NQD .ai
Marketing

Founding client program · US & UK businesses running ads

We only earn when you get results.

Paid ads priced on your numbers, not ours: a $490/mo base — a third of a typical retainer — plus a results fee billed from your CRM, your store, your call log. Never the ad platform's dashboard. Your ad budget stays on your card. First 3 founding clients: the base is waived for 3 months.

3 founding spots — first cohort openBilled on your dataBudget on your card

Get a free teardown of your ad account

Get my free teardown

A 10-minute recorded audit: 3 leaks, 3 fixes — yours to keep · the terms, in plain words

The founding deal, in plain terms

What you get

  • A free recorded teardown of your ad account — 3 things leaking money, 3 things to fix this week
  • Management at $490/mo base + a results fee agreed in writing before launch: per qualified lead, or 5% of verified revenue capped at 3× base
  • Founding 3: the base waived for your first 3 months — we earn only on results — then $490 locked for life
  • Tracking built before a dollar of spend; a written review of your numbers every week

What we ask

  • A case study with your real numbers — anonymized if you prefer
  • An honest review once we've earned it
  • Two introductions, if and only if we've earned those too

The honest terms

  • 3 spots. When they're filled, this offer is gone.
  • "Qualified lead" is defined in writing with you before launch, benchmarked to your industry's real cost per lead — with a 3-business-day dispute window on every billed lead
  • We bill from your CRM, store or call log — never the ad platform's own dashboard
  • Your ad budget goes from your card straight to Google or Meta. It never touches us.
  • Cancel monthly with 30 days' notice. Why so cheap? We're buying proof, and we'd rather say so than pretend otherwise.

How it works

Step 1

Free teardown, recorded

Book a time in two minutes, then grant read-only access to your ad account. Within a few days you get a 10-minute recorded video: three things leaking money, three things to fix this week — yours whether or not we ever work together.

Step 2

We agree the number, in writing

What counts as a qualified lead (or which revenue counts as attributed), what each result is worth, and how it's verified — signed before a dollar of spend moves.

Step 3

Tracking first, then ads

Conversion wiring before spend, exact-match discipline, weekly written reviews, and kill rules applied mechanically — the same system we run on our own campaigns, numbers published.

The written review you get every week

Week 6 — reviewSample
Spend (your card)$2,410
Qualified leads (your CRM)21
Cost per lead$115
Target$150
Killed this week2 keywords
Verdict: scale +20%

Numbers, verdict, action

Every week: what was spent, what it produced by your own count, what got killed, and what happens next — in writing, in plain English. The figures above are a sample; yours come from your account.

No impression charts, no "brand awareness", no dashboard theatre. If a number can't survive your CRM, we don't bill on it.

The pricing, exactly

Base · founding waived 3 mo$490 / mo
  • A third of a typical $1,500–$3,000 retainer
  • Covers tracking, builds, weekly written reviews
  • Founding clients: locked for life

+ per qualified lead

For lead businesses: a per-lead rate agreed in writing, benchmarked against your industry's real Google cost per lead (most SMB verticals run $30–$130). You pay for leads that survive your own CRM — with a dispute window.

or 5% of verified revenue

For e-commerce: 5% of ad-attributed revenue by your store's own report, above an agreed baseline, capped at 3× the base — so our fee can never outgrow your result.

Get your free teardown

Two minutes, no card, and no waiting for a reply — you leave with the call on your calendar.

Tell us what you sell and where your ads run in a sentence or two, get a clear brief back, and pick a real time — the call is booked on the spot and the invite arrives by email.

No card. No commitment. The teardown is yours either way, and access is read-only — revoke it anytime.

Common questions

What's the catch?

The visible one: we're new to selling this service and we're buying proof — the founding cohort trades a waived base for a case study and a review. The results fee is the business model, which is why it's defined in writing and billed from your data, not ours.

How do you define a "qualified lead"?

Together, in writing, before launch — for example: a form fill or call over 60 seconds, working contact details, in your service area, not a duplicate. Every billed lead carries a 3-business-day dispute window, and "it just didn't close" is a valid conversation while "subjective quality" disputes are settled by the written definition.

Why is the base so low?

Because the base isn't the business. $490 covers the operating floor — tracking, builds, the weekly review. If the ads don't produce, we don't get paid beyond it, which is the entire point.

Do you ever touch my ad budget?

Never. Your card sits in your Google and Meta accounts and pays them directly. We get access to work in the account — which you can revoke in one click — and our fee is the only invoice we ever send.

What results do you promise?

None, dishonestly. What we promise is the system: tracking before spend, a written target, weekly reviews, kill rules applied without sentiment — and a fee structure where poor results cost us, not just you. That's also why the founding base is waived: the risk sits on our side first.

Who actually runs the campaigns?

The founder and the senior team — the same people who run NQD's own campaigns with published numbers. No account managers relaying messages to someone you never meet.

Who's behind this

Piyush Gupta

Piyush Gupta

Founder, NQD.ai

I come from a Baniya family — Indian merchants who never spent a rupee they couldn't account for. That's how we run ads: every dollar tracked to a result in your books, not a chart in a dashboard. NQD is an AI engineering firm; the same discipline that ships production systems runs these campaigns, and I review every founding account myself.

NQD.ai — an AI engineering company that treats ad spend like an engineering problem. Founder: Piyush Gupta · support@nqd.aiPrivacy · Terms