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— Pricing

Managed paid media, with the measurement built in

A senior team runs your paid media, and first-party tracking, attribution, and a live client platform come inside the retainer. It is built for brands spending $30k to $500k a month on ads, and every price is on this page.

$200M+
Ad spend managed
50+
Verticals served
3 mo
Minimum term
— Who this suits
  • Brands spending roughly $30k to $500k a month on paid media, across one or several platforms.
  • A product and margin that already work, where the question is how far paid media can scale them.
  • Teams that want decisions made on measured revenue, and are willing to hear when the answer is to spend less.
— Who this is not for
  • Anyone looking for the cheapest hands available. Someone else is cheaper, and we would lose that comparison on purpose.
  • A product or margin problem that media is expected to fix. Media scales what already works.
  • Budgets under about $30k a month, where a retainer eats too much of the channel. The free audit is the better start there.
— The price

Growth

The foundation you scale from.

$3,950/ mo
Covers ad spend to $40k, then 5% above it.
  • Senior strategists run every account — there is no junior layer
  • Every platform you advertise on, managed end to end
  • Strategy, build, daily optimization, and creative direction
  • First-party tracking and multi-touch attribution, included
  • Your own live dashboards, not a monthly deck
  • Strategy reviews and reporting
Brands spending up to 40k a month
Book a growth call
Most popular

Scale

For the steep part of the curve.

$5,950/ mo
Covers ad spend to $100k, then 5% above it.
  • Everything in Growth
  • New-versus-returning economics and true cost per new customer
  • Creative performance analysis and a live testing roadmap
  • Priority support
Brands spending 40k to 260k a month
Book a growth call

Premier

An operating partner, not a supplier.

$13,950/ mo
Covers ad spend to $280k, then 4% above it.
  • Everything in Scale
  • Multiple brands, regions, or entities under one measurement layer
  • Budget allocation modeled across channels, and tested for lift
  • Reporting built to your board pack, not our template
Brands spending 260k to 500k a month
Book a growth call

Enterprise

Built around how your organization works.

from$24,950/ mo
Commercials shaped around your structure.
  • Everything in Premier
  • Service levels agreed in your contract
  • Multi-market and multi-entity structures, consolidated
  • Security review, SSO, and your data processing agreement
  • Commercial terms shaped to you, including revenue-share models
Brands spending 500k a month and above
Book a conversation

All prices are monthly. 3-month minimum term, then month to month. A one-time setup fee covers tracking and the day-zero audit before any retainer starts: Growth $1,500–$2,500 · Scale $2,500–$5,000 · Premier $5,000–$7,500 · Enterprise from $10,000.

On the published tiers there is also a growth fee: 2% of new monthly revenue above a baseline we agree with you, capped at one month of your fee. It is $0 until the business grows. How it works

— What the price buys

There is no junior tier

The usual agency model puts a senior name on the pitch and a junior on the account. Here a senior strategist runs every account, at every tier, including the entry one. What changes as you grow is the depth of the work, not who does it.

Figures from client engagements documented in full on our work pages. Results vary by market, margin, and starting position. We will tell you which of these looks like your situation before you sign, not after.

— Work out your exact fee
$20k$500k+

Every price on this page is the real price. Type your spend or drag the slider, and you have our quote before you speak to anyone.

— Your fee today
$5,950/ month
5.9% of your spend, on the Scale tier
Plus a one-time setup fee, $2,500–$5,000, covering tracking implementation and the day-zero audit before any retainer starts.
— Growth fee
no growth$1m+

$0 until we grow you. It applies only to revenue above the baseline we agree before activation, so on day one it is zero. Move the slider to model a month where we add new revenue.

ADSRUNNER, everything included$5,950
Only the retainer is fixed. The rest exists only in a month we grow you.
Agency fee plus a measurement stack$12,500–$20,000
Charged in full whether or not anything grows.

Typical agency management at this spend is $10,000–$15,000, and the attribution platform you would buy alongside it is another $2,500–$5,000. Both are included above. Even in your best month, with the growth fee fully capped at a total of $11,900, you are still under the top of that band, and theirs is charged whether the business grows or not.

Each tier is priced to take over exactly where the one below it stops being the better deal. Growing into the next tier costs less than staying in the last one, so scaling never turns into a renegotiation.

Not sure where you land? Run the free audit. It measures your real spend and tells you which tier fits.

— The growth fee

How the growth fee works

A retainer alone pays an agency the same whether revenue doubles or drifts. So the published tiers carry one more, deliberately small term: a share of the new revenue above where you started. It is small because a share large enough to argue about starts shaping the advice.

