Growth & performance/ Crypto· Investing· Fintech· Worldwide

Outsiderthinking.Insiderresults.

We find the angles no one else is bidding on — and turn them into revenue you can actually count.

free · 20 min · no deck · no retainer pitch
TheProblem
01/10

What your monthly report is built to hide.

You're paying for a beautiful report.
Not for growth.

The monthly deck lands. Impressions — up. Engagement — up. "Brand sentiment" — up. Your bank balance? Down. Your CAC? Climbing. And nobody can tell you which dollar actually worked.

That's not performance. That's theatre — and most agencies are happy to keep the lights on. We're not.

For a startup, every wasted dollar is a week of runway you don't get back.

TheHeresies
02/10

The quiet part, in writing.

Four things we believe that your last agency won't say out loud.

I
The number with a dollar sign is the only one that pays salaries.

Impressions, reach, "brand sentiment" — we ignore the vanity dashboard and optimize one line: revenue against spend. Everything else is noise dressed up as a report.

II
If your server-side tracking is broken, every decision after it is a guess.

If your CAPI events are dropping before they hit the CRM, you're not optimizing — you're gambling with a dashboard that agrees with you. We fix the plumbing first. Always.

  • What they report
  • Impressions
  • Engagement
  • Reach
  • Brand sentiment
REVENUE
SPEND
The only line we optimize
III
Most "creative" is built to win awards, not auctions.

Pretty doesn't convert. We build ads on an insight your competitor hasn't noticed yet — not on what looks good in a case study.

IV
Best practices are a religion. We don't believe.

Run by the rulebook and you get rulebook results — the same CAC as everyone who read it. How we beat it → The angle

Whatwedo
03/10

Five disciplines. One person. No handoffs.

Everything that touches the number.

TheAngle
04/10

Where the cheap, scalable growth is actually hiding.

Everyone's fighting over the same audience. We don't.

We don't fight on the same battlefield — we move it. Instead of bidding up the keywords everyone already shares, we find the angle the category hasn't noticed: the exact pain, the cheaper placement, the message no competitor is running.

0%

of the budget hides in the angle — not the targeting.

Background: search arbitrage — finding cheap, scalable traffic where no one else is looking. Guerrilla placements, angles the category sleeps on, creative that hits a nerve before your competitor sees it coming.

Example · cross-border payments

The whole category advertised the same two words: low fees. We built corridor-specific angles instead — one message for money moving Manila → Dubai, another for London → Lagos — speaking to the exact pain of that route. Cheaper clicks, higher intent, an angle the whole category had ignored.

Unconventional placementsInsight-led creativeCheap scalable traffic
TheBanProblem
05/10

A speed bump for us. A blackout for them.

Most agencies fear compliance. We weaponize it.

A banned account doesn't pause your ads. It freezes your pipeline, wipes your pixel history, and hands your competitor a clear window. Most agencies learn this the expensive way.

The real moat: most crypto marketers have never worked inside a regulated company. I built this stack in one.

MetaGoogleXReddit
TheReceipts
06/10

What actually moved the number.

No vanity metrics.
No logo flex.
Just what moved.

01Paid acquisition
Crypto-to-fiat platform
FINMA-regulated
CAC system built.
Full paid stack from zero — Meta, X, Reddit, Google, server-side tracking. Stopped chasing cheap leads. Started buying funded accounts.
CAC down 42% · Funded accounts up 3.1× · Payback window 94 → 41 days
CAC ↓0%
Funded accounts ↑ 3.1× · Payback 94 → 41 days
02User acquisition
Algorithmic trading platform
Audience-led growth.
An acquisition angle no competitor had run — built on the audience's real pain, not category clichés. Guerrilla placements did the rest.
Cost per lead down 57% · User base up 2.6× · Lead-to-user up 38%
CPL ↓0%
Users ↑ 2.6× · Lead-to-user ↑ 38%
03Engagement & retention
Personal finance app
Retention loop built.
Rebuilt onboarding, activation and lifecycle. Turned installs into habits — not one-time logins.
Activation up 64% · 30-day retention up 31% · Cost per activated user down 46%
Retention ↑0%
Activation ↑ 64% · CPAU ↓ 46%
What broke · what we fixed

Found the missing money path.

Same platform: 34% of conversion events were silently dropping before the CRM. The campaigns that actually worked were losing credit to “Direct.” We rebuilt the tracking — and the spend finally had a map.

34% signal loss recovered · Attribution accuracy up 48% · Wasted budget down 23%

Signal loss found 0%
Attribution fixed · CAC decisions cleaned

Private clients. Public mechanics. Real business outcomes.

Real clients. Real numbers. Names under NDA — the full story on the call.

TheFounder
07/10

You brief the person who actually moves your numbers.

You get the founder.
Not an account manager.

Art — founder
Art · Founder

I'm Art — I own this agency and run your account myself. No junior, no account manager. Me.

Poker and search arbitrage taught me one thing: you get paid when the math is right, not when you're busy. Same here — you pay me when the number moves.

  • 20+ person PPC/SEO teams led
  • $100K/mo ad spend managed
  • $0 → $300K/mo in revenue for a FINMA fintech, in 4 months

No juniors. No churn. No telephone game.

TheObjections
08/10

The doubts every founder brings to the first call.

No FAQ theatre.
Just what you're actually worried about.

Answered before you ask.

"Our ad accounts will just get banned."

Everyone in crypto gets pulled eventually. We plan for it — redundancy, compliant creative, clean tracking. A ban becomes a speed bump, not a blackout.

"You're one person. What if you disappear?"

You get the founder, not a junior — running your account directly. Specialist firepower on call when a project needs it. No churn, no telephone game. You always brief me directly.

"How is this different from every other agency?"

Everyone optimizes the report. We optimize the number with a dollar sign — and the angle nobody else is testing.

"What does it cost?"

Retainer plus performance — we win big only when your number does. If price is your first question, we're not your fit.

"Why should I trust your numbers?"

I pull them up live on the call and show you exactly which dollar moved. Real dashboards, not cherry-picked screenshots. Nothing to take on faith.

"We've been burned by an agency before."

Heard it every week. That's why the teardown's free, the lock-in's short, and you see the one number that matters from week one. We earn the retainer in results, not in contracts.

TheDeal
09/10

How it works — and who we turn away.

We turn down more than we take on.

The model
Retainer + performance. We only win when the number with a dollar sign goes up — skin in the game, not a flat invoice for activity.
Month one
Audit → fix the tracking → test angles → scale what pays. We don't pour spend on top of broken attribution.
Verticals
The high-risk, high-compliance niches everyone else is scared of: crypto, investing and fintech. Worldwide. We say no to easy-mode B2B.
Bans
Planned for, not feared. See how →

Two questions decide if we're a fit.

Want a 40-slide brand strategy, monthly “storytelling,” and a dashboard full of metrics that never touch revenue?

Wrong agency.

Want more money out than you put in?

FindyourNumber
10/10

The fastest way to see if we're a fit.

Stop guessing.

One angle you're not running. Free. In twenty minutes.

The free teardown// no strings
01Send your ad account
02I screen-record a 20-min teardown
03You keep one angle — work with me or don't
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