Our Story

Built in a garage. Scaled with systems.

We didn't start as a marketplace agency — we started as operators. Five years of growing our own brands taught us what works, what doesn't, and where most brand owners get stuck. Today, we put those systems to work for partners.

Five Years In
YEAR 01 2022

Garage operation.

Started in a garage. Struggling profitability, plenty of late nights, and a full restructuring before the year was out. The foundation got built the hard way.

$<1M
Annual Sales
YEAR 02 2023

First team in the garage.

Hired our first team and kept running out of the garage. 5x revenue in a single year — the operation was working, even if the facility wasn't.

~$5M
Annual Sales
YEAR 03 2024

Out of the garage. Into a warehouse.

Moved into a proper warehousing system. 3x'd again. The volume forced us to build the operational tooling — repricing, restock forecasting, supplier recon — that became our edge.

~$15M
Annual Sales
YEAR 04 2025

Two warehouse teams. Expanded categories.

Two full warehouse teams running, millions in monthly sales, and a meaningfully broader supplier and category base. The systems we'd built were ready to do more than run our own brands.

~$30M
Annual Sales
YEAR 05 2026

The agency arm launches.

This year, we open the playbook. Data First Brands brings the same systems, capital, and operational team to outside brands — so you don't have to spend five years building it yourself.

$50M+
Targeting
What We Bring
01

Operator instinct, not agency theory.

Every system we sell, we built for ourselves first. We're not selling you a framework we read about — we're selling you the one we used to grow.

02

Capital where it matters.

We buy your inventory. We run the ads. We absorb the risk. If our work doesn't grow your brand, we feel it before you do.

03

Selective by design.

We don't take every brand. If we can't see a path to meaningful growth, we'll say so on the first call. That's the only way our model works.

Skip the five-year learning curve.

A 30-minute conversation. We'll tell you straight if we can help, and if we can't.

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