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Ads that end in revenue. Not screenshots.

We took one client's Google Ads from $132.88 cost per acquisition to $65.56 in four months, without cutting spend. Most agencies do not fix accounts, they babysit them.

Channels
Google, Meta, YouTube, TikTok
Featured result
−51% CPA in four months
Engagement
Monthly retainer, no lock-in

Three reasons your ad accounts are quietly bleeding money.

Most accounts we inherit have one thing in common: nobody has actually been inside them. Auto-pilot is a setting, not a strategy.

Unattended accounts

Nobody's logged in for weeks.

Your previous agency ran monthly optimization, which translates as somebody opening the account, looking at it for ten minutes, exporting a screenshot and closing the tab. Campaigns drifted, recommendations went unactioned, budget kept burning.

If your ad spend deserves a babysitter, hire a different one

Campaign sprawl

You don't have campaigns. You have clutter.

Eight active campaigns, four overlapping audiences, two of them cannibalising each other, and optimization scores under 70%. The platform is asking you to fix things and nobody is reading the messages.

More campaigns rarely means more revenue. Usually the opposite

Vanity reporting

Reports nobody reads, decisions nobody makes.

Forty page slide decks at the end of every month covering impressions, reach, engagement and frequency. Every metric except the one your CFO cares about. Decisions get postponed because the data is too dressed up to act on.

If the report needs a summary, it's already too long

Fewer campaigns. Better creative. Cleaner accounts.

Most accounts get worse with more campaigns, not better. We rebuild the structure, cut the noise, and optimize what is left. Boring, effective, and not what you would put on a slide.

Campaign architecture

Cut campaigns until what's left works.

  • Full account audit across campaign, ad group and audience overlap
  • Restructure to two or three high-leverage campaigns, not eight mediocre ones
  • 100% optimization score across active campaigns
  • Negative keyword and audience exclusion architecture
  • Bid strategy rebuild: target ROAS, target CPA or max conversions

Creative and conversion

Creative your CMO doesn't have to apologise for.

  • Ad copy rewrites: headlines, descriptions, responsive search ads
  • Creative refresh cadence across UGC, before and after, offer-led and retargeting
  • Landing page audits and conversion rate recommendations
  • A/B testing protocol: one variable at a time, statistically valid samples
  • Image and video creative briefs you can hand to your designer

Tracking and attribution

Know what worked, defensibly.

  • Conversion tracking audit across pixels, events and deduplication
  • Server-side tracking deployment, privacy resilient
  • Google Merchant Center fixes, the silent killer for Shopping
  • UTM hygiene and cross-platform attribution
  • GA4 or your analytics layer wired properly to the platforms

Competition and intelligence

Built from what your competitors actually run.

  • Deep competitor ad library audit across Meta and Google
  • Competitor landing page and offer teardowns
  • Bid landscape analysis: auction insights and impression share
  • Creative pattern recognition for your category
  • Quarterly competitive intelligence brief

How a paid engagement actually goes.

Paid is faster than SEO. Quick wins ship in week two, sometimes week one. We do not sit on audits, and we do not ask you to wait three months to see something work.

  1. Days 1 to 7

    Audit and structural fixes.

    Full account audit covering campaign and audience overlap, optimization scores, conversion tracking integrity and attribution gaps. We tell you which campaigns to kill, which to keep and which to merge, usually before you have signed the next invoice. Tracking gets fixed in week one.

  2. Days 8 to 30

    Restructure and first creative.

    Campaigns rebuilt down to two or three that actually pull weight. Bid strategies updated. First creative shipped. Negative keyword and audience exclusion architecture in place. By day 30 you should see CPA drop and ROAS lift, even if the absolute numbers are still moving.

  3. Months 2 to 3

    Compound through testing.

    Creative refresh cadence locked in and the A/B testing protocol running. The competitor audit informs the next creative round. Bid strategies tighten around real conversion data. By month three the account should be running on signal rather than assumption.

  4. Months 4 to 12

    Scale what's earned its place.

    Spend scales on the campaigns and creative that have earned it. New channels open only when the existing ones are dialled in. Competition reports inform what to build next. Most clients renew through this phase on results, not on contract.

Google Ads cost per acquisition cut in half in four months.

