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Founder-led · Toronto · Est. 2001

Twenty One Ton
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For leaders who know something has to change — but not what

You don't need a bigger team. You need the operator who's already made your next move — a hundred times.

Growth has stalled, the dashboard's a blur, and every agency pitch sounds the same. The missing ingredient isn't effort or budget — it's someone who's been here before. For 25+ years, I have.

30 minutes. Your numbers, my read, zero obligation. If I'm not the answer, I'll tell you who is.

  • Senior operator on every engagement
  • Full-funnel paid media, measured daily
  • AI decoded for your marketing team
  • Transparent KPI & ROAS reporting

The Field Record

  • 25+years of customer acquisition expertise
  • 120+public companies served at Canada's #1 IR firm
  • $150Mdirect-marketing operation — built its digital division
  • 600+acquisition specialists in that operation
  • VPseats held at publicly traded companies
Andrew Shaw, Founder of Twenty One Ton, in vintage 1920s attire

Andrew Shaw

Founder & President

25+Years in the seat

About the Founder

Senior expertise.
Not an account team.

Before I ever advised a client, I held the senior seats myself: digital leadership at Canada's #1 investor relations firm, VP at a publicly traded media company, and architect of the digital acquisition division inside a nine-figure direct-marketing operation.

When you engage Twenty One Ton, there are no handoffs to juniors and no agency layers — one operator who has built the funnels, bought the media, and answered to the board, embedded in your team.

2001founded — every era of the commercial internet since
100sof websites & campaigns delivered across 7 industries
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The Thesis

You don't need a bigger team. You need a tactician.

Growth stalls for one reason more than any other: nobody in the room has been here before. Twenty One Ton exists to fix exactly that.

When to deploy

  • Revenue has plateaued — and nobody can say precisely why
  • Serious spend is coming: ads, a rebuild, a launch
  • A capable team that lacks senior direction in-house
  • An agency underperforming — you need to know what good looks like

"That's not a team you hire. It's a tactician you deploy — inside your team, on your mission, starting now."

— The Twenty One Ton operating model

What We Do

Three ways I take the ground.

Growth Strategy & Consulting

CMO-level counsel before a dollar is spent.

  • Market & channel analysis
  • Budget modeling & forecasting
  • Campaign & funnel architecture
  • RFP / white-label partnership support
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Paid Media & Acquisition

Full-service ad ops, measured daily.

  • Google, Meta, YouTube, Amazon, TikTok, LinkedIn & DSP
  • Full-funnel builds: prospect → convert → retain
  • Real-time monitoring & optimization
  • Transparent KPI & ROAS reporting
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AI & Automation

AI, decoded for your marketing team.

  • AI-assisted creative production at scale
  • Predictive media planning & forecasting
  • Marketing automation & lifecycle systems
  • AI enablement, training & workflow design
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How I Work

Direct. Transparent. Accountable.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We start with your numbers: current performance, unit economics, goals. No discovery-phase theatre.

  2. 02

    Design

    Strategy, channels & creative approach — documented, justified, and tied to your KPIs.

  3. 03

    Deploy

    Campaigns launch with full tracking in place. Nothing runs unmeasured.

  4. 04

    Optimize

    Daily monitoring, weekly analysis, monthly strategic review. You always know what every dollar returned.

"You cannot succeed at what you do not measure."

What Clients Say

Results they'll say on the record.

Twelve named CEOs and presidents stand behind this work. Use the arrows to hear from them — the full case studies live on the Work page.

"In only a few months we've already added over six figures in new sales."

Marco Acchione — President, 4LG Inc.

"Andrew created and managed our entire family of websites."

Gord Poland — CFO, ZoomerMedia
"When I started selling my products I was using in-store national distribution. With Andrew's help, I now sell more products on the internet than all stores combined — at more than double the profit."
Nick MayPresident & CEO, Remay Shaving Products Inc.

Ready to grow?

Deploy the tactician.

30 minutes. Your numbers, my read, zero obligation. If I'm not the answer, I'll tell you who is.

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