GTMLab
Our focus

Paid ads growth — and nothing else.

We don't do brand. We don't do generalist work. Five disciplines stacked together to make one outcome: a paid engine that compounds every month.

The 5 services we shipPerformance MarketingThe growth engine itself. Paid acquisition across every channel.Performance CreativeAds that win the auction. AI-tuned creative production at scale.Funnel Strategy & CROConversions, end to end. Landing pages, funnel rebuild, A/B testing.Data & AnalyticsEvery dollar traced. Dashboards, attribution, AI signal monitoring.GTM & Growth LabStrategy that ships Monday. Channel tests, positioning, expansion.
All 5 in motion
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A luxury boat tours relied on OTAs for bookings. We rebuilt their paid acquisition, and in under 2 months, direct revenue up 30%, CAC down 35%.
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>20ROAS
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A luxury boat tours relied on OTAs for bookings. We rebuilt their paid acquisition, and in under 2 months, direct revenue up 30%, CAC down 35%.
>30%Direct Website Bookings increase
>20ROAS
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WorkshopsGTM Mapping0→1 / pre-revenue founders. Map your full GTM.Growth DecodePMF + paid spend. Decode competitors, rebuild engine.Bali Tour 2026 (ended)20 workshops · 2 weeks · May 2026 wrap-up.Australia Tour 2026 (planning)Sydney · Melbourne · Jun–Jul 2026.
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AI Alone Is Useless — Why I Built GTMLab.
Building a growth system, not a campaign treadmill.
How to audit your creative without hiring an agency (yet).
Southeast Asia's paid-ads blind spot — why localising creative beats generic scaling.
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Operator-led, senior-only, built by tech-founders.
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GTMLab

Paid ads growth — and nothing else. Five disciplines, one engine, every dollar traced.

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  • Funnel Strategy & CRO
  • Data & Analytics
  • GTM & Growth Lab

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GTM & Growth Lab Service

Strategy that ships Monday. Channels your competitors haven't run.

Most consultancies hand you a 60-page deck and leave. We ship the first move with you in week one. AI scans every play your category has run; we propose the one it hasn't. From 0 to 1, 1 to 10, or full venture-build — the strategy is operational by Monday.

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We are experts at

Every output a strategy doc should actually ship as.

12 capabilities under one strategy lab. Operational outputs, not 60-page decks — built to ship Monday, not present at the next steering review.

Deliverable

GTM Strategy Doc

Operational playbook · not a 60-slide deck

Deliverable

ICP & Positioning Map

Sharp segments · sharper messaging

Deliverable

Channel Test Plan

30/60/90-day experiments · kill criteria

Deliverable

Distribution Architecture

Growth loops · partnerships · new-channel design

Deliverable

Competitor Map

AI-built scan of every play in your category

Deliverable

Pricing & Packaging Model

Tier design · elasticity tests · migration paths

Discipline

4-Fits Framework

Market · channel · creative · monetization fit

Discipline

AI Competitive Research

24-month look-back · hook + pricing taxonomies

Discipline

Channel Experimentation

Sequenced tests · hold-outs · lift modeling

Discipline

Growth Loop Design

Referral · virality · content compounding

Discipline

Founder Coaching

Operating cadence · hiring sequence · 90-day cycles

Discipline

Venture-Build Mode

Equity-friendly · co-founder relationship · 0 to 1

Use cases

From 0 to 1, then from 1 to 10. Two motions, one lab.

Four scenarios for pre-PMF founders building from scratch. Four for post-PMF teams pushing past the launch ceiling.

0→1 · PRE-LAUNCH GTM

Pre-launch SaaS, no ICP, picking the wrong founding channel.

Founders test 5 channels in parallel and run all 5 to mediocrity. We pick the right 2, kill the wrong 3 by day 30, and lock the founding distribution wedge by day 90.

0→1 · NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH

New SKU, new line, new offer, no launch playbook.

We design the launch playbook — positioning, channel mix, audience signal, kill criteria — so the first 90 days don't burn runway on guesses your last launch already taught you not to make.

0→1 · CATEGORY ENTRY

New market or category, no local channel knowledge.

