Portfolio 2026 · A small number of partner brands
Portfolioby Mountain Stone

The growth engineShopify brands arebuilt on.

Ten systems. One spine. We install and operate your entire growth engine, and we have driven over $237M in revenue doing it.

Operating across leading Shopify brands
King Rilla BRAVE Leather Ohm Cycles The Skyway Luggage Co Urthy Naturally Vain Ricardo Beverly Hills Back To Earth Volt Surf Neat Canadian Board Co
$237M+
Revenue attributed
and counting
345%
Average growth
across the portfolio
54%
Avg lift in cold
acquisition CVR
20+
Brands taken past
$100K / month
01  Why brands stall

Most brands don't have a growth problem. They have ten disconnected ones.

Growth is ten jobs, and most brands run them as ten disconnected tactics. Meta pulls one way, email another, the site a third, and the economics are an afterthought. Every decision looks reasonable alone. Together they pull the brand apart. What looks like a marketing problem is almost always a systems problem, and you cannot out-spend it.

02  The Mountain Stone Method

Ten systems. One spine. Run as a single engine.

We spent years engineering a repeatable system for scaling DTC brands. Five channel systems create and capture demand, four structural systems coordinate them, and one spine governs all nine.

The Spine
Channel systems · create and capture demandStructural systems · coordinate them
The Spine · governs all nine
The single premise every channel stays loyal to, so growth compounds instead of fragmenting. Customers enter through many doors, and the Spine is what makes all of them lead back to the same place. Hover any system to see its role.
The Spine
Governs all nine. The single premise every channel stays loyal to, so growth compounds instead of fragmenting.
Channel systems · create and capture demand
Meta
Builds the belief. Demand at scale through creative iteration and a real testing rhythm.
Google
Captures the intent. Branded and unbranded, coordinated so each catches different demand.
TikTok
Creates the recognition. The culture layer that makes every other channel more efficient.
Klaviyo
Deepens the relationship. Lifecycle flows where 30 to 40% of revenue accumulates quietly.
The Site
Closes the loop. Site architecture and CRO engineered as the highest-leverage point in the system.
Structural systems · coordinate them
Operating Rhythm
Keeps decisions on time. Daily anomaly checks through annual reviews, so the system holds.
Financial Architecture
Guards the economics. CM3 stack, per-product CAC ceilings, working capital discipline.
Decision Architecture
Decides on principle. What gets scaled, killed, held, or ignored, before the reaction.
Method Intelligence
Feeds learning forward. Every test captured and re-applied, so the system compounds.
Channel systems · create and capture demand
01

Meta

Builds the belief. Demand at scale through creative iteration and a real testing rhythm.

02

Google

Captures the intent. Branded and unbranded, coordinated so each catches different demand.

03

TikTok

Creates the recognition. The culture layer that makes every other channel more efficient.

04

Klaviyo

Deepens the relationship. Lifecycle flows where 30 to 40% of revenue accumulates quietly.

05

The Site

Closes the loop. Architecture and CRO engineered as the highest-leverage point in the system.

Structural systems · coordinate the channels
06

Operating Rhythm

Keeps decisions on time. Daily anomaly checks through annual reviews, so the system holds.

07

Financial Architecture

Guards the economics. CM3 stack, per-product CAC ceilings, working capital discipline.

08

Decision Architecture

Decides on principle. What gets scaled, killed, held, or ignored, before the reaction.

09

Method Intelligence

Feeds learning forward. Every test captured and re-applied, so the system compounds.

10

The Spine

Governs all nine. The single premise every channel is loyal to, so growth compounds instead of fragmenting. Customers enter through many different doors, and the Spine is what makes all of them lead back to the same place.

Financial Architecture

Profitable growth is solved before the money is spent.

Not discovered at month end. Per-product CAC ceilings, a CM3 contribution stack, break-even ROAS as the daily floor. Growth that holds, instead of growth that breaks the business underneath it.

Method Intelligence

A system that compounds, and your brand inherits all of it.

Every test, win, and loss is captured and fed forward. Year one it calibrates. By year three it runs on accumulated intelligence. The brands that compound are not the ones with the smartest team, they are the ones with the longest memory.

03  How it runs

Installed, then operated on a rhythm.

We do not advise from the sidelines. We install the system and run it, and growth stops arriving in random spikes. It starts to hold a line.

On the MethodSpikes become trajectory
InstallLiveTrajectory
Daily

Anomaly checks across every channel

Weekly

Channel review and the decisions that matter

Monthly

Strategy and cross-channel coordination

Quarterly

Full business review and spine recalibration

The install arc

Weeks 1 to 4 diagnostic and spine. Weeks 4 to 12 systems install. Weeks 12 to 24 live operation, where growth shifts from spikes to trajectory.

