Operator-led · AI-run growth for consumer brands

Replace three to ten agencies.
One senior team.
One AI backbone underneath.

We've run our own consumer brands for six years and built the AI infrastructure that runs them every day. Now we point it at yours — either installed inside your team, or run end to end by ours.

Stix Golf
$100M+Lifetime sales · $8M Year 1 · Series A & B
Host Modern
$4.5MYear 1 · 10%+ profit margin
Influence Mobile
$200M+Lifetime revenue · #3 mobile ad network · 100M+ installs
01 · Two ways in

Do you want to run it?
Or do you want it run?

Same infrastructure underneath both. The only difference is who owns the day-to-day. Brands move between the two as they staff up or staff down, so picking wrong isn't a thing that happens here.

Fork 01 · Implementation

We build it.
You run it.

We install the systems inside your business, train your operators, and leave the documentation to extend them. You own the machinery and the people who run it.

Best when you already have an operating team and what's missing is the machinery.

See Implementation →

Fork 02 · Growth Partner

We run it.
All of it.

Paid, creative, UGC, email and SMS, SEO, CRO, storefront, customer service, and the reporting layer under all of it. One team, one scoreboard, month to month.

Best when you're paying four or more vendors to run one funnel and nobody owns the P&L.

See Growth Partner →

02 · What it replaces

Ten vendors.
Ten reports.
Nobody on the hook.

The founder becomes the integration layer between vendors. Which is the actual job nobody is doing.

A growing consumer brand pays separately for media buying, creative, UGC, email and SMS, SEO, CRO, storefront dev, customer service, attribution, and someone senior to make them all agree. Each has its own scope, its own monthly report, and its own incentive to look good in isolation.

One team on one scoreboard removes the coordination problem, and the AI backbone is what makes one team enough. Cheaper because it's consolidated, not because it's junior.

See the full list of what we'd take over →

03 · What we run

Six capability areas.
Twenty-plus skills.

AREA · 01

Brand

UI kits. Brand guidelines. Voice rules. Audience cohorts. Copy-rules enforcement.
Foundation
AREA · 02

Marketing

Media buying. Ad generation. Ad strategy. Social outreach. Email + SMS. Competitor monitoring.
Acquisition + Retention
AREA · 03

Ecom

Website build. CRO program. Landing pages. A/B and MVT infrastructure.
Conversion
AREA · 04

Operations

Financial modeling. Demand planning. FP&A. Inventory management. Freight monitoring. Supplier sourcing.
Backbone
AREA · 05

Product

Roadmap. Concept validation. Prototyping. Tech packs. Supplier collaboration.
Pipeline
AREA · 06

Custom

We built every skill above for our own businesses. We can build new ones for yours. Quote on the call.
Built for you

See the full skill list →

Most AI consulting is a deck and a chatbot.
The deck stays in a folder, the chatbot quietly stops getting used.
What we install runs every day, gets logged, and gets better.

04 · How it starts

Audit first.
Then we switch on what pays.

STEP · 01

A 30-minute call

You tell us what's running, what you're paying for, and where the funnel leaks. If we're not the right team, we say so on that call and refer you on.
Free
STEP · 02

The audit

A two-week review of every system and asset you have, ending in a prioritized plan naming what gets built or switched on first, in what order, and what success looks like.
Two weeks
STEP · 03

The work

Either we install it and hand you the keys, or we run it and you watch the scoreboard. Nothing is switched on all at once, and the first wins fund the rest.
Implementation or Growth Partner

We also run Founder Coaching for consumer-brand founders who want senior operators in the room weekly, and take a limited number of speaking engagements.

05 · Who we are

Operators first.
Consultants by accident.

Gabe Coyne

Gabe Coyne

Founder · Visionary

  • $200M+Co-founded Influence Mobile — #3 mobile ad network in the world
  • $100M+Co-founded Stix Golf in 2020 — Series A & B
  • $4.5MCEO of Host Modern — year one, 10%+ profit margin
  • 10 yrsRan a creative studio in Seattle before Influence Mobile
  • PartnerProta Ventures — innovation consulting for Exelon, ADP, Citi Bank
LinkedIn →
Collin Duff

Collin Duff

Co-Founder · Integrator

  • COOHost Modern through its launch
  • Head of ProductStix Golf — current
  • Co-founderViator Coffee
  • OperatorProduct-and-ops counterweight to Gabe's growth-and-systems instinct
LinkedIn →

We're not strategists who studied ecommerce.
We're the people who hit the wall — and built systems around it.

  • Inventory
  • Attribution
  • Creative fatigue
  • Customer support
  • Ops

Lighter Fluid is the documentation layer for those systems. Read more about us →

06 · Between us

Two operators.
What we've put on the board.

5
Businesses launched
Stix, Host Modern, Influence Mobile, Viator Coffee, creative studio.
$300M+
Lifetime revenue
Across all five businesses we have operated.
$50M+
Capital raised
Across Series A, Series B, and earlier rounds.
100K+
Customers
Hundreds of thousands across the brands.
100s
Employees hired
Operators recruited, onboarded, managed.
100s
Products to market
Concept through launch — digital and physical.
1,000s
SKUs managed
Across product lines, seasons, channels.
Forbes
Awards & press
Sports Illustrated, Entrepreneur, Golf Magazine, MoMA, Mission.org.

Free 30-minute call.
If we're a fit, you'll know in twenty.