For agencies that grow D2C brands
How does an agency find and win its next D2C brands?
To win new D2C brands, find the ones with gaps your agency can fix, open the first call with their own numbers and carry the same evidence into the deck. ai-dm finds brands worth pitching by category, city and ad activity, audits any prospect from its domain alone and builds the pitch deck under your agency's logo.
No plan to pick. Billed in USD and INR. Your logo on every audit and deck.
Skincare · Pune, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru · running Meta ads
Audit from the domain alone
The deck, under your logo
Your pipeline
What stops agencies winning new D2C brands?
Most agencies lose pitches before the first call: to the wrong list, a generic deck or a rival who showed up with the brand's own numbers. Here are four questions every agency owner asks, answered without and with ai-dm.
You ask
Which brands should we even pitch?
A bought list or an evening scrolling Instagram, with no way to tell which brands need help you can give.
A ranked list of brands with gaps you can fix. Filter by category, city and ad activity, and each brand comes with a gap score and the signals behind it.
You ask
How do we open the first call?
With a credentials deck about your agency, which the founder has seen from five agencies already.
With the prospect's own numbers. An audit built from the domain alone: search, AI answers, competitor ads, site health and reviews, every finding sourced.
You ask
Why would they pick us over the last agency?
Case studies from other categories and a promise to do better, which every agency makes.
Because you've already done the homework. A deck under your logo with three growth gaps and the evidence for each, ready the same day you audit.
You ask
What new service can we sell the brands we have?
More of the same retainer, while brands start asking whether they show up in ChatGPT.
AI search visibility, under your name. Track where each brand appears in AI answers, where rivals appear instead, and the content that would change it.
No plan to pick. Start with one prospect's domain.
What makes a brand worth pitching?
A brand worth pitching has gaps that are big, visible and fixable by your team. Every brand ai-dm finds is checked for these six signals; the bigger the gaps, the higher it ranks, and each gap becomes a talking point for the first call.
- not in AI answers
Ads running, but invisible in AI answers
They pay for attention and still miss the shoppers who ask ChatGPT what to buy.
- thin pages
Search demand, thin pages
Buyers search for what they sell and land on a competitor's guide instead.
- same ad 70+ days
The same creative for months
Long-running ads with falling engagement point to fatigue the brand hasn't noticed.
- site health
Weak site health
Crawl errors and missing schema hold back every channel the brand pays for.
- reviews unanswered
Reviews left unanswered
A weak Maps presence and silent reviews cost local trust every week.
- outspent
Outspent by competitors
Rivals run far more ads in the same category, and the brand doesn't know which ones work.
Signals come from public data: websites, search, AI answers, ad libraries and reviews.
How many audits does it take to win a brand?
Winning brands is a numbers game only when every first message carries something worth replying to. Put in your own numbers to see how many prospects your agency needs to audit each month.
Your numbers. The starting figures are an example, not a benchmark.
To win 2 brands this quarter, you need about 8 first calls, which means sending about 40 audits: roughly 14 a month, or 4 a week. By hand, each audit takes hours; from a domain in ai-dm, it's ready the same day.
Audit as many prospects as you need; pay only for what you use.
Would your own agency pass the audit?
Before you show a prospect where it's missing from AI answers, check where your agency stands when a brand asks ChatGPT for an agency like yours.
Start with yourself. Auditing your own agency first shows exactly what a prospect audit looks like, with no brand data involved, and it saves the awkward moment when a prospect checks you back.
Then sell what you've seen. The same tracking becomes a service: AI search visibility reports for the brands you already manage, under your agency's name.
- question tracked
- "Best D2C marketing agency in Bengaluru"
- ChatGPT
- not mentioned
- Perplexity
- mentioned, 3rd
- rival agency
- mentioned in both
- to close the gap
- 2 pages to create
Illustrative example
What does a report from a domain alone show?
The audit you send a prospect is the same report ai-dm builds for any brand from its domain. Here it is for Moolwan, our own D2C home décor brand from Bengaluru, with the source of each number.