04  Proof

The system, on real brands.

$12K$150K
Monthly revenue · 7 months
$125K$770K
Monthly revenue · 8 months
Neat
Canadian Board Co
BRAVE Leather
Ricardo Beverly Hills
Finally our ads are generating results we hadn't achieved with other agencies, ever.
I was nervous engaging an agency on the other side of the world, but right away I got a good feeling about the crew at Mountain Stone and took a chance. It's the best chance I've taken in a while, and it's paying off big time. They now manage both of our ad accounts.
Abby Packer · Neat
05  Selected work

The creative, in the wild.

A sample of the ad creative we've built and scaled for Portfolio brands. Real reels, running on real budget.

Drayden Larsen, Founder of Mountain Stone
$237M+driven for partners
06  From the founder

"Most brands get handed a retainer and crossed fingers. I wanted to build the opposite."

My team and I spent years engineering an actual system for scaling DTC brands, and we have driven over $237 million with it. Portfolio is the version I am proudest of. We install and run the whole thing ourselves, and instead of a retainer we take a share of net revenue and own the growth outright. Our real return only shows up if that number climbs, and after years of doing this, I am confident enough to build the company on that bet.

Drayden LarsenFounder, Mountain Stone
07  Who it's for

We take a few.
They have to be right.

This is for you if
  • You're already doing $20K+ a month, with $40K to $80K the sweet spot for the Method's leverage
  • You have healthy contribution margins and customers who come back
  • You can fund the media required to scale
  • You're ready to install a full operating system rather than keep adding tactics
  • You move quickly and trust operators to operate
Not a fit if
  • You're pre-launch, or not selling consistently yet
  • Your margins can't support aggressive paid scaling
  • You want a vendor to execute a pre-written plan instead of installing a system
  • You're not prepared to give the partnership 12 months of focused execution

We only take five Portfolio brands per year. The filter is deliberate.

08  The deal

The same Method. A completely different deal.

Most brands run the Method on a monthly retainer. Portfolio brands run the identical system with nothing upfront. We run every system, and we take a share of net revenue instead of a fee.

The Method · standard
$10-40K /mo
A monthly retainer, paid whether you grow or not.
The full Method, installed and operated
You carry the risk
Portfolio
Portfolio · a few brands a year
10%
Of net revenue. $0 upfront, no retainer.
The exact same Method, nothing held back
We carry the risk. We own the growth.

Same system. We just moved the risk onto ourselves.
We're not the cheap option, we're the aligned one.

09  Recent wins

Momentum from the last 90 days.

Refreshed every quarter
$24K to $230Ka month for a skincare brand
$186K/moa new monthly record for a leather goods brand
+726%in new-customer acquisition for a fitness brand
$475K/moa new monthly record for an apparel brand
$820K/moand climbing, our top Portfolio brand
10  Questions

The honest answers.

Ten coordinated systems, five channel systems that create and capture demand and four structural systems that keep the economics and decisions sound, all governed by one spine. We install the whole thing and operate it on a fixed rhythm, so your channels run as one engine instead of ten disconnected tactics.

You pay nothing upfront and no monthly retainer. We take 10% of net revenue: money actually collected, less refunds, taxes, shipping, and chargebacks. The exact definition is written into the agreement before we start, and both sides bill from the platform's own numbers, so there is never a dispute about the figure. As the brand scales, the percentage steps down on a pre-agreed tier schedule. The better the store performs, the better both sides do.

Fund the ad spend, approve creative and direction quickly, film about six short phone clips a month, and keep our access open. We handle acquisition, conversion, retention, creative production, reporting, and the operating rhythm from there.

Yes. It's your brand and your ad accounts, always. We operate inside them and you keep final sign-off on direction. The brands that win with us move fast and let the system run.

The Method itself, the frameworks and playbooks behind it, stays ours. Everything you brought is always yours: your footage, your logo, your product photography, your customer data. The marketing assets we build for you are covered by a clean, pre-agreed buyout when the partnership ends, tied to recent performance, so nothing is ever held hostage.

The partnership is a 12-month term with formal review points at 3 and 6 months. If we aren't hitting the targets we set together at the start, you step away, and you never paid a retainer along the way. We only take brands we're confident we can scale.

Portfolio is a true growth partnership, not a client list. Installing and operating the full Method at a high level takes real focus, so we keep the number small: five brands a year, and every one gets the full system.

The application takes about two minutes. If it looks like a fit, we reply and walk through the exact terms, tiers, and targets together before anything starts.

A few spots. Then we close intake.

2 of 5 spots remaining · 2026
We haven't opened a Portfolio spot in almost a year.

If your brand is live, growing, and ready to scale, tell us about it. Two minutes, and we reply if it's a fit. You carry no risk to find out, and we grow when you grow.

Apply for a spot