AI scans every competitor's channel mix in the new market. We propose the play your local incumbents aren't running — and build it before they notice.

0→1 · VENTURE BUILD

Pre-seed or seed founders without GTM bandwidth.

Equity-friendly engagement: we sit in the strategy seat for the first 6 months, build the GTM motion with you, then hand off to a hire we help you recruit. Reserved for ventures we'd back ourselves.

1→10 · SCALING CEILING

Growth flatlined. Founding channel saturated. No next leg.

Most brands hit the wall at $5M ARR. We diagnose which curve is breaking — channel, creative, funnel, market — and rebuild the next leg before the next quarter's board meeting.

1→10 · MULTI-MARKET EXPANSION

Single-market success, no plan for cross-border rollout.

Single-market success doesn't translate. We build a localised GTM by market — channel mix, positioning, partner-led where direct fails — so each market gets a real plan, not a copy-paste.

1→10 · PRICING REWORK

Pricing flat. Plan migration scary. Packaging stale.

Pricing tests, tier redesign, plan migration playbooks. Most teams leave 15–25% of revenue on the table because pricing was set on day one and nobody's touched it since.

1→10 · CHANNEL DIVERSIFICATION

Reliant on one channel. One platform shift away from a problem.

80% of growth from Meta. Or Google. Or a single partner. One algorithm change away from a quarterly miss. We architect the second and third channels before the first one breaks.

Complete the system

The other 4 disciplines that make this work.

GTM & Growth Labpairs naturally with our other 4 services. Most clients run 3 together — that’s where the compounding starts.

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Performance Marketing

The growth engine itself. Paid acquisition across every channel.

SERVICE

Performance Creative

Ads that win the auction. AI-tuned creative production at scale.

SERVICE

Funnel Strategy & CRO

Conversions, end to end. Landing pages, funnel rebuild, A/B testing.

SERVICE

Data & Analytics

Every dollar traced. Dashboards, attribution, AI signal monitoring.

SERVICE
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Most paid growth bottlenecks live at the seam between two services — creative bleeding into media, attribution missing the funnel. The seams are where 30% of the upside hides.
Albert LieCo-Founder, GTMLab
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See what’s hiding in your ad account.

Every ad traced to revenue
Built for growth, not maintenance
Senior operators, no junior handoff

“Most agency audits are templated — they ship the same 12 slides to every account. Ours don’t. Every teardown is custom-cut to your funnel, your spend, your category.”

Albert Lie
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FAQ

Questions we hear before week one.

Two formats. Strategy sprints run 3 months (discovery, build, first tests live, handoff). Ongoing partnerships run 6–12 months with monthly strategy cadence + quarterly re-audits. Venture-build mode is open-ended and equity-friendly — we sit in the strategy seat until you hire your own head of growth.

Depends on stage. 0→1 clients typically have their first validated channel by month 3, with kill criteria on the rest. 1→10 clients usually unlock a second growth motion (channel, geo, segment) before the next steering review. We tell you what's realistic during discovery — not before.

Alongside. The strategy seat stays with you — we sit beside it. We bring the AI competitor scan, the playbook, the operating cadence, the experiment design. You hold the conviction and make the final call.

A senior Strategy Lead (your day-to-day), a Growth Marketer for channel tests, a Performance Strategist for diagnosis, an AI Competitive Researcher for ongoing scans, plus founder-direct access. Four to five humans, kept small on purpose — strategy work doesn't scale with headcount.

Yes, in select cases. Venture-build mode is for pre-seed/seed founders who want a co-builder, not a vendor. Equity-friendly terms (warrants or advisor shares typically), reserved for ventures we'd back ourselves. The bar is high — we say no more often than yes.

Pre-PMF (idea + first 6 months), post-PMF (Series A → C), and select pre-IPO or PE-backed teams looking for the next growth leg. Below pre-PMF, we recommend our Founder Programs (lighter retainer, structured first-channel sprint).

The 3-month sprint is the smallest meaningful engagement — anything shorter is just discovery without execution, which is what we're built against. Below that, our Founder Programs cover structured channel sprints for early founders.

Thought leadership

Our thoughts on strategy, GTM, and growth.

