Performance marketing consulting for D2C brands that comes with the system.

Founder-led consulting in performance marketing.We find where your Meta and Google results are held back the most, show you how to unblock it, and build the fix or take it from the system we already have.

We’re not new to this.Brands we’ve worked on across our careers, at agencies and in-house.

Google About You Manchester United Red Bull United Airlines Marc O'Polo Decathlon Avon Snuggs Investown Dedoles Muziker Onio Uni Hobby Ambiendo Daytrip

Who qualifies

  • D2C e-commerce brand
  • $100K+ a month on Meta & Google
  • You already have a team or agency on ads

What we work on

  • Meta, Google, GA4 and your P&L
  • We find what holds results back and fix it
  • Your team keeps running the ads

How we operate

  • Two founders = two seniors
  • Five clients at a time, that’s the hard cap
  • You talk to the people doing the work

We’re not an agency

Your agency runs the ads, we bring the expertise that grows your D2C brand.

Agencies are buried in the day-to-day: reporting, steering, hitting their hours. We sit on top of that, with fresh eyes and no campaigns to babysit.

Stuck, and nobody says why.

Spend goes up, results don't. Your agency reports the numbers, but nobody explains what's holding you back or what to do next.

From your data to the real problem.

We read your accounts end to end and tell you what’s holding you back, in plain words. Not another report.

Then we build the fix.

A system on your own data, often one we’ve already built for another brand and set up on yours.

Your problem↓We find the cause↓We build the fix

We don’t run your ads. That’s exactly the point.

01

We find what’s limiting growth, campaign to checkout

Your agency sees the account. We read the whole chain from the first click to the order and the P&L behind it.

02

We challenge the hypotheses you’ve stopped questioning

An agency hits the targets it was given. We ask whether they are the right targets, and bring what is working elsewhere.

03

We bring the system: skills, dashboards, automations

Agencies ship creatives and reports. We bring tools that run on your data from the first week. Not a product you buy; proof we can do it.

04

Two founders, no account manager

You talk to the people doing the work. No layer in between, no hours to hit, no campaigns to babysit.

$50M+ad spend managed

Across Meta and Google, for brands from Red Bull and Decathlon to D2C names like Snuggs and Dedoles.

15+years in performance marketing

Between the two of us: inside agencies, alongside Google’s own teams and in-house.

100+countries managed

Daytrip alone runs ads in more than 100 of them.

Who calls us

The three most common situations we get called into:

The common thread: we are the second pair of eyes between the CMO and the people clicking in the platforms.

  1. 01

    Your CMO comes from brand, not performance

    The agency runs the ads, but nobody in the company can check its work, set the targets or read the P&L behind them.

  2. 02

    Small team, busy with marketing operations, no room for strategic improvement

    CMO, a head of performance, a few specialists. Everyone is busy running what exists. You need channel expertise and fresh eyes.

  3. 03

    Strong in-house team, same ideas for a year

    You know the account inside out. That’s the problem. You want someone to challenge your hypotheses and bring what’s working elsewhere.

Whatever your KPI is, growth or contribution margin, we’re here to find what’s stopping you from hitting it.

How we help you, every month.

Six things we take off your plate, so you make better decisions in performance marketing and the bottleneck gets removed. No percentage of spend, no setup fee.

01

Ad strategy tied to your business goals

We tie your ad spend to the P&L and agree the target with you: growth or margin, and the CAC it can afford.

02

Setup, challenged

We challenge how your Meta and Google accounts are set up and tie every change back to your P&L.

03

Planning & bottleneck identification

We find what holds your growth back and plan the steps to fix it: what to do, who does it, by when.

04

New ideas for a stuck setup

Same setup for years, no new ideas? We bring in what works at other brands and new tests to run.

05

Your own custom-made automations & tools

If the fix needs a tool, we build it for you with AI and Claude Code, on your own data. It keeps running and stays yours.

06

A second opinion on your agency and Google rep

Before you say yes to their next recommendation, we check it against your data and your P&L.

Our system: examples of what we’ve built

Systems that we built on our client portfolio can be applied to you.

