Case studies and client evidence
This page carries no percentages you cannot trace to a client. What it carries instead is the kind of problem we get hired to fix, the approach behind the work, and where to check the reviews yourself.
A standard agency case study reads: unnamed company in an unnamed market, plus three large numbers, minus any way to check them. You cannot tell what the starting point was, how long it took, what was spent to get there, or whether the business existed. It is a claim dressed as evidence.
We used to run a page like that. It is gone. Most of our work sits under agreements that do not allow us to publish client names or commercial figures, and a number with the name removed is not proof of anything, so publishing it anyway would have been decoration.
What remains is the part that is actually defensible: the problems we are repeatedly hired to solve, how the work is approached, reviews written by verified clients on the platform where the work was contracted, and specifics we can put in front of you under NDA on a call.
That is a worse sales page. It is a better basis for deciding whether to hire anyone, including us.
Across 50+ engagements the briefs differ and the underlying faults barely do. These are the ones that come up again and again, in every market we work in. If you recognise two or three of them, that is normal.
The audit in week zero exists to work out which of these is costing the most right now, because that is what gets fixed first rather than whichever discipline you came in asking about.
Almost every engagement is one of three shapes, decided by where the system is broken rather than by which service is easiest to sell. The disciplines below are the ones typically in scope for each.
The offer converts when people see it. Too few people see it. Work concentrates on being found by buyers already searching.
Traffic is adequate and enquiries are not. Usually the cheapest fix available, because the audience is already being paid for.
Enquiries arrive and die between the form and the sale. The acquisition cost is already spent, so every recovered lead is pure margin.
Businesses often arrive certain they have the first problem and leave the audit knowing they have the second. Buying more traffic for a page that cannot convert it is the most expensive mistake on this list, and it is the most common one.
Before building a direct brand, this team delivered client work through Upwork for years. That is where the 50+ clients came from and where the reviews were written. They carry full names, dates and the scope of work, they are tied to verified payments, and we cannot edit them after the fact. That last part is what makes them worth reading.
Rather than paste selected lines here, ask on the call and we will send you to the profile so you can read all of them, including anything less flattering. A testimonial an agency has chosen for you is marketing. A public review you can find without our help is evidence.
If you would rather sanity-check any agency's reviews before you speak to them, the four things below are what actually separate a real one from a decorative one.
An initial and a job title cannot be contacted. A full name on a platform profile can be, and that is the whole difference.
A review from a three-week engagement means something different from one written after two years of retained work.
Praise for an agency in general is weak. Praise attached to a specific build, campaign or migration is checkable.
Reviews hosted on the agency's own site are curated by definition. Third-party reviews are not, which is why they count.
What cannot be published can usually be shown. Most of it is the working material rather than the headline, and the working material is the part that tells you whether an agency knows what it is doing.
How a Google Ads or Meta Ads account was rebuilt, with the reasoning for the structure, shown with identifying detail removed.
Web design and development work that is publicly visible anyway. You can open it, test it on your phone and check how fast it loads.
The actual monthly reporting template with real figures removed, so you know what lands in your inbox before you buy it.
How a CRM and follow-up sequence was wired for a comparable business, including what we deliberately left out.
Where a plan did not deliver what it should have, what the cause turned out to be, and what changed afterwards.
Some clients are willing to take a call. We ask them first, rather than listing them here and hoping nobody checks.
Where a client has approved it, we will name them directly. Where they have not, the detail comes without the name attached and we say so rather than implying more than we can show.
You are going to speak to several agencies. These six questions separate the ones with a system from the ones with a deck, and they work regardless of who is answering them.
Ask us all six on the call. If our answers are worse than somebody else's, you should hire somebody else, and we would rather find that out in thirty minutes than in month four.
The fair ones to ask an agency that has deliberately removed its numbers from its case studies page.
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