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
Full-stack engagementLuxury Boat Tours
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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FeaturedLuxury Boat Tours
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
IndustriesHealthcareWellnessEcommerceHospitalityTourismTech StartupsPropertyEvents & Conferences
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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.
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Wellness

From first session to monthly habit — wellness funnels that compound.

We’ve shipped paid growth for leading wellness brands — IV clinics, longevity practices, yoga and Pilates studios, gyms, and supplement D2C.

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Trusted by 200+ brands
Central Wellness
Ikigai
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Sub-verticals

Every shape of wellness we've shipped for.

Six specializations under one pod. From IV drips to longevity, fitness studios to supplements. Each has its own funnel quirks — trial-to-repeat is the only thing they share.

IV therapy

IV drips & infusion clinics

Walk-in protocol funnels, repeat-visit lifecycle, NAD+ and vitamin-drip educational creative.

Longevity

Anti-aging & biohacking clinics

High-AOV consult booking, peptide and hormone protocol funnels, LTV-first cohort reporting.

Studios

Yoga & Pilates studios

Intro-class lead-gen, class-pack to membership conversion, WhatsApp booking, retention triggers.

Gyms

Boutique & big-box fitness

Trial-class funnels, member referral loops, retention-first paid spend, location-aware ads.

Supplements

D2C supplement brands

Subscription conversion, repeat-purchase modelling, creator-led creative, cohort LTV reporting.

Recovery

Sauna, cold plunge, sleep

Modality-first creative, multi-session package upsell, location-aware retargeting, intro-rate trials.

+27%
YoY CAC inflation across Wellness paid channels, 2025
Wellness paid acquisition has gotten harder for every channel — supplement subscriptions saturated, studio trial-class costs creeping, longevity clinics fighting on the same long-tail keywords. The accounts that win in this market rebuild their LTV model before they rebuild their funnel. Anything less is optimizing against the first-purchase metric.
Services we ship for wellness

Every channel and capability we run for wellness brands.

Twelve specializations under one pod. Whatever paid surface your members live on — we’ve shipped on it, learned on it, and tuned it for retention-first wellness economics.

Channel

Google Ads

Branded + protocol search · trial booking · local-clinic radius targeting

Channel

Meta Ads

Cold prospecting · lookalike from LTV cohorts · UGC creator pipelines

Channel

TikTok Ads

Native hooks · supplement creator content · wellness-app acquisition

Channel

YouTube

Founder-led explainer · protocol education · long-form trust-build

Channel

Display & Programmatic

Geo-targeted retargeting · local studio awareness · brand defense

Channel

Affiliate & Creator

Creator-led acquisition · UTM-stitched codes · attributable partner spend

Service

Performance Marketing

Media buying tuned to retention · multi-channel allocation by LTV cohort

Service

Performance Creative

UGC creator pipelines · modality-first creative · testimonial-led hooks

Service

Funnel & CRO

Trial-to-member handoff · subscription conversion · package upsell flow

Service

Data & Analytics

Cohort LTV modelling · creator attribution · decision-grade retention reporting

Service

GTM & Growth Lab

Multi-market launch · new-modality positioning · subscription playbook

Discipline

Server-Side Tracking

Subscription-aware infrastructure · cohort-attributable data layer

Industry challenges

Four problems wellness brands hit. None of them fix themselves.

Wellness paid acquisition has its own physics — trial-to-habit drop-off, creator attribution gaps, LTV that hides behind first-purchase math. Here's how we approach the four that surface on nearly every audit.

01 · LTV

First-purchase economics break wellness.

Most accounts measure CAC on first purchase, then miss that wellness churns hard in month 2–3. Without a retention model, paid scales to break-even and stalls. ROAS lies; cohort revenue tells the truth.

How we approach:Cohort-based reporting at month-3 and month-6 checkpoints, retention-aware bidding, LTV-to-CAC ratios computed weekly — not blended quarterly.
02 · Creator

Influencer spend without attribution.

Wellness brands run 30–50% of growth through creators, but most can't tell which creator drove what revenue. Spend stacks without a feedback loop. The top creators get under-rewarded; the mediocre get over-funded.

How we approach: UTM-stitched creator codes, post-purchase survey attribution, creator-level ROAS computed weekly, paid amplification of top-performing creator content.
03 · Saturation

Same-ICP saturation.

