Leaf & Growth
Performance Marketing for Regulated Brands

Grow where traditional agencies can't.

Leaf & Growth helps cannabis, hemp, CBD and other regulated brands acquire customers, increase retail velocity and build stronger digital infrastructure across the United States and Canada — combining specialized media buying, high-converting websites, analytics and growth marketing into one performance-driven system.

Specialized MediaChannels and networks actually available to regulated categories.
Conversion EngineWebsites and funnels designed to turn paid attention into revenue.
Revenue AttributionKnow what moves CAC, ROAS and LTV without vanity metrics.
The Reality of Regulated Markets

Regulated markets require a different media strategy.

Most agencies know Google, Meta and the traditional ecommerce playbook. That isn't enough here.

Regulated brands operate across fragmented advertising policies, specialized marketplaces, retail media networks, wholesale platforms and constantly changing compliance requirements.

Leaf & Growth helps you navigate that landscape and turn it into a measurable growth strategy.

01

Media Buying

Reach customers and retail buyers through the channels actually available to your category.

02

Web & Conversion

Build websites, landing pages and funnels designed to turn paid attention into revenue.

03

Analytics & Attribution

Understand where customers are coming from and which channels deserve more investment.

04

Growth Marketing

Connect acquisition, creative, SEO, email, SMS and retention around the economics of your business.

By the Numbers

Performance, not vanity metrics.

$0M+Ad Spend Managed
0K+Qualified Leads Generated
0xAverage ROAS
0+Markets Served

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One Partner. From Media to Revenue.

Buying media is only useful when the rest of the system works.

That's why we don't stop at campaign management. We build the infrastructure around the media so every part of the customer journey works together.

01Acquire

Reach the right buyers in the right channels.

We plan and manage media based on your product, market, distribution and growth objectives.

  • Cannabis & hemp media networks
  • Retail media
  • Wholesale advertising
  • Programmatic display
  • Search
  • Marketplace advertising
  • Publisher placements
  • Retargeting
  • Local acquisition

The objective isn't more impressions. It's profitable access to demand.

02Convert

Turn paid attention into measurable business.

Traffic doesn't solve a conversion problem. We design and improve the digital experiences behind your campaigns:

  • Brand websites
  • Ecommerce experiences
  • Landing pages
  • Product pages
  • Campaign funnels
  • CRO
  • Conversion tracking
  • Analytics infrastructure

Your media, website and offer should operate as one system.

03Scale

Put more money behind what works.

We continuously analyze:

  • CAC
  • ROAS
  • Cost per qualified visitor
  • Conversion rate
  • AOV
  • Retail velocity
  • Repeat purchase rate
  • LTV

Then we test audiences, placements, creative, offers and landing experiences to improve the economics before increasing spend. No scaling based on impressions. No reporting theater.

04Own

Build channels you control.

Paid media creates demand. Owned channels make that demand more valuable. We help regulated brands reduce dependence on any single advertising platform through:

  • SEO
  • Email
  • SMS
  • First-party data
  • Customer retention
  • Content
  • Organic search
  • Lifecycle marketing

The goal is not simply acquiring the first purchase. It's building a customer acquisition system that becomes stronger over time.

Built for Regulated Commerce

We work where traditional marketing gets complicated.

01

Cannabis

Customer acquisition, retail media and digital growth for brands and operators navigating regulated state markets.

02

Hemp & Cannabinoids

Performance marketing for hemp-derived products operating across complex advertising and ecommerce environments.

03

CBD

Media, conversion and retention strategies designed around category-specific platform restrictions.

04

Dispensaries

Increase customer acquisition, local visibility, repeat visits and revenue across physical and digital channels.

Tailored Growth Models

Sell In. Sell Through. Scale.

Regulated brands don't all have the same growth problem.

01Wholesale Growth

Get your products into more stores.

For brands focused on distribution, we build campaigns designed to reach retailers, buyers and wholesale decision-makers. We help identify the platforms, markets and messaging most likely to create new B2B opportunities.

Best for: emerging brands expanding distribution.
02Retail Velocity

Help retailers move more of your product.

Getting onto the shelf is only the beginning. We use retail media, consumer advertising and conversion strategy to generate demand around the stores already carrying your products. More consumer demand. More sell-through. Stronger retailer relationships.

Best for: distributed brands that need greater velocity.
03Full-Funnel Growth

Connect distribution, consumer demand and retention.

For brands ready to scale, we connect wholesale acquisition, consumer media, web conversion, attribution and retention into a single growth system.

Best for: established brands expanding across markets.
Digital Infrastructure

Your Website Should Work as Hard as Your Media.

A regulated brand's website is more than a digital brochure. It's where consumers research the product, understand the brand, find retailers, enter your first-party audience and decide whether they trust you. We build conversion-focused digital experiences designed around that journey.

01

Brand Websites

Fast, premium websites built around positioning, education and conversion.

02

Landing Pages

Campaign-specific experiences designed to turn paid traffic into measurable action.

