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Acquisition rents customers. Lifecycle owns them.

Every dollar of paid spend buys one transaction. Lifecycle is what turns that transaction into a relationship — and it’s the highest-margin revenue in the business, because you already paid to acquire the person. We build the flows and then we run them.

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Flows do the compounding. Campaigns do the spikes.

Most brands pour effort into campaign sends and treat automated flows as a checkbox. It's backwards. Campaigns produce a spike and stop. Flows run forever, triggered by what a customer actually does — which makes them the compounding asset.

We build the flow layer first, then use campaigns for the moments that deserve one.

Campaigns vs. flows

A campaign is a spike you schedule. A flow is a baseline that compounds. We build the baseline first.

Dimension

Campaigns

Automated flows

Timing

You pick the moment

The customer’s behavior picks it

Relevance

Broad

Triggered by intent

Effort

Recurring, every send

Build once, refine forever

Revenue shape

A spike

A compounding baseline

The flows we build

Built once, refined forever, running always.

01

Welcome and onboarding

The highest-intent moment a subscriber will ever have. Get them to first value fast.
02

Browse and cart abandonment

Recovering demand you already paid to create — the cheapest revenue on the list.
03

Post-purchase

The sequence that earns the second order, plus review requests that build social proof automatically.
04

Replenishment and winback

Timed to your actual purchase cycle, not a template’s guess.
05

Subscription retention and dunning

For recurring brands, the flows that save MRR before it churns. See subscription DTC.
06

B2B nurture

Long-cycle sequences that keep you in frame across a buying committee.

The platforms we operate

We build on the stack you already run and only build custom where the platform can’t do the job.

Klaviyo (email + SMS)Recharge (subscription + dunning)Your existing ESPYour commerce stack

Proof

A subscription DTC brand where we built and ran the lifecycle engine.

Monthly recurring revenue grew 623% while member count grew 286% — revenue outpacing members, which is what retention looks like when it works.

623%

MRR growth — subscription DTC brand, lifecycle engine built and operated.

286%

Member growth over the same period — revenue outpaced it, the tell that retention did the work.

What a flow rebuild is worth on your list

The gap between default flows and tuned ones is usually the cheapest revenue on the table. Run your numbers.

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Email Flow Revenue Calculator

⚠️ Below benchmark (25-40% target)
Top ecommerce brands drive 30-40% of revenue from email
Current Email Rev
$15,000/mo
Target (35%)
$35,000/mo
Annual Opportunity
$240,000
$20,000/mo gap × 12 months
Revenue by Flow Type
Welcome Series$8,750
Abandoned Cart$7,000
Browse Abandon$4,200
Post-Purchase$6,300
Win-Back$3,500

Based on industry benchmarks for optimized ecommerce email programs.

Questionsbuyersask

I've worked with Lightdrop on multiple projects over the last 5 years and am always amazed with the level of strategy, guidance and execution they bring to the table. Lior and his team are masters in digital and brand marketing.

Ron Levi

Ron Levi

Chief Content Officer and Founder, DOGTV

Ready to make retention your best channel?

We build the flows, write the sends, and operate the whole lifecycle — on a model where we win when you do.

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