Growth for subscription products

I work at the product level — unit economics, multi-channel acquisition, monetization and retention. The goal is margin, not a cheaper CPA.

Scaling is not an ads problem. It's a system problem.
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Spend doesn't scale without killing ROAS

You double the budget, ROAS halves. The account hits a ceiling, and every push past it buys pricier users who never pay.

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Creatives burn out in a week

A winner carries the account for seven days, then dies. Nothing is queued behind it, the team scrambles, spend drops again.

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Nobody sees where the funnel actually breaks

Marketing blames the product, product blames the traffic. Without cohorts by geo and channel, every decision is an argument, not a call.

// the fix

Growth breaks in the gaps between traffic, funnel and economics. So I don't just run ads — I build a system with four parts:

01Unit economics by geo and channel
02Creative system with a steady flow of hypotheses
03Auto-rules that stop budget bleed
04Successful product hypotheses for onboarding and paywall
Problem → fix → result
Real products, anonymized. Numbers are relative — the economics are what matter.
AI · iOS · Subscription

AI interior design app: ROMI 0.97 → 1.28

Problem
Losing money on every cohort: ROMI 0.97 on a 6-figure monthly budget.
What I did
Unit economics by geo and channel, a no-trial flow, loss-making geos cut, creatives localized by context — not translated.
Result
Profitable in 2.5 months.
+32%
ROMI
2.5
months to profit
6-figure
monthly budget
100%
ownership
Utility · iOS · Subscription

iOS utility app: from chaos to a scaling system

Problem
An unstructured account: one channel, manual tweaks, no rules for when to scale or kill.
What I did
In 3 weeks built test → prescale → scale with budgets and transition rules, plus new channels and auto-rules.
Result
Lower CAC, higher monthly gross profit, 5 channels instead of 1.
−20%
CAC
+50%
gross profit / mo
1 → 5
channels
Automation · 6 products

UA automation system

Problem
A full workday of manual toggling across 6 products. Losing campaigns burned budget for hours before anyone noticed.
What I did
Auto-rules on 6 products, a night mode that checks every 5 minutes, Slack monitoring and an AI agent for analysis.
Result
Reaction time from hours to ~5 minutes, 24/7.
−80%
routine
−90%
launch time
~5 min
reaction
24/7
monitoring
Infrastructure

Consumer subscription app: growth infrastructure

Problem
Revenue in one tool, attribution in another, decisions in a spreadsheet. Nobody trusted the numbers enough to scale.
What I did
A revenue + attribution pipeline with cohort reconciliation, automated scale/kill gates, a creative launch system, weekly founder reports.
Result
One source of truth. Scale and kill decisions run on rules, not gut feel.
Data pipelineCohort reconciliationScale / kill gatesCreative launchesFounder reports
0 → 1

0 → 1: paid acquisition for 3 consumer products

Problem
Three products, zero paid acquisition: no tracking, no ad accounts, no idea what a user is worth.
What I did
Tracking and attribution, Meta / Google / X accounts from scratch, first creative tests, SOPs and weekly reports.
Result
Paid acquisition that runs on process from day one — ready to scale once the signal is there.
Tracking & attributionMetaGoogleXCreative testsSOP
Three steps. No 40-page decks.
011–2 weeks

Audit

Ad account, funnel, unit economics, and what competitors run in Ad Library. You see exactly where money leaks.

02prioritized

Growth plan

Hypotheses ranked by expected impact, with KPIs and a test budget. You know what we test, why, and what it should return.

03monthly

System build & ongoing management

Creative system, auto-rules, weekly reports. Scaling decisions based on cohorts and payback — not yesterday's ROAS.

Before you ask
What's the minimum ad budget?

From ~$20k/month in paid spend, or a clear plan to get there. Below that, the cost of management eats the upside.

When will I see results?

Audit and strategy in the first 2 weeks; a stable testing system in month one; scaling decisions once cohorts mature.

Do you work with in-house teams?

Yes. I can own acquisition end to end or plug into your team as a growth lead.

How do you charge?

Monthly retainer + performance bonus tied to agreed KPIs. Audit & growth plan is available as a one-off starting point.

What do you need from us to start?

Access to your ad accounts and analytics (MMP, RevenueCat or similar), one kickoff call about the product and your numbers — and that's it. The audit starts the same week.

What if we're not ready to scale yet?

Then the audit will show it — and I'll tell you honestly. Sometimes the fastest growth lever is the onboarding or the paywall, not more spend. We fix that first.

Artem

3+ years in performance and growth, running 6-figure monthly budgets on subscription apps.

I don't stop at the ad account. I work at the product level — unit economics, onboarding, paywall, creative strategy — because that's where scale is unlocked.

Everything that can be automated, I automate. My time goes into decisions, not toggles.

That's also why my clients get a growth lead, not another media buyer.

Artem Dudnyk

Tell me about your product

I'll look at your account and funnel and tell you where I see the growth point.

Message me on Telegram

I reply within 24 hours.

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