SERVICES / PAID GROWTH

Paid media built for scale.

We run paid search, paid social, programmatic, and marketplace advertising as one system built to grow revenue. Every dollar is tied to what a customer is worth and tested against incrementality, ensuring your investment drives measurable business impact.

15x
AVG. ROAS LIFT
382x
BEST CAMPAIGN-LEVEL ROAS
$54M
AD SPEND MANAGED
OUR POINT OF VIEW

Paid media rewards precision. Accounts structured so the algorithms can learn. Conversion data that carries real margin. Creative tested at volume. All of it compounds.

(01)CAPABILITIES

What's included.

01

Search, Shopping & Marketplaces

High-intent demand, won from the query to the product grid.

We engineer search around the intrinsic value of each query, with match types and bidding structured so capital allocation strictly follows profit. Listings, content, and ads run as one connected system, winning the search results and product grids where purchase decisions happen.

02

Paid Social & Programmatic

Social creates demand. Programmatic carries it everywhere.

We plan paid social as a demand-creation engine: audience intelligence built on your customer data, modular creative personalized at scale, and signal fidelity that lets platform AI find your next best customer. Programmatic extends it across websites, apps, and streaming TV on vetted inventory.

03

Performance Creative

We've tested thousands of ads.

That many tests teach you things no brief can: the first three seconds decide a video's fate, and the ad the room loves is rarely the one that sells. Your campaigns start from that proven playbook, then we test and confirm what is true for your specific market.

04

Measurement & Incrementality

Ad platforms grade their own homework.

Every one of them gives itself an A. We measure what your spend actually caused. Geo holdouts and lift tests isolate true incremental revenue, while your first-party data anchors everything to reality and answers the only question that matters: where does the next dollar go?

(02)HOW WE WORK

The method.

01
Audit & Model

We start with a full account audit that surfaces wasted spend and untapped demand, then model the economics: what a customer is worth, what you can afford to pay, and where the profit actually sits. This becomes the plan every dollar has to answer to.

02
Measurement First

Before launch we agree on how success will be judged and stand up the tracking to prove it: server-side events, offline conversions fed into your CRM, and a clean baseline for incrementality testing. Success is defined before a single dollar is spent.

03
Build & Launch

We get media in market fast so learning starts early, structuring accounts around profit and loading the funnel with performance creative to test. Early signal compounds, so we compress setup without cutting corners on tracking.

04
Test & Scale

Every week we read the results, cut what loses, and put budget behind what wins. Lift tests confirm the winners are genuinely incremental before we scale them, and a fixed share of budget stays reserved for testing new channels and creative.

05
Report & Defend

You get reporting in business terms: revenue, contribution margin, pipeline, and incremental ROAS, presented in the language your leadership already speaks. It is built so you can defend every dollar to your finance team and your board without translating first.

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(03)THE FIRST 90 DAYS

A plan, from day one.

DAYS 0-30
Audit, Baseline, Launch
We audit your accounts, cut obvious waste, and build the economic model and measurement plan. Tracking goes live, the first restructured campaigns and creative tests launch, and you see early wins on your highest-intent demand.
DAYS 31-60
Test and Optimize
Creative and audience testing reaches full cadence across your priority channels. We shift budget toward what converts, expand the winners, and stand up the first geo holdout or lift test to separate real incremental revenue from platform-reported credit.
DAYS 61-90
Scale What Is Proven
With winners validated by testing, we scale spend with confidence and open new channels where the economics support it. Reporting now ties directly to revenue and margin, and most accounts reach a 25-100% ROAS improvement over where they started.
(04)WHAT YOU GET

Deliverables that ship.

Wasted spend cut and budget shifted to the searches, audiences, and creative that actually convert.
A ROAS improvement of 25-100% within the first three months on most accounts.
Incremental revenue you can prove with geo holdouts and lift tests.
A full-funnel program where search, social, programmatic, and marketplaces run as one connected engine.
A steady pipeline of tested performance creative that keeps fresh winners in market.
Reporting in revenue, margin, and pipeline terms you can defend to finance and the board.
A FIT WHEN
  • You are spending real budget on ads but cannot tell which dollars drive growth and which are wasted.
  • Your channels are run in silos by separate specialists, and the funnel stalls in the handoffs between them.
  • You need to defend media spend to a CFO or board, and platform-reported ROAS is not convincing them.
  • You are ready to scale your brand and need paid acquisition that stays profitable as it grows, whether you sell to consumers or to businesses.
(05)FAQ

Questions, answered.

We work as an ongoing partner, with a monthly fee scoped to the complexity and spend we manage rather than a percentage that rewards us for spending more of your budget. Most relationships start with a paid audit that gives you a concrete roadmap whether or not you continue with us. We do not publish flat rates because a fair scope depends on your channels, goals, and how much of the work sits with us versus your team. You will always know what you are paying for and what it is expected to return.

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