PERFORMANCE MARKETING

WHAT’S THE
NUMBER?

Tell us the outcome you’re chasing. We’ll tell you what the maths says — before you spend anything.

Free · About 3 minutes · No commitment

Examples of outcomes Crost works to: new customers, revenue, ROAS, CAC.

WE DON’T SELL ACTIVITY.

Ads running isn’t the goal. Content published isn’t the goal. Reports delivered aren’t the goal.
The number is the goal.

STRATEGY

We start from the outcome you need, and work backwards to what the funnel has to do.

PERFORMANCE

We measure the things that move that outcome, and ignore the things that don't.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Our performance fee sits behind the agreed target. Miss it, and we refund it.

MOST AGENCIES SELL THE WORK.
WE SELL THE RESULT.

Same disciplines. Completely different thing being promised.

WHAT THEY REPORT
  • Impressions
  • Posts
  • Clicks
  • Meetings
  • Reports
WHAT WE COMMIT TO
  • Customers
  • Revenue
  • CAC
  • ROAS
  • The number

WE PUT OUR FEE AT RISK.

Before anything starts, we agree in writing what success is: the number, the timeframe, and the conditions it depends on.

If the campaign misses that target under those conditions, our performance fee is refunded. Your media spend is your own — we’re putting our pay behind the result, not underwriting your budget.

ILLUSTRATIVE AGREEMENT
TARGET1,000NEW CUSTOMERS
TIMEFRAME90 DAYS
FEE AT RISK100%PERFORMANCE FEE
STATUSCROST ACCEPTED

NO MYSTERY. JUST THE MATH.

Four steps, in this order, every time.

  1. 01

    Set the number

    We agree one measurable outcome, and the conditions it depends on.

  2. 02

    Model the economics

    CAC, order value, margin — what the funnel has to do to get there.

  3. 03

    Build the machine

    Creative, media, landing pages, testing and optimisation.

  4. 04

    Measure the outcome

    Against the agreed number. There's no second definition of winning.

PUT YOUR NUMBERS IN.

See what your current economics can support before you talk to us. If the maths doesn’t work, you’ll know in three minutes rather than three months.

Run the Crost Diagnostic →Free · Indicative · No commitment
THE CROST DIAGNOSTIC

Not generic screenshots. The actual product.

You put in what you know. It shows you the target, the media it would take, and the arithmetic in between.

Where your inputs don’t support an answer, it says so — it never fills the gap with a number.

YOUR INDICATIVE MODEL
EXAMPLE
1,000
NEW CUSTOMERS
$4,000
EST. MONTHLY MEDIA
High confidence
HOW WE GOT HERE
1,000 customers × $12 CAC = $12,000
÷ 90 days = $4,000 / month

AI CAN EXPLAIN THE MATH.
IT DOESN’T MAKE THE MATH UP.

Your model is calculated from your inputs by a fixed, versioned formula. The AI is handed the finished numbers and asked to put them in plain English — it never sees your raw inputs, and it can’t change a figure.

Every result shows its own working.

GOOD FIT?

The common thread isn’t the industry — it’s that you can already measure what a customer is worth.

D2C

You know your product economics and need acquisition that stays profitable at volume.

SaaS

You have a measurable funnel, a real LTV, and a growth target with a date on it.

FINTECH

You need acquisition that survives past the first click — funded accounts, not signups.

OTHER

If the outcome can be counted, we can probably model it. The diagnostic will tell you.

WE’RE PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU IF…

  • You want "brand awareness" with no measurable definition.
  • You want 10,000 followers.
  • You want someone to boost your posts.
  • You're looking for the cheapest agency in the room.
  • You don't know what success means yet.

None of those are bad things to want. They’re just not things we can put our fee behind — so we’d be the wrong agency to sell them to you.

WHAT’S THE NUMBER?

Give us the target. We’ll tell you whether we’re willing to bet on it — and show you the maths behind the answer.

The diagnostic takes about three minutes. Applying takes one.