Azai Media

Boutique product & growth studio

Where performance meets precision.

We partner with early-stage direct-to-consumer and content-driven companies across product strategy, design, development and growth marketing — one accountable partner holding the whole line from roadmap to return on ad spend.

Readings
Average return
on ad spend
3M+ Targeted impressions
per month
8 Web publishing &
e-commerce startups

Across eight client engagements since September 2022.

Capabilities

Four disciplines, one accountable team.

Most early-stage teams have to stitch a product shop to a media agency and hope the handoff holds. We keep strategy, build and spend under one roof, so the thing that ships and the thing that sells are decided in the same room.

  • Product strategy & roadmap

    Where the opportunity actually is, what to build first, and what to leave out. We draw the MVP cut line with you and sequence the quarters behind it.

    Positioning · Scope · MVP cut line · Roadmap

  • Design & development

    Digital products and storefronts built to be measured: interface design, a component system that survives growth, and the engineering to get it live.

    Prototype · Design system · Storefront build · Launch

  • Growth marketing

    Paid acquisition across search and display. The work that moved our clients' numbers was rebuilding targeting around intent keywords and cohort performance rather than broad demographics — which is where the 6× return came from, not from spending more.

    Intent keywords · Cohort analysis · ROAS · CPM · Attribution window

  • Lifecycle & email

    The revenue you already earned and haven't collected yet. Flows and campaigns segmented against real behaviour, written to be opened and built to compound.

    Open rate · Click-through · Segmentation · Cohort retention

01–04 Method

How an engagement runs.

In order, every time. The first step is the one most agencies skip, and it is the reason the last step has anything to say.

  1. 01

    Audit & baseline

    We read the account, the funnel and the numbers before proposing anything. You get a baseline you can hold us to — and a straight answer on whether we're the right fit.

  2. 02

    Strategy & roadmap

    One document: the thesis, the channel mix, the build sequence, the budget, and the metric each decision is accountable to.

  3. 03

    Build & launch

    Design, development and campaign structure in parallel, shipped in slices small enough to learn from rather than one long silent quarter.

  4. 04

    Measure & compound

    Weekly reads against the baseline, creative and landing-page tests in rotation, and spend moved toward whatever the data says is working.

Fit

Who we do our best work with.

  • Early-stage direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands
  • Web publishing and content businesses monetizing traffic
  • Retail and consumer-goods SMBs ready to scale spend
  • Automotive retail groups running lead-generation
  • Founders who want one partner, not four vendors

Engagement terms

Engagements from
$1,000
Blended rate
$120 / hr
Clients served
8
Founded
Sep 2022
Based in
Vancouver, BC

Next step

Send us the numbers. We'll tell you what we see.

Every engagement starts with an audit, and the audit starts with a conversation. Tell us what you're building, what you're spending, and where it stops working.

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Founded and led by Suraj Sachdev  ·  Vancouver, BC