Baseline
Agreed with you before we go live, from your own commerce data. Normally the trailing three-month average of net monthly revenue; for a seasonal business, the same months last year. On day one the fee is zero.
Rate
2% of new monthly revenue above that baseline, measured in your commerce platform rather than in ad-platform reporting.
Cap and floor
Never more than one month of your fee, and never below zero. No clawback of earlier months if a later one softens.
Annual review
Each year the baseline moves halfway up to where the business now sits, so growth that holds is charged at half the rate the next year and fades out after that. Growth that would have come anyway is not charged for indefinitely.
Billing
Quarterly in arrears, on revenue already landed, with the working shown. Thin-margin businesses can take it on gross profit instead.
— What that looks like on a real month

A Premier client spending $350,000 a month. We take the business from $500,000 to $800,000 of net monthly revenue: $300,000 of new revenue a month that was not there before.

Our fee that month is $22,750, retainer and growth fee together. The $500,000 you were already doing carries no growth fee at all.

Base retainer
$13,950
Overage on spend above $280,000
$2,800
Growth fee, 2% of $300,000
$6,000
Total that month
$22,750

Measured on net revenue in your own commerce data, not on what an ad platform claims it caused.

— What comes with the retainer

The platform is not an add-on

Most of what follows is sold elsewhere as a separate subscription, on top of an agency fee. Here it is the plumbing, at every tier.

Attribution

Six models side by side, from first click to data-driven, over journeys stitched from your own first-party data. Where the models disagree is the interesting part, and you see it rather than taking one number on trust. Including what a genuinely new customer costs, measured against your real customer list rather than the platform’s guess.

Product intelligence

Performance at the level you actually buy and hold stock at. Which products carry the account, which quietly absorb budget, and how that changes across every platform you sell on — margin included, because revenue without cost of goods has talked plenty of brands into scaling a loss.

Creative intelligence

Every ad you have run, in one library, scored on what it did rather than how it felt. Fatigue caught while it is still cheap to act on, winners identified early enough to matter, and a testing roadmap that comes from the data instead of from whoever spoke last.

First-party tracking

Your own tracking on your own domain, sending conversions server-side to every platform you run. It keeps working as third-party cookies stop.

Private, live analytics

Your own dashboards, updated daily, for whoever on your team needs them. Not a PDF that arrives after the month it describes has ended.

Watched around the clock

Your account is checked continuously for anomalies, pacing drift, and misses against your own targets. The machines do the watching; a senior decides what to do about it.

An assistant that knows the account

Ask why last week moved and get a straight answer with the numbers behind it. It reads your data; it cannot spend your money.

Every change on the record

Meaningful changes are proposed, approved, and logged. You can always see what was done, when, and why.

All of it compounds. Month twelve is not month one repeated — the attribution has a year of journeys behind it, the creative library knows what has already failed, and the account has a history to reason against. The measurement is the asset, and it stays yours.

— How it starts

You start paying the day we go live

Most agencies bill from signature and spend the first month onboarding. We separate the two, because a retainer for a month of setup is a retainer for nothing.

  1. 01

    We measure before we quote

    Run the free audit or book a call. Either way we look at real account data first, so the tier we recommend comes from your numbers rather than a discovery form.

  2. 02

    Scope and start date agreed

    One call covers goals, constraints, and what good looks like. You get the tier, the setup fee, and the activation date in writing before anything is signed.

  3. 03

    Setup window

    We implement tracking, validate it against your commerce data, connect your platforms, run the day-zero audit, and agree the revenue baseline in writing. The one-time setup fee covers this. No retainer yet.

  4. 04

    Activation — the retainer begins

    Billing starts the day we take the accounts live, prorated from that date. The growth fee starts at zero, because on day one there is nothing above the baseline yet. Both of us have to go and earn it.

The price here is the price

No pricing that changes with how big your logo is. The calculator above is the same formula that generates your contract, and it is the same formula for everyone.

We earn when you grow

2% of the new revenue above your baseline, and nothing at all in a month without any. Capped at one month of your fee, measured on the same numbers you watch live in your own dashboard.

Your measurement is not an upsell

First-party tracking, server-side conversions, and multi-touch attribution are in the retainer. We will never sell you the ability to see whether our work is working.

Three months to prove it

A 3-month minimum, then month to month on thirty days notice. Long lock-ins protect the agency from its own results.

— What you are actually comparing

One retainer against a stack of invoices

CapabilityADSRUNNERTraditional agencyIn-house plus tools
Paid media managed across every platformYour team
Senior operator on the account, at every tierVariesYour hire
Strategy, build, and daily optimizationYour team
Creative direction and testing roadmapOften extraYour team
First-party tracking implementationOften extraPaid tool
Multi-touch attribution, multiple modelsPaid tool
Cost per new customer, not just ROASPaid tool
Private live dashboards for your teamMonthly deckPaid tool
AI assistant trained on your account
Every change proposed, approved, and loggedAd hocYour process
Published pricing you can check yourselfn/a
Paid on your growth, not only your spendRarelyn/a
Minimum term3 months6–12 monthsHeadcount

Agency and in-house columns describe the common market arrangement, not any specific competitor. Plenty of agencies do excellent work — the point is what arrives in one invoice versus several.

Questions people ask before signing

Who actually works on my account?

