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Your ads are working.
Your store is leaking.

High traffic, low conversion. Carts abandoned at 11pm with nobody following up. Buyers who purchased once, never contacted again. The problem isn't your product — it's the gap between your spend and your system.

Show me the fix → How the system works ↓
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Abandoned cart AI follow-up window
68%
Average eCommerce cart abandonment rate
20–45%
Revenue from dormant database reactivation
3–5×
Higher LTV from post-purchase AI sequences
1.5%
Minimum site conversion before performance kicks in
LEAK
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Where the money goes

You're not losing customers.
You're losing them at the seams.

01

The abandoned cart nobody follows up

Someone spends 12 minutes on your site, adds three items, and leaves at 11:37pm. You know they were there. You did nothing. By morning they've bought from someone else — or forgotten entirely. That's not a traffic problem. That's a follow-up problem.

02

Post-purchase silence that kills LTV

A customer buys once. You have their details, their purchase history, their size, their taste profile. And then — nothing. No reorder sequence. No complementary product suggestion. No seasonal re-engagement. The lifetime value of that buyer is sitting completely untouched.

03

Ad spend reaching buyers you already own

Your Meta campaigns are targeting people you've already converted, spending acquisition budget on retention audiences because the CRM data isn't feeding the ad platform. You're paying to reach your own customers. That's not scale — that's waste.

04

Influencer traffic that bounces and dies

A creator drives 4,000 sessions in 48 hours. The site converts at 1.1%. The other 3,956 people who expressed real intent by clicking through — gone. No retargeting sequence. No AI engagement. High-trust traffic treated like anonymous strangers.

05

A database you've never systematically worked

You have thousands of past buyers, email subscribers, and enquirers. They raised their hand at some point. Most brands send a monthly newsletter and call it "nurture." There is an enormous amount of revenue sitting in a list that's being managed like it barely matters.

06

Reporting that counts clicks, not customers

The agency shows you impressions, ROAS and cost-per-click. Nobody is reporting on repeat purchase rate, average LTV by acquisition channel, or which campaign drove your best customers vs your one-time buyers. You're optimising for the wrong number.

"The brands winning in fashion and retail right now are not outspending. They are out-following-up. Their AI is working the pipeline at 2am. Their CRM data is feeding their ad audiences. Their buyers feel known — not just targeted."

— The Firestarter eCommerce thesis
SYSTEM
How We Fix It

One connected system.
From first click to fifth purchase.

01
Traffic — Precision Acquisition

Ads that reach the right buyer, not just the biggest audience

Meta and Google campaigns built around product-specific intent and buyer behaviour — not generic interest targeting. Creative built to stop the scroll, not just fill the impression. Retargeting structured around actual engagement depth, not just "visited site."

02
Abandoned Cart — AI Response Under 60s

Every cart abandonment triggers a personalised sequence

Not a generic "you forgot something." A contextual message referencing the specific product, the time they were on site, and what might have stopped them. SMS within 60 seconds. Email with product images and a direct link back. Messenger if they engaged via social. Escalating across 24 hours — then it stops. No harassment.

03
Post-Purchase — LTV Architecture

The sale is step one — not the destination

Automated post-purchase sequences that cross-sell by product category, ask for reviews at the right moment, trigger replenishment reminders, and surface new arrivals to buyers with matching taste profiles. Timed correctly, not immediately. Revenue from buyers you already earned.

04
CRM → Ad Platform — Audience Intelligence

Your best buyers teach the algorithm who to find next

CRM buyer data — filtered by LTV, repeat purchase, category affinity — fed back into Meta and Google as custom audiences and lookalike seeds. You stop spending acquisition budget on people who already converted. You start finding people who look exactly like your top 20% of buyers.

05
Database Reactivation — Dormant Revenue

Revenue that's already in your list — you just haven't asked for it

AI-driven reactivation sequences through past buyers, lapsed subscribers, and cold enquirers. Personalised by last purchase date, category, average spend. Not a blast — a conversation. These are warm audiences who trusted you once. The reactivation cost is a fraction of acquisition.

06
Attribution — Wired to Real Revenue

Know which channel produces buyers, not just browsers

Full attribution stack from first click to confirmed repeat purchase. Cost per first buyer. Cost per second purchase. LTV by acquisition source. Which influencer drove your best customers vs your highest-return rate. Reporting that tells the business something useful — not just the ad account something comfortable.

The eCommerce brief
We don't add more traffic to a leaking store.
Before we run a single campaign, we audit the conversion path. If the site converts under 1.5%, we fix that first — or scope it as part of the build. Adding traffic to a broken funnel is how brands burn budget and blame the market.
  • Conversion rate audit before any paid traffic starts
  • Checkout friction diagnosis — mobile, speed, trust signals
  • Abandoned cart rate benchmark against your category
  • CRM health check — what data exists, what's missing
  • Product feed review — Google & Meta catalogue quality
Get the audit →
The Common Mistakes

What most fashion brands
get consistently wrong

Acquisition Chasing new customers while ignoring existing ones

Most fashion brands spend 80% of their marketing budget on cold acquisition. The average repeat purchase rate in fashion is under 30%. Brands with a working post-purchase and reactivation system regularly see that number above 50%. That difference is pure margin.

