[ M3 ] GROWTH // JOINT VENTURE GROWTH PARTNERS

We build ambitious
ecommerce brands
through Joint Venture
partnerships.

A true match made in heaven. You focus on what you do best, and we'll handle what we do best. No $10K retainers with no responsibility to perform — a market-leading team with real skin in the game.

Book a call → See what we deliver
→ $250M+ REVENUE GENERATED
→ ACQUISITION · CREATIVE · RETENTION · STRATEGY · CRO
→ META · GOOGLE · SHOPIFY PLUS · KLAVIYO PARTNERS
→ JV PERFORMANCE & EQUITY MODELS
THE SOFTWARE ARM OF M3 // CUSTOM AI SOFTWARE · ANY BUSINESS, ANY INDUSTRY

Something in your
business is eating
hours every week.
We build the software
that does it for you.

Quoting. Paperwork. Bookings. Chasing clients. Answering the same question two hundred times. Whatever that job is in your business, we build software that does it for you — made for the way you work, not bought off a shelf.

Tell us about it on a 30-minute call — or just send us a voice note, if you’d rather not get on one. Either way we send back exactly what we’d build and exactly what it costs, within 24 hours. Say yes and it’s running in 21 days — and it belongs to you, outright. No subscription, no lock-in, no catch.

Get my plan & price → See a sample Build Plan

A 30-minute call or a voice note · your plan and fixed price in 24 hours · free whether you go ahead or not

01

A call, or a voice note

Thirty minutes, or two. You describe the job — no tech knowledge needed.

02

24 hours

We send the plan and the exact price. Free either way.

03

21 days

Built, tested and running. One client at a time, so it's all yours.

04

It's yours

You own it outright. No subscription, ever.

01 / The Reality

The game has changed.
The retainer model is
broken.

We've gone from the glory days of ecommerce in 2020 to the gritty reality of 2025/26.

An $8K agency retainer on an $80K-per-month brand is your entire profit margin at 10%. You're paying for activity, not outcomes.

We only win when you win.
✕Fat retainers with no responsibility to actually perform
✕Agencies that treat your brand like account #47
✕Acquisition that stalls the moment spend scales
✕Retention left as an afterthought, leaking LTV
✕Creative testing with no system behind it
✕Reporting you can't trust and never see
✕No real strategy — just channel button-pushing
01 / The Problem

Everyone says
"use AI".
Nobody tells you what to build,
what it costs,
or what it gives back.

You already know the job AI should be doing in your business.

But your two options are a generic subscription that almost fits and never quite does the thing — or a dev shop that wants a discovery phase, six months and a number nobody will put in writing.

So it stays on the list. Another quarter goes by.
✕Off-the-shelf AI tools that don't know your business, your data or your rules
✕Monthly subscriptions and per-seat fees for software you'll never own
✕Quotes that arrive as "from $X" with a six-month timeline attached
✕Paid discovery phases that produce a deck instead of software
✕Staff doing the same repetitive task hundreds of times a week
✕Hours lost to copying data between systems that should just talk
✕No idea whether the thing you want is a small job or a six-figure one

Some of what you rent,
you shouldn’t have to.

Not all of it goes. You keep the systems that hold your business — the accounting, the job system, the till. We connect to those, and they finally talk to each other.

What’s worth questioning is the layer sitting on top: the tools that nearly fit, charge by the seat, and still leave someone copying between them. Drag to roughly what that layer costs you.

$950 / month
In 3 years you’ll have paid$34,200
In 5 years$57,000
What you own thenNothing

And that’s before next year’s price rise, or the next seat you add.
Build that layer once and it stops being a bill. It fits how you actually work, it plugs into the systems you kept, and it keeps running whether you pay anyone or not.

Sometimes it replaces a tool outright. Sometimes it’s the piece that makes three tools behave like one. We’ll tell you which on the call — including when you’re better off keeping what you have. We replaced one a transport operator was paying $50,000 a year for. That bill is now zero. See the builds →

02 / Already Running

Not a pitch deck.
Things that are running.

A sample of what we’ve shipped. Some are under NDA, so names and numbers stay out — but every one of these is live in a real business.

