The margin problem was never the clients.
It was the post-campaign research.
Here's what the P&L looks like when research stops being the ceiling.
The campaigns you used to turn away are now margin. Not because anyone works harder. Because the three-day slog is a two-hour decision, and the surface area for mistakes drops to zero. And when a number gets challenged, you've got a data person who read it and answers for it.
I read the data and hand you the decision. The operational side is yours.
This is the part most vendors leave vague. So here it is, in writing. I'm the research-and-insight layer, not your ops team. I hand you the insight. You keep the wheel. And the client.
- Mine public comments, updates and tier pricing for real signals
- Build 3–5 bespoke backer segments, each with cited public evidence
- Name the revenue path each segment points to — the decision, not just the data
- Write the five sequenced upsell emails
- Build the Gamefound-ready import CSV and setup walkthrough
- Label every revenue and uptake figure with its source
- Answer your questions about any of it on Slack, within 24 hours
- Uploading the CSV into the Pledge Manager
- The creator relationship and every client call
- The sends, the tone calls, the final say
- Backer support and survey compliance
- I never log into your Gamefound account
I am not more capacity for your operations. I am less time spent on research \u2014 and a clearer read on where the revenue is. If you hire me expecting to hand over the Pledge Manager, I'm the wrong vendor — and I'd rather say that now.
The freelancer you trusted last month has a new job.
Every boutique agency runs on freelancers. Some are great. Some vanish. Every pipeline break costs you a day. Every inconsistent result costs you credibility with a client.
That's the real tax. Not the research hours — the unpredictability. In a niche industry where everyone talks, one inconsistent deliverable becomes a reputation problem.
When you order 42Boosters, you get the same standard every time. Same team. Same format. Same schedule. No freelancer lottery.
When something breaks — and it will — I catch it before you do. Anomalies flagged. Redelivery in 2 hours. Same day, not next week.
Every segment sourced. Every figure labeled. Every Playbook bespoke, built for one campaign from scratch. You can show your client exactly where the data came from. No black box. No hallucination. No reputation risk from unverified work.
When you have a question, you’re not filing a ticket. You’re Slacking Al — your data person. He answers within 24 hours. He read the data, so he can explain it.
Don't take my word for the gap.
Show me a campaign that already closed.
I don't forecast your future. I read the past. Send me a funded Gamefound campaign whose Pledge Manager has already shut. Al runs a retrospective research audit by hand: where demand went unserved, which tiers and add-ons were left on the table, and what the missed range looked like. Every figure labeled. Nothing promised.
Run on request, by one person, when capacity allows. No automated flow. No button. Ask, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can take it this week.
Request a Retrospective Audit →Not a dashboard. A research delivery service.
You don't need another platform to log into. You need the research done — and the revenue in it found. Raw public campaign data goes in. A bespoke, sourced, decision-ready Playbook comes out. No login. No daily check-in. I deliver. You use it.
And when a number gets challenged — by you, by the client, by anyone — you Slack Al. He answers within 24 hours. The data has a person behind it.
Comments, reward tiers, updates, add-ons. Unstructured, unverified, overwhelming.
I read every signal, verify against public source, label every figure, and build the Playbook — bespoke, for this campaign.
Segments with evidence. Emails ready to paste. The revenue path named. Revenue ranges you can defend. The decision, not just the data.
One Playbook live. A family coming.
Today I ship one product: The Post-Campaign Revenue Playbook. It finds the revenue hidden in the post-campaign phase — the public comment mining, the tier cross-referencing, the segmentation, the revenue path out of all of it. Every future Playbook is the same job applied to a different phase of the Gamefound campaign lifecycle: find the revenue signal in that phase's data, name the path, hand the strategist the decision. Same engine. Same standard. Bespoke every time. More hours cleared. More decisions the strategist gets to make. More campaigns you can say yes to. More games that get made.
Bespoke backer segmentation with cited public evidence, five sequenced upsell emails, a Gamefound-ready import CSV with a walkthrough, and a sourced revenue range — plus the revenue path the data points to. White-labeled, 2 hours, 4 Playbooks a month with 6-month rollover on the Agency Research Retainer. Al is your data person on Slack.
- Score your public waitlist by likely pledge tier — no manual spreadsheet work
- Draft the Day-1 early-bird sequence before the campaign goes live — no last-minute scramble
- Pre-write the first stretch-goal announcement so momentum doesn’t stall at hour 6
- Set the pricing ladder from public category data — not from a 2 AM guess
- Pull the public add-on uptake range for your exact category — no more hunting for data
- Compare your reward-tier structure to the top 10 funded campaigns without building the spreadsheet yourself
- Identify the price gap where backers reliably drop off — and price under it before launch
- Set stretch-goal thresholds from real public data, not vibes
- Detect a slow Day 3 from public pledge velocity and flag it before the week is lost
- Re-sequence the upsell order based on public engagement patterns — before momentum dies
- Surface the objections backers are posting publicly — without a manual re-read of every comment
- Re-engage the segment that went quiet with a targeted second touch — before the client notices
- Extract every recurring objection from public campaign comments — with quotes and counts
- Rank objections by frequency and by revenue impact
- Map each objection to the reward tier or add-on it’s blocking
- Hand your strategist a prioritised fix list — not a 4,000-comment haystack
- Tag every public add-on buyer pattern by segment for the next launch
- Design the reprint/sequel interest survey — grounded in the segments you already have
- Warm the list for the next campaign before it launches so Day 1 starts funded
- Convert late pledges into next-campaign Day-1 momentum with a pre-launch sequence — without adding headcount
Agency Partner
The tier built for this. Fixed cost, capped and honest about it, with a personal vetting step before anything is invoiced.
4 Post-Campaign Revenue Playbooks included ($1,250 each). Bespoke every time. Unused credits roll over for 6 months.
No volume tier. No annual lock-in. No “unlimited” anything. Four agencies at a time. I'd rather cap the list and hit the standard every time than promise throughput I can't hold.
Four agencies at a time.
This is the ask.
I'm not building a customer list. I'm building a small cohort of boutique Gamefound agencies whose work I can stand behind. Tell me how many campaigns you run and how you pitch. Al reads every application personally.
If it's not a fit, I tell you that instead of sending an invoice. If it is, you join the queue. It moves in order.
Tell me about your practice. Al vets every partner personally before sending an invoice.