For scaling Shopify DTC brands

Find out where your store stands on chargeback-freeze risk.

A dispute spike can get your payouts reserved or frozen for months — and most founders don't see it coming. We review your store's risk signals, harden your setup, and keep your ad creative converting so growth doesn't blow up the business.

No pitch. We review the risk signals we can see from your storefront and ads, and show you where you likely stand against the card-network thresholds.
Defense + Offense

The two pains of a scaling store

Defense · Payment-Risk Hardening

Your processor can freeze your cash

Card networks tightened dispute monitoring in 2026, and your payment provider often acts on risk well before the network does. Shopify and Stripe can place reserves or holds at their discretion. Most founders don't know where they stand until a payout is held.

  • A risk-exposure snapshot vs. published program references
  • Prevention setup: descriptors, refund flows, fraud filters, dispute alerts
  • Processor diversification + a continuity plan so one freeze can't sink the business
Offense · Creative Refresh

Your winning ad is already tiring

Paid creative typically decays within a couple of weeks of active delivery, and ad costs have risen materially year over year. Without a fresh-angle pipeline, ROAS quietly erodes and tired creative gets expensive to keep running.

  • A rolling pipeline of fresh hooks, angles & UGC scripts
  • Direct-response copy built to convert, not to fill a calendar
  • Refreshed on fatigue signals — ship-ready for your media buyer

More than a tool. Less than an agency.

DIY tools spit out generic drafts you still have to fix. Agencies cost $5k–$25k/month. We're the focused, managed slice in between — built for founders who are scaling fast and can't afford a blow-up. Start with a one-time audit; move to a retainer once it's working.

DIY AI tools
$20–385/mo
Generic, needs cleanup
SteadyScale
audit → $2k–5k/mo
Managed, done-for-you
Full agency
$5k–25k+/mo
Overkill, long contracts
How it works

Start small. Prove it. Then scale.

1

Free Risk Exposure Review

We review the risk signals visible from your storefront, checkout, and live ads, and show you where you likely stand — plus 3 fast fixes. Free, no commitment.

2

Paid audit & hardening

Share read-only data and we run the full audit, place you on the risk scale, set up your prevention systems, and deliver your first creative batch — on a fixed date or your fee is credited.

3

Ongoing retainer

Once it's working, move to a monthly retainer: continued creative refreshes tied to fatigue, plus monthly dispute-ratio monitoring so you scale without surprises.

Pricing

Start with an audit. Scale into a retainer.

Begin with a one-time engagement to prove the value, then move to a monthly retainer that includes creative refresh and payment-risk hardening. Retainers are built for stores doing $100k+/month.

Risk Audit & Sprint

$500–$1,500/one-time
Any scaling store · credits toward your first retainer month
  • Full payment-risk audit + hardening recommendations
  • One creative teardown + 8–10 fresh concepts
  • Delivered on a fixed date or fee credited
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Scale Retainer

$2,000–$2,500/mo
For $100k–$250k/mo stores
  • 15–20 concepts/mo + UGC scripts & LP copy
  • Hardening + monthly dispute-ratio monitoring
  • Monthly report + live dashboard
  • 2-business-day response
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Scale+ Retainer

$3,500–$5,000/mo
For $250k–$500k/mo stores
  • 30+ concepts/mo + on-trigger refreshes
  • Weekly monitoring + dispute-response SOPs
  • Processor diversification plan
  • Same/next-day response
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FAQ

Questions founders ask

Can you guarantee my processor won't freeze my payouts?

No — the card networks and your provider make the final call, and we'd never claim otherwise. What we do is reduce your dispute and reserve risk indicators, help you stay below the published thresholds, and build a continuity plan so a single freeze can't take the whole business down. Advisory only; you keep full decision authority.

What's the free Risk Exposure Review, really?

A genuine one-page read of the risk signals we can see from the outside — your descriptor, checkout, refund/return setup, niche base-rate, and your live ads — plus where that likely places you against the network thresholds and 3 fast fixes. The exact dispute-ratio number needs your private dashboard data, which we only look at once you've decided to work with us.

Isn't this just something ChatGPT can do?

AI can draft copy. It can't read your setup against the card-network rules, configure your prevention systems, or own the outcome with you. You're paying for judgment, speed, and results — not text.

We already use a chargeback app — how is this different?

Those tools mostly fight disputes after they happen and take a cut of what they recover. We work upstream: reducing the disputes and the risk indicators that put you on a monitoring program in the first place.

See where your store stands — free.

We're taking a small number of clients this quarter. Start with the free Risk Exposure Review and a teardown of your top ad.

Advisory only · we never guarantee a processor's decision.