01Shipped

Chargeback Recovery Engine

FMCG · Grocery

Reads supermarket deduction claims against the supplier’s own invoices and finds the charges that shouldn’t be there. The checking nobody has the hours to do by hand, done on every claim.

DocumentsFinance
02Shipped

Executive Dashboard

Multi-system · Live

One live view pulled from every system the business runs on, built around the questions its CEO actually asks — not the reports the software happened to ship with.

DashboardsData
03Shipped

ONUS

Transport · Replaced a subscription

Replaced software this operator was paying $50,000 a year to rent — rebuilt around how they actually run, rather than how the old tool assumed they did. That bill is now zero, and they own what replaced it.

$50k/yr savedOwned
04Shipped

Paint Quote King

Trades · Painting

The painter walks the job talking into their phone. That recording becomes a priced quote — modelled out by AI, with the margin already applied — instead of an evening at the kitchen table.

Voice → QuoteMargin
05Shipped

Customer Service Agent

Ecommerce

Handles the repetitive ticket volume on the brand’s own policies and tone of voice. Cut a large amount of support overhead and brought response times right down.

SupportAI
06Shipped

Creative Agent

Ecommerce · Paid media

Generates hundreds of on-brand ad variations from a prompt, so the testing pipeline is never the thing holding spend back.

CreativeMeta
// Who you'll be talking to
"There's no account manager and no handoff. You deal directly with the two of us, start to finish — and at the end of it, you own it outright."
Elliott, Director at M3
Elliott / Director
Based · Vancouver, Canada
Born · Auckland, New Zealand
Jack, Director at M3
Jack / Director
Based · Brisbane, Australia
Born · Bath, United Kingdom

Backed by a diverse team across Australia, the Philippines and South America.

02 / What We Deliver

The key elements to
grow your business.

A powerhouse team that treats YOUR brand just like OUR brand. Uniquely developed integrations, built to drive impact across every growth lever.

// 001

Customer Acquisition

Proven acquisition strategies across paid social and search. We power, optimise and scale the core mediums that bring new customers in profitably.

Meta · Google
// 002

Customer Retention

The backbone of every DTC brand. We implement powerful lifecycle systems that nurture, retain and grow the customers you've already paid to acquire.

Klaviyo · CRM
// 003

Performance Creative

Accelerated content development that activates your growth mediums with creative built to convert and scale — UGC, statics and offer-led concepts.

Creative · UGC
// 004

Integrated Strategy

Bolted-in consultancy and DTC strategy. We arm you with the tech stack and the thinking you need to stand out in a brutal DTC landscape.

Strategy · Data
// 005

Google Advertising (PPC)

The low-hanging fruit. Effective, proven and dominant. Shopping and Search structured for revenue, not vanity impressions.

Google · PPC
// 006

Email & SMS Marketing

Are you driving 20% of revenue from email + SMS? We build the flows and segmentation that lift LTV and protect your profitability.

Klaviyo · SMS
// 007

UGC Sourcing

We source, vet and manage the creators behind your best-performing ads — a reliable pipeline of UGC built to convert, without the agency markup.

UGC · Creators
// 008

AI CRO & Growth Data

We run AI bots through your funnel to surface exactly what's killing conversion — backed by live databoards and Slack-native comms. It'll feel like we're in the office with you.

AI CRO · Data
03 / What We Build

Custom AI, built
around your business.

Below are the shapes most builds take — not a menu, and not a limit. Every project is bespoke. If you can describe the job in plain English, we can scope it, price it and build it.

// 001

AI That Does the Job

It learns your documents, your rules and the way you talk to customers — then handles the repetitive thinking your team does by hand today.

Agents · LLM
// 002

Internal Tools & Dashboards

The tool your team keeps asking for and nobody has built. All your numbers in one place, up to date, and laid out the way you actually make decisions — not the way some software company decided.

Internal · BI
// 003

Workflow Automation

The handoffs, approvals, reminders and data entry that eat your week. Mapped once, automated properly, and connected to the systems you already use.

Ops · Automation
// 004

Document & Data Processing

Invoices, contracts, forms, applications, reports. Read, extracted, checked and filed — at a speed and consistency a person can't match.

