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Client work

Real funnels. Real brands.
Results that came from the right
strategy before the right copy.

Every number on this page came from the same process. Find the real problem first. Build the creative strategy. Then write every word. Not the other way around.

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Find the real problem

Audience research, funnel auditing, gap diagnosis. Every engagement starts here.

Ignite the strategy

Messaging hierarchy, campaign architecture, emotional journey design. Before anything is written.

Run the copy

Every word engineered to move your audience one step closer to yes. All stages. One system.

Evolve with the data

After launch, the work continues. What the numbers reveal shapes what gets sharper.

CASE STUDIES

The real problem

Every competitor was running the same creative. That was the opening.

The ad library told the whole story. Five major competitors all running feature-led messaging. Adaptogens, L-theanine, organic matcha. Technical language that means nothing to someone scrolling at 7am. All using polished studio production that triggered ad detection in the target demographic. The gap was not in the product. It was in the creative thinking. Nobody had found the psychological angle that would actually stop a coffee drinker mid-scroll.

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1.4M

Total views

8,900+

Orders generated

$250K

Revenue in sales

DTC Beverage · Creative Strategy and UGC Script

1.4M views. $250K in sales.
From a single 20-second script.

A DTC coffee alternative brand running paid creative on TikTok and Instagram Reels. The category was crowded. Every competitor was running the same feature-led creative. The brief was for a UGC script. What it actually needed was a complete creative strategy rethink before a word of script was written.

The result

1.4M views. 8,900 orders. $250K. One script.

The 20-second UGC script generated 1.4M views, 8,900 orders, and $250K in revenue. The high completion rate drove algorithmic distribution beyond paid reach. Price transparency inside the ad pre-qualified buyers so the landing page could focus on deepening desire rather than handling price objections. Every metric traced back to a specific creative decision made before the script was written. The client called it the best ROI from any marketing they had ever run.

The strategy

Upgrade framing, not replacement framing. One insight built from research.

Deep research across Reddit, Amazon reviews, and TikTok comments revealed the central insight. The target buyer does not hate coffee. She hates what coffee does to her by 3pm. Every competitor was positioning as a coffee replacement which triggers loss aversion in people who love coffee. The script repositioned it as a coffee upgrade. Same ritual. Different outcome. Same product. Completely different psychological frame. The hook qualified the right audience before the algorithm did. The creative had to feel like something a friend posted, not something a brand produced.

"That coffee script did 1.4 million views and we got 8,900 orders. $250k in sales from a 20 second video. Honestly the best ROI we have gotten from any marketing."

Elise · DTC beverage brand

The real problem

Every competitor skipped mechanism education. That was the gap nobody had found.

Competitive analysis of Ryze, Four Sigmatic, and MudWtr confirmed the universal gap. None of them explained why the 2pm crash happens physiologically. None explained why adaptogens take weeks not days. None explained the HPA axis recalibration timeline. Customers were buying on social proof and cancelling at week two because they felt nothing and had no reason to stay through the recalibration period. The sequence was built to solve retention before the purchase was made, not after it.

DTC Functional Beverage · Full-Funnel Email Strategy and Copy

Cold subscriber to first purchase
in 7 days. Five emails. One belief arc.

A DTC adaptogen morning powder brand needed a welcome sequence that converted cold subscribers who had already tried the category and come back to coffee. Not benefit claims. Not discount-triggered conversion. A complete belief-shift arc built from competitive research and audience psychology, engineered email by email across 7 days.

The result

Cold to purchased in 7 days. 91% retention by month three.

The sequence converted cold subscribers in 7 days without a single discount. 84% of first-month subscribers renewed at month two. By month three that number was 91%. The retention was built before the purchase was made because the subscriber understood the mechanism timeline before they paid. The sequence did what no competitor in the category was doing. Explain the mechanism before making the ask.

The strategy

A Diagnosis, Mechanism, Solution, Proof, Offer arc. Five emails. Seven days. One compounding belief shift.

The sequence mapped five specific belief states the subscriber held at email one and engineered the exact shift needed at each stage before asking for the sale. Email one introduced the broken fuel cycle. Email two mapped the cortisol-caffeine mechanism with clinical precision. Email three introduced the product as a mechanism-based solution with each ingredient connected directly to the biology from email two. Email four set honest week-by-week expectations. Email five made the full ask with a 60-day guarantee built around the actual mechanism timeline, not a number that sounds good.

"Cold subscribers arrived skeptical from a prior category failure. They left with the cortisol-caffeine cycle mapped, the ingredients explained, the experience demystified, and a 60-day guarantee that removed the last remaining objection. The sequence does not push. It earns."

