Profitable paid ads for startups
Senior growth experts build and scale your customer acquisition across paid search and social, on a fixed monthly fee.
- No percentage of ad spend
- No minimum spend
- Cancel anytime
Proof
Trusted by fast-growing startups
From seed to Series C, backed by Y Combinator, Bain Capital Ventures, and Notion Capital.
The problem
This might sound like you
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Unsure if it's working
You've started testing ads but don't know if you've been doing it right.
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Not yet profitable
You haven't been able to make your ads pay for themselves.
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Stuck at the same level
You want to scale customer acquisition but haven't found a way that holds up.
Why Skyamo
Ad management for teams that value rapid execution
Startups don't need long contracts, minimum spend, or extra meetings. They need results, learnings, and ads that work.
Startup growth experts
Strategists and marketers each with 10+ years building businesses. No junior staff on your account.
Fast execution
Up and running within 7 to 14 days, so you see results without a long wait.
Always testing
Regular creative and message tests show what works and what doesn't. We keep testing until we find it.
Minimal meetings
One monthly strategy call, then we spend our time executing. We stay in touch through Slack and Notion.
Real-time reporting
Live dashboards show how every campaign is performing, whenever you want to look.
Low risk
No long-term commitment, no minimum spend, and no percentage of ad spend. Pause anytime.
Channels
We scale ads across different channels
Our team has managed large spends across paid social and search. You get a small, experienced team on your account: a strategist, media buyer, reporting analyst, and designer.
Google Ads
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
XOur process
Live within two weeks
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Apply
Book a call to see if we're a good fit.
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Onboard
Share a few details and join a kick-off call.
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Go live
Your first ads go live within 7 to 14 days.
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Optimise
We test and improve your ads every week.
Testimonials
What founders and marketers have said
“Theo has helped create a really strong growth and learning culture at acasa. He worked to drive more relevant traffic for us, improve our conversion funnels and reduce our CPA.”
“We were testing on a number of different channels without clear direction. After working together with Theo, we had a better picture of what to focus on, what messaging would work for our audience and what next steps to take.”
“Theo worked closely with our growth team and implemented a strong experiment framework, which we are now working from. The structured approach and great energy really helped to push our team in the right direction.”
Pricing
Simple, fixed pricing for nimble startups
We don't take a percentage of ad spend or need a minimum spend. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.
Ad spend under $40k a month
- Paid search, Performance Max, and paid social
- Conversion tracking set up properly
- Campaign structure, bidding, and budget management
- A creative engine for ad testing
- Real-time reporting and weekly updates
- Monthly strategy call, async in Slack and Notion
Ad spend over $40k a month
- Paid search, Performance Max, and paid social
- Conversion tracking set up properly
- Campaign structure, bidding, and budget management
- A creative engine for ad testing
- Real-time reporting and weekly updates
- Monthly strategy call, async in Slack and Notion
A small but mighty team led by Theo Ohene, who has 11+ years experience leading growth for VC-backed startups in San Francisco, New York and London. We've all got 10+ years in the game building some of the fastest growing companies in the US and the UK.
B2C and B2B SaaS, fintech and DTC brands. You should have at least $1M ARR.
You get at least 3 ad creatives per month as part of your plan. But we work best with teams that already have a designer or design agency on board so we can test more creatives each month.
We will set up conversion tracking and pixels via Google Tag Manager, and support your developers with step-by-step instructions based on your tech stack. If your needs are more complex, we can set up advanced tracking for an additional fee.
Unlike most performance marketers who have only worked at large agencies with huge budgets, we're startup specialists who have worked on lower budgets and scaled up accounts. We don't hand over day-to-day management to junior staff: you work with a small experienced team of startup growth experts, each with 10+ years scaling startups.
No. We're at least 2x cheaper. Most good performance marketers cost at least $80,000 per year, and that's just one person. We give you a strategist, media buyer, analyst and designer, each with 10+ years growth experience, who hit the ground running. Long-term it may make sense to hire in-house, but it's wiser to bring someone in once you've validated customer acquisition channels.
We don't require a minimum spend or take a % of ad spend. Those terms are good for the agency and bad for you, especially as a startup that needs to stay nimble. Under the % of spend model, an agency is paid to keep you spending more, not to improve performance. We work on a fixed fee, so we focus only on making your ads work well and profitably, whatever you spend.
Minimal for you. We do one call a month to share detailed learnings. Otherwise we work asynchronously through Notion, Google Sheets and Slack, and share updates weekly in Slack.
We support marketing leaders and teams who are already at full capacity. We've been marketers at startups, so we know what it's like having to do everything. We're there to complement what your in-house team is doing and make their lives easier.
We don't promise results. What you get is clarity on what works, confidence in next steps, and a better quality of user.