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DTC · Pet Wellness Client since 2022

Clean Bowl Club NYC

Fresh meal delivery service for dogs needed to fix the email-to-paying-customer leak and ship a new funnel for fresh leads.

Headline result
Email → Customer Conversion Lifted
Clean Bowl Club NYC
Email → Customer
Lift in conv
Lead Gen Tool
Shipped
Behavioral
Routing logic

The challenge

Clean Bowl Club NYC had product-market fit on the meal side, but the email program was nurturing without converting. Visitors were entering the list, getting newsletter-style emails, and ghosting before becoming customers. The funnel for fresh leads was leaky at the email-to-purchase transition specifically.

The OS approach

The OS approach: rather than rewrite individual emails (the surface fix), we restructured the Active Campaign architecture (L01 Infrastructure) and overlaid agent-driven behavioral routing (L04 Agent Layer). Decisions about which next-touch each subscriber gets are now made by intent signals, not calendar drips.

What we built

The fresh-lead funnel was rebuilt from quiz to confirmation page. The Active Campaign sequences were restructured around behavioral triggers rather than time-based drips — a visitor who clicks a product link gets one path; a visitor who abandons cart gets another.

The lead-generation tool gives prospects a "best food for your dog" recommendation in 60 seconds, capturing email along the way without feeling like a gate. That single tool became the highest-volume lead source.

The evergreen mechanic

New customers entering the funnel are auto-routed through a Capture Agent that scores ICP fit (dog size, dietary needs, location). Buyers see a fast-track upsell flow; browsers go into a quiz-led nurture that pre-sells the offer before they hit the cart.

"The email-to-customer conversion is in a different universe than before. The quiz tool alone became our top lead channel within 30 days."
Clean Bowl Club Team, DTC · Fresh dog food

★ OS stack · this engagement

05
Surface Layer
Landing · webinar · checkout
ACTIVE
04
Agent Layer
Capture · qualify · book · retain
ACTIVE★ signature
03
Knowledge Bases
Brand voice · ICP · scripts
ACTIVE
02
SOPs & Playbook
Architecture · runbooks · handoff
ACTIVE
01
Infrastructure
GHL · Make · n8n · Supabase · Stripe
ACTIVE
★ marks the signature layer that carried the load on this engagement. Every layer was active; the signature is where the leverage lived.

Services delivered

  • Custom funnel design and build
  • Active Campaign email sequence restructuring
  • Lead generation tool creation
  • Behavioral routing logic

Tools wired

ActiveCampaignGoHighLevelMake.comCustom JS quiz

Knowledge bases built

ICP playbook (dog dietary)Email script libraryTrigger intent map

Agents deployed

Capture AgentQuiz Recommender
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