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San Francisco's AI-Native Growth Marketing Agency

San Francisco's AI-Native Growth Marketing Agency

Darkroom is the go-to-market strategic partner for consumer technology businesses. Senior growth operators work alongside Shadow, our AI workspace, to run full-service omnichannel growth across paid media, marketplaces, retention, and creative. More than $5 billion in attributable revenue, with clients including Adobe, Amazon, Everlane, and Olipop.

Darkroom is the go-to-market strategic partner for consumer technology businesses. Senior growth operators work alongside Shadow, our AI workspace, to run full-service omnichannel growth across paid media, marketplaces, retention, and creative. More than $5 billion in attributable revenue, with clients including Adobe, Amazon, Everlane, and Olipop.

Omnichannel growth services for San Francisco brands

Launch with the channel your go-to-market depends on, then add the rest as the plan grows. Senior operators run every service below against the same P&L.

Paid Media Management

Paid search, paid social, programmatic, and CTV managed as one full-funnel media plan.

Performance Creative

Short-form video and static ads built for the auction and tested every week against spend.

TikTok Shop Management

Shop setup, affiliate and creator programs, and paid media managed under a single P&L.

Amazon Management

Storefront, listings, Sponsored Ads, DSP, and inventory planning run by marketplace specialists.

Retention Marketing

Email, SMS, CRM, and lifecycle flows that turn first orders into repeat revenue.

AI Search

Generative engine optimization, AI visibility tracking, and agentic commerce readiness so assistants recommend your product.

Growth Strategy

A senior strategist owns go-to-market and launch planning, forecasting, and one omnichannel roadmap.

Conversion Rate Optimization

A testing roadmap for your site that lifts conversion rate and revenue per session.

Brand Studio

Brand identity and digital design for product launches, challengers, and established names.

Organic Social Management

Always-on social content that builds attention and feeds proven concepts into paid.

Creator Content

Creator and influencer programs, content sourcing, and community management at scale.

Retail Media Management

Retail media plans and measurement built to lift shelf velocity and in-store sales.

Website Development

Design, development, and ongoing management of sites built to convert and build brand equity.

Website Support

A senior Shopify team shipping design updates, development, and new features on a steady cadence.

Paid Media Management

Acquire new customers across paid media channels. Full-funnel media management across paid search, social, programmatic, and CTV. Profitability first, then scalable brand awareness.

Performance Creative

Creative is the single biggest lever for growth, and short-form video is where attention lives today. Paid media assets to fuel your performance bets.

TikTok Shop Management

Full TikTok Shop ecosystem management, including marketplace strategy, affiliate and creator program management, paid media management, and P&L management.

Amazon Management

Grow sales and brand value on Amazon. Fully-managed Amazon marketplace strategy, organic management, paid media management, inventory management, and creative development.

Retention Marketing

Lifecycle strategies designed to convert leads and reconvert existing customers. Management of CRM, email, SMS, and the entire customer journey.

AI Search

Learn how to win in the quickly developing AI Search space. This includes AI strategy, monitoring, GEO, measurement, agentic commerce, and paid ads.

Growth Strategy

Your full-stack growth partner. Senior strategists architecting omnichannel roadmaps across paid, retention, creative and marketplace.

Conversion Rate Optimization

Increase conversion rate through incremental improvements to your website. We work with top Shopify, E-commerce, and Subscription brands to grow revenue.

Brand Studio

Our brand studio produces industry leading brands, identities, and digital design for consumer startups and global institutions, alike.

Organic Social Management

Organic social is the lifeblood of consumer attention and the breeding ground for winning paid media assets.

Creator Content

Creator and influencer strategy, community management, and content procurement. Darkroom possesses one of the deepest creator ecosystems.

Retail Media Management

Paid retail media to increase retail shelf velocity for in-store revenue growth. Full funnel retail media management and measurement.

Website Development

Full website design, development, and ongoing management. Optimize your digital platform to maximize conversions and build brand equity.

Website Support

A senior Shopify team, on retainer. Continuous design, development, and feature releases that keep your storefront fast, modern and built to convert.

Results Bay Area teams can take to the board

Growth claims are easy to make. These are the numbers behind ours.

