The studio

Growthr

Attention, engineered., an embedded growth agency.

What is Growthr?

Growthr is an embedded growth agency founded by Sean Garschi in 2021, based in San Francisco and fully remote. Instead of a retainer run at arm's length, the team joins the client's organization and runs growth from the inside: paid media, creative production, analytics and attribution, product strategy, and AI engineering. $250M+ in managed ad spend, $1.5B+ in client exits.

Why it exists

Most agencies sell either creative or performance. Growthr is built on the assumption that separating them is what makes both worse. The creative side loses its feedback loop and starts optimising for awards. The performance side runs out of things worth distributing and starts optimising the delivery of mediocre assets.

So the same people build the thing and distribute the thing. The interactive build is designed with its distribution mechanic already decided. The paid creative is made by people who know what the organic account learned last week.

How engagements run

Projects for interactive builds, retainers for growth systems. Both start the same way: a short call covering the date, the budget range, what assets already exist, and who signs off. Those four answers determine feasibility before anything creative gets discussed.

Everything is built to be handed over. Code is yours, documentation ships with it, and no system is designed so that it stops working when the engagement does.

Services

Interactive Web ExperiencesBuildAn interactive web experience is a custom-built site people play with instead of scroll past, a playable instrument, a drop portal, a world you can move through, engineered so that using it produces a screen recording worth posting.AI Automation & Custom BuildsSystemsAI automation replaces the repeated manual steps in a marketing or content operation, sourcing, drafting, tagging, routing, reporting, with systems that run without a person babysitting them.SEO & GEO ConsultingVisibilityGEO, generative engine optimization, is the practice of making a brand the source an AI assistant reaches for when it answers a question, using clear entity definitions, quotable answer blocks, structured data, and corroboration across the wider web.Paid Ads & CreativeDemandPerformance creative is advertising built to be tested, many distinct concepts shipped fast, judged on cost per outcome rather than taste, with the winners scaled and rebuilt before they fatigue.Instagram Growth & ManagementAudienceInstagram growth is a distribution problem before it is a content problem: a repeatable format, posted at volume, engineered so the first two seconds earn the rest of the watch.Design & BrandingIdentityDesign and branding work covering identity systems, album and campaign art direction, and the design language a brand repeats across every surface. Built by the same hands that build the interactive work, so the identity survives contact with real formats.Creative DirectionDirectionCreative direction is deciding what the moment is before deciding what the assets are: the concept a release or campaign hangs on, the visual world around it, and the direction of the photographers, designers, and builders who execute it.Photo & VideoImagePhotography and video work spanning artist and brand shoots, covers, campaign imagery, and short-form video, shot to be used: every frame is composed for the formats it will actually live in, from vertical video to cover art.Music MarketingMusicMusic marketing through Growthr covers the full release cycle: campaign strategy and rollout, tastemaker and influencer seeding at scale, viral content and meme formats, paid amplification, Beatport chart promotion, and the interactive layer. Results across campaigns: 1B+ social views, multiple Beatport #1s, and 100K+ TikTok audio uses.Clipping (Clipper)ClipperClipper is Growthr's clipping marketplace. Brands and labels post a content brief, hundreds of vetted clippers repurpose it into short-form clips across TikTok and Instagram, and clients pay only for verified views, at an estimated $2-3 CPM versus $15-30 for standard paid social.Influencer MarketingCreatorsInfluencer marketing through Growthr covers creator sourcing, vetting, negotiation, and campaign management end to end, with 40+ brand partnerships managed. It is the curated counterpart to Clipper: fewer, larger creators chosen deliberately, rather than an open pay-per-view marketplace.

Work

The Interactive MPCInteractive build · 2024A drop page nobody bounces off. Sixteen pads, the artist's stems, zero instructions needed, and every session ends with a screen recording that promotes the release for free. Shipped as a series: the Ye Runaway MPC, Father, Power, and a Daft Punk edition.On SightInteractive build · 2024A build with no landing state, no explainer, no cookie banner between you and the thing. It starts before you are ready, on purpose.IcemanAlbum drop · 2025Release-day builds have one hard requirement that creative work usually ignores: they cannot fall over in the first ten minutes. This one was built spike-first.Artist Drop SystemsSystems · 2025Most release sites are rebuilt from scratch every time, which is why they ship late and break under load. Building it once as a system fixes both.

Frequently asked

What is Growthr?+

Growthr is an embedded growth agency based in San Francisco, fully remote: performance marketing, creative production, Clipper clipping campaigns, SEO and GEO, branding and web, and AI engineering for B2C and B2B companies. Founded in 2021 by Sean Garschi. $250M+ in managed ad spend, $1.5B+ in client exits.

Who founded Growthr?+

Sean Garschi, in 2021. Before Growthr he was the first hire on Truebill's growth team, the YC-backed fintech acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion.

What services does Growthr offer?+

Embedded growth: performance marketing across paid channels, creative production, data and attribution, and growth strategy run from inside the client team. Standalone projects: SEO and GEO, branding and design, web design and build, email and lifecycle, content, AI engineering, and Clipper, its clipping marketplace.

Does Growthr work with artists or brands?+

Both, across B2C and B2B. Fintech is where it started and its deepest vertical (Truebill, Trim, Chime, Rocket Money, SaverLife). The team has also run campaigns in music and entertainment, enterprise technology, gaming, and CPG.

How big is Growthr?+

Small and senior by design. There is no account-management layer between a client and the people doing the work, which is the main structural difference from a traditional agency.

Work with Growthr

Tell me what the moment is, when it lands, and what already exists. I'll tell you within a day whether it's a fit.

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More on the person behind it: about Sean Garschi.