Profit-first growth for premium DTC

Marketing that meets the margin.

We run paid media and performance creative for premium beauty, wellness, and fashion brands — engineered around your margins, not just your revenue.

20+ yrs
Operator experience
Beauty · Wellness · Fashion
Premium DTC focus
$100+ AOV
Where we're strongest
Too many brands scale ad spend before their margins make sense.

Most agencies optimize for spend and top-line ROAS while your contribution margin quietly erodes. We're operators who've managed P&Ls — so we optimize for the number that actually decides whether growth is worth it: profit.

Operators, not just advisors

We've been on your side of the P&L.

We're former DTC operators who've built and scaled premium brands from the inside — managing unit economics, cash flow, and creative, not just ad accounts. An agency should be measured by the same outcomes as your internal team: smarter spend, healthier margins, sustainable growth.

Profit-first

We start with the math

Unit economics, breakeven CAC, and margin-protecting targets come before we touch spend — so every dollar is invested with intention.

Premium only

Specialists, not generalists

Deep focus on premium beauty, wellness, and fashion — high-AOV brands where creative excellence and brand equity actually matter.

Lean & senior

Senior hands on the account

No junior hand-offs. You get operator-level thinking and disciplined execution across Meta, Google, and emerging channels.

The engagement

One integrated growth engine — run on a financial operating system.

Not a menu of services. A single, senior-led engagement where media, creative, and financial rigor work as one system. The financial layer is the method, not an add-on — it's what separates profitable scale from expensive growth.

01 — Performance media

Media buying with discipline

Meta & Google strategy, structure, and testing built around margin-protecting targets — scaling spend without outrunning your economics.

02 — Performance creative

Creative that competes

Premium, on-brand creative and UGC engineered to win auctions and lower CAC — without diluting the equity you've built.

03 — Financial operating system

The margin layer

Unit economics, breakeven CAC, contribution-margin targets, and profitability by channel and SKU — the discipline most agencies never touch.

Start here

The Profit-First Growth Diagnostic

A focused engagement that shows you exactly where your growth is — and isn't — making money, plus a clear plan to fix it. The fastest way to see how we think before any retainer conversation.

$2,500  ·  fixed scope, one-time engagement

Request your diagnostic
  • Unit-economics & contribution-margin teardown
  • Your true breakeven CAC (with and without LTV)
  • Where current spend is leaking margin
  • Creative & channel opportunities you're missing
  • A 90-day profit-first growth plan
Results

Proof, in the numbers that matter.

Representative engagements. Every result is shown with context — spend level, timeframe, and the margin behind the growth.

FootwearForecasting + Media StrategyUS

Premium women's footwear brand

Wanted to scale aggressively without eroding efficiency. We built the growth forecast and the spend strategy to hit it — and delivered 10%+ above plan in year one. Revenue grew from $7.4M to $13.5M in two years while blended efficiency stayed strong.

+82%
Revenue, 2 yrs
7.8+
MER held at scale
+10.6%
Above forecast, yr 1
Hair & BeautyForecasting + Growth StrategyUS

Founder-led hair brand

A brand with a huge organic following was running too efficiently — a 15.9 MER meant it was starving its own growth. We built the plan to trade some efficiency for absolute profit: scaling spend from ~$860K to $2.4M to grow from $13.7M to over $20M — while holding a highly profitable 8.4 MER.

$20M+
Revenue reached
+47%
Revenue, 2 yrs
8.4
MER at ~3× spend
Menswear ApparelIn-house operating roleUS

Heritage menswear brand

Stepped in to lead ecommerce for a 70-year-old heritage brand and ran a full profitability turnaround — cutting wasted spend and discounting while growing the top line. Revenue rose +26% (vs +14% for US ecommerce) as margin and EBITDA transformed.

+158%
EBITDA improvement
+68%
Direct margin
+26%
Revenue vs +14% mkt
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Fit

We're built for a specific kind of brand.

We do our best work with a narrow set of brands — and we'd rather tell you upfront if you're not one of them.

A fit if you…

  • Are a premium DTC brand doing roughly $3M–$30M in revenue
  • Sell in beauty, wellness/supplements, or apparel & fashion
  • Have a $100+ AOV and real brand equity to protect
  • Want to scale profitably — margin over vanity metrics
  • Value strategic partners who think like operators

Not a fit if you…

  • Are pre–product-market-fit or still finding your offer
  • Compete mainly on discount or sub-$100 commodity pricing
  • Want the cheapest possible button-pusher
  • Want growth at all costs, regardless of margin
  • Need overnight results with no underlying strategy
Focus

Where we go deep.

Premium Beauty Wellness & Supplements Apparel & Fashion High-AOV DTC ($100+)
Contact

Let's talk about your margins.

Tell us about your brand and where you're trying to get to. We'll come back within one business day — and if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.

hello@prismtheory.net