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Overtone builds momentum for consumer and B2B brands

Booking projects for January 2027

Ad spend managed
$84M
Campaigns launched
230+
Average senior experience
12 yrs

Since 2019, Lisbon and New York

  • Brand strategy
  • Performance ads
  • Content and SEO
  • Analytics

We are a small senior team that plans, launches, and measures growth for brands that sell to people and to businesses. One team owns the strategy, the creative, the media, and the numbers, so nothing gets lost between agencies.

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Trusted by 60+ brands

  • Consumer
  • Fintech
  • SaaS
  • Hospitality
Northpine
Kilnhaus
Lumapay
Halden Air
Mesa Goods
Saltgrass
Tessel
Quarry Health
Bramble Bank
Oaro

Process

How growth gets built

Four stages, one team, and a weekly number everyone can see. Most programs are live within three weeks of kickoff.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2

    We read your data, your reviews, and your sales calls before we write a single ad. You get a growth audit that names the three levers worth pulling first.

  2. Week 2

    Every channel gets a forecast, a budget, and a test it has to pass. You sign off on one plan with clear targets, not a deck of loose ideas.

  3. Week 3

    Creative, landing pages, and tracking go live together. We launch small, read the data daily, and move budget toward whatever converts.

  4. Every quarter

    Winning messages move into email, search, and sales decks. Each quarter we retire what stalled and put more behind what pays back.

Loud ideas. Careful math.

The studio motto since 2019

What we believe

Principles we work by

  • Revenue over reach

    Impressions are a cost, not a result. We set every campaign against orders, pipeline, or payback, and those are the numbers we report first.

  • Test before you scale

    Big budgets go to proven messages. New ideas get a small, fixed test budget and a clear pass mark, so a bad bet costs a week instead of a quarter.

  • One story, every channel

    Your ads, search pages, emails, and sales decks should say the same thing. We write the core message once and shape it for each channel, so every touchpoint builds on the last.

Services

Everything growth needs, under one roof

Hire us for one discipline or the full stack. Either way, one senior lead owns your results from the first call to the quarterly review.

  • Positioning, messaging, and a visual system that make your brand easy to choose and hard to forget. We start with what your best customers already say about you.

    • Positioning
    • Messaging
    • Naming
    • Visual identity
    • Brand guidelines

    64projects shipped

Selected work

Recent work and the numbers behind it

Four programs from the last two years. Each one started with an audit and ended with a number the client could take to their board.

  1. Case 01 / 04

    Saltgrass relaunch

    Saltgrass had loyal customers and flat growth. We rebuilt the brand around one clear claim, cut the ad library from 140 variants to 18 winners, and relaunched across paid social and search in six weeks.

    Client
    Saltgrass Skincare
    Services
    • Brand strategy
    • Paid social
    • Creative testing
  2. Case 02 / 04

    Lumapay pipeline engine

    A payments startup selling to finance teams needed demos, not downloads. We rebuilt the landing pages, moved spend from broad search to high-intent terms, and tied every lead to closed revenue in their CRM.

    Client
    Lumapay
    Services
    • Search ads
    • Landing pages
    • Attribution
  3. Case 03 / 04

    Halden Air winter routes

    A regional airline wanted fuller planes in the off season. We built short vertical ads around real fares and routes, tested 30 hooks in two weeks, and scaled the four that sold seats.

    Client
    Halden Air
    Services
    • Paid social
    • Video
    • Retargeting
  4. Case 04 / 04

    Kilnhaus shelf to search

    A coffee roaster moving into grocery needed shoppers to ask for it by name. We ran a city poster campaign, matched it with search and recipe content, and tracked the lift store by store.

    Client
    Kilnhaus Coffee
    Services
    • Brand campaign
    • Content and SEO
    • Analytics

By the numbers

Brands grown since 2019
60+
Ad spend managed
$84M
Average return on ad spend
3.1x
Clients who renew after year one
94%

Client notes

Ask our clients about the numbers

We get judged on orders, pipeline, and payback. So do the people who hire us.

  • They cut our ad library by eighty percent and our cost per order still dropped. Every Monday we get one page that says what worked and where the money moves next.

    Ines CarvalhoHead of Growth, Saltgrass
  • Our old agency reported clicks. Overtone reports pipeline. Within two quarters, paid search became our cheapest source of qualified demos.

    Daniel OkoroVP Marketing, Lumapay
  • The winter campaign sold seats we used to discount. They tested thirty hooks in two weeks and only scaled the four that paid back.

    Marta SilvaCommercial Director, Halden Air
  • The posters looked great, but the store-level report is what sold me. Branded search climbed in every city where the campaign ran.

    Sam WhitfieldFounder, Kilnhaus
  • They rewrote our positioning in three weeks, and sales started using the new deck before the ads even launched. Win rates went up that quarter.

    Priya NairCMO, Tessel

Pricing

Retainers that grow with you

Monthly retainers with no lock-in after the first quarter. Ad spend is paid to the platforms directly and never marked up.

Billing period
  • Starter

    For brands finding their first repeatable channel.

    $4,200per month

    Book a call
    • One channel, fully managed
    • Growth audit in the first month
    • Fresh creative every two weeks
    • One-page report every Monday
    • Shared Slack channel
  • Growth

    For brands ready to run three channels as one program.

    Most picked

    $7,800per month

    Book a call
    • Up to three channels
    • Brand and messaging sprint
    • Weekly creative testing
    • Live revenue dashboard
    • Senior strategist on every call
  • Scale

    For teams spending six figures a month on media.

    $12,600per month

    Book a call
    • Every channel we offer
    • A dedicated team of four
    • A brand campaign each quarter
    • Forecasting and media mix model
    • Quarterly review for your board

Need a launch, a rebrand, or an analytics rebuild without a retainer? We take fixed-price projects from $15,000.

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FAQ

Good questions to ask any agency

Still unsure? Send us a note and a strategist replies within one working day.

Ask us directly
  • Consumer brands that sell online and in stores, and B2B companies with a sales team, usually between $2M and $200M in yearly revenue. Most of our clients are in retail, fintech, software, travel, and hospitality.

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