Frequently asked questions

The Growth Blueprint is a one-time fixed fee of $5,000–$10,000, depending on business complexity. The Growth Systems Partnership is priced per system as a one-time build — $15,000–$35,000 per system across the three levers — with no revenue share and no monthly retainer. Ad spend is separate and stays fully under your control.

Only the vendor costs to keep them running — paid directly to the vendors, never to us. Typically that's hosting (Replit, Vercel, or AWS), AI usage (OpenAI or Anthropic API), and any automation or data tools a system uses (n8n, Make, Supabase, Airtable). For most stores this totals $100–$500 a month across all systems, depending on volume. There is no ongoing fee to Brandlark — compare that to a $10K+/month agency retainer or a full-time marketing hire. Day to day, your team runs it — typically minutes a week, with documentation and guardrails we hand over.

You could — AI tools have made prototypes easy. What's hard is a system your revenue depends on: knowing which opportunity is worth building for in the first place (that's 13+ years of growth marketing), and engineering it to survive real-world use (that's 8+ years of software development) — system design and planning, rigorous testing against live store data, choosing tools that won't be obsolete in six months, and keeping the system improving as the AI landscape shifts. A demo takes a weekend; a system that runs part of your revenue for years is a different job. We wrote up the honest build-vs-buy math on our blog.

Every result ties to verified revenue: orders we can attribute to our work through platform integrations, unique links, and reconciled sales reports. You get a live dashboard and biweekly reporting, so success is measured on actual sales, not impressions or activity.

Yes — even if you already know exactly which system you want built. The Blueprint runs a manual test of the opportunity behind that system before anything gets built: we prove the benefit is real with your actual store, at small scale, first. Sometimes the test confirms your instinct; sometimes it surfaces a higher-return build you hadn’t considered — and sometimes it saves you a five-figure build that wouldn’t have paid. We don’t build for the sake of building — a system you don’t need is a system you won’t use.

We install attribution infrastructure before any capital is deployed: platform integrations (Shopify, WooCommerce, etc.), pixel tracking, UTM parameters, and sales report reconciliation. All tracking methods are agreed upon in writing before work begins. Every client receives a live dashboard showing revenue in real time.

Each system in the Growth Systems Partnership is a defined, one-time build with a fixed scope and timeline agreed before work begins — not an ongoing contract. There are no long-term commitments, monthly retainers, or early termination fees.

Brandlark takes on a maximum of 3–5 active client partnerships at any time. This is intentional: depth of engagement requires limits on volume. If all partnerships are currently filled, we maintain a short waitlist.

Yes — that's the norm, not the exception. The systems named on the site (Keyword Intelligence, Ad Spend Monitoring, Bundle Logic) are examples of builds, not a product catalog. Every system is designed specifically for your store from what the Growth Blueprint uncovers, and the 2–3 opportunities it identifies often call for a system we've never named publicly. If it improves how you get found, how your ads earn, or how visitors become buyers, we can design and build it.

Execution runs across all three levers depending on what the audit prioritizes: paid media (Meta, Google, TikTok), organic search and authority content, and on-site conversion and AOV optimization. Channel selection is governed by where the audit identifies the highest expected return, not by what is easiest to manage.

You do. Budgets stay in your accounts and under your approval. We recommend where budget should go and build systems for day-to-day execution, but you retain complete control over spend limits and platform access.

Traditional agencies bill for activity: reports, meetings, ad variations, regardless of whether revenue moves. Brandlark is measured on verified revenue outcomes, and we assess, test, then build: every system is verified with a manual test against your actual store before it gets built. We work with a maximum of 5 clients at any time, meaning you work directly with senior decision-makers.