22 yrs
Dave Riggs
Founder / CEO
Marvel Strike Force · Pantaya · TransUnion
AI POWERED DIGITAL AGENCY
We build the growth machines
the next generation
of companies run on.
Apex Growth is a senior advisory and digital acquisition partner. We pair 20+ year operators with agentic workflows — so strategy lands, execution is optimized, creative ships, and pipeline compounds. Our reporting and analytics shine a light on anomalies and scalability.
Fig. 01 — The compounding loop
Each motion feeds the next. Research and development set the account and business development structure. Post-audit recommendations shape acquisition. Tests launch, learnings are ingested, and what works scales — then feeds research again. Custom agents ping our BigQuery layer continuously, so data anomalies surface the moment they appear.
Trusted by operators at
Services / 04
Five motions. One machine.
We're not interested in being your fifteenth vendor. We embed across these five functions, run them together, and let the loop compound.
01
Strategy
Where you should be playing — and how to win.
Positioning, narrative, GTM motion design, measurement frameworks, board-ready materials. For early-stage teams we audit the funnel and event signals and hand back what to fix to be go-to-market ready before you run media.
02
Acquisition
Paid systems built to scale, not just spend.
Meta, Google, TikTok, programmatic, partnerships, affiliate, CTV, and experimental channels. Channel diversification with attribution that holds up to scrutiny.
03
CRO
Experimentation programs that compound.
Landing pages, onboarding, checkout, pricing, lifecycle. A test cadence that ships weekly with statistical discipline, not vibes.
04
Upper Funnel
Demand that fills the funnel you optimize.
CTV, programmatic, and brand-adjacent placements that feed the lower funnel — held to the same attribution standard as everything else we run.
05
Creative Flywheel
A proprietary agentic concept. Ships cycles 10× faster.
Briefs in. Concepts, variants, edits, and motion out. Our agents draft, our seniors direct, your brand keeps its voice.
The Machine / 05
Humans where it matters.
Agents where it scales.
Our agentic creative system is a real cyclical pipeline, not a marketing slide. It recognizes early creative fatigue and develops replacement creative in real time, and generates potential top performers to fill your funnel — so there is always a repository of creative ready to go. Below: a live trace of a creative cycle.
PIPELINE · creative_flywheel.v4
BRIEF HUMAN
Senior strategists frame the problem and write the brief.
RESEARCH AGENT
Research agent synthesizes audience, comps, and prior tests.
CONCEPT AGENT
Concept agents generate angles, hooks, and variant trees.
DIRECT HUMAN
Creative directors edit, cut, and approve the shortlist.
PRODUCE AGENT
Production agents render statics, motion, and resize variants.
SHIP & LEARN HUMAN
Media team launches; signals route back to the next brief.
apex.runtime — flywheel.session.live
00:00:02 brief.ingested campaign_q3_acquisition.md → parsed (412 tokens)
00:00:05 agent.research fetching audience signals · cohort_v3 · 2.1k records
00:00:14 agent.concept generated 24 angles → ranked → top 6 shortlisted
00:00:31 human.direct cd.d_riggs approved 4 · revised 2 · killed 18
00:00:42 agent.produce rendering 1:1 · 9:16 · 4:5 · 16:9 → 64 assets
00:01:08 human.ship media.lead launched · attribution warm in 6h
00:00:10 runtime.ok ▌
01
Your brand voice is in our prompts.
02
Your data stays in your tenant.
03
Every output has a named human owner.
04
Models swap. The system stays.
Team / 06
100+ years of experience
in the room.
Senior leads with agentic workflow power and specialist team members staffed to support. Together: decades of operator experience across agency, in-house, and platform sides of the table.
20 yrs
Maggie Valiunas
Chief Growth Officer
Shopify · YouTube · TransUnion · ABCmouse · Upstart
21 yrs
Jennifer Wang
VP of Growth Marketing
Shopify · Upstart · Hero Bread
11 yrs
Shin Tanaka
Senior Manager, Analytics
Upstart · Shopify · Hero Bread
15 yrs
Kathy Tran
Senior Manager, Creative Strategy
OfferUp · Shopify · Hero Bread
12 yrs
Alex Yae
Senior Manager, SEM
Red Canary · ABCmouse · Octave Health
We put twenty-year operators with agentic leverage and specialists on your account. Every time.
Talk to usSelected work / 07
The receipts.
Operators talking to operators. A handful of recent engagements across consumer fintech, ecommerce, and edtech.
SHOPIFY
E-commerce platform
STRATEGY · ACQUISITION
International expansion across 5 acquisition channels and 30+ market cohorts.
30+
International markets launched across 5 channels
TRANSUNION
Consumer credit
CRO · CREATIVE
Rebuilt the mobile experience — lifting mobile conversion rate 58%.
+58%
Mobile conversion-rate lift
HERO BREAD
CPG / consumer
ACQUISITION · CREATIVE
Launched 7 acquisition channels over 2+ years and full Creative Strategy support.
7 live acquisition channels
Acquisition channels launched over 2+ years
ABC MOUSE
EdTech / consumer
ACQUISITION · CRO
Held CPO flat while scaling budget — drove year-over-year subscriber growth.
Flat CPO
Held while scaling spend; YoY subscriber growth from 2024-2025
As of Q2 2026
We measure what compounds.
$840M
Annualized media managed
120+
Active experiments at any moment
14×
Avg. creative throughput uplift
17yrs
Median seniority on the team
How we engage / 08
A 90-day shape.
A multi-year partnership.
01 Week 1–2
Diagnose
We embed with your team. Audit acquisition, creative, and conversion. Senior interviews. We come back with a one-page diagnosis and a sequenced plan.
02 Week 3–6
Stand up the loop
We wire the machine into your stack — brand voice in the prompts, brand assets in the agents, brand humans in the seats. Ship the first cycle by week 6.
03 Month 2 →
Operate & compound
Weekly tests, monthly strategy reviews, quarterly board materials. Throughput rises. CAC bends. The next brief writes itself.