Lumora
A pre-launch clean-beauty brand with a finished product and zero distribution. Founder needed a market-ready GTM, a Shopify store that converted, and paid channels that didn't burn the seed round.
Revenue Growth × Marketing Automation × AEO
Let’s move forward.
A growth engine for D2C brands between $100K and $5MM in annual revenue. We help founders compound revenue across paid, lifecycle, automation and AI-search — with a free 60-minute audit to start.
By the numbers
Outcomes we’ve delivered for D2C founders.
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Average reduction in CAC within the first 60 days of engagement.
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Average revenue lift within 7 months of partnership.
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Average ROAS improvement on Meta + Google paid spend.
Who we work with
Built for D2C founders.
We're sharpest when there's a real product, real customers, and a founder with their hands on the wheel. If that's you, we're built for you.
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Direct-to-consumer
D2C brands selling to consumers, anywhere in the world. Sharpest across health, beauty, apparel, food, home and pet. Time zone is no obstacle — our team is globally distributed.
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$100K – $5MM revenue
Past zero-to-one. Past product-market fit. The stage where channel mix, unit economics and AI discoverability start to define whether you scale or stall.
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Shopify or offline retail
D2C on Shopify (or Shopify Plus), or offline D2C running their own retail. We cover both end-to-end — same engagement model, same senior team.
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Founder-led
You can pick up the phone, make a decision, and ship by Friday. We work fastest with companies that haven't built layers of approval yet.
What we do
Seven disciplines.One execution team.
Pick one or run them as an integrated growth engine. Every service is delivered by senior operators — no junior bench, no offshoring of judgement.
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Brand Development
Positioning, identity systems and narratives that make D2C growth cheaper. Get the foundation right so the funnel can do its job.
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Revenue Growth
Performance media on Meta, Google and TikTok, lifecycle email and SMS, and Shopify CRO — all wired together against a single revenue number, in any market.
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Agentic Automation in Marketing
AI agents that handle audience syncs, brief writing, ad-copy variation, lifecycle copy and attribution stitching — at machine speed, with human review.
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Business Intelligence & Analytics
Warehouse, attribution and dashboards that the whole company actually trusts. One canonical version of revenue, CAC and contribution margin.
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P&L Optimisation
Pricing, mix and contribution-margin work that turns growth into profit. Stop subsidising your customers and start compounding.
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International Market Expansion
Cross-border GTM across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. Market selection, local positioning, regulatory checklist and on-the-ground operations — wherever your next market is.
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
The new SEO. Buyers increasingly find vendors through ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews — not just blue links. We make sure when those tools answer "best [your category] brand", they cite you.
Engagements
Three ways to start.
Transparent pricing. Low-commitment to start. No hidden fees, no annual contracts to escape from. All amounts in USD.
Start here
Free Growth Audit
$0/ no commitment
A focused 60-minute working session, plus a 1-page written diagnostic.
- Live review of your funnel, ad accounts and analytics
- Top 3 revenue leaks identified, with effort & impact ranking
- AEO visibility check across ChatGPT & Google AI Overviews
- Honest fit assessment — we'll tell you if we're not the right partner
Most popular
90-Day Sprint
$4,500/ month, 90-day commitment
A focused, low-commitment retainer to prove a single growth motion before scaling spend or scope.
- One paid channel + one lifecycle/automation workflow, executed in full
- Weekly working session + always-on Slack channel
- Live revenue dashboard refreshed daily
- Monthly P&L review with the founder
- No annual lock-in — extend or stop after 90 days
For brands ready to scale
Full Growth Engine
$12,000/ month, 6-month minimum
A fractional growth team, fully embedded — for brands that want to compound revenue across every channel.
- Everything in the 90-Day Sprint, plus:
- Cross-channel paid (Meta, Google, TikTok, Amazon)
- Full lifecycle & retention engine — email, SMS and on-site
- Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — visibility in ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Overviews
- Custom BI dashboards + monthly attribution reviews
- Senior operator embedded in your team
Selected work
Founders we've helped scale.
A few engagements we can talk about — across D2C, fintech and consumer apps. Each one started with a problem worth solving and ended with numbers worth showing.
Sofknit
Premium kids' ethnic-wear brand that depended on third-party e-commerce platforms and had no direct sales channel to its customers.
Fibe
Instant digital cash loans for salaried professionals. A highly competitive space with low brand awareness at the time of engagement.
Fittr
Series-A funded startup that had grown organically through community-led programs and needed new paid channels to keep scaling.
The team
The people in the room with you.
Senior operators, not account managers. The people you meet in the pitch are the ones who do the work.
Combined experience
23+ years across growth & D2C
Founder-led engagements
25+ startups, Americas · EMEA · APAC
Paid media managed
$40M+ in lifetime ad spend
Anuj Ranka
Founder & Revenue Growth Consultant
Eleven years building growth engines for founder-led startups across consumer, fintech and D2C. Anuj founded Forverd to do the work most agencies hand off — diagnose, design and ship. Has personally managed paid media accounts totalling $40M+ in lifetime spend.
11+ yrs growth
D2C & Fintech
Meta · Google · Lifecycle
Diksha Agarwal
Chief Growth Partner — International Markets
Twelve years across consumer brands and SaaS, leading Forverd's international practice. Deep experience launching D2C brands into new markets — the GTM playbook, the regulatory checklist, the ad accounts, the lifecycle setup. Works fluently across Americas, EMEA and APAC time zones.
