Prose puts you through 37 steps before it asks for your email address. 43 steps before it shows you a price. On paper that is a conversion disaster. In practice it did $165M in 2024, growing 29% year on year, with 50 billion possible product combinations and almost no inventory sitting in a warehouse.
In this solo teardown Ryan Walton takes the whole thing apart. The consultation funnel and why its length is a qualification tool rather than a leak. The education built into the quiz itself through tooltips that are easy to miss. The offer mechanics that push the basket to just under $50 on purpose. And then the part that matters most for anyone buying media in 2026: a persona first creative library that maps hair type against age range, covers every level of awareness, and belongs inside one ASC campaign rather than a separate awareness build.
For DTC founders, growth marketers and anyone running subscription acquisition on Meta.
Want to see the board Ryan is running through? You can access the full teardown here: https://dtcunboxed.com/lead/prose-creative-teardown
(00:00) Introduction and what Prose is
(02:31) Zero inventory and made to order
(04:09) AOV, LTV and premium pricing
(05:41) Traction and Andromeda proofing
(07:24) Inside the personalisation quiz
(09:29) \"Why we ask\": education in the funnel
(12:37) 37 steps before email capture
(14:56) The basket: free gift and 60% off
(16:48) Selling a routine, not a swap
(19:54) The creative teardown
(21:33) Persona signalling: hair type and age
(23:44) Full funnel creative inside ASC
(26:26) Mid funnel creator content
(29:41) Lower funnel statics and squint test
(31:51) The three things driving growth
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