Performance Creative Strategist

In the past six months, my creatives generated £2.9m.

3,000+ ads scripted and recorded, 25+ clients, £100K+ a month in managed ad spend, all tracked end to end, and a slightly unhealthy obsession with Meta's algorithm.

Bespoke Bonding · Dr Phil End
196 leads at £19.21 each
Birthday Hook · Dream Smiles
136 leads at £13.16 each
Halo Veneers · Aura Dental
102 leads for a brand-new treatment

The receipts.

You've just seen three. Here's how they were made. Because I track what converts across all my accounts, I know which angles are worth testing before launch. That's why the winners come quickly, and why I keep testing to find more.

Dr Phil End

The cold start

A brand-new practice and a brand-new ad account: no pixel history, no learnings, no control ad to beat. Just his bespoke approach to composite bonding, and eight different ways into it.

01 · Launch
Eight hooks tested against nothing. Hook 1 takes 71% of the account's spend: 196 leads at £19.21.
02 · Green screen
Same winning angle, green screen delivery: a second door for a different viewer. 24 more leads.
03 · Iteration
AI hook, trimmed opening, fresh Entity ID. Meta funds it like a brand-new ad: 36 leads at £19.69, matching the original.

From a standing start to 250+ leads in three months. The account now has a control ad to beat, because I built it.

Dream Smiles

The persona matrix

One Same Day Smile ad body, eleven hooks, eleven different people: the birthday coming up, the job interview, the entrepreneur, the one who hides their smile in photos. I don't guess which door the audience walks through. I build all of them and let the data tell me.

Hook · Birthday
The audience's clear choice: 136 leads at £13.16.
Hook · Fix your smile
The efficient runner-up, converting at £10.78 a lead.
Hook · Summer
The seasonal door, still adding leads at £15.84.

Eleven doors built, three left standing, and the audience picked the winner, not me. Testing every persona is how you find the one that pays, without betting the budget on a guess.

Aura Dental

The iteration engine

Goal Framing broke the industry's one-ad-one-treatment rule: one ad selling every treatment through the goals patients actually have, gaps, alignment, colour, the lot. Ten hooks were tested for the concept. The data crowned a winner in March. Instead of letting it retire, I kept rebuilding it.

01 · Winning hook
Ten hooks tested for the concept, the first of its kind to walk one viewer through all four treatments in a single video. This one wins: 53 leads at £24.84.
02 · Testimonial visuals
Swapped the hook visual for a patient testimonial, the account's highest hook-rate format. 34 more leads.
03 · AI UGC hook
AI UGC delivers the hook and the opening is trimmed so Meta reads it as a new entity. A new entity for the price of a prompt.
04 · Reaction hook
A smile-makeover reaction testimonial as the new hook, paired with the original's CTA. £8.26 a lead and counting.

Five months on, the concept is still producing, hook after hook, iteration after iteration. One winning idea, rebuilt again and again instead of retired. It's now a blueprint rolling out to other clients.

Inside the machine.

You just watched that loop run, client after client. It's not magic and it's not a bigger team. It's a system, and every lap makes the next one smarter.

01 Strategy call 02 Mine the data 03 Write the scripts 04 Direct the shoot 05 Ticket the edits 06 Client sign-off 07 Launch 08 Iterate Every result writes the brief for the next. The loop never stops. 01Strategy 02Data 03Scripts 04Shoot 05Edits 06Sign-off 07Launch 08Iterate Every result writes the brief for the next. The loop never stops.

Step 08, up close.

Meta fingerprints every creative and quietly starves the copies. So for Dr Lee's winning YOR Dental implant ad, I rebuilt the hook with an AI-generated face pointing to a missing tooth, added a location call-out in the first frame, and trimmed the opening. Same story, read by Meta as a brand-new entity.

Original
Iteration

Same body, same offer, same footage. A new AI hook, a location call-out, a trimmed opening, and Meta funds it like a brand-new ad. That's an iteration: a few surgical changes the data pointed to, not a re-shoot.

Every format that converts.

I don't have a favourite format. I have a favourite outcome. Green screen still prints leads on a same-day turnaround. A high-production shoot with a real celebrity testimonial can anchor a whole campaign. If it converts, it's in the arsenal.

Green screen
Fast to produce, still converts
Podcast
Long-form, built for authority
High production
Celebrity-led · Wayne Linker
UGC
Creator-led, top-of-funnel
AI & animated
Fully AI-generated spots

Where the craft comes from.

Before I built the machine, I was the machine. Billboards, print, display and social for 40+ charity and commercial brands as The Kite Factory's one-man creative department: White Claw out-of-home you drove past, Celsius billboards, Oxfam campaign work, UNICEF ads that led their account. Different scale, same obsession: creative that has to perform.

Also: WaterAid, Crisis, David Lloyd, Skin+Me, Leigh Day, UNICEF Australia, Friends of the Earth, and four years of display advertising.