Reorienting growth around profitability and discipline

Ricardo Beverly Hills partnered with us to fundamentally change how growth was measured and governed. The objective wasn’t expansion at any cost, it was to increase online revenue while materially improving profitability. Over a multi-year engagement, we've redesigned the systems responsible for acquisition, conversion, and lifecycle performance so growth became disciplined, intentional, and durable.

The Environment

Ricardo Beverly Hills operates in a premium category where brand equity, margins, and long-term customer value matter more than short-term volume. Digital commerce was an increasingly important channel, but performance was constrained by tradeoffs between growth and profitability. As activity increased, inefficiencies surfaced and confidence in decisions began to erode. The environment demanded restraint, not acceleration, and a system capable of balancing revenue expansion with economic integrity.

The Problem

The core challenge wasn’t generating demand.
It was aligning growth with profitability.

Revenue could be pushed higher, but at the expense of margin.
Efforts to optimize performance often traded short-term gains for long-term erosion.
Acquisition, conversion, and retention decisions weren’t governed by a single economic logic.
Without intervention, growth would remain possible — but increasingly inefficient and harder to sustain.

The system needed to reward discipline, not activity.

Our Approach

We treated Ricardo’s growth as an economic system, not a marketing one.

Instead of maximizing top-line performance, we redesigned how decisions were made across acquisition, conversion, and lifecycle to protect margin as scale increased. Measurement was re-anchored to profitability and contribution, not surface metrics. Constraints were identified and resolved in sequence, ensuring efficiency improved as volume grew. Over time, governance tightened — preventing drift as complexity increased.

The objective was not faster growth.
It was better growth.

What We Built

A governed acquisition system aligned to profitable demand, not raw volume

Decision frameworks that balanced scale with margin integrity

Conversion systems designed to improve efficiency without sacrificing brand equity

Lifecycle architecture that reinforced long-term customer value

Cross-system feedback loops to preserve economic clarity as scale increased

Outcomes

  • Online revenue expanded without margin degradation
  • Profitability improved and held as growth continued
  • Decisions became economically grounded and repeatable
  • Inefficiencies were systematically removed rather than temporarily masked
  • Growth remained stable across multiple years, not just cycles
  • Reinforcements

    Ricardo Beverly Hills reinforced a defining belief at MTN Stone: growth only matters if it holds economically. Revenue without profitability is noise. When systems are designed to reward discipline and protect margin, scale becomes sustainable rather than extractive. The advantage compounds not just in revenue, but in clarity, confidence, and control.

    “The results of MTN Stone's efforts are impressive. Our ROAS on our PPC efforts have more than doubled since we started working with them. This has allowed us to reinvest in our marketing efforts and expand our reach even further. Our DTC sales have also increased by 107% YTD, which is a testament to the effectiveness of their marketing strategies and the impact they have had on our business.”

    - Chance Roland, Director Of Ecommerce
    Ricardo Beverly Hills