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NorthlightGrowth Report / Vol. 01

From a cold start to compounding growth.

on march 28th they brought me on. what follows is every number we moved — across linkedin, seo, product, and the website — in the three weeks since. zero paid spend.

data windows run mar 22–apr 21 to capture the full ramp including the first week.

Start Date

Mar 28, 2026

Report Window

3 Weeks

Paid Ad Spend

$0.00

LinkedIn impressions

2.7x

beat the account's entire prior history in half the time

Product downloads

+76%

in half the days

Unique visitors

2.5K

since PostHog was instrumented

Countries reached

59

via organic search — site indexed 4 days ago

01

Channel · Free Content

LinkedIn

when they brought me on, the ghostwriting account was live but under-utilized. post cadence tripled. average performance per post nearly doubled. the result: a single month outran sixty days of prior activity.

Metric

Before · 60d

After · 31d

Posts

7

11

Impressions

60,069

163,320

Impr. / day

1,001

5,268

Total engagements

314

1,043

Avg likes / post

37

70

Cadence

1 / 8.6d

1 / 2.8d

Impressions per day

Before vs. After · daily average

6,0003,00001,001BEFORE5,268AFTER+426%

Impressions / day

+426%

1,001 → 5,268

Total engagements

+232%

314 → 1,043

Avg likes / post

+89%

37 → 70

Posting cadence

3x

8.6 → 2.8 days

163,320 impressions in 31 days — 2.7x the entire prior history of the account, in half the time.

02

Channel · Organic Search

SEO / AEO

when they brought me on, the site existed but had no tracking, no content engine, and no presence in search. after: a redesigned site with a content cluster indexed by google on apr 17 — pulling impressions from 59 countries in under a week.

Impressions

749

0 → 749 in 4 days

Pages ranking

11

from zero indexed

Countries reached

59

global, no targeting

Avg position

7.8

front page average

Search impressions — launch curve

Apr 17 indexing → Apr 21 · daily impressions

3001500Apr 17Apr 19Apr 21749 total

Query · Week one

Impr.

Pos.

how does northlight.ai compare to phantombuster

2

best linkedin automation tools 2026

2

northlight vs amplemarket

4.7

is linkedin automation against the rules

636

4–9

Heavy lifterone article — "Is LinkedIn Automation Against the Rules" — drove 636 of 749 impressions (85%). the linkedin tos content cluster is the compounding asset.

03

Product · Desktop Gateway Setup

Downloads

since they brought me on: 97 new downloads in 31 days versus 55 in the preceding 55. three of the four biggest single-day spikes in product history landed inside this window.

Metric

Before · 55d

After · 31d

Total downloads

55

97

Downloads / day

1.0

3.1

Biggest day

7 (Mar 12)

14 (Mar 23)

Daily downloads

Jan 27 – Apr 21 · bars show downloads per day

1570start · Mar 281410BEFORE · 55 / 55dAFTER · 97 / 31d
BeforeAfter

Total downloads

+76%

in 56% of the time

Downloads / day

+213%

1.0 → 3.1

Record days

3 of 4

top days in product history

All-time peak

14

Mar 23 · single day

04

Channel · Redesigned Site

Website Traffic

when they brought me on, the site had no measurement layer. i instrumented posthog on mar 29 — 2,450 unique visitors in 24 days since, averaging 102/day with weekly peaks of 200+.

Unique visitors per day

Mar 29 – Apr 21 · PostHog, deduplicated

2501250peak · 205Mar 29Apr 7Apr 15Apr 21

Unique visitors

2,450

in 24 days

Total pageviews

27.8K

across the same window

Pages / visit

~11

not bouncing off homepage

Daily average

102

peak 205 (Apr 15)

~11 pages per visit. visitors aren't bouncing — they're exploring. the site is doing its job.

05

Looking Forward

The Channel Mix

everything above was pulled with four levers. two more are loaded. paid has not fired once.

Live

SEO / AEO

Indexed Apr 17. LinkedIn ToS cluster pulling 85% of all impressions. Compounding asset.

749 impressions · 59 countries · 4 days

Live

Free Content

LinkedIn ghostwriting. Posting every 2.8 days. Driving weekly traffic pulses to site and downloads.

163K impressions · 1K engagements · 31 days

Live

Website Redesign

Rebuilt the site. 11 pages / visit signals the redesign is doing conversion work, not just looking pretty.

27.8K pageviews · 2.5K unique visitors

Launching

Referrals

Referral codes built and shipped. Pending PR approval, then emailing current user base.

Blocked on Matt's PR

Launching

Programmatic Outbound

Just received account access. First push mechanism alongside the pull from SEO + content.

Setup in progress

Not yet

Paid Ads

Not running. Every number in this report was produced with zero paid acquisition spend.

Spend to date: $0.00

three weeks in, the measurement layer is built, the content engine is running, and the site has a heartbeat. next: outbound and referrals firing at the same time.

Prepared for
Chaz · Matt

Austin Kennedy

Fractional Head of Content

Vol. 01 · End
22 · 04 · 2026