CONFIDENTIAL PITCH DECK

GTM STRATEGY

Global Expansion from NZ / AU to US / EU with 3 Core Business Models

Use Cases: Strategy + Product + Brand + Content + Bizdev

 

 

Eyebrow Lorem

5-Step Process

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec odio.
Quisque volutpat mattis eros. Nullam malesuada erat ut turpis.
  1. 1

    Pick your monthly content package.

  2. 2

    Share your content brief and materials.

  3. 3

    Pay the 50% deposit to start.

  4. 4

    Content delivered... in 3, 2, 1!

  5. 5

    Pay the 50% final invoice and leave your feedback.

enline energy video marketing high-level gridtech strategy

Sensorless Revolution with Enline

Sensorless AI Digital Twin Technology for Smart Power Grids and Clean Energy
Next Section

YOU MAY NEED TO KNOW

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the scope of work on your playbooks already fixed?
You can build your playbooks tailored to your business needs, and we'll get back to you within 24 hours with a customized quote.
What do you need from your clients to get the yearly retainers running up to speed?
Pick strategy playbooks that work for you — at any stage your team's at. We can help you connect, strategize, validate, convert and grow.
All good with our playbooks! When can we start?
Ready to launch playbooks once we sign off with our agreed terms for the yearly to indefinite retainer.
 
Then, we can validate and iterate with feedback loops as we finetune the outputs driving business + customer value for your team.

YOU MAY NEED TO KNOW

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the scope of work on your playbooks already fixed?
You can build your playbooks tailored to your business needs, and we'll get back to you within 24 hours with a customized quote.
What do you need from your clients to get projects running up to speed?
Pick playbooks that work for you — at any stage your team's at. We can help you connect, strategize, validate, convert and grow.
 
To save time, please share your project details, budget, timeline and materials ahead so we can structure and finalize the terms on our strategy session.
 
All good with our terms and deliverables! When can we start?
Ready to launch once your team is. Pay the 50% deposit to start, and then we'd bill on a milestone basis to match our work-in-progress until we close out the project.
 
Playbooks to launch... in 3, 2, 1! Validate and iterate with feedback loops as we finetune the outputs for your team.
Awesome! Do you offer retainers?

Yes, we offer retainers for clients interested in long-term collaboration to reserve our availability.

What are your payment options?

We work with a payment structure of 50% deposit to start the project, and 50% final invoice issued upon delivery or milestone basis.

"We were all thrilled with the quality of work Karissa provided for our LetsBuild website refresh. With her construction industry experience and the great work she provided, we would be happy to increase our existing collaboration with her."
NR

Nicolas Regnacq
Marketing Lead, LetsBuild

"Karissa is fantastic at communication. Her writing was strong, structured well for SEO and gave tons of insightful tips. She gave us a very solid first draft and want there to be no surprises when published. The structure was extremely strong and well written - and that's what stood out to me."
SR

Sean Robinson
Content Manager, Buildertrend

"I had the pleasure of working with Karissa on several projects when I was working at a boutique landscape architecture firm. Karissa had vision, integrity and deep knowledge of architectural lingoes and nuances. She was attentive to our needs, thorough and was able to turn around projects quickly and efficiently. I admire and respect her talent, skills and finesse as a professional."
NR

Norazlina Manap
UX Designer & Communications Specialist

"Karissa delivered her first contract with us on time and on quality. We were impressed with her project management skillsets and expertise in the industry so we checked in with her and awarded the job for our most important engineering and BIM/VDC sub-services. We absolutely appreciate Karissa's repertoire and meeting deadlines due to which we always give her the preference."
MT

Michael Tobias PE, LEED AP, CEM
Founding Principal, New York Engineers

Global Presence_1

trusted by clients

global presence


  • Ready to go 8gile building storeys and stories?
Next Section