Documents · AI
// 005

Customer-Facing Systems

Booking, intake, quoting, onboarding and support. Built to your process, on your brand, handling the volume that currently lands in an inbox.

Customer · Portal
// 006

Client & Staff Portals

A proper logged-in space for the people you work with. Status, documents, requests, updates — instead of chasing it all over email and phone.

Portals · Web
// 007

System Integrations

Your customer records, your accounting, your bookings, your spreadsheets — talking to each other directly, instead of someone copying between them by hand.

Integrations · Systems
// 008

Answers From Your Own Numbers

Ask a question in plain English, get a real answer from your own numbers. No analyst bottleneck, no waiting until Monday for the report.

Data · LLM

Something else entirely? Describe it on the call. If it's buildable, you'll have a plan and a price within 24 hours.

03 / The Right Fit

We do what we do best.
You do what you do best.

JV partnerships only work when lanes are clear. No cross-swords. No too-many-chefs. We get inside growth — paid, creative, retention, data — and stay there. You stay where you're irreplaceable: the product, the brand, the gut calls only a founder can make.

✓ Right fit
  • You're an ambitious ecommerce founder, in it for the long game.
  • Real product, real demand, real revenue — not a pre-revenue idea.
  • You want a partner with skin in the game, not a vendor on a retainer.
  • You value execution and shipping over agency theatre and decks.
  • You'll let us own growth and trust the lane — no second-guessing every ad.
✕ Wrong fit
  • You want a hired gun to "test growth" for three months.
  • Pre-revenue or hunting for a magic-bullet quick win.
  • You want to micro-manage tactics and review every ad copy line.
  • You shop on hourly rate and treat agencies as interchangeable.
  • Too many chefs already — multiple agencies running paid, all crossing swords.
04 / Who It's For

Any business with a job
worth doing properly —
in any industry.

Trades, clinics, logistics, law, hospitality, agencies, retail, property, manufacturing. We don't need to know your industry. You do — and one call is enough to hand it over.

001 ▸

There's a job eating your team's hours

Something repetitive, manual and expensive happens every week. You know exactly what it is. It's never been worth a person's full-time salary to fix.

002 ▸

You've been quoted, and it scared you

Someone wanted six figures and six months. You parked it. The job is still costing you every week it stays parked.

003 ▸

Off-the-shelf nearly works — but doesn't

You've trialled the tools. They do 70% of it, the wrong way, and charge you per seat forever for the privilege.

004 ▸

You want to own the thing you pay for

You'd rather buy an asset once than rent a dependency forever. Your software, your data, your call on what happens to it.

005 ▸

You want a real number, not a range

Before you commit a dollar to building, you want to see the plan and the exact price. That's the whole point of how we work.

04 / How It Works

Plug in. Find the gaps.
Deploy the system.

No audit deck. No kickoff workshop. We integrate as partners, get inside the business and run the systems that move it — not the ones that look good in a slide.

01

Plug in

We embed as your bolt-on growth team. Slack-native, in-the-room, no agency theatre. YOUR brand treated like OUR brand from day one.

02

Find the gaps

We get inside your numbers, funnel and stack. Surface the things actually costing you — not the ones a dashboard tells you to chase.

03

Deploy

Acquisition, retention, creative, paid — we run the systems and push them. Results in weeks, not next quarter's report.

05 / How It Works

One call in.
A finished system out.

No discovery phase. No consulting deck. No hourly billing. A call on Monday, your plan and price by Wednesday, your system live three weeks later. Four steps, start to finish.

01

You talk, we listen — call or voice note

A 30-minute call where you describe the problem in your own words. No tech knowledge needed — you know your business, that's the only expertise required. The call is recorded, with your permission. Don’t want a call yet? Send a voice note instead — same outcome, no calendar.

02

You get The Build Plan

Our own AI turns that recording into a proper scope: what gets built, what it connects to, what it will do, and the timeline. With one fixed price at the bottom. In your inbox within 24 hours — free, and yours to keep either way.

See 4 sample Build Plans →
03

We build it in 21 days

You approve the plan and we start — on your build and nothing else, because we only run one at a time. Three weeks to a working system, with check-ins along the way so you see it taking shape. Fixed price, fixed scope — the number you approved is the number you pay.

