Closed cold on LinkedIn. Built the organic channel through the $7M to $10M run.
A twelve-month embedded engagement that started with a cold LinkedIn message. The founder had product-market fit and rising paid CAC, with no organic acquisition to fall back on.
Whip Around was growing but every new customer cost more than the last. Paid CAC was inflating with no second channel to absorb the pressure. The founder knew organic was the answer and had nobody to build it.
- →Diagnosed the unit economics behind the CAC inflation before touching a channel
- →Architected the organic infrastructure from scratch: technical foundation, content engine, internal linking
- →Wrote the playbook the internal team adopted and still runs
- →Engagement closed when they brought the channel fully in-house
Whip Around has since passed $15M ARR. The channel built during the engagement became a core acquisition lever, owned by their team.