11+ yrs growth
D2C & Fintech
Meta · Google · Lifecycle
Why Forverd
Forverd exists because most D2C founders don't need another consultant — they need a team that can actually ship. We sit between strategy and execution, owning the metrics that matter and moving as fast as your business demands.
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Doers, not consultants
We don't just advise — we execute, optimise, and scale. Strategy is the first 10%; the other 90% is craft, iteration, and reps.
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Senior bench, no offshoring of judgement
The senior people you meet in the pitch are the ones doing the work. Operators trained at IITs, NITs, BITS — and the venture-backed companies you've heard of.
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Track record
11 years. 25+ founder-led engagements. $40M+ in paid media managed. Repeatable playbooks across D2C, fintech, fitness and consumer apps.
Insights
Field notes from the front-line.
Tactical writing on D2C revenue growth, marketing automation and Answer Engine Optimization. Written by operators, for founders. No fluff.
5 ways to reduce your CAC by 40% in 60 days
The five highest-leverage moves we make in the first sixty days of every D2C engagement — ranked by typical impact, with the…
How to scale your D2C brand 10× without 10× spend
A practical framework for compounding revenue through retention, lifecycle and pricing — the levers that don't show up in your ad dashboard…
Why your D2C brand is invisible in ChatGPT — and how to fix it
Buyers everywhere are starting their vendor research inside ChatGPT, Claude and Google AI Overviews. Here's why most brands aren't cited there yet,…
The CAC payback playbook for $100K–$5MM Shopify brands
Most Shopify founders confuse CAC payback with CAC efficiency. Here's the difference, why it matters at each revenue stage, and the three…
From 1× to 4× ROAS: a Meta ads diagnostic for D2C founders
A line-by-line audit framework we use on every Meta Ads account in our first week. Account structure, creative strategy, audience strategy and…
In their words
What founders tell us.
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We launched on a 90-day sprint and crossed $50K MRR by month six. They built the Shopify, ran the ads, and got us cited in ChatGPT for our category. Forverd treats your business like operators, not consultants.
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They cut our CAC by 15% and brought in 40% more approved customers in six months. Forverd treats our growth numbers like their own.
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We needed paid channels to complement our community-led growth. Forverd delivered 20% new-customer growth without diluting the brand.
Trusted by founders at
Lumora
fibe
FITTR
sofknit
Famli
Cute Couture
Frequently asked
The honest answers.
Most of what D2C founders ask before they get on a call. Don't see your question? Email growth@forverd.com.
What is the free growth audit?
A 60-minute working session, no charge, no commitment. We review your funnel, ad accounts, analytics and AEO visibility live. You leave with a 1-page diagnostic naming the top 3 revenue leaks in your business — ranked by effort and impact. If we're not the right partner for you, we'll say so.
What's the difference between the 90-Day Sprint and the Full Growth Engine?
The 90-Day Sprint ($4,500/month, 90-day commitment) focuses on one paid channel and one automation workflow — designed to prove a single growth motion before scaling. The Full Growth Engine ($12,000/month, 6-month minimum) is a fractional growth team running everything: cross-channel paid, lifecycle, AEO, BI dashboards, and a senior operator embedded in your business. Most founders start on the Sprint and move up.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and why does it matter?
AEO is the practice of getting your brand cited inside AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — and Google's AI Overviews. Buyers increasingly start their vendor research inside these tools, not just on traditional search. AEO touches structured data, content depth, citation-worthy data, brand entity establishment, and conversational long-tail content. It is to 2026 what SEO was to 2010 — and most D2C brands aren't doing it yet.
Who do you work with?
D2C brands between $100K and $5MM in annual revenue, anywhere in the world. Both Shopify D2C and offline D2C (own-retail) brands. Founder-led, post-product-market-fit. We're sharpest in health, beauty, apparel, food, home and pet — but the playbook applies broadly. We currently run engagements across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.
Do you work with brands under $100K in revenue?
Occasionally — pre-launch brands with strong founder-fit and clear positioning, like Lumora (see case studies). But our 90-Day Sprint pricing is built for $100K+. Below that, we usually point founders to community resources and check back in once they have early traction.
Where are you based?
We're a globally distributed team. Anuj leads from India; Diksha leads our international practice across the Americas and EMEA. We've intentionally kept the team small and senior so you don't get bounced between offshore juniors. Whichever time zone you're in, your senior point of contact aligns with yours.
How fast can we start?
From audit to kickoff is typically two weeks. Free audit this week, scoped proposal within 48 hours, contract and kickoff the following week. We onboard one new engagement per month — when our calendar's full, we say so honestly and put you on the next slot.
What if we already have an in-house marketer or another agency?
That's fine. We work alongside in-house teams and other agencies all the time — we're often brought in specifically for AEO, automation or BI where the existing team doesn't have the bandwidth. The free audit is the easiest way to figure out whether we'd add or duplicate.
Which tools and platforms do you cover?
Shopify & Shopify Plus, lifecycle email/SMS platforms, Meta (Facebook + Instagram), Google (Search, YouTube, PMax), TikTok Ads, Amazon Ads, GA4, GTM, Triple Whale, Northbeam, dbt, BigQuery, Looker, Hubspot. For AEO: schema.org structured data, llms.txt, FAQ schema, citation-engineered content. We're channel-agnostic — we go where your customers are.