Yoga studios all target "yoga lovers 25–40 in [city]." IV clinics all bid on "vitamin drip near me." When everyone uses the same audience, CPMs climb and CVR drops. The funnel breaks at the top.

How we approach: Adjacent-audience expansion, lookalike modelling from high-LTV cohorts, problem-aware creative testing, channel-mix rebalancing toward under-served surfaces.
04 · Habit

Trial-to-habit drop-off.

A first class, a first capsule, a first drip — none of them are the business. Most wellness funnels lose 60–70% between first purchase and second. The drop is invisible if you only track CAC, not retention.

How we approach: Habit-trigger emails, 14-day onboarding sequences, sub-15-minute reply SLAs on first-purchase questions, second-session/second-purchase as the conversion event.
Funnels we've shipped

The funnel patterns wellness brands actually run on.

Six funnels we've built and shipped for wellness accounts. Each is a working pattern, not a template — built around retention, LTV, and creator-stitched attribution from day one.

IV clinic · Drip studio
Walk-in protocol funnel

Location-aware lead form, package-vs-single decision tree, instant booking, retention email cadence built around redose intervals.

Yoga · Pilates · Gyms
Trial-class → membership

Free first-class lead-gen, in-studio conversion script, automated 7-day check-in, membership upgrade trigger at session 3.

Supplement D2C
Subscription conversion flow

One-time-to-subscription bridge, bundle/protocol upsell, post-purchase education series, churn-signal-based win-back.

Longevity clinic
High-AOV consult funnel

Pre-consult assessment, peptide/hormone education content, deposit-secured booking, multi-touch lead nurture by protocol interest.

Creator-led acquisition
Influencer-stitched paid

Creator code library, UTM-stitched landing pages, weekly creator-level ROAS, paid amplification of top-performing creator content.

Recovery · Biohacking
Package-first booking

Modality-first creative, multi-session package upsell, intro-rate trial, location-aware retargeting, post-session habit triggers.

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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
Co-Founder
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FAQ

Questions we hear from wellness operators before engagement.

Different ROAS math, same channel toolkit. Subscription brands (yoga membership, supplement subscription, app trial) need cohort LTV plugged into Meta so the algorithm bids on lifetime value, not first-purchase. One-time service (spa, single retreat, single product) optimizes for first-purchase ROAS. We model both before deciding the channel mix.

Both, blended. UGC and creator content win on awareness and emotional connection (Reels, TikTok, Stories). Paid performance creative wins on direct-response conversion (statics, talking-head VSL, AI-generated angles). We typically run 60% UGC-flavored creative + 40% performance-engineered — the mix shifts with what’s actually winning in the account.

Membership economics live or die on retention. We model 6-, 12-, 24-month LTV per acquisition cohort, plug it back into channel ROAS, and run lifecycle-stage creative (intro offer for cold traffic, retention content for new members at month 3, reactivation for lapsed members). First-month ROAS understates membership channels by 3–6×.

Founder face + voice on creative wins in wellness more than any other category — the practitioner’s credibility IS the brand. We run founder-led creative cycles (Reels, talking-head VSL, IG content) alongside performance ads. The Creative Strategist designs the founder-content cadence so it stays sustainable (most founders can’t shoot 12 ads a week).

Meta and TikTok restrict medical claims, before/after photos for most categories, and health-condition targeting. We work within those rules: testimonial-style social proof, mechanism-of-action explainers (not outcomes), founder-led narrative. Our creative team runs every brief through a policy check before production. Most wellness brands lose 2–3 weeks per month to disapprovals — we’ve cut that to under 4 hours.

Unified brand story, modality-specific funnels. Each service line (spa, classes, retreats, nutrition coaching) has different conversion logic, different audiences, different pricing — treating it as one funnel always underperforms. We architect a shared top-of-funnel for brand awareness, then specialized landing flows for each service. Common pattern for premium wellness brands with 3+ service lines.

In their own words

What wellness brands say about the work.

Boutique fitness, wellness apps, supplement D2C. Real testimonials from clients we're still working with — names redacted where deals are still active.

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They built our entire marketing funnel end-to-end and owned every deliverable. Not an ad-hoc agency you pay to run a few campaigns and hope it works.

