Frank Kern
[ Company ]
These ads are totally crushing it… this awesome creative agency called Grip made them for me.
From the team behind $1M-a-week ad accounts of the category leaders in direct response
The Advertising Operating System that turns complete strangers into customers faster than anything you’ve run before
Built exclusively for high-ticket info, education, and transformation businesses spending $100K+/month on paid acquisition.
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01
The Plateau
Somewhere north of $100K/month in ad spend, working harder stops moving the needle.
The problem was never effort.
The businesses that break through rebuild how they acquire customers from the ground up.
The tactics that got you here stop working the way they used to. Costs creep up. Lead quality drops. Returns flatten out. And no amount of extra hours fixes it, because the problem was never effort.
Real change means rebuilding the machine underneath paid acquisition: the creative, the buying, the data, until growth stops depending on how hard anyone is pushing and starts compounding in a flow-state.
02
What worked last month is already dead.
Meta, Google, TikTok - they change weekly. The businesses still growing are the ones with a team built to change with them.
Ad platforms don’t stay still long enough for internal teams to master them completely. Algorithms shift, policies change, and the creative that performed six weeks ago is already losing steam.
Most in-house teams are strong operators stretched across too many jobs, running ads on top of everything else the business needs from them.
The ones pulling ahead test constantly, and turn what they learn into the next winning creative before competitors catch up.
03
You can’t scale what you can’t see.
Most ad accounts can tell you what got clicked. Few can tell you what actually built a customer, or where the money is leaking out along the way.
You can put spend exactly where it compounds.
Most reporting stops at the surface: clicks, opt-ins, cost per lead. It rarely goes deep enough to show which ads actually built your highest-value customers, and why.
Without that visibility, spend keeps leaving the account on campaigns that look fine on the surface while underperforming underneath.
Real scale comes from closing that gap: connecting the ad, to the buyer, to the profit they generated, and cutting everything that doesn’t hold up under that level of scrutiny.
When you can see it clearly, you can put spend exactly where it compounds, and pull it from everything that doesn’t.
04
You need a system.
This is what Minimum Input, Maximum Clarity actually looks like: a system run by experts that fuels your acquisition, explains itself, and gets smarter every week.
Here’s what changes once the system is in place: creative production, cross-channel media buying, and analytics stop being three separate problems you’re managing and become one system, running continuously, compounding what it learns week over week.
At the center of it is Onigma, our proprietary Ad Intelligence system. We use it to track marketplace sentiment and competitor activity in real time, break ad performance down to the exact reason a creative is working, and map the connections between sequential ads: the ones that build trust before the ones that convert, so you see the entire customer journey, not just the last click before a sale.
Minimum Input: whatever’s required of you, like filming new ad content, we keep it simple and low-touch: clear instructions on exactly what’s needed, and once it’s in our hands, we spin it out into hundreds of new tests. What you get back is total clarity: what’s working, why it’s working, and exactly what we’re doing about it, every step of the way.
05
Growth shouldn’t cost you your life.
The founders who hand off acquisition properly don’t just get better numbers. They get their week back.
They get their week back.
A lot of founders we work with didn’t start their business to spend 60 hours a week inside an ads manager or micro-managing an agency relationship. Somewhere along the way, marketing became the thing they carry personally, because handing it off never felt safe enough to actually do.
Once acquisition is fully owned by a team you trust, that changes. You stop being the person who has to check the account every morning. You start being the person who gets updates on what’s working, and gets to spend the time you got back building the rest of the business.
In their words
Client-partners on working with Grip
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John Parkes
Chief Traffic Architect, ClickFunnels
I’d say their strengths are both in the art and in the science of it.
Ryan Phillips
CEO, Interactr
We’ve done over $2 million in sales, $1.4 million in profit from a low-ticket $77 offer.
Ramon
Apex Sales Pros
We get weekly updates, nonstop testing, and total transparency, which for us is huge.
Jerred
PT Biz
I worked with agency after agency, after agency… firing over and over and over again until we found Grip.
Will
Association of Professional Builders
They test a whole ton of creative, they’re proactive to refresh campaigns when they’re starting to underperform.
Ryan Fischer
Chalk Performance Training
They’ve almost doubled my business in the last six months.
Nick Bentley
[ Company ]
All of our businesses, we’ve seen a reduction in our cost per lead. Sometimes as much as 10 times.
06
We keep this exclusive on purpose. That’s exactly why it works.
We work with a small number of businesses at a time, on purpose, because ownership only works with focus.
We’re not for every business, and we shouldn’t be.
If your ad spend is still small, your market is narrow, or your operation isn’t ready to handle it if we doubled your profitable customer acquisition in the next 90 days, we’d be doing you a disservice by taking you on.
We are built for businesses with a scalable offer and a large addressable market: already spending $100,000 a month or more on advertising and looking to break past where they’ve plateaued, or already doing $1 million a month or more through other channels and ready to build paid acquisition properly for the first time.
If that sounds like you, and you’re ready to explore whether we’re the right fit: request consideration below.
Questions, answered
Before you ask
The things founders usually want to know at this stage.
Good news. It sounds like you have a proven offer.
If you’ve already scaled to this level without paid acquisition, that’s fertile ground for highly-profitable paid advertising, and potentially a very exciting inflection point in your business’ journey.
Request consideration to find out if you qualify.
We run across Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Google, YouTube, TikTok, Snap, LinkedIn, X and Bing.
We start wherever you’re already running, then make a decision which platform to scale into next, only when it’s appropriate to do so to make the best use of your ad spend.
We have a philosophy at Grip: ‘Measure Twice, Cut Once’.
Here’s the secret to how we have such a high hit-rate: we only accept client-partners we are certain we can help.
With hundreds of millions of dollars in ad spend managed, we know what to look for. And if we don’t see the necessary pieces to make it work - we won’t waste your time or ours.
When we partner together, we create a bullet-proof plan, targets, benchmarks and scaling thresholds that we both agree on before we ever touch your ad account.
Most agencies suck. They talk a big game, then kick you down to junior staff following out-of-date SOPs, leave you in the dark, and gaslight you about things getting better right around the corner.
Our focus is Clients-For-Life. We’ve earned the reputation we have by building deep relationships of outstanding service and, of course, unparalleled results.
If we don’t believe we’re a fit, we’ll politely let you know. If we do, you’ll never have to go searching for another advertising partner again.
Aside from the names listed on this site, many of our client-partners are protected under NDA.
We’re their secret weapon.
We’ve been responsible for some of the biggest, most visible and record-breaking campaigns on the internet, and we also run unassuming campaigns that quietly print millions of dollars in profit year after year for owner-operated client-partners you’ve likely never heard of.
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