// AI-NATIVE AGENCYMost app growth consultants hand you a deck. We hand you shipped work.
You want senior expertise on your app's growth. The problem with a consultant is where the engagement ends: at the recommendation. AppDNA gives you the senior strategist judgment you came for, plus the platform that executes it — the paywall test, the onboarding fix, the retention journey, live in your app — in a workspace you keep. A consultant who can actually ship.
An app growth consultant is a senior expert who advises subscription-app teams on how to grow — positioning, acquisition, monetization, retention. AppDNA is an app growth consultant that also executes: a senior human strategist directs the work and approves every change, and the platform's specialist agents ship it inside the app through an SDK, without an App Store release. The distinction is where the engagement ends — a traditional consultant delivers a recommendation and leaves; AppDNA delivers the recommendation and the shipped work, logged in a workspace the client owns and keeps. Consulting is priced at $250 per strategist hour plus a platform plan, from $1,500 to $11,250 a month; pre-launch consulting for founders with no live app yet is a fixed Pre-Launch Strategy engagement from $2,500. (Searching for an “app marketing consultant”? Same thing — this is the page.)
Advice that doesn't ship is the problem, not the answer.
The classic consulting engagement ends at the deck. You get a diagnosis, a set of recommendations, and a handshake — and then the hard part starts, on your side, with your team, in your release cycle. The insight was real, but the value was supposed to be the outcome, and the outcome depends entirely on execution the consultant never touches. Six weeks later the paywall test still hasn't shipped, because it needed an engineering slot that never opened. The consultant's knowledge left with the consultant. That's not a bad consultant — it's the shape of the model. We built the other shape.
A recommendation is a beginning. We priced ourselves on the ending.
Senior judgment up front. Execution that doesn't wait for you.
Our model keeps the thing you hire a consultant for — the senior judgment — and removes the thing that breaks the engagement: the handoff to nobody.
A senior human reads your funnel, finds where the revenue leaks, and decides what's worth doing. That's the consulting judgment you came for, and it stays human.
A specialist agent on each growth module drafts the actual work from your data — the paywall variant, the onboarding change, the metadata test, the retention flow.
Every change is vetted by the strategist and approval-gated to you; nothing ships that a human didn't approve.
Live through our SDK, at 10% of traffic first, stop-loss armed — no App Store release, no waiting for an engineering slot.
Strategy stays human. Execution is automatic.
Store-side advice is half the job. The revenue is decided inside the app.
A lot of app growth consulting stops where the store stops — ASO, paid UA, creative, competitor positioning. That's real work and we do it. But it's the top of the funnel; the conversions and revenue are decided deeper, at the paywall, in onboarding, across retention and win-back. That's the half most consultants can advise on but can't touch, because touching it means shipping code. Our model is different by architecture.
The only system that executes across the whole funnel — including inside the app itself. Store page, ads, and creatives are half the funnel; paywalls, onboarding, retention, and win-back live inside the app, and our SDK ships changes there without a release. Store-side tools stop at the store.
The knowledge doesn't leave with the consultant. It's already yours.
A traditional consultant's insight walks out the door when the engagement ends — it lived in their head and their slides. Our model is the opposite: every experiment, result, and decision on your app is written into your own Growth Memory, in a workspace under your name. The judgment compounds instead of evaporating, and it's yours to keep.
Fire us and keep everything.
Priced in the open. Shipped work on the page.
Senior judgment, without the handoff to nobody.
vs a solo consultant: you get the same senior judgment, but the recommendation ships instead of sitting in your backlog — and the knowledge stays in your workspace, not their head.
vs a traditional agency retainer: no black box, no six-week experiment cycles, no knowledge that walks out with the account manager — everything lands in your workspace and Growth Memory.
The line no traditional consultant can say: Fire us and keep everything. The workspace, the experiment history, and the playbooks stay with you.
The practice that became the platform.
We ran this loop by hand for a decade before we automated it — around 300 apps worked on by the team behind AppDNA.
Before hiring an app growth consultant.
You get the same senior judgment — a strategist reads your funnel and decides what's worth doing — but the recommendation gets shipped instead of handed to your team to implement. The platform's agents draft the work and it goes live in your app under your approval. A solo consultant advises; we advise and execute.
Get a consultant who ships.
Book a call and get a free Growth Conception — a real 10–15 page plan for your app — in two days — or start with a two-minute audit. Both free, both yours to keep.