04

We hand you the keys

Source code, documentation, accounts and keys in your name, and a walkthrough for your team. Thirty days of support included. From there it's yours to run, change, extend or sell — with or without us.

05 / Success Stories

Growth stories from
the brands we back.

Over $250M in revenue generated using Meta, Google & Klaviyo. A few of the curves we've helped shorten — some partners named, some under NDA.

CS/01

Wildly

Scaled from a $2K-per-month market stall into a $100K+ monthly brand with a full-funnel acquisition and retention system.

12.6× RevenueShopifyMetaKlaviyo
CS/02

Brunae Body

1,000% growth in 4 weeks — $8K to $80K per month on a creative–offer combination. Now operating at $600K+ per month.

+1000%ShopifyMetaGoogle
CS/03

Weight Loss ▦ Under NDA

Took a new JV partner from $40K to $430K per month in 10 weeks. That partner is now at $1M/month.

$40K→$430KNDAMetaGoogle
CS/04

Men's Grooming ▦ Under NDA

From sub-$1M/year and unprofitable to $3M/year profitable at a 10% net margin. CAC halved.

$1M→$3MNDAMetaGoogle
CS/05

Fitazfk

Partnered to more than double their biggest-ever program launch — over 250% growth versus any prior launch.

+250%MetaGoogleKlaviyo
CS/06

Pain Relief ▦ Under NDA

Scaled this brand from $2M to $3M per month in just 8 weeks — a $1M monthly increase, MER +60%.

$2M→$3MNDAShopify PlusMeta
06 / What This Looks Like

Pick your world.
See what we’d build.

Those are real. These are ideas — a sense of what we’d build in a business like yours. Yours will be different, because it will be built around the job that is actually costing you.

TRA/01

Quote & Job Intake Agent

Answers the calls, texts and web enquiries you miss while you’re on the tools. Asks the qualifying questions, prices standard jobs off your own rate card and puts the job in the diary — at 7pm on a Sunday, same as 10am on a Tuesday.

IntakeQuoting
TRA/02

Job Pack Generator

Every booked job becomes a pack on the phone before the van leaves: site and access notes, materials list, the right compliance forms, last visit’s history. No more ringing the office from the driveway.

OpsMobile
TRA/03

Invoice & Follow-Up Chaser

Raises the invoice the second a job is marked complete, then chases the ones that go quiet — politely, on a schedule, in your words — until the money is in. Most trades get paid sooner just by never forgetting.

BillingXero

Your industry isn’t what decides this — the job is. Describe it on the call and we’ll come back within 24 hours with exactly what we’d build and exactly what it costs.

We build on and connect to the systems you already run. If your business already uses it, we can connect to it — and if it's something obscure, we'll find a way in anyway.

07 / The Maths

The cost of doing
nothing is invisible.

Which is exactly why it keeps getting paid. The repetitive work in your business already costs you money — it is just split across three places that never appear on the same line, so nobody ever adds them up.

01 — The hours

People doing work that does not need a person

It never shows up as a cost, because it is hidden inside salaries you are already committed to. You do not see a bill for it. You see a team that is somehow always busy and a to-do list that never shortens.

02 — The subscriptions

Tools that do most of the job, rented forever

Per seat, every month, rising at every renewal, for software that does seventy per cent of what you need in a way you would not have chosen. Stack three or four of those together and it is a salary.

03 — The work that never happens

The quotes, replies and follow-ups nobody got to

This is almost always the biggest of the three and the only one nobody measures, because it leaves no trace. There is no invoice for the customer who went elsewhere while you were busy.

Renting software

  • Costs you every month, foreverand the bill never ends, it only renews
  • Rises at renewalon someone else’s timetable, not yours
  • Charges per seatso growing the team costs more every time you hire
  • Built for the average of thousandsyour process bends to fit the software
  • Stops the day you stop payingand takes the workflow with it
  • Your data lives in their systemon their terms, and leaving is their leverage

Owning software

  • Costs oncethen it is an asset on your side of the ledger
  • Does not risethe number you approved is the number you paid
  • Put the whole team on itadding people costs nothing
  • Built around how you already workthe software bends, not your process
  • Keeps running whatever happens to usyou hold the source code
  • Your data stays yoursyour code, your accounts, your call

The businesses that get this right first will not just run leaner. They will be competing on things the others cannot match.

