The Architect Lab
Paid social & search Berlin — London 2026.09

Your ads got more expensive. We find out exactly why.

Before you spend another €10,000 on Meta, find out where it is actually going.

Twenty minutes Book an intro call → From €2,000 See the packages →

Twenty minutes, no deck. Bring the ad account and we'll tell you what's actually happening before you spend another euro.

Three ways in

§01 / Priced on output, not hours

A concept is a new idea with its own angle. A version is a tested winner rebuilt with a new hook, a new proof point or a new format. You pay for what comes out and how fast, not for hours.

One-off · five working days

Diagnose and quick fix

For finding out whether we are any good before committing to anything.

€2,000 Once · comes off month one
  • What a sale really costs you
  • Wasted spend, named and totalled
  • Which ads are dying and how fast
  • Three rebuilt ads from your own assets
  • Your next five tests, in order
  • A 90-day plan, whether or not you use us
Start with the audit →
Most accounts start here Monthly · creative only

Ads that don't go stale

For accounts spending €15k–60k a month that need a steady supply of new angles.

€4,500 / mo 3-month minimum · 30 days notice
  • One new video a month, filmed properly
  • Fourteen ads cut from it
  • Statics and carousels from your library
  • Ad copy tested weekly
  • Fortnightly review: what won, what died, why
  • You keep your own ad account
Book an intro call →
Monthly · everything

More sales, less spend

For accounts where the buying and the creative should be one decision, not two.

€6,500 / mo Plus 8% of spend over €30k
  • Everything in the creative package
  • We run the account day to day
  • Budget follows sales, inside your limits
  • Landing page and offer tested too
  • Summary in your inbox by six every morning
  • Holdout test when volume allows it
Talk about scope →
Something built for your situation

Search and AI visibility from €1,800. White-label creative for agencies. A one-off launch. If your situation does not fit a box, tell us what it is and we will price it properly rather than force it into one.

Tailored · price on a call →
Experience from
Condé NastCondé NastZalandoLoeweLoeweJaguarLand RoverJaguar Land RoverCondé NastCondé NastZalandoLoeweLoeweJaguarLand RoverJaguar Land Rover

What changed

§02 / Three accounts

A small, approved selection of campaigns we're actually allowed to talk about. Names withheld — not a mystery, just an NDA. Ask on the call and we'll show you the rest.

Higher education

Europe · Organic TikTok

Nobody goes to TikTok looking for a university brochure. We stopped communicating like an institution and built content around the people, culture and questions prospective students actually cared about.

Organic views
2M+
Ad spend
€0
View → application
2%+

Womenswear

€118 AOV · UK + Germany

The brand was advertising collections. Customers were buying outfits. We shifted from campaign imagery to fit, styling and "three ways to wear it" creative built around how people actually shop.

Cost/sale
€54 → €38
Conversion
1.7% → 2.4%
Return
2.2 → 3.1

Furniture / homeware

€310 AOV · Germany

People liked the product once they understood how it would live in their home. The ads weren't giving them that context. We moved from isolated product imagery to rooms, dimensions, use cases and "will this fit?" creative.

Cost/sale
€126 → €91
Return
2.5 → 3.4
Spend
€28k → €67k /mo
15+years inside fashion, media and luxury, brand side
€2M+in ad spend audited or managed to date
0account managers between you and the people doing the work

The four things you are actually worried about

§03 / Answered
It will look great and perform badly.

We are judged on watch rate, hold rate and cost per sale, not on the portfolio. Every batch comes with a note on what won, what died and what we think that tells us. If a concept does not beat your control in three weeks we kill it rather than defend it.

You will be slow and I will be chasing you.

Creative lands weekly, not in one dump at month end. You know the delivery date for a batch before we start it, and if something slips you hear it the day we know, not the day it is due.

You will not understand my product.

Before the first batch we read your reviews, your support tickets and your competitors' longest-running ads, then send you the angle list for approval. You see whether we get it before any design work starts.

I will be stuck in a contract.

Three months, then month to month with 30 days notice. You own every file and every working source, including the ones that did not work. If we are not earning the retainer you should be able to leave.

How it actually works

§04 / And how it improves

One shoot. Fourteen ads.

What your money buys
Your video FILMED ONCE 15 SECONDS 6-SECOND CUT 10-SECOND CUT NEW FIRST FRAME NEW FIRST 2 SECONDS PRODUCT-FIRST MODEL-FIRST SUBTITLED TEXTLESS MASTER 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5 14 ads ALL TESTED ONE PRODUCTION COST

Most agencies bill you per asset, so testing gets expensive and quietly stops happening. We film once and cut fourteen ways, which is why we can afford to bin the twelve that do not work.

Then it gets better on its own

The loop
Make tenSmall moneySame rule OFF THE CURRENT WINNER€20 EACH, 48 HOURS NOBODY VOTES ON TASTE IF IT MOVED, GO AGAIN FROM THE NEW WINNER Hit the number IT GOES LIVE, WE BANK IT We kill itWrong question 3 ROUNDS FLAT. WE TELL YOU. IT IS THE OFFER, NOT THE ADS

Three endings, written down before anything starts. Agencies that cannot say "this isn't working" will spend your money forever. The loops in full →

The loops we run on your account

Every one has a stop rule
01Opening test

Same ad, eight different first seconds. Attention is bought before anything else is.

48 hours
02Version explosion

Ten versions off whatever is currently winning. Losers binned inside the fortnight.

14 days
03Copy against a fixed image

Words tested with the picture held still, so you learn which half was doing the work.

48 hours
04Fatigue watch

Ads get replaced when they start decaying, not when someone notices a month later.

Daily
05Budget reallocation

Money follows what sells, inside limits you set. Nothing moves more than 20% in a day.

Daily
06Landing page and offer

The ad is half of it. We test the page and the offer against the same number.

14 days
07Search and AI answers

Where you rank on Google, and whether you come up when someone asks a model what to buy.

Weekly

Each loop runs on the packages that include it. The audit tells you which are worth running before you buy any of them.

01 · The audit

YOURACCOUNT READAUTOMATICALLY REPORT NEXT DAY 24 HOURS · NOTHING PRODUCED

You find out what is broken before anyone spends a day making anything.

02 · The creative

ONE VIDEO FILMED ONCE 14 ADS ONE PRODUCTION COST

Testing stays cheap, so we can afford to bin the twelve that do not work.

03 · The performance

SPEND, BY AD, DAILY DYINGDEAD SELLING SELLING MORE MAX 20% MOVEMENT A DAY

Money follows results inside limits you set, and you read the whole thing at six each morning.

§05 / Product
Donna →

The managed operations assistant for creative businesses. Knows your deals, your holds and your numbers, and answers in the channel you already use.

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§06 / Start here

Send us the account.
We'll tell you what we find.

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