The fix: Build the post-purchase architecture first. Then scale acquisition into a machine that retains what it captures.

Attribution Optimising for ROAS on the wrong window

Fashion buys are often considered decisions. A 7-day attribution window makes your prospecting campaigns look terrible. A 28-day or view-through window tells a completely different story. Brands cutting campaigns based on 7-day ROAS are regularly killing their best performers.

The fix: Rebuild attribution windows around your actual purchase cycle. Map the average days-to-first-purchase from first ad impression.

Creative Running the same creative to every audience

A lapsed buyer who spent $400 twelve months ago needs different creative than a cold prospect who's never heard of you. Running the same campaign to both — as most brands do — wastes retargeting budget and kills warm-audience conversion rates.

The fix: Audience-segmented creative strategy. Cold, warm, lapsed buyer, and VIP audiences each see creative matched to their relationship with the brand.

Influencer Treating influencer traffic like cold traffic

Influencer audiences arrive pre-warmed. They trust the creator who sent them. Treating them with the same generic landing page and follow-up sequence as a cold Meta click is throwing away the trust premium. The conversion rate on warm influencer traffic should be 3–5× cold — most brands are getting 1.2×.

The fix: Creator-specific landing pages, personalised follow-up sequences referencing the creator and content, and fast AI engagement before the warmth fades.
PROOF
Results

What the system
actually delivers.

These results are being built as we launch into the eCommerce vertical. We'll populate this section with real client outcomes as they come in — and they will. Below are the metrics we benchmark against from the outset.

Benchmark
15–35%
Abandoned cart recovery rate
Via AI SMS + email sequence triggering within 60 seconds of cart exit. Industry average without follow-up: under 3%.
Benchmark
2.4×
Average LTV uplift with post-purchase sequence
Buyers with a structured reactivation and cross-sell programme purchase 2–3 times more often over 12 months than unworked buyers.
Benchmark
30–50%
Reduction in cost per acquiring a repeat buyer
CRM audiences fed to Meta and Google reduce acquisition CPA significantly — you're reaching the right lookalikes, not the broadest possible audience.
Benchmark
20–45%
Revenue from dormant database reactivation
AI-driven reactivation from past buyers and lapsed subscribers. Revenue generated before a single new ad dollar is spent.
Benchmark
+38%
Influencer traffic conversion lift
Creator-specific landing pages and immediate AI follow-up versus generic landing page. Measured across comparable traffic volumes.
Client result incoming
Your numbers
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First eCommerce client result
We're building this vertical now. If you want to be the first result in this slot — let's talk.
Before We Begin

The conversion threshold.
Why it matters to both of us.

We don't accept a performance component on an eCommerce engagement until your site is converting at a minimum of 1.5% of sessions to purchases.

Below that number, the site is the problem — not the traffic. Adding more ad spend to a sub-1.5% conversion rate is one of the most expensive mistakes in eCommerce. We've seen brands spend $40K/month driving traffic to a checkout that breaks on mobile. The agency gets paid. The brand wonders why it's not working.

If your site is below threshold, we scope a conversion audit as part of the Build engagement. We identify the friction — checkout speed, mobile experience, trust signals, offer clarity, product page structure — and either fix it ourselves or brief your developer with a precise list.

Once you're above 1.5%, the performance component activates — because at that point we're confident the system we build will convert the traffic we send.

Conversion Rate
What It Means
Under 1.0%
Site is fundamentally broken. Fix first.
1.0% – 1.5%
Conversion audit required before performance model.
1.5% – 2.5%
Performance model activates. Good baseline to build from.
2.5% – 4%
Strong foundation. System will compound significantly.
Above 4%
Exceptional. Scale immediately — system is ready.

Average eCommerce conversion rate: 1.65%. Top-performing fashion brands: 3.5–5%. The difference is almost always checkout friction, mobile experience, and trust signal architecture.

How We Work

Build.
Run.
Grow.

Three layers. Each one serves a different purpose. You're never paying for nothing. We're never working for free.

Full model detail →
1
Build
The system, properly built

Once-off setup fee. Conversion audit, campaign architecture, abandoned cart flows, post-purchase sequences, CRM build, attribution stack. Non-negotiable — because half-built systems don't work.

2
Run
Lean management. Honest reporting.

Monthly management fee. Campaign optimisation, AI system monitoring, CRM health checks, attribution reporting, monthly review. Enough to keep us sharp. Not a retainer to protect while results drift.

3
Grow
Performance tied to real outcomes

Activates above your agreed baseline — only after the site converts at 1.5%+. Tied to confirmed orders, repeat purchases, or revenue growth. Structured before we begin so both sides know exactly what "working" means.

SELL
Let's Talk

Let's look at your
numbers honestly.

Tell us your current conversion rate, abandoned cart volume, and roughly what you're spending on acquisition. We'll tell you immediately whether the system makes sense for your business — and what the return looks like if it does.

1
We review your current conversion path and tell you what's actually broken
2
We scope what the Build engagement looks like for your specific store
3
We agree on what "the system working" looks like — before anyone spends anything

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