The Darcy Agency

N°00 — Free Diagnostic

Score your
brand’s
performance.

A 90-second diagnostic for brands spending on paid. See where your creative, media and AI pipelines are quietly costing you revenue — and the three moves that compound ROAS this quarter.

6 questionsno accountinstant score

Built from work with

  • Marchesa
  • Condé Nast UK
  • Lionsgate
  • Sony
  • THALIE Paris
  • Rachel Roy
  • Toccin
  • Ettika

Sample Report

N°—

Efficiency score

62/100

Scaling, with leaks.

  • Creative pipeline

    18/32

  • Paid media

    24/32

  • AI production

    20/36

Priority fix

Rebuild your creative pipeline for velocity.

Who is scoring you

The benchmarks come from accounts we actually run.

Your score is measured against the performance we hold for the brands below — not an industry average.

“I’d recommend you to anyone and will continue to do so.”

Edward Chapman · Marchesa

10.45x
Peak return on ad spend
5–6x
Typical return across accounts
14 days
Concept to delivered campaign

01

Creative is the new targeting

Algorithms have flattened audience advantage. The brands compounding are the ones producing more on-brand, on-message variants per week — not bidding harder.

02

Spend doesn't fix structure

More budget poured into a leaking funnel scales the leak. The score isolates whether the bottleneck is upstream of media — most of the time, it is.

03

AI is now a margin lever

Editorial-grade AI production has collapsed cost-per-asset. Brands ignoring it are quietly losing margin to the ones that aren't.

Why it matters

Most brands are spending more on paid
and getting back less.

The bottleneck is almost never the budget. It's the rate at which you produce on-brand creative, refresh top-of-funnel, and translate identity into performance. This audit tells you exactly where you stand — and what to fix first.