Quoting the same day instead of next week. Answering at seven on a Sunday. Following up every single time, not when someone remembers. Those are not efficiencies — they are the things customers actually choose on, and right now almost nobody in your industry is doing them.

That window is open and it is closing. Once a competitor is answering in minutes and quoting the same day, matching them is just the cost of staying in the game. Doing it first is an advantage that compounds every week, while everyone else is still waiting on a six-month quote.

08 / What It Costs

One fixed price.
Then it's yours.

No hourly rates, no retainers, no per-seat licence. You see the full number before a single line of code is written, and you own what we build at the end of it. Built and locked down properly from day one — your data never leaves your control.

01

The Build Plan is free

The call, the scope and the fixed quote cost you nothing. If the number doesn't work or you'd rather build it elsewhere, keep the plan and walk. No obligation, no pressure.

See 4 sample Build Plans →
02

One price for the build

Fixed, agreed up front, and paid half before we start and half when it is live and yours. Twenty-one days from approval to delivery. If it takes us longer than we thought, that's our problem, not your invoice. At handover the software is yours outright — not licensed, not rented, not held over you.

03

Ongoing is optional

Thirty days of support included. After that, hosting, AI running costs, monitoring and improvements are a monthly if you want them. Cancel anytime — you keep everything.

06 / Why M3 Growth

We don't do retainers
with no skin in the game.
We do partnerships
with real upside.

We're a competitive, collaborative, gritty and dedicated DTC agency that will drive your brand forward.

The bolt-on extension of growth strategists you always wished you had.
→ JV Performance

No $10K retainers with no responsibility to perform. A powerful, experienced, market-leading team that has skin in the game.

→ JV Equity

An $8K retainer on an $80K/month brand is your entire profit margin. Our model aligns incentives — you win, we win.

→ Operator-Led

$250M+ generated across Meta, Google and Klaviyo. We've lived the operational pain behind every growth lever.

→ Truly Integrated

Slack-native, in-the-room, relentless. We build infrastructure, relationships and partnerships — and treat YOUR brand like OUR brand.

09 / Why M3 AI

A plan. A price.
A date.
Before you spend
anything.

AI didn't just change what software can do. It changed what it costs to build it.

A system that meant six months and six figures three years ago is three weeks and one fixed price today — and we price it against the job it replaces, not the hours we spend.
→ 24 Hours To Quote, 21 Days To Build

One call is all we need. Plan and fixed price back within a day — free, whether you go ahead or not — and a working system three weeks after you say yes.

→ One Build At A Time

We take one project on at a time. That is the whole reason three weeks is possible — your build isn't queued behind five others, and it isn't getting whatever is left of someone's week. It gets both of us, properly, until it's done. It does mean there's a wait if we're mid-build when you call. We'll tell you straight away.

→ Operator-Built

Built by people who've run real businesses, not career consultants. We're looking for what the job actually costs you — then whether software is genuinely the answer.

→ Any Industry, No Learning Curve

You already know your business inside out — that's the only expertise this needs. You explain the job, we work out how to build it. That part doesn't change from one industry to the next.

→ Fixed Price, Fixed Scope

The number you approve is the number you pay. No hourly creep, no change-order games, no open-ended engagement that quietly becomes a retainer.

→ Yours To Own

Source code, documentation, accounts and keys in your name at handover. Not licensed, not subscription-locked, not held hostage by a vendor. Including us.

→ Secure by Default

Your information is scrambled so nobody can read it, kept apart from every other client's, and only reachable by the people who need it. It is never sold, never shared, and never fed into public AI tools.

// From the founders
"The thing that motivates me is seeing our partners' growth, being a core part of that engine room, and just simply growing ecommerce businesses for epic founders."
— Elliott Malcolm, Director
Elliott, Director at M3
Elliott / Director
Based · Vancouver, Canada
Born · Auckland, New Zealand
Jack, Director at M3
Jack / Director
Based · Brisbane, Australia
Born · Bath, United Kingdom

Backed by a diverse team across Australia, the Philippines and South America.