  1. 01Marketing brain
  2. 02Ads reporting according to Andromeda
  3. 03Demand monitoring
  4. 04Track your competitors
  5. 05Efficient product portfolio

Our system: examples of what we’ve built

01

Marketing brain

One shared context for every AI your team uses.

  • Ad accounts, change history, backend revenue, margin and spend in one place
  • A log of what each person changed, tested and learned
  • Ask what changed last week, and whether it worked
02

Ads reporting according to Andromeda

Which creatives worked, why, and what to make next.

  • A verdict per creative: winner, loser, or needs more data
  • AI reads winners and losers for the pattern behind them
  • That pattern goes straight into the next brief
  • Every ad mapped by concept, angle and audience, so gaps show
03

Demand monitoring

Is your market growing, and where next?

  • Years of search demand by category and country
  • Checked against your own sales, not read at face value
  • Demand and the cost to compete, market by market
04

Track your competitors

Every ad they launch, tracked every day.

  • What they launched, what they kept, what they quietly switched off
  • The offers and claims they lean on, next to yours
  • Your prices against the market, product by product
05

Efficient product portfolio

Where to save, what to push, where to grow.

  • Every product scored on contribution margin and potential
  • Spend moved off what does not pay back and onto what does
  • Measured in the margin you keep, not in revenue

Built for D2C brands

What we’re good at.

We don’t do everything. What we do, we do well: the strategy your CMO owns, the tactics your head of performance runs and the setup your specialists work in every day.

Strategy 06

We talk to your CMO about

  • P&L and unit economics
  • KPIs your agency is judged on: CAC, margin, new customers
  • Forecasting and plan vs. actual
  • Budget split across channels and countries
  • Agency and account audits
  • Launching new countries with local targets

Tactics 06

We talk to your head of performance about

  • Bidding on profit, not platform ROAS
  • A/B and incrementality testing
  • Weekly creative feedback loop
  • Demand and seasonality tracking
  • Tracking what your competitors run
  • GA4 and attribution analysis

Setup 06

We talk to your ad specialists about

  • Google Ads, Shopping and PMax at scale
  • Search Ads 360 for big multi-account setups
  • Meta structure for D2C brands
  • Shopping feeds that win the auction
  • Dashboards your team actually uses
  • AI workflows with Claude Code

Case studies

What happened when we came in.

Real brands, real numbers, with the starting point and the timeframe. One case shown properly beats three thin ones.

Featured · Daytrip · 60,000+ routes

40% less ad spend. Revenue stayed the same.

−40%ad spend, same revenue
63,846campaigns rebuilt around route scores
Googlepublished the case
Spend vs. revenue · indexedRevenueAd spend12 weeks around the change · illustrative
6 weeks before6 weeks after
Read the full storyRead the case study

Anonymized marketplace

A team of 4 watching 100+ countries, every day.

100+countries, daily
6×more seasonal lifts caught
30 minA/B evaluation, from 4–6 h
Read the case study

Home decor brand · Black Friday

How we scaled through Black Friday and Cyber Monday with live performance steering.

+284%revenue YoY
+119%ad spend YoY
+7ppROAS
Read the case study

Who qualifies

We only take five clients, here’s who:

  • D2C e-commerce brand.
  • $100K+ a month in paid spend on Meta and Google.
  • A performance team or an agency already runs your ads.
  • You want someone senior to challenge what they do.
  • You’re an AI geek and want to push further with it.
Book a free 30-min call
Signal in your ad data vs. paid spend a monthIllustrative

Why these brands

Above $100K a month your Meta and Google data has enough signal for us to find what’s holding results back, and your team or agency is there to act on it the same week.

Below that, or with nobody running the ads yet, we’d end up running them ourselves, and that’s exactly what we don’t do.

Why only five

We’re a small team and we want to be in your business, not on your invoice list. Learning how your brand really makes money takes time and a long relationship.

That’s also why we probably cost more than an agency that waits for your instructions. We don’t wait: we come to you with the next problem and how to fix it.

How we start

From a 30-minute call to working together.

No onboarding project, no discovery phase. You know what we found and what we would do before you sign anything.

01Week 1

The 30-minute call

You tell us where performance is stuck. We tell you whether we can help, and say so if we can’t.

