Lucas Spinella — Growth Operator

Growth, cooked
to order.

I’m a full-stack growth operator with a kitchen full of AI. Ads, funnels, creative, copy, outreach — run by agents and plated by one chef. The output of a whole department, without the department.

Featured in Forbes

Clients seen across
  • ESPN
  • Yahoo Finance
  • Netflix
  • TEDx
  • ABC News
  • Fox News

I’ve never studied marketing. I’ve just done it.

01

Melbourne Victory

Professional footballer · A-League · 2012–2019

Left home at 14. Professional at 17, playing in the A-League in front of tens of thousands. A decade in pro sport before I touched marketing.

  • Performing under real pressure became normal.
  • Obsessive standards and daily discipline.
  • Years of taking hard feedback and acting on it fast.

The work ethic everything since is built on.

02

Foundr

Paid creative director · 2019–2020

I didn't learn marketing from a course — I got hired by one of the biggest companies selling them.

  • Shipped hundreds of ads a week for some of the biggest education brands online.
  • Tested dozens of offers and helped generate millions in revenue.
  • That much volume kills guesswork fast.

Whoever can test the fastest wins.

03

Courses and Funnels

Founder · 2022–2025

Built my own agency from nothing and ran 200+ launches across almost every niche there is.

  • $1.3M in the first 12 months — bootstrapped.
  • 200+ launches across health, coaching, education, real estate, ecommerce and more.
  • After enough launches you stop seeing industries — you see the same handful of problems.

Weak offers, bad positioning, unclear messaging. The bottleneck is rarely traffic.

04

Plaiground

Co-founder · AI growth · 2025–now

Now I've rebuilt the entire operation around AI — not as a side tool, but as the whole engine.

  • Research, positioning, creative, funnels and acquisition — run by specialised AI agents.
  • Work that used to need a team of twenty now runs through one operator, around the clock.
  • Faster, cheaper, and higher quality than a traditional team.

One operator plus an AI fleet beats a whole department.

NOW

Honestly? I just want to cook.

If you’ve got a product people genuinely love and the budget to move, I ’ll scale you — big and fast — with a fleet of AI agents doing the work of a whole growth team.

Not another roster of clients. One startup. One mission. One growth engine.

Sick product, real budget, and the ambition to move fast — that’s all I’m looking for. Let’s talk.

Est. — The Growth Kitchen

The Tasting Menu

by Chef Lucas Spinella

One chef, a kitchen full of AI. The funnels and campaigns on this menu have generated over $10M for clients — order à la carte, or let me cook the whole thing.

IDeep Research

We don't really know who we're selling to.

I put your market under a microscope — competitors, reviews, channels, trends — until the exact buyer, their real pain and the angle that lands are undeniable.

Claude · GPT · Gemini · Exa

IIOffer, Positioning + Strategy

Our offer and positioning just aren't landing.

I rebuild the offer and positioning so the math finally works — lowest CAC, highest LTV — then hand you the big idea and the plan to scale it.

Claude · GPT

IIIFunnel Build

People click, but nobody buys.

The whole money path, built fast: front-end offer, landing pages, flows, automations, the VSL, the emails and the ad copy — all AI-built, wired to track, tested live.

Claude Code · GHL · v0

IVPaid Acquisition

We spend money but growth isn't predictable.

Meta, Google and TikTok — campaign structure, relentless creative testing and CAC control. I take cold, leaking accounts and turn them around.

Meta · Google · TikTok

VUGC Ad Farm

Our ads fatigue faster than we can replace them.

12-second UGC ads generated, edited and shipped to Meta at a volume agencies can't match — self-learning the winners and refreshing the losers on loop.

Claude · Higgsfield · Meta

VIOrganic + Viral Content

We're invisible unless we're paying for reach.

An organic engine: AI-built TikToks, Reels, slideshows and UGC engineered to hit millions of views, so attention compounds without paying for every click.

Claude · Higgsfield · TikTok · Instagram

VIIAffiliate + Creator Army

We can't get in front of enough of the right audiences.

AI headhunts the affiliates, creators and people who already own your audience, negotiates the deals, and turns them into an army of posts across every channel — distribution you don't have to build yourself.

Exa · Apollo · Claude

VIIILead Follow-up + AI Calls

Leads come in and quietly go cold.

Every lead called, emailed and texted within seconds by AI — voice agents that book and qualify, inbound systems that answer questions and upsell.

Retell · Claude · Resemble

IXOutreach + Re-engagement

Our pipeline is empty — and we're ignoring the leads we already have.

Find new prospects, research them, and send a personalised cold email and LinkedIn message per lead at scale. Then reactivate every old lead and dead list you're sitting on — revenue from people who already raised their hand.

Exa · Apollo · LinkedIn · Claude

XPress + PR Engine

Nobody's heard of us, so nobody trusts us yet.

Founders booked on podcasts, journalists pitched, authority articles drafted on autopilot — credibility manufactured on a schedule.

Exa · Claude

XIGrowth Dashboard

We can't tell what's actually working.

Every platform, spend and conversion on one screen — the $ and the %s, live — so decisions get faster and nothing hides.

GHL · Custom agents

The receipts.

Over $10M generated for clients and 200+ launches. Real funnels, real revenue, real founders. A sample below — the rest is at the bottom of the page.

$45 → $8

cost per lead

Rebate Ready

Built a new AI-powered quote funnel and creative system in a single afternoon.

$140K

raised in 2 weeks

Careverse

Positioning, GTM and launch strategy — before the product even existed.

$1.3M

in the first 12 months

Courses and Funnels

Bootstrapped my own agency to seven figures — 200+ launches across nearly every niche.

200+ launches across health, SaaS, coaching, education, investing, real estate and ecommerce.

In their own words

Katrina Doucett

$55K in sales in the first two months

Josh Saunders

Jiu-Jitsu — Skool community scaled

Desta

Languages to Music — passion project to full-time income

Pedro

Almost $20K in sales in six weeks

Real revenue, real dashboards

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Featured personally in Forbes. Clients seen across ESPN, Yahoo Finance, Netflix, TEDx, ABC News + Fox News.

Backed startup that needs growth shipped, not discussed? Give me the resources and let me cook.

Start with a 30-day cookout — a paid trial, full AI kitchen, real output in week one. If it slaps, we go full-time. Remote, async-fluent, contractor-ready (Deel/Remote, 24-hour onboarding).