03

Ecommerce & Product Experiences

Digital storefronts and product pages designed around clarity, trust and conversion.

04

Analytics Infrastructure

Tracking systems that connect marketing activity to meaningful business outcomes.

How We Work

Strategy Before Spend.

We don't start by choosing an ad platform. We start by understanding the business.

01

Diagnose

We evaluate product, market, distribution, customer, current acquisition, website, tracking, competition and unit economics.

Then we identify where growth is currently being constrained.
ProductMarketDistributionCustomerAcquisitionWebsiteTrackingEconomics
02

Build

We develop the media, creative, tracking and conversion infrastructure required to execute the strategy.

Technical and creative readiness before a single dollar is spent.
Media SetupTrackingCreative SystemsLanding Pages
03

Launch

Campaigns are deployed with clear objectives, validated tracking and measurable KPIs.

Clean market entry with active conversion monitoring.
Channel DeploymentKPI BaselineActive Attribution
04

Optimize

We continuously test what affects acquisition cost, conversion and revenue.

Rapid feedback loops across creative, copy, offers and audiences.
CAC OptimizationConversion RateAudience Testing
05

Scale

When the economics support it, we increase investment behind the channels producing the strongest results.

Capital deployed with confidence and predictable returns.
Budget ScalingRetail MediaMarket Expansion
Our Philosophy

No Generic Playbook.

Traditional agencies often start with the platform they already know. We start with your market.

Your product might need wholesale advertising before consumer advertising.

You might need retail media instead of Meta.

Your strongest acquisition channel might be a specialized publisher, programmatic audience or marketplace rather than traditional search.

Or your biggest problem might not be media at all. It might be the website receiving the traffic.

Leaf & Growth connects those decisions instead of selling disconnected services.

Selected Growth

Results, not marketing theater.

Real strategies. Real campaigns. Real business outcomes.

01Cannabis DispensaryDenver, CO

From inconsistent acquisition to predictable customer growth.

A five-location dispensary group relying on walk-in traffic and boosted social posts. We rebuilt tracking, launched compliant paid search and local media, and tied every dollar to first-party purchase data — turning a volatile channel into a forecastable pipeline.

+182%Revenue
5.3xROAS
14,200New Customers
02CBD / Hemp BrandAustin, TX

Turning high-intent search demand into measurable revenue.

A DTC hemp brand blocked from most ad platforms. We built an SEO and content engine around high-intent queries, paired it with a rebuilt PDP and checkout flow, and layered email and SMS to lift repeat purchase rate.

+124%Revenue
-38%CAC
3.9%Conversion Rate
03Emerging Wellness BrandPortland, OR

Turning wholesale placement into repeatable retail velocity.

A functional-mushroom brand landing shelf space but stalling on sell-through. We layered retail media and local demand generation around existing placements, then tied POS data back to campaign spend to prove velocity to buyers.

+96%Revenue
+61%Retail Velocity
3.4xReorder Rate

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Client Voice

We'd been through three agencies that treated our category like a liability. Leaf & Growth understood the compliance landscape on day one and rebuilt our acquisition system around it. Paid finally became predictable, and we're no longer one policy update away from losing the channel.

Dana WhitfieldCo-founder & CEO, Verdant Collective
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Why Leaf & Growth

What You Get With Leaf & Growth

01

Specialized Media Strategy

Channel selection based on your actual regulatory and commercial environment.

02

Performance Media Buying

Campaign management focused on measurable business outcomes.

03

Conversion Infrastructure

Websites and landing experiences built around the traffic you're paying to acquire.

04

Clear Measurement

Reporting designed around CAC, ROAS, conversion and revenue — not vanity metrics.

05

One Growth Partner

Media, web, analytics and growth strategy operating together.

06

Continuous Experimentation

Test. Measure. Improve. Scale.

Starting From the Right Strategy Matters

Advertising regulated products is already difficult. Spending money in the wrong channels makes it expensive too.

Our Growth Strategy Session is designed to understand where your business is today, where you're trying to go and which acquisition opportunities make the most sense before you increase spend.

Your Session May Include
01Market Review
Where and how your category can realistically acquire customers.
02Media Opportunity Analysis
Which paid channels make sense for your products, geography and objectives.
03Distribution Review
How consumer demand and wholesale expansion can support each other.
04Website & Funnel Review
Where existing traffic may be losing conversion.
05Measurement Review
Whether your current tracking can tell you what's producing revenue.
06Recommended Growth Plan
A practical direction based on the strongest opportunities we identify.
Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers on regulated growth.

Yes. Leaf & Growth is built primarily around regulated and advertising-restricted categories including cannabis, hemp, cannabinoids, CBD and adjacent emerging markets.

Your Market Plays by Different Rules

Your growth strategy should too.

Whether you're trying to enter more retailers, increase product velocity, acquire more customers or build the infrastructure required to scale, Leaf & Growth helps connect media, technology and marketing around one objective: measurable growth.

Let's Talk Growth
Regulated Media. Better Conversion. Measurable Growth.