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CRANK 11 · DTC, e-commerce and lead gen · $100K+ a month on Meta

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Twice the winners. $0 retainer.

Statics a level above what runs in your account today, at volume. Only pay if our ads succeed.

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20 minutes with Jack & Max, on video · your 100 ads are yours to keep either way

Overdrive

Are you ready to crank your business to 11?

We spent $10M of our own money on Meta learning this. You get the version that works.

  • $45M+revenue on our own brands
  • $10Mof Meta spend, our own money
  • $100Kin one day, our own store
  • 15×cheaper leads, best client case

Founders’ own brands and one client account, anonymised. Self-reported where it says so.

The engine

Your brand goes in.
100 ads come out.

Your products, your best ads, your buyers and your competitors’ winners go in. 100 scored ads come out before we speak, live in your account within 24 hours of yes. Not ideas. Not a deck. Ads, ready to run.

In · your brand

  • yourbrand.com
  • your best ads
  • your competitors’ winners
  • up to 6 buyer personas
  • your Business Manager
The engine: a turbine core at rest in a dark machine hall

crank 11 · engine

100

ads · before we speak

Out · your results

  • 100 ads built for your brand, scored
  • Winners get variants, losers get retired
  • Next batch built from what won

How it works

Plug in. We fire up the engine.
Your 100 ads land in 24 hours.

The fastest onboarding you will find: we finish ours before the first call.

  1. 01

    Plug in

    Book 20 minutes. Nothing at the door: your spend, your brand and your ad library link after you book.

    20 min · you

  2. 02

    The engine cranks

    Your competitors’ ads read against our library. Up to 6 buyer personas. 100 ads built and scored for your brand, before we speak.

    before the call · the engine

  3. 03

    The experts dive in

    Jack and Max review every ad. The weak ones never reach you.

    every batch · Jack, Max

  4. 04

    Your 100 ads land

    You see them on the call. Say yes and they are live in your account within 24 hours. Yours to keep either way.

    24 hours · your account

The work

Your first 100 look like this.

Our own brands and concept studies, made by the engine that would run your account. No client accounts shown.

The creative engine

New ads every week, from the same engine that runs our own brands.

Bad targeting rarely kills an account. The same five ads running for three months does. Every week your account gets fresh statics and video, scored before they cost you a dollar.

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All ours: own brands plus concept studies. The full wall, with ten brands everyone knows, is on the creatives page.

Four days, our store, unedited

We scaled our own store to $100K a day.
Before we touched anyone else’s.

Four days from our own Shopify admin, unedited. We cannot promise you our numbers. We can promise you the same engine, and the same people reading your account.

  • Day one$100,380.34
    Shopify admin, day one: $100,380.34
  • Day two$99,279.10
    Shopify admin, day two: $99,279.10
  • Day three$85,330.25
    Shopify admin, day three: $85,330.25
  • Day four$97,428.49
    Shopify admin, day four: $97,428.49
Four days, one store$382,418.18Our money, our store. Shopify admin, unedited. USD.

A real account

€38.14 a lead when they arrived. €2.47 now.

Real client account · identity withheld · read from the Meta Ads account on 20 September 2026 · national campaign, platform-attributed website leads · figures in EUR

  1. Before

    A health-insurance lead-generation account in France. Every lead cost €38.14, for about 57 leads a month. Five people on the sales team, and the cost per lead decided whether the month worked. The founder was the one checking Ads Manager at night.

  2. What we changed

    The same three stages every account gets. We read the account, the landing page and the best ads, and wrote down where the money leaked. Then tracking was fixed, the structure rebuilt, the first creatives shipped. Since then, every week: new creative in, losers out, budget to the winners, with a note on what moved and why.

  3. After

    A lead costs €2.47 today, about 1,028 a month, and the record month came in at €2.46. That is 15 times cheaper per lead, 26,389 leads in ten months, revenue from €4M to €8M in a year, and a sales team that grew from 5 to 15 people to keep up with the calls.

  • €38.14 per lead, when they arrived
  • €2.47 per lead, now
  • €2.46 per lead, record month
  • 15× cheaper per lead
  • 26,389 leads in ten months
  • 15 sales seats, up from 5

Your account is not this account, and we will not pretend it is. What carries over is the method. The session is where you find out whether it applies to you.

Who is actually behind this

Two founders who got tired of being the business.

We came at this from opposite ends and arrived at the same place. We didn't build systems because we're clever. We built them because headcount stopped working.

Jack Thompson, Co-founder, ads and scale

Jack Thompson

Co-founder · ads and scale

A mechanical engineer who never stopped building systems, ten years of e-commerce, and $10M of his own money spent inside Meta.