A North American luxury linen bedding brand had been running Google Ads through another agency for years, and cost per acquisition had crept up to $132.88 by April 2025. We took over in December 2025, cleaned the campaign structure from five campaigns down to two, and pushed every active campaign to a 100% optimization score. By April 2026 CPA was $65.56, April revenue had tripled year on year, and Q1 2026 revenue was four times Q1 2025.

Thank you Majeed, for everything you do and everything that you have done.

D2C founder, luxury linen bedding, North America
−51%
Cost per acquisition
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April revenue, year on year
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Q1 revenue, year on year

The stack we run in your account every week.

Real platforms, not growth tools with cute names. Some of these come with certifications most agencies never bother to earn, including Google Partner and Meta Business Partner. Those certifications mean platform reps actually pick up our calls.

Honest about who this is for, and who it isn't.

Paid advertising rewards focus. The right-fit list is short on purpose, because paid is where a wrong-fit engagement hurts the most.

Brands done with babysat ad accounts

  • Brands tired of unattended accounts and 40 page monthly slide decks
  • Founders who measure ads in CPA, ROAS and revenue, not impressions
  • Companies with at least $10k a month in active paid spend
  • Categories where paid actually works, and not every category does
  • Owners willing to ship creative every four to six weeks, because creative fatigue is real

Looking for a campaign factory

  • Want to run fifteen campaigns at once. We will cut you back to two or three
  • Will not change creative. Stale creative is the leading cause of dead campaigns
  • Want a 40 page monthly report. Live dashboards only
  • Need an account manager. You will work directly with the operator
  • Trust last-click attribution as gospel. We do not, and we will explain why

Questions every founder asks before they start.

Things prospects bring up on audit calls, laid out so you do not have to ask.

How fast will I see results?

Faster than SEO. Tracking and structural fixes ship in week one and new campaigns run by week two. CPA and ROAS movement is visible by day 30 in most accounts, with real revenue impact by month two if the foundation is sound, or month three if there is tracking debt to clean up first. Anyone promising results in 48 hours is either lying or about to torch your account chasing a screenshot.

Why do you cut so many campaigns?

Because most accounts are split across eight to twelve campaigns when two or three would do better. Sprawl creates audience overlap, makes optimization harder and confuses the platform's bidding algorithm. Two well-funded campaigns at a 100% optimization score beat eight half-funded ones every time, and we will show you the data on your own account before touching anything.

Will you guarantee a specific ROAS?

No. Anyone who does is either inflating your expectations or hiding a kill clause in the contract. ROAS depends on product margin, audience saturation, creative performance, seasonality and a dozen variables no agency controls. What we commit to is weekly account work, transparent dashboards, specific tactical changes with stated hypotheses, and honesty when something is not working.

Do I need to be running ads already?

No, but it helps. New accounts have a 30 to 60 day learning phase before the algorithms stabilise, which is platform behaviour rather than ours. Existing accounts with at least three months of conversion history give us more to work with on day one. If you are starting from zero we will be honest about which channels make sense before lighting any spend.

Do you handle creative, or do I need to?

Both work. We brief and direct creative including variations, angles, hooks and test plans. If you have an in-house designer or video team we hand them detailed briefs they can execute, and if you do not, we have creative partners. What we will not do is ship the same three ads for six months and call it consistency. Creative fatigue is the main reason ROAS dies in month four.

What's your reporting cadence?

We do not send written reports. Bi-weekly strategy calls for the first two months, then monthly, with a live dashboard available at any time so you see what we see. If you want a 40 page document every month we are not your team. That document takes someone four hours to make and gives you the same information a fifteen minute call would.

What's your minimum spend?

About $10k a month in active paid spend across channels. Below that the maths does not work: agency fees eat too much of the budget for either side to win, and the account does not have enough conversion volume to optimize against. If you are under that we will tell you honestly, and sometimes the right answer is to wait six months.

Do I need to lock into a contract?

No. Monthly retainer, no lock-in. Our longest paid client has been with us four years by choice rather than signature. If we are delivering you stay. If we are not, you leave.

Tell us where your budget is leaking.

A free 30 minute ads audit. We open your account, find the campaigns bleeding money, and identify the highest-leverage fix. No pitch deck, and no discovery call that is secretly a pitch deck.

No contracts. No sales pressure. Three slots remaining this quarter.

Other capabilities we run for paid clients.