Consumer App Growth Consultant
Consumer apps do not grow by adding features. They grow when a loop exists — a thing users do for their own reasons that happens to produce the next user, or the next session — and most apps that plateau have no loop at all, just a funnel with paid traffic poured into it.
The work here covers scaling a consumer app from 3.8M to 45M+ monthly active users, and the retention, notification and organic acquisition systems that made it hold rather than spike.
What this actually involves
- Build a loop, not a campaign
- CarInfo reached 45M+ monthly active users on programmatic organic pages, engagement loops and referral — 22% of installs referral-driven. Loops compound; campaigns stop the day spend stops.
- Fix activation before acquisition
- The window between install and first real use is where most consumer apps lose the game, and it is usually the least instrumented part of the product.
- Earn retention with utility, not notifications
- A trigger-based notification engine for 1M+ users, and a multi-calculator finance app that earned daily use by being reliably useful at a specific moment rather than by adding engagement mechanics.
- Make organic carry the load
- Programmatic pages brought organic acquisition cost to ₹31 per user and eventually 61% of acquisition — a channel whose marginal cost approaches zero as it compounds.
The work behind this
Every claim above comes from one of these. They include what did not work, not only what did.
45M+ Monthly Active Users
From 3.8M to 45M+ Monthly Active Users: The CarInfo Growth Architecture
Building a programmatic SEO engine, engagement loops, and referral flywheel that scaled CarInfo to 45M+ MAU.
4.5× D30 Retention
Designing a Growth Loop That Brought 30% Repeat Users in 14 Days
Creating a viral retention loop that drives users back within two weeks.
+28% Notification CTR
Creating a Scalable Notification System for 1M+ Users (Trigger-Based)
Designing a trigger-based push notification engine that drives action at scale.
134K Monthly Calculator Users
How We Built a Multi-Calculator Finance App That Drives Daily Retention
Building a utility product with compounding daily retention loops.
−39% Monthly Churn Rate
Predicting User Drop-Off Before It Happens (Churn Prevention Model)
Using ML to predict churn and proactively retain users before they leave.
100K+ Monthly Organic Sessions
Scaling SEO from 0 to 100K Monthly Traffic Using Programmatic Pages
Driving massive organic traffic using a programmatic SEO architecture.
How to work with me
Engagements start narrow and widen only if the work warrants it. Most begin with a diagnostic, because committing to a fix before agreeing what is broken wastes both of our time.
Product Growth Diagnostic
2 weeks · $2,500 / ₹2,40,000
A written diagnosis of the single biggest constraint on growth, with the evidence behind it and what to do first. Most teams are optimising the wrong step; this establishes which one matters.
Growth Funnel Audit
3 weeks · $4,500 / ₹4,30,000
Acquisition through activation, conversion and retention mapped end to end, with the drop-offs quantified and ranked by what recovering each one is worth.
Monetisation Audit
3 weeks · $4,500 / ₹4,30,000
Pricing, packaging, paywall placement and revenue leakage reviewed against how your users actually behave, with specific changes and expected impact.
90-Day Growth Sprint
90 days · $18,000 / ₹17,25,000
Hands-on implementation of the changes an audit identifies — instrumentation, experiments and shipped product work, accountable to an agreed metric.
Fractional Product Growth Lead
Ongoing, monthly · $7,500 / ₹7,20,000 per month
Ongoing product and growth leadership for founders without a senior product hire: roadmap ownership, prioritisation, and the calls that need someone who has made them before.
Going deeper
- Growth Loops Every Product Manager Should Know
Funnels leak. Loops compound. Here's a practical guide to the growth mechanics that actually scale.
- Retention Strategies for Consumer Apps
The top apps in the world obsess over one metric above all others. Here's what their retention playbooks actually look like.
Start with the problem, not the engagement
Tell me what you are building, the number you are trying to move, and what you have already tried. That is usually enough for me to say whether I can help before we spend a call finding out.