  • Scaled his own brands past $35M in revenue
  • A $100,380 day on his own store, $382,418 across four days
  • $10M+ of his own Meta ad spend
  • 10+ years in digital marketing
  • Designed the CRANK creative engine
Maxime Le Morillon, Co-founder, funnels and strategy

Maxime Le Morillon

Co-founder · funnels and strategy

Growth hacker. Built an online course company to 160,000 subscribers, co-built a gaming studio, managed a team of 70, and a community of over 400K followers.

  • Took a brand from $8.5K to $90K a month with one funnel
  • Crowdfunded $6M in twenty minutes on a past project
  • 750+ funnels built between him and Jack
  • Managed a team of 70
  • Built the engine’s AI creative systems

Founders' own history · self-reported · own-brand and own-company accounts

The confession.

From the desk of: Jack, co-founder of CRANK 11 Re: the ten years before this page

2am, the night before the biggest promotion of our year, and I'm at the desk making decisions worth thousands with a brain that clocked off hours ago. If you run a store, you know that night. The supplier email at midnight, because Shenzhen wakes up when you should be asleep. If you run lead gen, you know it too: the enquiry that came in Friday and got a reply on Monday.

Read the rest of Jack's letter

I'm allowed to say that, because it was me. Ten years running my own e-commerce brands, built past $35 million. An agency on top, running lead gen for clients. I was tired. The kind of tired where you make calls at midnight that you'd have caught at noon. We paid for a few of those.

Then, about two years ago, the floor started moving. Founders in my own circle started automating like crazy. Zapier first. Then n8n. Then real code. So we built our own. More than five thousand hours between us, building AI systems and testing them on the businesses we actually run. What we wanted didn't exist, so we set the target ourselves: $100K days with a small team. Working less. Hiring less. Actually knowing the work got done.

That engine is what runs CRANK 11 now. It ran on our brands first. Now it runs on yours.

Jack

The burnout.

From the desk of: Maxime, co-founder of CRANK 11 Re: the year a working business broke me

I built a business that worked. It nearly finished me. In 2020, a few weeks before the world shut down, I stopped being able to work. Not slowed down. Stopped. I'd sit at the desk, open the laptop, and just sit there.

Read the rest of Maxime's letter

The stupid part is that the business was working. My partner and I had built an online course company around a YouTube channel. 160,000 subscribers. 200 courses. From the outside, we'd made it. From the inside, a week was a video every two days, which means filming, which means having a face that works that day. Then it broke. I saw a psychologist, which helped. My partner picked up everything I dropped.

I wasn't a beginner who bit off too much. While all this was running I'd also co-built a mobile gaming studio and managed a team of seventy. I have ADHD. I've never had a shortage of ideas. What I've had a shortage of, my whole life, is hands.

What's different now? I don't need a copywriter any more. I don't need a designer for a mockup. I sit down alone and do things that used to take three people and a week. That's the engine. And the reason it exists is a rule I've kept since I lost two friends before any of us turned 23: one of them didn't get a life, so mine doesn't get wasted at a desk at 11pm.

Maxime

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FAQ

The honest questions.

What is 500k.io, and what is CRANK 11?

CRANK 11 is the growth agency Jack and Max run: Meta and Google ads, creative, email, funnels and stores, done for you. 500k.io is where we document our journey to $500K MRR: what the engine teaches us, the numbers, the failures, every week. Same two people, same engine.

What does the free audit actually contain?

A read of your account and your site, the gaps we found, a set of free ads made for your brand, and a 30-day plan. It lands within 24 hours of your application and it is yours to keep whether or not you ever work with us.

Who is this for?

Founders of e-commerce and DTC brands with orders already moving, and lead-gen businesses with real spend. If you are still looking for a first product, keep your money and read the journal instead.

What does it cost?

Each lane is priced on its own and quoted after the audit, because a $5K account and a $100K account are not the same job. Ads management makes sense from about $8K a month in spend. Creative and funnels can start smaller.

Is the work done by AI?

The volume is. The judgment is not. Our systems draft ads, score creative and watch numbers around the clock. A person decides what ships, what scales and what gets cut, and that person is one of us.

Do you lock clients into a contract?

Month to month. If your numbers are not moving, you should be free to leave, and you are.

Who will actually work on my account?

Jack and Max. No account gets passed to a junior after the sales call, because there are no juniors.

Why should I trust your numbers?

Because they are ours and we label them. The $100K day is a screenshot of our own Shopify admin. The client case is a real account, named only under confidentiality. Anything self-reported says so next to it.