Case Studies

Real results for data-driven teams

See how SaaS, DTC, and marketplace brands cut waste, scaled ROAS, and unlocked ground-truth reporting with Onward’s data stack and performance experts.
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Success stories

Customer Testimonials

From early-stage founders to growth VPs, we work with operators who need clarity, not clutter—and results that speak for themselves.

"I've been able to not have to go into the weeds and check every single piece of data. I have the assurance that with Onward's expertise the connections are being made and the data is being validated."

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

“It feels very much like an extension of our team. Very authentic, very casual, very focused on the data and the results, but also not taking themselves too seriously or us too seriously, which is a good match with our culture.”

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

"It's a very simple approach, but once you operationalize it, it allows you to make better decisions and allows you to scale, and it allows you to truly be profitable."

Ryan Donovan
CMO, 500 Level

"Data visualization for me is a key piece of the offering as a fractional executive. To be able to talk to a CEO, marketing manager, the board or investors, and show them visually what's going on in a clear way is very important. To have Onward as a partner in creating those visualizations and being a thought partner with me has been super valuable."

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

"I felt with Onward I could trust in execution on media buying and media strategy, but also their ability to provide the visibility, feedback loop and insights that would allow us to grow client businesses"

Tom Balamaci
Fractional CMO, TBDigital

“We wanted to test Facebook and Instagram, in the early days Onward was scrappy and helped us get some tests out there and use free tools to help get tests out for the graphics.

We weren’t paying them directly for graphic design services, it was included because their incentives were aligned with ours."

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

"Media agencies, that world is broken... So a media agency they charge you on X percent based on how much they spend... you’re paying these gigantic monthly fees and you’re rewarding them for essentially turning up the volume and performing the same activities."

John Williamson
CEO, Songfinch

“Our team used to juggle multiple tools, dashboards, and reports. Now, with Onward, our internal reports and meetings are built with logic from their dashboards, simplifying everything and letting us go way deeper.”

Tyler Morley
Senior Manager International Strategy, Dr. Squatch

"Understand what works and what doesn't, and this is where Onward has been awesome - let's then define what the next layer that we want to peel back is, and what the new level of granularity is."

Nate Lyman
CTO, Songfinch

“If you are trying to accelerate a business that has product market fit and you need to get it out fast, Onward has expertise across all the domains that we were interested in in Performance Marketing.”

Chris Cutter
COO, Blueprint

"Media agencies, that world is broken... So a media agency they charge you on X percent based on how much they spend... you’re paying these gigantic monthly fees and you’re rewarding them for essentially turning up the volume and performing the same activities."

John Williamson
CEO, Songfinch

“Some of the previous agencies we worked with, we didn't have any real time insight. We had some of our own internal dashboards, but it was mostly just a slideshow that they would walk us through once a week. The dashboard is really helpful because Onward and their team have made that the single source of truth, and it can pull from all the different metrics as needed.”

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

"When you hire Onward you get expertise, you get project management, you get execution and media buying, you get engineer, you get a small scrappy team of digital marketers."

Ryan Donovan
CMO, 500 Level

"Part of what Onward does in a really great way is, I can outsource this problem to Jerry and the Onward team and have a high degree of trust that we can give each other good feeback... it is an extension of my team, and they are very intergrated into the business."

Nate Lyman
CTO, Songfinch

"Previous to Onward, we tried a bunch of different agencies... but I would go back to my tried and true, which was a single Google sheet with 100 tabs... but in this world it was, what if I saw this customer data, combine with this transactional data, combine with this marketing data."

John Williamson
CEO, Songfinch

“Our data sources are a little messy… it’s sort of all intertwined. The dashboard is really helpful, because Onward and their team have made that the single source of truth."

Danny Freed
CEO, Blueprint

“A standard partner in the paid ad world is just going to go into the platform and post the content and say some prayers. With Onward, data is the central glue that allows us all to see what’s working, see what’s not, and quickly iterate on doubling down on what’s working.”

Chris Cutter
COO, Blueprint