About us

Grounded advice for growing companies

Founded in 2022, Anchor USA was built on a simple belief: strategy and marketing should never work in separate rooms.

Our story

Why we started Anchor USA

Anchor USA was founded in 2022 in Matthews, North Carolina, by a small team of consultants and marketers who had spent years watching great strategies fail in execution — and great campaigns run without a strategy behind them. We set out to close that gap.

From day one, our model has been hands-on and senior-led. We take on a focused number of clients so we can go deep before we ever recommend a tactic. That discipline is how a young firm earned the trust of companies across nearly twenty industries in just a few years.

Today we partner with founders and leadership teams who want more than a vendor — a steady hand that helps them decide where to go, then does the work to get them there.

2022

the year we set anchor

Our approach

How we think about your business

01

Listen first

We start with your goals and constraints — not a templated playbook.

02

Decide with data

Every plan is anchored to evidence you can see and question.

03

Execute together

We stay accountable through delivery, not just the recommendation.

A focused firm by design

What working with us is like

Senior people, start to finish

No junior hand-offs. The strategists and marketers you meet are the ones doing the work.

A limited client roster

We take on a focused number of engagements so we can go deep — not spread thin.

Built to transfer

We leave your team sharper and more self-sufficient than we found it.

Leadership

Meet Shannon Burgess

Shannon brings an operator’s perspective to every engagement. His background spans hands-on industrial operations and maintenance alongside B2B computer hardware, custom computer systems and technology procurement, giving him a rare view of both how businesses run and the systems that keep them running.

Over his career, Shannon has worked across sales, customer service, vendor coordination, infrastructure and fulfillment, partnering directly with customers, suppliers and technical teams on day-to-day operations. That breadth shapes how he advises clients: grounded in what actually works on the floor, not just on paper.

His focus is practical: dependable relationships and strong operating systems. It’s the same standard he holds Anchor USA to: senior attention, honest advice, and accountability that carries through to the result.

What we value

The principles behind every engagement

Honesty

We tell you what we’d do if it were our money — even when it isn’t what you hoped to hear.

Rigor

Good instincts are earned through disciplined analysis, not assumed.

Ownership

Your outcomes are our scoreboard. We win when you do.