Gianni Melwani
Co-Founder & Director at Ikigai Studios
Recent wins

Wellness cases, with the numbers behind them.

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HealthcareWellness
On Demand Medical Group

We grew a leading on-demand doctor and wellness brand on less ad spend — more patients, more revenue, and double the return on media.

GoogleGoogleMetaMeta
Performance MarketingFunnel & CROData & Analytics
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Wellness
Ikigai

We built IKIGAI's paid acquisition engine from scratch — an intro offer that brings in members who came for the practice, not the discount.

MetaMeta
Performance MarketingFunnel & CROData & Analytics
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Wellness
Ikigai

IKIGAI's bookings lived in one system and their ads in another — so Meta was optimising blind. We closed the loop.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Data & Analytics
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WellnessEcommerce
Treelogy

A D2C wellness brand had loyal customers — winning new ones was the challenge as spend scaled. We rebuilt creative into a system that wins them.

MetaMetaForeplayForeplay
Performance Creative
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HealthcareWellness
On Demand Medical Group

How we doubled a leading on-demand doctor & wellness brand's return — while spending less.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Performance Marketing
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Wellness
Ikigai

We turned IKIGAI's "advertise to every woman nearby" into an intent engine that sells out every intake — and grows membership that stays.

MetaMeta
Performance Marketing
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HealthcareWellness
On Demand Medical Group

A leading on-demand doctor & wellness brand's patients decide in minutes — so we built the funnel to reach the booking before competitors did.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Funnel & CRO
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Wellness
Ikigai

We turned IKIGAI's one-size-fits-all funnel into a funnel for every buyer — and took the high-ticket path from 5× to 63× ROAS.

MetaMeta
Funnel & CRO
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HealthcareWellness
On Demand Medical Group

How we used data to double a leading on-demand doctor & wellness brand's return — while spending less.

GoogleGoogleMetaMeta
Data & Analytics
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Wellness
Central Wellness

230% More High-Value Bookings at a Leading Wellness Clinic. Same spend, by fixing the customer journey.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Funnel & CRO
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Wellness
Central Wellness

We taught a leading wellness clinic's ad platforms to chase value, not the cheapest lead — and high-value bookings rose 230%.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Performance Marketing
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Wellness
Central Wellness

How we helped a premium wellness center 5× its leads with the same spend through creative testing.

MetaMetaGoogleGoogle
Performance Creative
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Wellness
Central Wellness

A wellness clinic's real product is the revenue each practitioner generates.

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Performance Marketing
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Creatives we've shipped for wellness

Creator-led, modality-aware, retention-focused.

A slice of the wellness creative we ship — UGC creator review, founder-led explainer, modality-first hooks.

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Proof

We build market leaders for a living.

Meta Ads

Boutique Yoga Studio — High-Ticket Enrollment

Performance MarketingFunnel Strategy & CROPerformance Creative
50+
COURSE ENROLLMENTS
$119
COST PER ENROLLMENT

Sending cold traffic straight to a multi thousand dollar enrollment page rarely works. The price creates friction before prospects have a chance to understand the value, leaving a strong program with no effective bridge to conversion. We built a lead magnet funnel around a free module taken directly from the program. Prospects entered through real value, qualified themselves by engaging with the content, then were retargeted across both paid ads and outbound to ensure no warm lead was left behind. The result: opt in to enrollment conversion roughly doubled, filling the cohort with more than 50 enrollments at an acquisition cost of just $119 each.

Meta Ads

Boutique Fitness Chain

Performance Marketing
>500
Leads in 3 months
$45
COST PER LEAD

The studio was selling memberships from the very first touch — and the funnel leaked badly right there. Nobody commits to a place they've never set foot in, so the cold pitch converted almost no one. We rebuilt the journey around a value ladder: a low-friction first class as the entry offer, the membership only once the visit had earned the trust. Trial-to-membership conversion climbed to roughly 1 in 3, on 500+ leads at $45 each.

Meta Ads

E-commerce Brand for Supplements

Funnel Strategy & CROPerformance Marketing
2.31
ROAS
IDR 289 mio
Purchase conversion

A nutritional supplement brand lacking systematic creative testing at scale. We rebuilt their creative testing machine, created 30 creatives, and increased ROAS from 1.89 (breaking-even) to 2.31 (profitable) in just 1 month.