The Playbook

Thinking, frameworks,
and strategy.

How we think about marketing for D2C brands. The methods, the reasoning, and the systems behind it all.

Team & Hiring

The Marketing Team of One

One operator with great tooling outperforms three specialists. The maths explains why — and the opportunity is bigger than a cost saving.

Profit Maths

ROAS Is Not Profit

A 4.0 ROAS can lose money. A 1.8 can scale profitably. The difference is your unit economics.

Owned Data

Your Data Is the Moat

When AI tools are ubiquitous, differentiation is the data that sits underneath.

Profit Maths

Discount Impact Calculator

See how discounting on your D2C store impacts profitability.

AI Productivity

Practical AI Adoption

Every brand adopted AI. Almost nobody built the infrastructure to make it work. A three-layer framework for getting real output from AI.

Owned Data

The 1st Party Marketing Method

A framework for prioritising owned channels, direct customer relationships, and proprietary data — so your marketing compounds instead of expiring.

AI Productivity

What We Mean by AI Workflows

Every brand "uses AI" now. But most of that usage is just shortcuts. The distinction matters because one compounds and the other doesn't.

Team & Hiring

What's the Point in Humans?

AI writes the copy, builds the pages, and optimises the bids. So what exactly is your marketing team for? The answer is more important than you think.