Blogs, talks, newsletters, podcasts — how we think about distribution invention, scaling past PMF, and the work most consultancies refuse to do.

GTM & StrategyTech StartupHospitality+6
MARCH 11, 20269 min

AI Alone Is Useless — Why I Built GTMLab.

I never meant to start an agency. I’d hired enough that underdelivered. Then founder friends asked for help, and the referrals didn’t stop. Two years later, 100+ specialists, $0 outside funding. Here’s why.

GTMLab Writer
GTMLab Growth Writer
Performance MarketingEcommerceTech Startup+6Meta Ads
MARCH 10, 202611 min

Building a growth system, not a campaign treadmill.

A Malaysian furniture brand spent 18 months on a campaign treadmill at $12K/mo — break-even at best. One pattern analysis later: CAC dropped 42% and they scaled to $28K/mo without it climbing back.

Jeremy Lawoto
Head of Growth
Performance CreativeHealthcareWellness+6Meta AdsGoogle Ads
MARCH 8, 202612 min

How to audit your creative without hiring an agency (yet).

CAC climbing. Creative that worked last quarter doesn't anymore. Before you hire help, run this six-element audit yourself — you'll know whether creative is actually your bottleneck or whether the problem lives elsewhere.

Jeremy Lawoto
Head of Growth
GTM & StrategyEcommerceHealthcare+6Meta AdsGoogle Ads
MARCH 5, 202613 min

Southeast Asia's paid-ads blind spot — why localising creative beats generic scaling.

Same product, same ads, same targeting. Malaysia converts at 4.8%. Indonesia at 1.2%. The gap isn't skill — it's assumptions about connectivity, payments, devices, and culture compounding into very different unit economics.

Albert Westin Lie
Account Director
Performance CreativeEcommerceWellness+1Meta Ads
MARCH 1, 202610 min

The Amplifier Effect — how AI scales your best creative instincts.

Two Indonesian skincare brands. Same Meta budget, same AI tooling. Six months later, one was scaling profitably; the other was pulling paid acquisition entirely. The difference wasn't the AI — it was what they fed it.

Albert Westin Lie
Account Director
Performance CreativeEcommerceTech StartupMeta AdsGoogle Ads
FEBRUARY 25, 20269 min

Why your paid ads feel generic — and how to fix it in three steps.

A SaaS company spent $30K and got 4 trial conversions. Same budget, same audience, three rewrites later: 11 conversions. Same brand. Same product. Just specific instead of generic. The math is brutal — and fixable.

Albert Westin Lie
Account Director
GTM & StrategyEcommerceWellnessMeta AdsGoogle Ads
JANUARY 10, 202614 min

The Growth Learnings Artifact — the document that runs your team.

A DTC skincare brand had 200+ experiments in a 47-tab spreadsheet. When the media buyer left, the new hire couldn't answer basic questions. Here's the artifact that fixes it — plus how to keep it alive with Claude + Meta MCP.

GTMLab Writer
GTMLab Growth Writer
Performance MarketingTech StartupB2B Services+5Meta AdsGoogle Ads+1
DECEMBER 29, 202511 min

Testing isn't about ads. It's about learning.

A B2B SaaS team burned $380K on 14 months of "testing" across Meta, Google, LinkedIn — and couldn't name the ICP. The reframe: the ad is a byproduct, the learning is the asset.

GTMLab Writer
GTMLab Growth Writer
Performance MarketingHealthcareWellness+6Meta AdsGoogle Ads
DECEMBER 29, 202512 min

Scaling is a discipline, not a decision.

A D2C brand burned $80K in eight weeks chasing ROAS by doubling budgets. ROAS collapsed from 3.2 to 0.9. The ad didn't fail — the scaling broke it. Here's the four playbooks that work.

GTMLab Writer
GTMLab Growth Writer
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Recent wins

Strategy. Shipped. Then compounded.

How pre-launch SaaS, growth-stage marketplaces, and venture-built D2C brands found their next leg of growth — and the channel nobody else in their category was running.

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2.5 weeks to fill Megabuild Indonesia's 22nd edition — three tracks in parallel, and the next pipeline won.

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