About us

Who runs the account.

Dean builds the ad setup and strategy. Luke Kostka owns new norml media and is DTC Paid Ads' exclusive content partner. Mini is the product AI inside the DTC Paid Ads OS.

Ad Setup & Strategy

Dean La Grange

Dean La Grange

Ad Setup & Strategy

Fewer clients. Deeper attention. Fourteen years building and managing Meta campaigns for DTC brands, from early startups to enterprise. He started on a $400/month retainer managing $1,200 in spend. Today, more than $5,800 in Meta spend moves through active accounts every hour.

Dean leads paid acquisition strategy, profitability modeling, offer direction, and every scaling decision himself. When you work with DTC Paid Ads, you work with him. Transparency, direct communication, and long-term thinking over wins that don't stick.

Every recommendation traces back to break-even CAC, contribution margin, and payback. Scaling makes the weak link obvious; it was already there. One offer and one transaction caps lifetime value, so the work is built around an offer ecosystem rather than a single shot.

You get the plainest read of what is working and what is not. A dashboard does not replace a real conversation. Strategy stays with Dean. A focused ops and automation team supports delivery, and clients are never handed to a junior media buyer after the sale.

Content partner

Luke Kostka

Luke Kostka

new norml media

Founder of new norml media

Exclusive content partner for creative strategy through final product, organic and paid.

new norml media is the creative studio I founded in 2018. Before ClickUp, I built AdLeaks to 50K followers and AdWorld to 276K. The work I did at ClickUp put us at 4B+ impressions, a 227M-view month, and a format SNL copied. The Billion View Playbook, the system behind all of it, is what we run for every brand we take on.

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Product

Mini

Ad Engineer

Mini watches Meta campaigns and helps operators inside the DTC Paid Ads OS. Mini is the product AI in the portal, not a person on the team.

Who inspires me

Martell and Ramsey.

  • Dean with Dan Martell

    Dan Martell

    “Don't hire to grow your business. Hire to buy back your time.”

    Buy Back Your Time.

    Founder and CEO coach. Author of Buy Back Your Time. Teaches founders to buy back calendar time so they scale without living inside the business.

  • Dean with Dave Ramsey

    Dave Ramsey

    “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

    widely attributed / Total Money Makeover corpus.

    Personal finance teacher and radio host. Founder of Ramsey Solutions. Known for debt payoff and live-on-less-than-you-make teaching through The Total Money Makeover.

DashFi

DashFi partner lane.

A partner product lane for mapping card benefits to unit economics. Details stay offline until the doors are ready.

Coming soon

Find the constraint before you scale into it.

Tell us about your brand. We start with your break-even, then the one constraint holding back scale.

Never autobilled. Account before results.