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Case studies

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Anonymized case studies from our work with B2B SaaS, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and Fortune 500 clients. Named-client specifics available under NDA on request.

B2B SaaS

Customer onboarding kit program

Scale: 1,500+ kits per quarter, 40+ countries

What we built

  • CRM-integrated trigger from Hubspot contract-signed event
  • Multi-recipient deal-team kits with per-recipient personalization
  • International customs pipeline with DDP default and country-eligibility logic
  • Cohort reporting tied back to product activation metrics

Outcomes

  • 30-day activation rate up 9 percentage points in cohort-vs-control
  • Time-to-first-value compressed by 22% across kit cohort
  • CSAT lift of 8 points at 90-day check-in

Fortune 500 manufacturing

Employee onboarding + recognition programs

Scale: 3,200 hires/year + 800 milestone gifts/year, US and EU

What we built

  • Workday HRIS webhook integration for new-hire and anniversary triggers
  • SKU-stocked inventory enabling 48-hour ship-from-trigger SLA
  • Two-box onboarding model (Day-1 universal items, Week-1 sized apparel)
  • Four-tier milestone catalog with embossed personalization at higher tiers

Outcomes

  • Year-1 retention up 3.5 percentage points in cohort vs prior-year baseline
  • Operational cost down 22% vs prior service-awards catalog vendor
  • On-time delivery rate at 99.4% across 4,000+ ships

Independent broker-dealer (financial services)

Compliance-aware branded materials program

Scale: 400+ registered representatives across 30 states

What we built

  • Catalog-level FINRA Rule 2210 pre-approval workflow
  • Credential-registry integration gating personalization choices
  • Per-order audit trail with approval token, content version, recipient data
  • Six-year archival meeting SEC Rule 17a-4 retention

Outcomes

  • Zero FINRA cited issues across two annual exam cycles
  • Per-rep order velocity up 3x with no incremental compliance overhead
  • Designation-misuse incidents reduced to zero from prior baseline

B2B SaaS (mid-market)

Trade show + field marketing program

Scale: 12 major shows annually, $180K total giveaway budget

What we built

  • Three-tier giveaway model (booth, meeting, executive)
  • Show-calendar with advance-warehouse cutoff awareness for major venues
  • Direct-to-recipient Tier 3 shipping with handwritten notes
  • Post-show ROI attribution tied to qualified meetings and pipeline created

Outcomes

  • Qualified-meeting count up 31% year-over-year at constant booth budget
  • Tier 3 (executive) recipient meeting-acceptance rate at 78%
  • Cost-per-qualified-meeting down 24% across program

Healthcare technology

Conference activations + named-account gifting

Scale: 6 major conferences (HIMSS, RSNA, ASH, etc.), 200+ named accounts

What we built

  • AdvaMed / Sunshine Act compliance gate at gift trigger level
  • Tier-aware catalog with automatic substitution for compliance-restricted recipients
  • Annual Sunshine Act reporting integration
  • Multi-recipient executive gifting at strategic accounts

Outcomes

  • Zero compliance incidents across 24 months of program operation
  • Strategic-account win rate up 11 percentage points in matched cohorts
  • Annual reporting overhead down 70% vs prior manual process

Consumer brand (recurring loyalty)

Customer milestone gifting + advocacy program

Scale: 8,000+ milestone gifts/quarter, 100% domestic

What we built

  • E-commerce platform integration triggering on customer milestones
  • Recurring brand-program operational model with quarterly catalog refresh
  • Branded box packaging with customer-name personalization
  • Cohort analysis tied to repeat-purchase rate and NPS

Outcomes

  • Repeat-purchase rate up 14% in gift-recipient cohort
  • NPS lift of 6 points vs non-recipient control cohort
  • Cost-per-incremental-repeat-purchase at 23% of CAC

Named-client specifics

Available under NDA.

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