YC only
Your drop-in paid ads team, run by YC founders.
Startups fail one of two ways. The product's bad, or nobody knows about it. You've solved the first. We handle the second.
One channel. A clear answer in 30 days.
01 / HERO
02 / THE OFFER
The 30-day ads test.
Price$5,000
Duration30 days
ChannelWe choose
OutcomeA clear answer
We pick the channel — Meta, LinkedIn, or Google Search, or a mix if it makes sense — and pick the angle, write the ads, build the landing page, and run the campaign. Ad spend is separate and goes directly to the platform.
On day 30, one of three things happens.
Outcome 1
Ads don't work for your company.
We tell you what the data shows, hand over the report, and part ways. No retainer pitch.
Outcome 2
Ads work, and you want to run them yourself.
We hand over everything — the copy, the audiences, the creative, the lessons — and you take it in-house.
Outcome 3
Ads work, and you want us to scale them.
We quote a monthly retainer based on what the test showed. You decide.
No strategy deck. No kickoff call. No six-week onboarding. Week one we ship, week five you know.
If we think the test won't work for your company — wrong stage, wrong product, wrong market — we'll tell you before you pay.
02 / OFFER
03 / WHY ADS
Why ads.
· CHANNEL CHOICE ·Cold email is dead. AI flooded every inbox with generated slop, and reply rates fell off a cliff in 2025. SEO is a twelve-month investment and you've been shipping for six. Content works if you already have an audience — you don't, yet.
Your customers are on Meta, LinkedIn, and Google. Scrolling. Searching. If they're going to find out about you, it's because we put you in front of them.
03 / WHY ADS
04 / ALTERNATIVES
What the other options cost you.
I
Hiring an ads person.
$120K–180K per year, plus equity. Three months to find them. Three months to ramp. By the time you know if they're good, you've spent half a year of runway on an experiment you could have run in five weeks.
Cost$60K–90K / 6mo
Time to answer~6 months
II
Hiring an agency.
$10K–25K a month, twelve-month contract, a senior pitch and a junior execution. Six months before you have a clear answer on whether ads work for your company.
Cost$60K–150K / 6mo
Time to answer~6 months
III
Running the ads yourself.
Free, in theory. Twenty hours a week of the co-founder's time that isn't going into the product. And if the ads don't work, you'll never know whether it was the ads or it was you.
Cost20 hrs/wk of you
Time to answerUnclear
IV
Not running ads.
Your customers never hear about you. You stay at this revenue until the runway runs out.
CostYour runway
Time to answerNever
V
TEMPA
The 30-day test. $5,000. A clear answer in five weeks.
Cost$5,000
Time to answer30 days
04 / ALTERNATIVES
05 / THE WORK
All the moves behind one decision.
Every technique we run, every week — tiled flat as a quiet wall. The point isn't to read it. The point is to see how much there is.
· PER CLIENT · PER WEEK ·
We do all of this.
You just hit approve.
CREATE · SHIP
MEASURE · LEARN · REFINE
· BOOK A CALL ·
30 minutes with Max.
No pitch deck. We'll talk through what you're trying to sell, who you're trying to sell it to, and whether the 30-day test makes sense for you. If it doesn't, we'll say so.
06 / START
Start the 30-day test.
$5,000. One channel. A clear answer in 30 days.
We'll reply within 48 hours with two questions: which channel, and what you're currently trying to sell. If we think the test won't work for you, we'll tell you before you pay.
06 / START