About
Receipts > rhetoric.
Most agencies sell activity. We install systems that produce predictable, profitable acquisition. We measure ourselves on revenue, CAC payback, and LTV:CAC. No mystery, no vanity metrics, no excuses.
The story
Rise was founded by Alvin Ding in 2020, at the height of COVID, when the world shifted online overnight. Drawing on experience building growth teams in Silicon Valley (Upwork, Airbnb), we designed Rise to operate differently: make the right big bets, execute with speed and precision, and strip out everything that doesn’t move the needle.
Over the past year we rebuilt the agency around a bet: the account-manager layer is being replaced by software, and the winners will be small senior teams running their own systems. So we built that layer ourselves. Monitors that check every dollar of spend daily. Reporting that writes itself. Creative pipelines with a quality bar.
We call the result a superlinear agency: output that grows faster than headcount, with senior judgment on everything. Every system runs in our own P&L first, and we sell nothing we don’t run.
Why we exist
Three reasons we get out of bed.
To stop brands from bleeding ad spend
Most companies are wasting 20-40% of their paid media budget. Agencies don’t catch it... or don’t care. We exist to expose the leaks and recover that profit.
To give founders and CMOs clarity
You shouldn’t wonder if your budget is working. We replace noise and vanity metrics with brutal truth: what’s driving profitable growth, what’s not, and what to do next.
To unify growth under one system
Three different vendors for ads, creative, and email creates silos and weak links. We embed a full-stack growth team that owns outcomes end to end.
One application
Tell us where you are.
One form, two minutes. A senior operator reads every application... no SDR, no discovery-call maze... and replies within two business days with an honest read. Even if that read is: you don’t need us yet.