$5B+

attributable revenue generated for client brands

18%

average month-over-month profitable growth across clients

500+

consumer marketing P&Ls reviewed every year

3x

Inc. 5000 honoree

Evolv: 48% of BFCM revenue from retention, 14x placed order rate vs. industry benchmark

Evolv launched with no audience, no email list, and no purchase data. We built the brand identity and website, then had a full retention program live before the first order shipped, from welcome flows to replenishment logic.

Nécessaire: 118% paid media revenue increase, 43% YoY revenue increase in Q4

When iOS 14 broke pixel-based retargeting, we rebuilt Nécessaire's acquisition on first-party purchase data across Meta and search, then refreshed the creative library with ads made through the brand's influencer network.

Cycora: 1.3s page load on a motion-rich site,
4 days from brief to working prototype

Cycora turns discarded textiles into virgin-grade polyester for partners like Zara and Athleta. We designed and built its digital platform from scratch, layered for technical readers, procurement teams, and brand buyers.

Awards and recognition

Independent rankings and partner programs that stand behind the numbers above.

Independent rankings and partner programs that stand behind the numbers above.

Inc. 5000

Three-time honoree on Inc.'s list of America's fastest-growing private companies, including No. 385 in 2023.

Forbes 30 Under 30

Co-Founders Lucas DiPietrantonio (CEO) and Jackson Corey named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising.

Shopify Plus Partner

Listed in Shopify's Partner Directory at the Plus tier for store builds, migrations, and optimization.

Klaviyo Partner

Certified Klaviyo partner at Platinum Master level for email, SMS, and lifecycle programs.

Varos Top 1%

Ranked a Top 1% Performance Marketing Agency by Varos.

How we work with San Francisco companies

San Francisco is where consumer technology gets built, funded, and launched. Product teams here move fast, and their go-to-market has to keep pace from the first campaign to enterprise scale.

We work with companies across San Francisco, Oakland, the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, and the wider Bay Area.

We work with companies across San Francisco, Oakland, the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, and the wider Bay Area.

Why Silicon Valley's consumer tech teams choose Darkroom

Senior operators from day one

Your account is run by operators who've scaled commerce programs past $1 billion in revenue. The senior people you meet on the first call are the people who do the work.

Go-to-market and growth on one plan

Launch planning, paid media, marketplaces, retention, and creative sit under one growth strategy lead, so every channel works toward the same launch targets.

Measured on contribution profit

Our Flight Plan builds a P&L for each revenue channel, with projections and KPIs agreed every quarter. That's the scorecard we answer to.

An audit in week one

You get a channel-by-channel diagnostic in week one, with gaps ranked by revenue opportunity. Paid media and creative testing moves within the first two to four weeks.

The AI workspace behind every account

Every Darkroom strategist works in an AI workspace we built ourselves. Shadow pulls a brand's full marketing stack into one live brand library, so people and AI agents work from the same data every day.

One brand library, updated hourly

Meta, Google, Shopify, Klaviyo, TikTok, Amazon Ads, Amazon DSP, Walmart, and Google Analytics sync every hour, with complete historical data.

80% less time on reporting

Reporting and decision-making time across our teams fell by more than 80% by our internal measurement, which frees your strategist to focus on the next move.

Onboarding in about three days

Post-signature onboarding went from roughly two weeks to about three days, so launch work starts in your first week.

No black boxes

Agents propose changes to live ad accounts with the exact before-and-after values, and nothing runs until a person approves it. Every change lands in an audit trail.

What our clients say

“Darkroom helped us prepare for the paradigm shift in customer discovery.”

Chris Stella, CEO, ProHealth

“Their media measurement perspective entirely changed our paid performance.”

Greg Gschwend, Director of Digital Marketing, Anne Klein

“We loved working with the Darkroom team to create our first ever creative ad campaigns.”

Steve Vigilante, Head of Growth, Olipop

“Darkroom partnered with Crate & Barrel to reinvigorate our digital strategy.”

Margaux Gonyea, Director of PR, Crate & Barrel

“Darkroom helped us prepare for the paradigm shift in customer discovery.”

Chris Stella, CEO, ProHealth

“Their media measurement perspective entirely changed our paid performance.”

Greg Gschwend, Director of Digital Marketing, Anne Klein

“We loved working with the Darkroom team to create our first ever creative ad campaigns.”

Steve Vigilante, Head of Growth, Olipop

“Darkroom partnered with Crate & Barrel to reinvigorate our digital strategy.”

Margaux Gonyea, Director of PR, Crate & Barrel

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