0708 / The M3 Ecosystem

Two arms.
Shared goal.

Two sides of the same business. One grows ecommerce brands; one builds custom software for anyone. Switch between them right here.

// Why we're doing this

We built the first one for ourselves, to get through our own week —
then realised every business has one of those jobs.

We got into this early, and not as a product. We were running growth for ecommerce brands, kept hitting jobs the software couldn't do, and started building our own tools to get through the week.

Then we watched what those tools actually did. Work that took a person days took an afternoon. Decisions that waited on someone's report got made on the spot. The businesses we built for didn't just get faster — they became capable of things they couldn't do before.

And at some point the obvious landed: this was never about one industry. A law firm buried in contracts, a clinic drowning in intake forms, a transport operator reconciling dockets by hand — same problem, same fix, same size of win. We'd just been pointing it at one industry.

So we widened the door. Same team, same method, any industry. Because the businesses that get this right over the next few years won't just run leaner — they'll be playing a different game to the ones that don't. We'd rather build you the thing than watch you rent someone else's.

10 / Questions

The things people
ask us first.

Straight answers. If yours isn’t here, ask it on the call — it costs you nothing to find out.

I don’t really know what AI could do for my business.

Good — that’s our job, not yours. You don’t need to arrive with a solution or know what’s technically possible. Just describe the job that keeps eating your week. We work out whether software can do it, and what that would take.

What if we get on the call and it turns out you can’t build it?

We’ll tell you on the call, and it won’t cost you anything. We’d rather say no in thirty minutes than take your money for something that won’t work. Sometimes the honest answer is that a process change fixes it and you don’t need software at all.

Why isn’t there a price on this page?

Because a real number depends on what you need, and we’d rather give you the real number than a “from $X” that changes later. You get one fixed price within 24 hours of the call, free, before you commit anything. If it doesn’t work for you, keep the plan and walk.

What if I don’t like the plan or the price?

Then nothing happens. The Build Plan is yours either way — you can take it to another developer, build it in-house, or leave it in a drawer. There’s no deposit, no retainer and no obligation at any point before you approve it.

Do I need technical staff to run it?

No. We build it to be used by the people already doing the job, and we walk your team through it at handover. If it needs an IT department to operate, we’ve built the wrong thing.

What happens to my data?

It stays yours. It’s scrambled so nobody can read it, kept separate from every other client’s, and only reachable by people who need it. It is never sold, never shared, and never fed into public AI tools.

What if it breaks, or I need changes in six months?

Thirty days of support is included. After that you own the source code outright, so you can come back to us, hand it to any developer, or take it in-house. There’s an optional monthly for hosting and improvements, and you can cancel it whenever you like without losing anything.

Will it work with the systems we already use?

Almost always. If your business already runs it — accounting, bookings, CRM, spreadsheets — we can usually connect to it, and we’ll confirm exactly what’s possible in the plan before you spend anything.

How is this so much faster than everyone else?

Three reasons. We take one build at a time, so nothing is queued behind other clients. We don’t run a paid discovery phase — the call does that job. And we build with AI ourselves, which collapses the part that used to take months.

How much of my time will this take?

Thirty minutes for the call, then a couple of short check-ins while we build. You won’t be in workshops and you won’t be writing specifications — that’s what we do with the recording.

08 / Let's Talk Shop

Partnerships, not retainers.
Let's see if we fit.

We're not for everyone — and that's the point. If you're building for years, not months, book a call and we'll be straight with you about fit. We hate sales, seriously.

Book a call →
0811 / Let's Build

Describe it once.
Get the plan and the price.

Thirty minutes on a call, in plain English. Within 24 hours you'll have the full build plan and one fixed number — free, and yours to keep whatever you decide next. Approve it and you're live in 21 days.

We build for one client at a time. Worth getting your call in — we'll tell you on it exactly when we could start.

Get my plan & price →

Choose a 30-minute call or a voice note — both get you the same plan and the same fixed price

A 30-minute call or a voice note · your plan and fixed price in 24 hours · free whether you go ahead or not

Not ready to book? Send a message