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    Consumer streaming subscription
    ~$30MMIncremental revenue / quarter

    A CRO Program That Consistently Beats Benchmarks

    Deep user research plus a high-velocity testing program lifted conversion ~26% a quarter and added roughly $30MM in incremental revenue per quarter.

    Consumer meditation and sleep subscription app
    +50%Self-serve conversion

    Building B2B Product-Led Growth From Zero

    Built the B2B product-led growth product from the ground up. Self-serve conversion rose 50%, volume 100%, and B2B grew to a fifth of company revenue.

    Consumer entertainment subscription app
    2.7xPaid LTV:CAC

    Nearly Tripling Paid LTV:CAC in Four Months

    Moved the paywall, restructured the Meta account, and took paid LTV:CAC from 0.15 to 0.42 by doubling how many installs reach a trial at 30% lower cost per trial.

    Direct-to-consumer health products
    3.1xMonthly ad spend, to $276K

    Scaling Ad Spend 3x and Reaching Profitability in Seven Months

    A strong growth plan across targeting, creative testing, website A/B testing and lifecycle compounded to scale monthly ad spend 3x at a constant cost of acquisition, and took the business from losing money to profitable in seven months.

    Personal finance app for paying down loans
    +144%Average LTV

    A Full-Funnel Audit to Hit Target LTV:CAC

    Benchmarked every funnel stage against best-in-class products, then fixed the four that mattered. Average LTV rose 144% and LTV:CAC 120% in four months.

    Youth sports video and AI highlight app
    +109%Activation rate

    An Activation Overhaul That Doubled Activation

    Audited the signup and activation flows, cut the branching down to one core value prop, and doubled the activation rate.

    B2B team-management SaaS for small and mid-size companies
    +65%Weekly new-account leads

    An Acquisition Engine Overhaul That Lifted Leads 65%

    Stood up paid acquisition from zero, rebuilt the conversion funnel from landing page to account creation, and instrumented all of it. Weekly leads rose 65% and signup completion doubled.

    At-home health testing subscription
    +260%Ad spend scaled

    Scaling Meta Ads While Increasing Spend Efficiency

    Restructured targeting and consolidated onto winning creative to cut CPC 26% while scaling spend 260%.

    Seed-stage education streaming subscription
    1:1Reached breakeven LTV:CAC

    Overhauling the Acquisition Engine for a Profitable LTV:CAC

    Pricing, on-site conversion, and cleaner paid-algorithm signals took LTV:CAC up 43% and to breakeven in eight months.

    Managed marketplace for refurbished e-bikes
    +25%Compounded lift in lead conversion, 3 months

    Building a CRO Experimentation Program From Zero

    Stood up an A/B experimentation program from nothing, ran 30 experiments in three months at a 33% win rate, and compounded the winners into a 25% lift in seller lead conversion.

    Global online job marketplace
    1End-to-end funnel audit and roadmap

    A CRO Audit of an Employer Onboarding Funnel

    An annotated audit board: where the revenue gap sits, a nine-platform teardown, ICE-scored quick wins each with a control and a variant, and a prioritized roadmap.

    Consumer entertainment subscription app
    9Key metrics built and tracked

    A Growth Dashboard That Explains Its Own Numbers

    Built a growth dashboard where every metric carries the benchmark, the current value, the cause, and the move. Two of the headline numbers were actively misleading without it.

    Operating-system SaaS for small and mid-size companies
    1Reverse trial designed end to end

    Designing a Free-to-Paid Transition Without the Churn Spike

    Designed a reverse trial for 6,700 existing free users around the failure case rather than the success case, and redefined activation as a multi-user event.

    At-home health testing subscription
    4Ad creative territories built

    Building a User-Centric Ads Strategy

    Polled real users to find what they valued most, then built each ad-creative territory directly on a validated value prop instead of guessing.

    iOS journaling app
    4Funnel stages audited and ranked

    Auditing a Paid Funnel With Nothing Measuring It

    The ad account had run 325 days with zero events recorded. The audit reframed the problem from overspending to never having spent or measured enough to learn.

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