Customer Stories/The Man Company
D2C / GroomingMar 2026

The Man Company Doubled Creative Performance and Cut Iteration Time by 50%

Hawky × The Man Company creatives built from winning patterns
Overview

The Man Company is one of India’s leading D2C men’s grooming brands, running high-spend performance campaigns across Meta and Google Ads. At that scale, creative is the bottleneck, and the design team was producing ads without a clear view of what actually drove performance. They called it “designing in the dark.”

Its creative engine now runs on Hawky, the agentic performance marketing platform. Intelligence reads what works element by element, the Agent turns those patterns into new variants, and fatigue is caught before it drains spend. Here is what that partnership looks like in practice.

Results
Creative performancemore performance from the same creative effort, in three months.
Iteration time↓ 50%faster cycles, since the team fixes the fatiguing element, not the whole ad.
Launch velocitymore campaigns shipped as AI variants kept pace with testing demand.
ROAS+33%return on ad spend, with no increase in budget.
The Creative

Creative built from what actually works

Occasion campaigns, fragrance catalogues and offer creative, each built on the elements proven to perform, then refreshed before they fatigue.

His minute of calm
Occasion · Father's DayHis minute of calm
For the hands that held yours
Occasion · Father's DayFor the hands that held yours
All 3 for ₹1099
Catalogue · FragranceAll 3 for ₹1099
Buy any 3 perfumes
Offer · FragranceBuy any 3 perfumes
Stay ice cold
Product · BlancStay ice cold
His minute of calm
Occasion · Father's DayHis minute of calm
For the hands that held yours
Occasion · Father's DayFor the hands that held yours
All 3 for ₹1099
Catalogue · FragranceAll 3 for ₹1099
Buy any 3 perfumes
Offer · FragranceBuy any 3 perfumes
Stay ice cold
Product · BlancStay ice cold
Chirag AroraSenior Graphic Designer, The Man Company
Hawky fundamentally changed how we approach creative decisions. Instead of guessing what works, we now know exactly which elements drive performance, and we build from there.
Chirag Arora
The Challenge

Designing in the dark. Every creative call felt like a guess.

No element-level visibility
Gut-feel creative calls
Fatigue caught too late
Whole-creative rebuilds

With high spend on Meta and Google Ads, the team could see aggregate ROAS but had no visibility into which specific elements (hooks, visuals, CTAs) were earning results and which were quietly draining budget.

So every creative decision felt like a guess, fatigue was caught only after performance dropped, and fixing a tired ad meant rebuilding the whole thing.

How they changed it

Inside the work

01

Element-level creative analysis

What Hawky did

Hawky scores every active creative element by element, from hooks to visuals to CTAs, so the team sees exactly which component is earning results and which is quietly draining budget.

Why it worked

Creative decisions stopped being guesswork. The team builds on the elements proven to work, not a hunch.

02

Fatigue alerts before the drop

What Hawky did

Fatigue alerts flag creative decay before ROAS dips, so the team refreshes the tiring element on time instead of waiting for performance to fall.

Why it worked

Spend stops leaking into tired ads, and refreshes land before the damage, not after.

03

AI variants from winning patterns

What Hawky did

AI-generated variants are built directly from the winning patterns already in the account, keeping the testing pipeline full without rebuilding creatives from scratch.

Why it worked

Launch velocity tripled and iteration time halved, since the team fixes the element, not the whole ad.

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