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    A few engagements with consumer subscription apps, anonymized. Same pattern each time: find where the funnel leaks, fix what moves the number, prove it with a test.

    Case studyPersonal 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.

    Case studyConsumer 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.

    Case studyConsumer 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 four months.

    Case studyConsumer streaming subscription
    +26%CPC efficiency

    Scaling Meta Ads While Increasing Spend Efficiency

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

    ApproachAt-home health testing subscription

    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.

    Case studyYouth sports video and AI highlight app
    +100%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.

    Case studyAI storytelling app for children
    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.

    Case studyManaged marketplace for refurbished e-bikes
    4Experiments shipped every two weeks

    Building a CRO Experimentation Program From Zero

    Stood up an A/B experimentation program from nothing and ramped it to four experiments every two weeks, with the operating model owned by the client's team.

    ApproachAI storytelling app for children

    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.

    ApproachOperating-system SaaS for small and mid-size companies

    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.

    ApproachiOS journaling app

    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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