A technology company that also does marketing. In that order.
AD-MEN exists because we kept watching good marketing fail on bad infrastructure. We decided the fix was to own the infrastructure, so we became the hosting and engineering company that marketing teams wish they had behind them.
Why the order matters
Every marketing agency eventually sells hosting. It is usually a reseller account, a theme and a monthly fee for doing very little. When the server slows down on launch day or the site gets compromised through a plugin nobody updated, the agency opens a ticket with a provider it has never spoken to and tells the client to wait.
We refused to work that way. AD-MEN's core team are infrastructure and software engineers. We provision servers, harden them, monitor them and carry the pager. We write deployment pipelines, test backups by restoring them and treat DNS and email as production systems. Marketing is a service we deliver on top of platforms we already operate, which is the only way we are prepared to vouch for the results.
That is why every plan on this site, including the smallest, is a hosting plan first. The website build, the analytics and the campaigns are the layers above, and we only switch them on once the layer below is solid.
How we work
Audit before anything. We read what you have before we recommend what you need. The audit is free and the report is yours either way.
Boring technology, operated well. Long support windows, open formats, large hiring pools. We would rather run something proven than something fashionable at 3 a.m.
Your accounts, your code, your data. Every provider account is opened in your name. Code lives in your repository. Leaving us is a permission change, not a rescue operation.
Written commitments. Uptime, response times and credits are in the SLA, not in a sales deck. Refund terms are on a page, not in a PDF.
Transparent third parties. We use partner programmes with some vendors and say so. Fit decides the recommendation. Our affiliate disclosure explains how we keep the two apart.
Engineers first, by headcount and by habit.
We are a small, senior team organised around the four layers of the ecosystem. Every client has a named engineer who knows their stack.
Infrastructure & operations
Provisioning, security, backups, monitoring, on-call. The largest part of the team and the part every plan pays for.
Software engineering
Web, commerce and application builds, deployment pipelines, integrations and maintenance.
Data & measurement
Measurement plans, server-side tagging, pipelines and dashboards that reconcile with reality.
Growth
Technical SEO, content, paid media and lifecycle email, run against numbers the data team trusts.
Five things we will not do.
Easier to verify than a list of values.
Hold your accounts hostage
Registrar, DNS, hosting, email and analytics are in your name from the first day. We never register a domain in ours.
Oversell compute
Core runs on isolated, conservatively sized compute. Scale and above are dedicated. We do not put hundreds of sites on one box and call it managed.
Mark up third parties
Domain renewals, ad spend and SaaS seats are passed through at the provider's price. Our margin is in the plan, where you can see it.
Run marketing on a platform we have not fixed
Campaigns start when the infrastructure, measurement and performance work is done. Not before.
Hide behind a ticket queue
You have a named engineer and written response targets. When we miss them, the SLA pays you a credit automatically.
Let a commission choose your stack
Where a vendor has a partner programme we may join it and we disclose it. The recommendation is made on fit, documented in your audit.
Talk to an engineer, not a salesperson.
First calls are taken by the people who will run your infrastructure. Bring your current setup and we will tell you what we would change.