Building a Growth Engine from Zero | Omar Ismail
How we went from 95% word-of-mouth growth to a full programmatic acquisition stack across Meta, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and more — using Claude Code to build most of it.
Free · .md Master prompt Growth Engine · Master Prompt A single markdown file you paste into Claude Code to scaffold your own version. Sign up to the mailing list and I'll send it straight to your inbox. Send it to me One email a month at most. Unsubscribe any time. When I joined Ascend (formerly FlyFlat) as COO, the company had incredible product-market fit. $20m ARR, 650+ clients including Google Ventures, Ramp, and Bessemer Venture Partners, and a 24/7 travel concierge that people genuinely loved. But essentially 0% of revenue came from scalable growth channels. No paid ads, no email outbou
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