High Intent Services

Take the advice. Or hand us the whole department.

You know the pain. Acquisition costs that keep climbing, retention that leaks, a paywall that underperforms, app stores that move the goalposts. We have fixed every one of these before, as the C-level operators who took dating businesses from $0 to $350M+. So take our advice. Borrow one of our executives. Or hand us the whole function and we will run it: acquisition, development, retention, support, for a service management fee. Bill and the team have over 100 years of online dating experience between them, and nobody else offering this has actually run a dating business.

$0→$350M
built as operators
3
ways to engage
16
practice areas
How we engage

Three ways in. One standard: we do the work.

Generalist consultants learn your model on your budget, hand you a deck, and leave. Every engagement here ends in delivery. The only question is how much of it you want us to own.

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01Consult

A CRO and CMO on your team

Operator-grade advice with delivery attached: a world-class CRO and CMO on your team, for the price of a consultant. We diagnose, recommend, and build it with you.

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02Embed

A fractional executive

An interim CRO or CMO steps in and runs the function inside your company. They own the number, manage the team, and report like an executive. Not advice. Accountability.

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03Run

A managed department

Full outsourcing. We become your marketing team, your dev team, your support operation. An entire function of your business, run by High Intent for a service management fee.

Managed services

The departments we'll run for you.

Every dating business needs all of these. Almost no dating business can afford to staff all of them well. Hand us the ones you don't want to build. Each one is run by people who have run it before, at scale, with their own P&L on the line.

01

Acquisition and marketing

Your full marketing department, run from the operator seat: creative, targeting, placement, attribution, optimization. The same team that buys media for our own brands every week.

See also:Attribution, Registration path

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02

Development and product

Your engineering and product function, supplied. Features, modules, native apps, and roadmap delivery, shipped against the numbers, not the deck.

See also:Matching, Liquidity

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03

Retention and CRM

Lifecycle operated, not just designed. Onboarding, re-engagement, and win-back, built into your stack and run continuously by people who own the retention number.

See also:Unit economics

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04

Customer service and moderation

The support and trust and safety operation that protects our own brands, available to yours. Fully staffed, fully managed, on the same playbook.

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05

Payments and fraud ops

Routing, vendors, fraud rules, and chargeback management, run day to day. Processor relationships that hold, currently keeping chargebacks under 2%.

See also:Compliance and platform policy

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06

Monetization ops

Paywall, pricing, packaging, and the a la carte economy. Tested and tuned every week against cohort revenue, not set and forgotten.

See also:Paywall

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07

App store management

The day to day on Google Play, and the work with Apple. Listings, review, compliance, releases, all managed by the same operators who run our own store presence.

See also:Compliance and platform policy

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08

SEO and social

Run entirely for you, or alongside your team, in the same tools we use for our own brands. Built for sustained intent, not vanity traffic.

See also:Growing without a raise

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"One management fee per function, agreed up front. No day rates ticking while we learn your model, no land-and-expand. And if a department isn't performing, you'll hear it from us first."
How the fee works. The operator standard
The full practice menu

Sixteen areas. Every one hands-on.

Each practice is available as consulting, as a fractional embed, or as part of a managed department. Not recommendations. Delivery. Click any practice for the full breakdown.

Growth & acquisition

Theme 01
  1. 01

    Marketing

    We become your full marketing team: creative, targeting, ad placement, optimization.

  2. 02

    Attribution

    Recommend and build the models that prove your ad spend is working.

  3. 03

    Registration path

    Work with your dev team, place pixels, test dozens of paths, find the most efficient one for your platform.

  4. 04

    Retention, lifecycle & CRM

    Onboarding, re-engagement, and win-back flows, plus the stack to run them.

  5. 05

    LTV & unit economics

    Cohort CAC, LTV, and payback by channel. The numbers a board would ask for.

  6. 06

    Growth without a raise

    Build a path to growth and profitability that does not depend on raising. If a raise or sale is right, link to Capital.

Product & matching

Theme 02
  1. 01

    Features

    Recommend features for your specific audience, then build them or supply modules you can add.

  2. 02

    Matching & recommendations

    Audit and tune the match engine and the discovery feed.

  3. 03

    Marketplace liquidity & ratios

    Supply and demand, gender ratio, geographic density, seeding, so matches actually happen.

  4. 04

    Apps

    Build your apps, work to get them listed, and manage the day to day on Google Play and with Apple.

Money & trust

Theme 03
  1. 01

    Monetization

    Subscription, credits, pricing, packaging, tuned to your audience and margin math.

  2. 02

    Paywall, packaging & a la carte

    Paywall placement, price testing, and the credits, boost, and super-like economy.

  3. 03

    Trust & safety, fraud, chargebacks

    Tune moderation and fraud rules, select vendors, rework payment routing to cut chargebacks.

  4. 04

    Compliance & platform policy

    Age verification, data privacy, App Store and Google Play review.

Operators & stack

Theme 04
  1. 01

    Fractional executive embed

    Step in as your interim CRO or CMO and run the function, not just advise it.

  2. 02

    Vendor & stack selection

    Pick, negotiate, and integrate the right stack, without the markup.

Free resources

The best-practice decks are free. Yes, really.

We give away the playbooks because the deck is our competitors' entire product, and it isn't ours. Take them, run them yourself. When you want the people who wrote them running the department, you know where we are.

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Fixing the leaky funnel (The retention playbook)

We will email you a one click link. No password to remember.

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Pricing & packaging that holds (The paywall playbook)

We will email you a one click link. No password to remember.

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Making matches happen (The liquidity playbook)

We will email you a one click link. No password to remember.

FAQ

Honest answers, before you ask.

Consulting means we advise and deliver alongside your team. Managed services means we take over an entire function (acquisition, development, retention, support, payments) and run it day to day. Same people, different amount of ownership.
High Intent Services

Put operators in your corner. Or in your org chart.

Tell us what's not working: acquisition, retention, monetization, payments, the app stores. We'll tell you what we'd do. Then we'll do it, or run it.

We reply personally. No list, no newsletter, just a direct conversation.