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About GTMLab

We do one thing, performance marketing that generates leads and conversations, and we built the whole company around it.

For businesses whose sales start with a conversation. Here’s why we started, and the team you’d be working with.

100+ senior operatorsFounded 20245 min read
Our story

Before I ran an agency, I hired them.

For four years I was a founder, sitting exactly where you sit now. I co-founded Peeba, a wholesale marketplace for retailers across Asia, and a lot of our growth had to be bought with marketing. Every month an agency sent me a report full of clicks. Every month my sales team asked me where the leads were.

So I tried to build the team myself. I hired the wrong people, then the right people in the wrong seats. It took years of expensive mistakes to learn what a growth team really needs: specialists who work from the same numbers and own the result together.

We got there, the hard way. My startup raised $8M from investors including Y Combinator, Headline and Mana Ventures, and grew to $20M in GMV.

Kevin Cho talking with Michael Seibel at a Y Combinator event
With YC’s Michael Seibel at Y Combinator in the US, during Peeba’s W23 batch.
Y Combinator’s LinkedIn post welcoming Peeba, founded by Jacky L. and Kevin Cho, to the W23 batch
Y Combinator welcomes Peeba to the batch.
TechCrunch headline from April 2022: Peeba raises $4.2M to digitize Asia’s B2B wholesale market
TechCrunch covers Peeba’s raise, April 2022.

In 2024 a couple of founder friends asked me to look at their marketing. I treated their budget like it was mine: every dollar had to come back as a customer we could name. They told their friends, and those friends told theirs. GTMLab grew the way we want your business to grow: one referral at a time.

GTMLab is the team I spent years trying to build for myself. You shouldn’t have to build it the hard way too.

Kevin ChoCo-founder
Kevin Cho

Kevin ChoCo-founder

  • Co-Founder @ PeebaUS$20M GMV, US$8M raised from YC, Headline, Mana Ventures
  • VC Partner @ Zeroth.AISoftBank-backed, 50+ investments
  • Investment banker @ OppenheimerM&A
Before GTMLab
Zeroth.aiPeebaY CombinatorForbes 30 Under 30
Albert Lie

Albert LieCo-founder and COO

  • CEO Office @ IndoSterlingIndonesia’s largest hedge fund, US$300M AUM
  • Investment banker @ BDOM&A
  • VP & Growth @ SimulateEngineering simulations, part of NASDAQ: ANSS
Before GTMLab
Simulate IndonesiaBDOMonash University
Your team

One lead. Six teams. Nothing dropped.

A lead passes through six of our teams before it becomes your customer. If any one of them drops it, the money behind it is wasted. So every team works from the same plan and the same numbers.

Part of the GTMLab team at work: co-founders Kevin and Albert talking in the middle, with Bagus, Head of AI Engineering; Rizky, AVP of Performance Marketing; and Andhika, Senior Performance Marketing, at their desks.
  1. 01

    Growth Strategy

    Decides who you’re selling to, with which offer, on which channels, and what a good lead is worth to you.

    Passes on the brief
    Before GTMLabOLIVERSiloam HospitalsTDCXAccentureBCG
  2. 02

    Performance Creative

    As much an analytics team as a creative one. Works out which hooks, stories and formats win clicks and conversions, spots trends early, and makes the next ads from what the numbers say.

    Passes on ads built on what’s winning
    Before GTMLabCheilXiaomiAnyMind GroupKASKUSNET TVMullenLoweKompas Gramedia
  3. 03
    Brings the buyer in, two ways

    Performance Marketing

    Puts your budget behind the ads that bring buyers, on Google and Meta, and moves it every day.

    Passes on the click
    Before GTMLabMekariShopeeAppenRuangguruTelkom IndonesiaCiputra GroupBiznet

    AI Search & SEO

    Makes sure buyers who ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google find you, not only your competitors.

    Passes on the visit
    Before GTMLabThe Ritz-CarltonBulgari Hotels & ResortsInterContinentalIDN MediaBookingToGoIDstar
  4. 04

    Funnels & CRO

    Builds the page, form or WhatsApp chat that turns a click into a conversation, and fixes the step where people drop out.

    Passes on the enquiry
    Before GTMLabBetadine (Mahakam Beta Farma)UnileverMekari
  5. 05

    Data & CRM

    Follows every enquiry into your CRM until it’s a sale, then feeds that back to the ad platforms so they find more buyers like it.

    Passes on the revenue, back to Strategy
    Before GTMLabMekari QontakSriwijaya Air
  6. Then it starts again. Every month the teams sit down with you, look at one set of numbers and agree the next fix, with a report every two weeks.

Underneath all six: Operations. The daily checks on pacing, anomalies, tracking health and reply speed that catch problems before they cost you.

See the checks we run

Which teams work on your account depends on your plan. A Google Ads plan gets that team and our operations. A full engagement gets all six, led by a growth strategist. How disciplined they are doesn’t change. How your team is set up

And 100+ senior operators behind them. Ex-founders, YC alumni and specialists who did this job in-house before they did it for you.

200+brands served
$20M+ad spend operated
3offices: Jakarta, Hong Kong, New York
Our AI agents

Agents watch. People decide.

Six AI agents watch your accounts between our checks. They spot problems and flag them. A person on your team decides what happens next.

  • SignalAI agent

    Watches your numbers every hour

    Spots a jump in cost or a drop in leads, and flags it to your media buyer before it costs you more.

    Flags to Performance Marketing · Data & CRM

  • CritiqueAI agent

    Reviews every ad before it runs

    Checks each new ad against what has worked for you before, and flags the weak ones to your creative lead.

    Flags to Performance Creative

  • BriefAI agent

    Drafts the next creative brief

    Turns what’s winning into a first draft. Your creative team rewrites it and signs it off.

    Flags to Performance Creative

  • ScoutAI agent

    Tags every competitor ad

    Logs the offers and angles your competitors run, so strategy sees a new move early.

    Flags to Strategy

  • PersonaAI agent

    Thinks like your buyers

    Plays your different buyer types to test offers, pages and questions before real budget does.

    Flags to Strategy · Funnels & CRO

  • Funnel WatchAI agent

    Guards every step of the funnel

    Flags the step where leads drop out: a broken form, a slow page, a chat nobody answered.

    Flags to Funnels & CRO · Data & CRM

Illustrations of each agent at work, not client data.

Want an AI agent answering your own WhatsApp chats, day and night? That’s something we build for clients. See AI sales & support agents

Careers

Want to be on this team?

We hire people who’ve done the work somewhere else and want to do it properly here. If you’d rather own a number than write a report about one, we’d like to hear from you.

Send us the work, not just the CV: hr@gtmlab.ai

Let’s engineer your lead generation engine.

More qualified leads, lower CAC, and a clear view of which ads bring in revenue.

Ways to work with us
Monthly plansOne-off buildsGrowth partnership

How we start

  1. Discovery callWe learn how you sell, where leads go cold and what could work better.
  2. Read-only auditIf we’re a fit, we get read-only access to your ads, analytics and CRM, and diagnose what’s really going wrong.
  3. Your proposalWe walk you through the diagnosis and the engine we’d build to fix it.

For lead generation businesses already running paid ads. Replies within 24 hours.

Explore a partnership
Selected clients
LazadaCinepolisIHH HealthcareGleneaglesMount ElizabethSiloamELSA SpeakCekatAIAshley GroupBluuuCentral WellnessDoré by LeTaoGoDrinksIkigaiMediflyPalma Islands