Ad agencies don't work anymore.

Needle is the ad agency alternative that delivers faster, costs less, and gets sharper every week.

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Trusted by 200+ ecommerce brands

"With agencies, I still did all the work. With Needle, I just approve."

Jonathan Plotzker-Kelly

Founder, Heliotrope

"Agencies promised ROI. Needle delivered it. We started growing again."

Paul Raybould

Founder, Visionary Pet Foods

"Needle is what agencies should have been all along."

Amy Kim

Founder, KindTail

The problem with ad agencies

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They cost too much

Agencies have become synonymous with bloat. They hire too many people, and you end up paying for it.

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They move too slowly

With agencies, every idea and decision requires multiple people and multiple days.

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No compounded learnings

Most agencies don’t compound learnings from ads week-on-week and across different mediums.

How Needle solves this

We’re better than ad agencies, and more than just AI marketing.

Supercharged by AI

Needle’s AI analyzes your brand and creates winning marketing strategies much faster than traditional agencies can.

Each week, it also reviews your performance and recommends ways to grow.

Vetted by humans

Marketing strategists vet our AI's outputs every step of the way: from strategy to reports to creatives.

Everything stays accurate, polished, and on-brand.

On-brand & high quality

The result: quality marketing with speed. At a third of the cost.

Needle’s unique approach produces agency-quality output without the baggage.

How Needle works, simplified.

1: Connect your brand

Needle plugs into your tools to understand your brand and create a marketing strategy.

2: Choose marketing ideas

Needle plugs into your tools to Needle creates a marketing calendar for your brand. You choose the best options and we’ll begin working on the creatives.

3: Get great marketing creatives

Needle produces marketing creatives that are on-brand and manually edited by our human strategists.

4: Launch from Needle

You approve and launch ad campaigns directly from Needle. We’ll set up and get them launched.

5: Continuous improvements

Our AI and human strategists track performance and consolidate weekly learnings and opportunities for growth.

Our marketing creatives look truly on-brand.

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The results speak for themselves

It’s like having a full marketing team in one tab. And if something doesn’t work, Needle pivots fast.

Jonathan Plotzker-Kelly

Founder, Heliotrope

Results:

6× ROI on evergreen email campaigns

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I can now focus on R&D and let Needle handle growth. It's honestly changed how we operate.

Sabrina Wee

Founder, As Intended

Results:

MER on ads doubled, then stayed above 6x for 8 months

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I love what Needle did with our email designs. These guys are awesome!

Sky Kim

Founder, RTPTennis

Results:

12× ROI on email campaigns

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We can now focus on improving our product, while Needle drives growth.

Casey Ng

Co-founder, TWOOAK

Results:

Cost per order dropped 50%, MER held at 10x

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Flexible pricing for every need

Pay per creative you need, scale it by seasons. 3 to 6 month subscriptions that flex with your business.

Sample packages

Meta Ads

For lean brands ready to scale ads and build momentum with paid social.

US$899/month

Agencies charge: US$4,000+/month

Creatives each month

  • 2x Videos
  • 2x Static Images

Campaign management

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

For this pack, you’ll get:

  • 1x Prospecting Ad
  • 1x Retargeting Ad
  • 1x Catalog Carousel

All plans include

  • Weekly Momentum Report with learnings & takeaways
  • Weekly ad optimization
  • Data- and AI-backed growth ideas
  • Real humans polishing creatives
  • Unlimited revisions of creatives
  • VIP support with a Needle Strategist

Email Newsletters

For brands who want their audience to feel their point of view, not just see an offer.

US$499/month

Agencies charge: US$1,200+/month

Creatives each month

  • 5x Emails

Campaign management

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

We’ll set up email campaigns in the email platform you use: Klaviyo, Omnisend, MailChimp, etc.

All plans include

  • Weekly Momentum Report with learnings & takeaways
  • Weekly ad optimization
  • Data- and AI-backed growth ideas
  • Real humans polishing creatives
  • Unlimited revisions of creatives
  • VIP support with a Needle Strategist

Custom

For brands who want to mix and match specific creative types across channels.

From US$499/month

Creatives each month

Choose your own mix of emails, videos and images.

Creatives typically cost $50–100 per email or image, $200–500 per video (remix or UGC), depending on complexity.

Campaign management

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

All plans include

  • Weekly Momentum Report with learnings & takeaways
  • Weekly ad optimization
  • Data- and AI-backed growth ideas
  • Real humans polishing creatives
  • Unlimited revisions of creatives
  • VIP support with a Needle Strategist

Creatives each month

  • 2x Videos
  • 2x Static Images
  • 5x Emails

Choose your own mix of emails, videos and images.

Creatives typically cost $50–100 per email or image, $200–500 per video (remix or UGC), depending on complexity.