Free

02Week 1

Read-only access

Meta, Google, GA4. Nothing changes in your accounts. Your agency keeps running as before.

Free

03Week 2

Our solution

A short call: the limiting factor, what we would do first, and what it costs.

Free
# nordwind-ecommvert Slack Connect 4
Tuesday, November 3rd
JuliaNordwind

We get hundreds of creatives every month from our creative agency, but we’re not sure how to evaluate what actually works. Can you help us?

eCommvert

Sure, let’s hop on a call. We need to ask you a few questions so we get a proper brief.

THU530-minute call · Nordwind × eCommvertThursday, Nov 5 · 10:00–10:30 AM · Google MeetYesNoMaybe
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Thursday, November 5th
eCommvert

Thanks for the call, @Julia. Next step: read-only access. Nothing changes in your accounts.

Meta Ads · read-onlyConnected
Google Ads · read-onlyConnected
GA4 · viewerConnected
JuliaNordwind

Done. Agency keeps running as usual.

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Thursday, November 12th
eCommvert

We’d rather build a system around your creative reporting than report on every creative one by one. Let’s evaluate creative concepts and angles for each persona. Here’s an outline of a system we can build for you, then you decide.

Creative evaluation system · outlineConcepts × angles × personas, a verdict each week
Problem firstSocial proofProduct first
Persona AWinnerTestingLoser
Persona BTestingWinnerLoser
Persona CWinnerLoserTesting
2 repliesLast reply today at 11:52 AM

If you like it, we’ll build it out for you. It’s very similar to what we built for a previous client, so we can reuse it on your setup.

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Monday, November 16th
JuliaNordwind

Hey Denis, thanks for the creative solution. We like the build and would like to proceed.

eCommvert

Version 1 of your creative evaluation system is built ✅

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Testimonials

In their words.

If you want someone who reads your P&L before your ad account, that’s Tomáš.
Peter SchusterPeter SchusterAbout You

About

Two founders. Both hands-on.

Performance marketers first, builders second. You work with us directly, not through an account manager.

Denis Capko, co-founder
Google Ads / Strategy focusDenis Capko

Co-founder · Prague

I spent years as a paid ads specialist inside three agencies, then worked alongside teams from Google’s headquarters.

Specialists know the platforms cold but think tactically. Leadership thinks strategically but doesn’t know how the platforms actually work. I sit in that gap, turning business KPIs into what the team builds and ships.

Connect with Denis on LinkedIn
Tomáš Kliment, co-founder
Meta / DTC focusTomáš Kliment

Co-founder

I’ve spent 7+ years in performance marketing, saw firsthand how one of Europe’s biggest DTC fashion e-shops runs from the inside, and managed millions in ad spend for Manchester United F.C., MARC O’POLO, Snuggs & more.

Now I’m focused on bridging performance marketing and AI. I use Claude Code daily and break down what I learn so anyone can use it.

Connect with Tomáš on LinkedIn

FAQ

Before you book.

Short answers. The long ones are what the call is for.

How are you different from our current agency?

We don’t run the ads, so we don’t have a reason to defend what’s in the account. We look at the whole chain from campaign to checkout, name the limiting factor, and hand your agency or team a plan they can act on. Most clients keep their agency.

Do we have to commit for a year?

No. Month to month. Everything up to “what we found” is free; after that you decide, and you can stop when the bottleneck is gone.

How fast will we see something?

You get our findings about two weeks after the first call. Changes to the account usually show in the numbers within the first month of working together, depending on your spend and seasonality.

Who owns the accounts, the data and the builds?

You do. We work with read-only access until you tell us otherwise, and anything we build on your data stays with you, including the free build.

What do you need from us?

Read-only access to Meta, Google and GA4, one person who knows the P&L, and one 30-minute call. That’s it to start.

Where does the price come in?

On the call, once we know your spend and what needs fixing. One monthly fee, no percentage of spend, no setup fee.

Free 30-minute call

Find out what’s holding your performance marketing back.

Book a free 30-min call

One 30-minute call. We tell you whether we can help; if we can, you see what we found before you pay anything.

No pitch deck, no sales team. You talk to the two of us.