We build and launch the first paid campaign for companies with real revenue and zero ad history — and turn it into a steady flow of leads. Seven days. $1,500 flat. No contract.
Built paused in your own ad account. Nothing spends until you approve it.
Right now your paid channel produces zero — that's the flat line. Here's what the same months look like once a campaign is running, using your numbers.
Cumulative, first 12 months.
This is arithmetic, not a promise. It divides your budget by the cost per lead you picked, and assumes 1 in 12 leads becomes a customer — a rate that drops as your ticket rises, because bigger sales take more convincing. Month one is lighter on purpose — a new account spends its first weeks learning who your buyer is, and gets sharper every month after. Nobody can guarantee a result before spending a dollar; anyone who does is selling you something else.
Every live ad in your category is public. The ones running longest are the ones making money — a free map of what converts in your market, and almost nobody in your industry reads it.
Not a strategy deck describing what someone should eventually make. The real scripts, written for the first three seconds — where every ad is won or lost — and filmable on a phone.
An account with no pixel history needs a structurally different build than one with two years of data — getting that wrong is why most first campaigns quietly fail. Then everything stops, and waits for you.
Every form fill, call and message lands in one place with the ad that produced it attached — so you can see which angle is bringing you buyers instead of guessing. We cut what's dead and put the budget behind what's working.
Real revenue, decades in business, and not one of them in the auction. That gap is the whole business.
Account, pixel, creative, campaigns. You keep all of it if you leave.
Nothing spends a dollar until you approve it in writing.
Not two to four weeks of onboarding first.
You see which angle brings buyers instead of guessing. Budget moves to the winners weekly.
Your card, straight to Meta. No markup, ever.
Each was researched and sent cold to a company that never asked. Names withheld until a company agrees to be listed.
Same certification, same audience, same price. One was in the auction every day; the other had never entered it. And the founder's personal mentorship program — the one thing a competitor structurally cannot copy — appeared in no paid asset anywhere.
Founder on camera against the faceless competitor. Mentorship as the entire hook. Target the adjacent job titles that feed into licensing.
They'd built an ROI calculator for short-term-rental owners — exactly right for a five-figure purchase, because it reframes price as return — and were sending it zero visitors. Two funded competitors owned the paid channel unopposed.
Traffic straight to the calculator, targeted at rental-property owners rather than wellness buyers, with payback period as the headline instead of the product.
About a third of revenue came from law enforcement and federal agencies. In a category where the whole decision is "will this actually hold," that's the most persuasive signal available — and it had never been used as an angle while two national competitors advertised on price continuously.
The federal client list as the opening line of every ad, plus factory footage as proof of build. Compete on evidence, never on price.
Three owned campuses, published pricing, students who stack multiple courses — so a student is worth several times the first purchase. The Ad Library returned a completely empty history while competitors bought the students walking past the front door.
Graduate outcomes as the hook — salary, placement, time to certification — with acquisition costed against lifetime student value, not the first course.
"You deal directly with the owners" is the entire argument against a distributor-heavy category where everyone else routes buyers through a rep who adds margin and delay. It lived on an interior page. Three different buyer types all funnelled into one catalog form.
Three campaigns, one per buyer type, each with its own landing page — and owner-direct as the headline claim in all of them.
What you pay us is below. What you pay Meta is your ad budget — from your card, straight to Meta. We never touch it or take a cut.
Credited in full against Step 2. If it isn't worth $500, don't hire us for the rest.
Live in seven days. Most people take this one.
Walk away any month and keep every asset.
| Typical agency | Arkive | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $3,000–5,000 every month | $1,500 once, then $1,200/mo optional |
| Contract | 6–12 months minimum | None. Cancel any month |
| Time to first lead | 2–4 weeks of onboarding first | Live in 7 days |
| Who holds the ad account | They do, usually | You do, always |
| Who touches your budget | They bill it, often with a % markup | Your card, straight to Meta |
| Year one, at $2K/mo spend | ~$36,000–60,000 in fees | ~$14,700 in fees |
| If you leave | You may lose the account and pixel data | You keep account, pixel, creative, campaigns |
| What you see before spending | A proposal | The finished campaigns, paused, in your account |
Your ad budget has a floor. Meta needs roughly $1,000–1,500 a month to learn who your buyer is. Below that, we'll say so and send the conversion fixes free rather than take your money. A campaign that can't learn teaches you the wrong lesson about whether ads work.
The research, strategy, scripting, copywriting and campaign builds run through a system we built rather than four salaried people and an account manager taking a cut. That's a lower cost of production, not a discount that expires. We'd rather take five clients at this price than one at four thousand.
Neither. You add us as a partner from your own Business Manager at a permission level you choose, and remove us the same way in four clicks. We never hold, front, or take a percentage of ad spend — the moment an agency profits from your budget growing, their advice stops being neutral.
Traffic and the first leads usually appear within days of launch. The numbers get better from there — Meta needs a few weeks of real conversion data before its targeting sharpens, so month two and three almost always outperform month one at the same budget.
Boosting isn't advertising. It's paying to show an existing post to more people, with almost none of the targeting, structure, testing or lead tracking that makes paid acquisition work. If that's all that's been tried, your account is effectively still at zero — which is the situation this is built for.
No, though founder-led video reliably wins in these categories, because your advantage is being a real company run by real people. If nobody will film, we build from product footage, factory footage, customer stories and static creative instead.
You shouldn't, on faith. That's why the entry point is $500 for work you keep regardless, why campaigns are built paused in an account you own, and why every teardown in the archive above was given away before anyone paid us anything. Judge the teardown — if it's shallow, you've lost nothing and you'll know in 48 hours.
Send your site and what a customer is worth. You get back a one-page teardown: what competitors are running, the angle nobody has claimed, and what we'd launch first. No charge, no call required.