A senior strategist, on every tier, including the entry one. We do not staff accounts with juniors supervised at a distance, which is why the entry price starts where it does — the floor is set by what a senior operator costs, not by what the market will tolerate.

What counts as ad spend?

The media budget you pay the platforms, across every account we manage for you — Google, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, Pinterest, and anything else we run. We measure it from the platforms directly, so the number on your invoice is the number in your ad accounts. It is never estimated.

When does billing actually start?

The retainer starts the day we take your accounts live, not the day you sign. Between signature and activation we implement tracking, run the day-zero audit, and connect your platforms — that window is covered by the one-time setup fee, and the first month of retainer is prorated from the activation date.

Is there a minimum term?

Three months, then month to month on thirty days notice. Three months is roughly what it takes for structural changes to show up in the data honestly. After that, staying should be your choice each month rather than a contract obligation.

What happens when my spend moves month to month?

The base retainer stays flat and the overage follows your measured spend, so a quieter month costs less without a renegotiation. If your spend settles into the next tier, we move you there — which is cheaper than staying where you were, because each tier is priced to take over exactly where the tier below stops being the better deal.

Are tracking and attribution really included?

Yes. First-party tracking, server-side conversion sending, multi-touch attribution, and the client platform are part of the retainer at every tier. Most brands buy those separately from an attribution vendor for between $500 and $5,000 a month on top of their agency fee.

What is the setup fee for?

Implementing first-party tracking on your site, validating the conversion data against your commerce platform, and running the day-zero audit that everything afterwards is measured against. It is a one-time fee, banded by tier because the work is: $1,500–$2,500 on Growth, which is usually one storefront and one set of platforms; $2,500–$5,000 on Scale; $5,000–$7,500 on Premier, where there are typically several brands or regions to wire up; and from $10,000 at Enterprise, where multiple entities, markets, and storefronts have to be reconciled into one measurement layer. Where you land inside your band is quoted before you sign, never after.

Do you produce the creative, or just run it?

We own the creative strategy — what to test, which angles to try next, which assets to retire and when — and that is included at every tier. Production is separate: we brief and direct your team or your studio, and we can bring in a production partner if you do not have one. We would rather be honest about that line than quietly imply a video team is included in a media retainer.

Whose data is it, and what happens if we part ways?

Yours. The ad accounts stay in your name, the tracking runs on your domain, and the conversion data is your business data — we are the processor, not the owner. Ask and we will export your historical performance and customer data in a usable format. Nothing about the arrangement is designed to make leaving expensive.

Can I keep the attribution tool I already pay for?

You can, and some clients run both for a period to compare. We will not ask you to cancel anything as a condition of working together. What we will do is reconcile our numbers against your existing source and show you where and why they differ.

How is the growth baseline set, and what about growth we would have had anyway?

Together, from your own commerce data, before anything goes live. Normally it is the trailing three-month average of your net monthly revenue, written into the contract. If your business is seasonal we use the same months last year instead, so a normal December counts as a normal December. Net means after refunds, returns, discounts, and cancellations: the number your finance team recognizes. Some growth above that line will be yours rather than ours, and no measurement separates the two with total confidence. That is why the share is small, why there is nothing extra for us in a bad month, and why the annual review moves the baseline up, so growth that turns out to be yours stops being charged for.

What stops the growth fee getting expensive?

It applies only to revenue above the baseline, so the business you already had is never charged for. It is capped at one month of your fee, so in the best month imaginable your total can at most double. It has a floor of zero, with no clawback of earlier months if a later one softens. And every twelve months the baseline moves halfway up to where the business now sits, so growth you have held for a year is billed at half the rate the next year and fades out after that.

How is the growth fee billed, and can it be on profit instead?

Quarterly in arrears, on revenue that has already landed, with the working shown against the same commerce data you see in your dashboard. The retainer stays monthly. We use revenue because it is the number we can both see in the same place on the same day. If you run a thin-margin business and revenue is the wrong shape, we can structure it as a share of gross profit instead. That is a change to your contract, not to this page.

Do you work on revenue share or performance-only deals?

The growth share above is our version of one, and it is on every published tier. What we do not do is performance-only — no base, paid purely on attributed conversions. That model pushes an agency toward whatever is easiest to claim credit for rather than whatever grows the business, and it makes the honest recommendation (spend less here, fix the landing page, wait for the data) the one that costs us money. Our growth fee avoids that because it is measured on your total business revenue against a written baseline, not on what a platform reports it caused. At Enterprise the whole structure is negotiable, including a larger share against a smaller base.

Which currency will I be billed in?

Whichever of USD, GBP, or EUR you choose at contract. The figures are the same in each — 3,950 is 3,950 — and the spend allowances are quoted in the same currency, so the effective rate you pay is identical whichever one you pick. UK and EU prices exclude VAT.

See the numbers on your account first

The free audit reads your live account and tells you what is being wasted and which tier you sit in. No call needed to get it.

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