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Merchant acquisition at scale. Not one at a time.

Consumer financing, lending, and fintech businesses face regulatory constraints, long merchant cycles, and a need for CRM infrastructure most marketing agencies aren't equipped to build.

98%
Faster merchant onboarding
humm Canada
1,838
Leads generated at $261 CPL
humm Canada
86
New merchants onboarded
humm Canada
98%
Faster merchant onboarding
humm Canada
Operating in Financial Services

The constraint isn’t compliance. It’s building a repeatable motion inside it.

Financial services marketing operates inside constraints most generalist agencies struggle with. Compliance requirements, channel restrictions, and the regulatory environment mean tactics that work in consumer ecommerce don't translate directly.

The merchant acquisition problem in consumer financing is particularly complex: long sales cycles, high-value accounts, and the need for a CRM and outreach infrastructure that sustains a repeatable motion across hundreds of merchants at once.

Common problems we see:

  • Merchant acquisition running on manual outreach with no CRM discipline
  • Compliance-constrained channels limiting go-to-market options
  • Siloed marketing and sales data with no unified pipeline view
  • High cost-per-acquisition with no attribution to channel
  • Brand differentiation in a commodity financial product market
Services in this vertical

What the work looks like here.

Marketing Operations
Merchant acquisition engine

CRM-driven acquisition motion from top-of-funnel awareness through merchant activation. Built to scale without adding headcount at every growth stage.

Strategy & Operations
Revenue operations

Pipeline infrastructure, forecasting, and the reporting layer that gives leadership a real-time view of merchant acquisition across all channels and stages.

Digital Enablement
CRM + outreach automation

CRM implementation built for the merchant acquisition motion. Sequenced outreach, status tracking, and the automations that keep a large pipeline manageable.

Data & Intelligence
Attribution + ROI modeling

Multi-touch attribution from first merchant contact through activation. ROI modeling connecting spend to revenue generated by activated merchants.

Proof in Financial Services

humm Canada: 98% faster onboarding from a system, not a campaign.

98%
Faster merchant onboarding
1,838
Leads at $261 CPL
98%
Faster merchant onboarding

humm Canada needed to scale merchant acquisition for their buy-now-pay-later platform. We built the CRM infrastructure, outreach automation, and digital acquisition programs that turned fragmented merchant outreach into a repeatable, measurable engine.

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“The system they built is still generating results a year later. It didn't require us to keep feeding it.”

humm Canada leadership

Financial Services questions

The questions we get first.

How do you handle compliance requirements in financial services marketing?

We design for compliance from the architecture stage. That means working with your compliance team on channel selection, copy approval workflows, and content production, which tends to improve output quality anyway.

Our merchant sales cycle is six to twelve months. Can you build a CRM that handles that?

Yes. Long-cycle B2B pipelines are where CRM infrastructure matters most: stage definitions, re-engagement triggers, and reporting cadence that keeps a long pipeline visible without manual updates.

What does '98% faster merchant onboarding' actually mean, and can we expect the same?

It reflects the drop in per-merchant onboarding time after we rebuilt the process end to end. We can't promise the identical percentage, but we can promise the same methodology.

The next move.

Merchant acquisition that compounds.

We diagnose where your acquisition motion breaks before we recommend what to fix. The assessment maps it.

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