.exd is a growth engineering company. We design, build and run demand generation and acquisition systems for some of Europe's fastest‑growing brands, and we measure them on revenue.

Chosen by

  • Crédit Agricole
  • DAB Pumps
  • Luxardo
  • vVARDIS
  • Pasticceria Giotto
  • Selle Royal
  • Elevate
  • B-Flex
  • Savi
  • Altilia
  • Euris

Why .exd

Fast‑growing companies run growth as one process

Brand, loyalty, performance, sales, CRM, automation and advertising usually run as separate activities, each with its own team, budget and metrics. Companies that lead growth in their markets run them as one process: an integrated system, running on the same data, toward the same revenue. At .exd we design, build and run these systems.

  • 50+Systems designed and built
  • 12Active markets
  • 3–5xAverage return on the systems we run
  • 2022Founded in Padua, Italy

We turn disconnected activities into state‑of‑the‑art growth systems

  • Increase lead quality
  • Convert more leads
  • Boost e-commerce sales
  • Increase omnichannel CLV
  • Win big accounts in niche markets
  • Enter a new market
  • Launch a new product
  • Activate distributors and partners
  • Get more from trade fairs and events
  • Reactivate dormant customers
  • Know what drives revenue

Design, content, data, technology and strategy work together, as one system measured on revenue.

Clients

Systems at work

The companies we work with, and the system we built for each of them.

  • vVardis

    A Swiss unicorn with a drill-free treatment for caries.

    System builtThe path that takes dental practices from discovering the treatment to joining the pilot, and brings patients to those practices.

  • DAB Pumps

    A world leader in water technologies.

    System builtIntegrated growth engines across product lines and markets: demand generation, DTC and ABM, from brand to sales.

  • Luxardo

    Family-owned since 1821, behind every great bar.

    System builtA content and media engine: creative production, AI customisation and targeting of importers and bartenders in new markets.

  • Crédit Agricole

    One of Europe's largest banking groups.

    System builtThe infrastructure of its innovation community: creative production, partner nurturing and startup recruitment.

  • Pasticceria Giotto

    A world-class Panettone made inside Padova's prison.

    System builtEvery customer journey on one customer data platform: e-commerce, corporate gifting, stores and resellers.

Case study

Leave your work email. One of our experts will walk you through the case: what we built, how it works and what it produced, and answer your questions.

Inside our systems

Growth challenges, solved

Explore some of the flows inside the systems we build: each one solves a real growth challenge, designed for a specific market and audience, then built and run with the client.

Reaching decision-makers in a niche B2B market

How we solved it

We spot the companies that fit as soon as they show a signal, find who decides and reach them with ads and sequences built for each account.

  1. 01

    Signal · Hiring, funding or expansion

  2. 02

    Enrich · Company data from many sources

  3. 03

    Find · Decision-makers at each account

  4. 04

    AI research · A brief for each account

  5. 05

    Activate · Ads and sequences per account

Activating new distributors across the country

How we solved it

For a premium food and beverage brand, we map every potential distributor in the country, build a dossier on each, score the most promising, warm them up locally and only then reach out.

  1. 01

    Map · Every potential distributor in the country, from Google Maps

  2. 02

    Dossier · Web and social information on each business

  3. 03

    Score · The best-fitting, most promising local businesses

  4. 04

    Warm up · Hyperlocal awareness and reputation campaigns on social

  5. 05

    Reach out · Two weeks later: email, phone and distributor search campaigns

Launching a new product to the people who need it

How we solved it

For an innovative D2C product, we find the people across Europe who have the exact problem it solves, reach them with campaigns built on their signals, and follow each lead through to the sale.

  1. 01

    Signal · Social, web and app properties detect who has the problem

  2. 02

    Discover · Multi-property discovery campaigns built on those signals

  3. 03

    Explore · Adaptive omnichannel campaigns that learn what works

  4. 04

    Capture · Lead generation from the people who engage

  5. 05

    Convert · Follow-up, nurturing and a sales call

Getting replies from busy practice owners

How we solved it

Every message is written for the person who reads it, from what their practice is doing now, and goes out on email and LinkedIn.

  1. 01

    List · Accounts and contacts

  2. 02

    AI research · Reads each account

  3. 03

    Write · A message for each person

  4. 04

    Send · Email and LinkedIn steps

  5. 05

    Handle · Replies routed to sales

Answering demo requests before they go cold

How we solved it

Each request is enriched and scored the moment it arrives, then sent to the right salesperson or flow, with the call already booked.

  1. 01

    Trigger · Form or demo request

  2. 02

    Enrich · Company and role

  3. 03

    Score · Fit and intent

  4. 04

    Route · To the right rep or flow

  5. 05

    Act · Call booked or nurture

Winning back customers who stopped buying

How we solved it

We watch each purchase cycle and reach every customer at the right moment, with a reminder, an offer or a referral ask.

  1. 01

    Watch · Purchase cycle and silence

  2. 02

    Trigger · The right moment for each person

  3. 03

    Message · Offer, check-up or referral

  4. 04

    Measure · Who comes back

The full library

Every component behind our systems

These are four of the challenges we solve. Leave your work email and one of our team will give you access to the full library: every component of our systems, how it works and where we used it.

Contact

Run your growth as one system, not a series of attempts

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The difference

We are a growth engineering company. We deliver fully working systems.

We design them on how your company generates revenue, build them with every skill they need, and run them with your team, improving them week after week. You get the system, its data and what it produces, measured on revenue.

A software companyAn agencyA consultancy.exd
What you get Tools and licencesActivities and deliverablesA diagnosis and a plan A fully working system
Who builds and runs it Your team, with the toolThe agency, project by projectAnother supplier builds it, your team runs it The people who design it, with your team
Accountable for The tool workingThe quality of each outputThe quality of the advice What the system produces, measured on revenue

About

A team with world-class experience

Based in Italy, active across Europe

Our people come from growth teams in international companies, in design, content, data, technology and strategy. Here they work as one team, on one system at a time, alongside the people of the companies we work with.

Padova · Milano

Team experience

  • adidas
  • Audi
  • B&B Italia
  • Bulgari
  • Carlsberg
  • Crédit Agricole
  • Ducati
  • EF Education First
  • Kayak
  • Lamborghini
  • M&M's
  • Mars
  • Nike
  • Technogym