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CASE STUDY - HONEY HOMES

We cut Honey Homes' cost per qualified lead 38% while growing volume 84%.

Home Services · Subscription · Lead generation

Valid × Honey Homes
+32%Weekly spend$21.6k → $28.5k after takeover
−38%Cost per qualified lead$602 → $371
+84%Weekly qualified leads41 → 76
About the client

A handyman for every home.

Honey Homes is a Series A home-services company backed by Khosla Ventures, offering a membership handyman service. Every member gets one dedicated, fully-employed handyman for all their home projects and maintenance, plus a modern app to manage it all.

Our mission was threefold:

  • Bring down the cost per qualified lead
  • Scale ad spend
  • Grow the volume of qualified leads
01 - The baseline

The first quarter of 2026.

Our benchmarks were to:

  • Scale past $21.6k a week in spend
  • Generate more than 41 qualified leads a week
  • Generate each lead at a cost per qualified lead of less than $602
$21.6kWeekly spend to beatMeta + Google, before Valid
$602Cost per qualified lead to beatMeta + Google, before Valid
41Qualified leads / week to beatMeta + Google, before Valid
02 - Media Buying

Over the last 6 months we've been able to:

  • Increase average weekly spend by 32%
  • Drop the cost per qualified lead by 38%
  • Grow weekly qualified leads by 84%

More budget, cheaper qualified leads, and more of them, on Google and Meta alike each week.

Previous agency · Meta Jan–Feb, Google Jan–Mar Valid · Meta from Mar 1, Google from Apr 1
Average weekly spend
+32%
$30.0k$20.0k$10.0k$0
$21.6k
Previous agency
before Valid
$28.5k
Valid
with Valid
Cost per qualified lead
−38%
$800$600$400$200$0
$602
Previous agency
before Valid
$371
Valid
with Valid
Qualified leads / week
+84%
806040200
41
Previous agency
before Valid
76
Valid
with Valid
03 - Creative

The ads behind the numbers.

The three ads that have carried the most Meta spend since we took over, each landing qualified leads at roughly half the $602 we inherited. Two handyman montages and one app-led static.

#1
Video · Meta

Handyman chores montage

Spend
$18k+
Cost per qualified lead
<$305
#2
Video · Meta

Handyman tasks showcase

Spend
$18k+
Cost per qualified lead
<$335
Honey Homes static ad: 3 tasks. One visit. None of them done by me. #3
Static · Meta

App feature: three tasks

Spend
$6k+
Cost per qualified lead
<$275

Meta · Valid ads since takeover · ranked by spend, all under target cost per qualified lead

Performance creative

We rebuilt the creative engine.

Since February we've shipped 55 unique Valid-produced concepts into the account - built off audience research, tested in cohorts, and iterated weekly on hook, hold, and conversion signals. Valid creative ramped from 0% of spend in January to 60% by the end of March, in lockstep with the testing - and it outperforms the rest of the account on every metric that matters.

% of ad spend on Valid creatives · weekly
0%5%18%36%55%45%49%60% JanFebMar
Valid creatives vs. account baseline · Jan 1 – May 10
Hook rate
21.96%
Valid
19.38%
Non-Valid
Hold rate
18.86%
Valid
15.93%
Non-Valid
CPA (walk)
$321
Valid
$415
Non-Valid
CTR
1.69%
Valid
1.74%
Non-Valid
"Working with the Valid team has been a genuine breath of fresh air - they get our audience, skip the fluff, and move fast. We actually trust their insights, and most of the time we can just say 'ship it', no notes. That's rare."
Kayla Tekus Kayla Tekus - Head of Growth, Honey Homes

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