DTC functional beverage client · Klaviyo welcome sequence

7

Days cold subscriber to first purchase

84%

Month one to month two renewal rate

91%

Retention rate by month three

The real problem

The ad was not the issue. The angle was.

The existing creative was speaking to what the product did. The audience research showed something different. The women buying anti-aging skincare were not motivated by features. They were motivated by a very specific fear about how they were perceived. Nobody had tapped into that angle. The ads were talking past the real emotional driver entirely.

4.8x

ROAS

2,800

Orders in 60 days

3.2%

Conversion rate

DTC Apparel · Creative Strategy and Sales Page Copy

A $58 t-shirt sold as a closet decision,
not a clothing purchase.

A DTC merino apparel brand needed a product sales page for a $58 t-shirt in a market full of spec sheets and lifestyle lookbooks. The real problem was not the price. It was that nobody had positioned the product around the emotional experience of owning a chaotic closet before offering the solution.

The result

4.8x ROAS. 2,800 orders. 60 days.

The campaign ran to 4.8x ROAS with a $42 cost per acquisition and 2,800 orders in 60 days. The client confirmed the anti-aging hook stopped people exactly as the research predicted it would. The work was not in the writing. It was in finding the right thing to write about first.

The strategy

One insight. One hook. Built from the research up.

Deep audience research identified the anti-aging hook that matched exactly what the target customer was quietly afraid of. The ad was written around that specific emotional truth. Not the product. Not the ingredients. The feeling that made them stop scrolling. The funnel architecture was rebuilt so the landing page delivered exactly what the ad promised. Message match across every stage, not just a better headline.

"3.2% conversion, $42 cost per acquisition, 4.8x ROAS. 2,800 bottles sold in 60 days from one ad and the anti-aging hook stopped people exactly like you said it would. Appreciate you man, this was huge."

Inaya · DTC skincare client

DTC Skincare · Creative Strategy and Paid Ads

The hook that stopped people
exactly as predicted.

A DTC coffee alternative brand running paid creative on TikTok and Instagram Reels. The category was crowded. Every competitor was running the same feature-led creative. The brief was for a UGC script. What it actually needed was a complete creative strategy rethink before a word of script was written.

$0.29

Cost-per-wear argument that neutralised the price objection

200+

Wash cycles used as the core durability proof

5

Contexts shown. One shirt that covers all of them.

The real problem

Tech brands write spec sheets. Lifestyle brands write lookbooks. Neither converts a skeptic.

Competitive research across Wool and Prince, Unbound Merino, Outlier, and Everlane confirmed the gap. Tech brands led with 17.5 micron fiber specs. Lifestyle brands led with editorial photography. Neither started with the emotional experience of the man who already owns 30 t-shirts and wears the same 3. The research identified three specific frustrations across Reddit and review platforms: context switching, wash-and-shrink degradation, and the travel smell problem nobody talks about. All three pointed to the same root cause. Cotton is the wrong fabric.

The strategy

Cotton is the villain. Not a competitor. A vertical reframe that changed everything.

The page never positioned the product against another brand. It positioned merino against cotton as a material upgrade, not a brand comparison. That shift moved the buyer from evaluating brands horizontally to evaluating materials vertically. A paradigm decision is easier to make than a brand comparison. Every technical spec was translated into a lived scenario. The cost-per-wear math was done for the buyer inside the page. The guarantee embedded social proof inside the risk reversal so both worked together instead of separately.

The result

$58 felt like a closet investment. Not a clothing purchase.

The page converted a premium-priced product against a market full of cheaper alternatives by reframing the entire buying decision. Buyers were not choosing between this shirt and a $20 cotton tee. They were choosing between cotton as a system and merino as an upgrade. The behavioral recognition in the opening — you own 30 t-shirts and wear the same 3 — created the emotional opening that no feature headline could achieve. The page made the reader laugh before it made him buy.

"Skeptical about a $58 t-shirt. I have now had mine for 8 months, worn it probably 80 times, and it looks exactly like it did when I bought it. My $20 cotton tees from the same period are in the donate pile."

Chris M. · DTC apparel customer

E-commerce · Post-Purchase Email Strategy and Copy

From 11% repeat purchases
to a money printer.

An e-commerce brand with a solid product and a post-purchase email sequence that was technically running. 11% repeat purchase rate. 8% review rate. Numbers that looked acceptable until the right sequence showed what was actually possible from the same customer list.

34%

Repeat purchase rate in 60 days

$180K

Repeat revenue over 6 months

28%

Review submission rate

The real problem

The existing sequence was informing. Not moving.