Strong and weak, side by side. Moolwan's pages drew 344,000 impressions in Google's AI results in three months, yet AI assistants named it in just 1 of 233 tracked answers. An honest audit shows both, and that contrast is what opens a first call.
Every finding sourced. Each number in the report links to where it came from, so the prospect can check it, and the deck carries the same evidence under your agency's logo.
| Number | What it is | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| 344k | Impressions in Google's AI results | Search Console · Generative AI features · 25 Jun–23 Sep 2026 |
| 1,400 | Products valid for product rich results | Search Console · Product snippets · 26 Sep 2026 |
| #2 of 17 | Position in the Google Maps local pack | ai-dm · Local presence · Sep 2026 |
| 1 of 233 | AI assistant answers that name Moolwan | ai-dm · AI search visibility tracking · Sep 2026 |
| 70% | Website health | ai-dm · 150-page crawl · Sep 2026 |
real data Moolwan's own accounts
Where do you want to start winning?
Each step of winning new brands has its own guide, with how to do it well and how ai-dm does it for your agency.
- prospect discovery
Find brands worth pitching
D2C brands by category, city and ad activity, ranked by the gaps your team can fix.
See prospect discovery → - audit
Audit any prospect
Search, AI answers, competitor ads, site health and reviews, from the domain alone.
See the prospect audit → - deck
Build the pitch deck
Three growth gaps and the evidence for each, under your agency's logo.
See the pitch deck → - new service
Sell AI search as a service
AI search visibility reports and content strategy, sold under your name.
See how to sell AI search → - free
Audit your own agency free
See where your agency appears when brands ask AI for one, with no brand data involved.
See the free agency audit →
Every finding in every audit keeps its source.
What would a prospect's report show?
Enter one prospect's domain. ai-dm builds the report from public information alone: search, AI search visibility, competitors and website health, ready to turn into an audit and a deck.
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Questions agencies ask about winning new brands
How does ai-dm find D2C brands worth pitching?
It scans the market by category, city and whether a brand already runs Meta or Google ads, then ranks each brand by a gap score: how big and how fixable its gaps are. Each gap, such as missing from AI answers or the same ad running for months, comes with a signal card your team can use on the first call.
What does a prospect audit include?
Everything ai-dm can see from the brand's domain alone: search presence, visibility in AI answers, competitor ads, website health, reviews and content gaps. Every finding carries its source, so nothing in the audit is a guess, and it becomes the opening of the pitch deck.
Is it fine to audit a brand before it becomes our brand?
Yes. A prospect audit uses only public information: the brand's website, search results, AI answers, public ad libraries and reviews. ai-dm never asks for or touches a prospect's accounts. Many agencies start by auditing their own agency first, so they know exactly what the audit shows.
Will the pitch deck show ai-dm's name?
No. The deck is built from the audit under your agency's logo, with three growth gaps and the evidence for each. The prospect sees your agency's work, not the tool behind it.
Can we sell AI search visibility as a service?
Yes. ai-dm tracks where a brand appears in AI answers, where competitors appear instead and the content that would change it, and the reports go out under your agency's name. On Moolwan, pages written this way were shown 344,000 times in Google's AI results in three months.
How is ai-dm priced for an agency?
Billed in USD and INR. Per-brand plans or pay as you go. There is no plan to pick before you start: sign up, pay as you go, and audit your first prospect from its domain.
No plan to pick. Billed in USD and INR.
Win the why.™
Every number that moves has a reason. Dashboards show what happened; they rarely show why. Without the why, teams guess, act late and lose trust. ai-dm exists to win the why for every brand, every day: to find the reason behind every change, prove it with evidence, recommend the next move and check that it worked. Then it starts again, because the why keeps changing. When you win the why, you stop guessing and start growing. That is why we exist.
Gather. Analyse. Detect. Alert. Recommend. You act. Monitor. Learn and repeat. Always on.
Walk into the first call with their numbers.