Campaign management

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

For this pack, you’ll get:

  • 1x Prospecting Ad
  • 1x Retargeting Ad
  • 1x Catalog Carousel

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

Your email campaigns get scheduled and sent to the right audience in your platform: Klaviyo, Omnisend, MailChimp, etc.

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

All plans include

  • Weekly Momentum Report with learnings & takeaways
  • Weekly ad optimization
  • Data- and AI-backed growth ideas
  • Real humans polishing creatives
  • Unlimited revisions of creatives
  • VIP support with a Needle Strategist

Creatives each month

  • 2x Videos
  • 2x Static Images

Campaign management

Needle sets up, publishes and monitors campaigns for you. 100% hands-free.

For this pack, you’ll get:

  • 1x Prospecting Ad
  • 1x Retargeting Ad
  • 1x Catalog Carousel

Weekly learnings

  • Weekly Momentum Report with learnings & takeaways
  • Weekly ad optimization

All plans include

  • Data- and AI-backed growth ideas
  • Real humans polishing creatives
  • Unlimited revisions of creatives
  • VIP support with a Needle Strategist

Why Needle beats agencies & freelancers

Faster, better, cheaper. You don't have to pick two anymore.

Agency

Freelancer

DIY

Strategy

Execution

Creatives

Add-on cost

Optimizations

Slow & junior

Total Cost

$499–$1,999+/mo

We grow when things work.

$2,500–$10,000+/mo

Just for the retainer. You take the risk.

$500–$3,000+/mo

Patchwork pricing.

You pay in time, stress, and opportunities.

Bottom Line

More, better shots on goal at a fraction of the price.

They bill first. You hope it works.

Maybe they get it. Maybe they ghost.

You keep doing it all yourself.

FAQs

What exactly is Needle?

Needle is your AI-powered marketing team in one tab — a system that blends automation with human operators to give you speed without losing brand quality.

The AI connects to Shopify, Meta, and Klaviyo, reads what’s working, proposes campaign ideas, drafts creative, launches ads and emails, and learns from performance every week.

But it doesn’t run unchecked. Every brand gets a dedicated strategist who understands your tone, your edge, and your market. Designers and editors refine the AI drafts so your final creative is polished, on-brand, and rooted in taste rather than templates.

You get the efficiency of AI doing the heavy lifting and the judgment of experienced humans making sure nothing feels generic or off-brand.

Who is Needle for?

Needle is designed for DTC brands in fashion, beauty, pet, food, and lifestyle that have broken out of the early scrappy phase but haven’t yet built a full in-house marketing team.

Most of the brands we work with fall in the $1M–$10M annual revenue range, typically running lean teams of five to fifty people. They’ve proven product-market fit but are stuck in that familiar execution bottleneck where marketing is chaotic, multi-channel demands keep rising, and every new campaign takes more time than they can spare.

Our strongest customer bases are in the US, Australia, and Singapore — markets where competition is intense, agency costs are high, and brands need to operate with precision and speed.

How is Needle different from an agency, and why is it cheaper?

Agencies rely entirely on human labor, which makes them slow and expensive by design. Every report, brainstorm, asset, and campaign setup requires multiple people and multiple days. Because of this, they charge $3K–$5K a month just to keep the lights on, and you still end up doing revisions, giving direction, or waiting for bandwidth on their side.

Needle is built differently. The system automates the repetitive execution — data reading, idea generation, creative drafts, campaign setup, optimization — so humans can focus only on the high-value parts: brand taste, strategy, final polish, and approvals.

By letting the AI handle what agencies do manually, we cut out weeks of human effort and the overhead that comes with it. That’s why we’re able to deliver agency-level output at roughly a third of the cost while being dramatically faster.

Will I lose control of my brand or creative?

Not at all. You approve absolutely everything before it goes live.

From the first week, your strategist builds your brand playbook into the system so every asset — whether AI-drafted or human-polished — reflects your tone, style, and standards.

The longer you use Needle, the sharper the system becomes at predicting what you’ll approve. Over time, you spend less effort reviewing because Needle increasingly aligns with your voice, but the control always stays with you. Nothing ships without your sign-off.

How does Needle actually make you more money?

Needle makes brands more money by generating more, better shots on goal every single week. Because the system reads your data, spots patterns, and suggests what to launch next, you stop guessing and start compounding.

Campaigns go out faster, across more channels, with more creative variation — all tuned to what’s proven to convert. Brands consistently see cost-per-order fall, marketing efficiency rise, and revenue per email or ad grow because the system is always learning and sharpening what works.

Instead of the typical feast-and-famine marketing cycle, Needle builds a weekly rhythm where execution never slows down. That consistency is what drives real compounding returns. It’s how brands cut CPO nearly in half, sustain 6×–40× ROAS, and increase revenue by an average of 177% over twelve months.

More velocity, smarter iteration, and tighter execution — that’s how the system pays for itself many times over.

Grow with Needle today.

Brands on Needle have grown 177% in a year while cutting costs by 62%. Sign up now... no card needed.

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