The old emails confirmed orders, provided tracking, and asked for a review once. They were functional. But they were treating every email as a standalone transaction instead of as a stage in a relationship that needed to be built deliberately. The customer bought once and then went quiet. No belief architecture. No emotional journey. Just information delivery.

The STRATEGY

Five emails. Each one engineered to shift one specific belief.

The sequence was rebuilt around what a buyer needs to feel after a purchase to become a loyal customer. Confirmation they made the right decision. Competence in using the product. Trust in the brand. Social belonging. Each email shifted one of those beliefs specifically, building toward the review request and cross-sell from a position of earned trust, not assumed loyalty. The belief sequence drove the repeat purchase, not the discount.

The RESULT

$180K in repeat revenue from the same list.

Repeat purchase rate went from 11% to 34% in 60 days. Review rate went from 8% to 28%. $180K in repeat revenue over 6 months from a customer list that already existed. Nothing about the product changed. The belief sequence that followed the purchase did.

"34% repeat purchase rate in 60 days. $180K repeat revenue over 6 months. 28% review rate. Our previous sequence was getting 11% repeat purchases and maybe 8% reviews if we were lucky. This thing is a money printer now."

William · E-commerce client

SaaS Product · Landing Page Strategy and Copy

23% free trial conversion.
The media buyer had never seen it.

An e-commerce brand with a solid product and a post-purchase email sequence that was technically running. 11% repeat purchase rate. 8% review rate. Numbers that looked acceptable until the right sequence showed what was actually possible from the same customer list.

23%

Free trial conversion rate

$42

Cost per trial signup

31%

Trial to paid conversion

The real problem

The conversion rate was decided before anyone landed on the page.

Traffic was coming from LinkedIn and Google ads. These were not cold visitors. They had already searched for a solution and clicked a specific value promise. They arrived problem-aware but not product-aware. The page had one job: confirm what the ad already promised. The existing page was re-educating people who had already decided they needed help. That was where the conversions were being lost.

THE STRATEGY

Message match across the full funnel. Nothing more.

The page was rebuilt around one principle. The ad says X. The page delivers X. Nothing else. No navigation to wander through. Three outcomes instead of fifteen features. One testimonial from a VP of Sales with a specific measurable result. One CTA with every fear addressed before anyone could think it. The audience's core belief — that more tools meant more complexity — was addressed directly in the subheadline.

THE RESULT

23% from paid traffic. Media buyer confirmed it.

23% free trial conversion rate. $42 per trial signup. 31% trial to paid conversion. The media buyer said he had never seen a SaaS product page hit those numbers from paid traffic. The page did not convert because it had more on it. It converted because it had exactly the right things and nothing more.

"He said he had never seen a SaaS product page convert that high from paid traffic. 23% free trial conversion. $42 per trial. 31% trial-to-paid."

SaaS client · Sales enablement product

Online Education · Full-Funnel Strategy and Launch Copy

$340K in the first window.
412 students. One system.

A course creator with an existing audience and a proven product needed a launch. The brief was for a sales page. The strategy expanded that into a complete launch system where the sales page, email sequence, and ads were built together as one narrative from the first impression to the checkout.

How engagements work

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This is not a fill-the-brief-and-disappear arrangement.

Every project starts with a conversation about what is actually happening in your funnel. Not the brief. The real situation. Where conversions are dropping, what has been tried, what the audience research shows or does not show.

The work does not start until the problem is found. The copy does not get written until the strategy is built. And after launch, the data shapes what gets sharper.

Discovery call

We talk through your funnel, your goals, and where the real problem lives before anything else happens.

Research and strategy

Audience psychology, funnel audit, messaging architecture. The full Find and Ignite stages before a word is written.

Copy delivery

Every stage written with strategy notes explaining the thinking behind each decision. Not just copy. A system.

Post-launch evolution

After launch I stay in the data. What the numbers reveal shapes what gets tested and tightened next.

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Right fit

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Who I do my best work with and who this is not right for.

DTC brands scaling past their current conversion ceiling with real traffic and an offer that works.

SaaS products whose trial-to-paid or free-to-paid numbers should be higher than they are.

Brands that want to start with a funnel audit before committing to a full engagement.

Founders and marketing leads who want a strategic partner, not someone who fills a brief and disappears.

Brands that need copy written overnight with no research or strategy stage.

Businesses looking for the cheapest option rather than the most effective one.

Anyone who wants a writer to execute their brief exactly as written with no strategic input.

Ready to START

Not sure where to start? Begin with the audit.

The funnel audit is the fastest way to find out what is actually wrong before spending money on copy that might be solving the wrong problem. Most brands that start with an audit move into a full engagement within 30 days.

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