LAUNCH SCOPE AND PLAN

Premina Exports
x Masonry Studio

Brand, demand and commerce for a December launch.

PREPARED FORMithil, Premina Exports
FROMJustin Alva, Masonry Studio
DATEJuly 2026
STATUSScope for selection, not a priced quote
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02 / THE PITCH

You make the product.
We make the market.

YOURS

Fifteen years of backward integration. Your own knitting, fabric processing and garmenting. Lines running for Reliance, Aditya Birla and Cult.fit. Almost nobody launching in this category has that, and it takes years to build.

Spend the next four months there.

OURS

The brand, the demand, and everything between a stranger and a checkout. Not a vendor you brief and then chase, but the marketing team you would hire if you had a year to build one.

You stay a stakeholder throughout.

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03 / WHAT WE HEARD

A luxury kidswear brand, 24 SKUs, live in December.

Product R&D nearly done. Identity, IP and trademarks in place. Knitwear for ages 0 to 24 months at launch, then 24 to 36 months next season, extending every year after that. What you asked us for:

01Social account management and content production
02Meta ads and campaign operations
03Campaign ideas, and someone to carry them through
04Automation for daily inbound queriesANSWERED ON 13
05A defined monthly cadence of posts and reelsADDRESSED ON 16
06Target metricsANSWERED ON 17
07A marketing and sales partner, not a social media agency

That last line is what we built this around.

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04 / WHERE THE PREMIUM COMES FROM

The garment is the floor, not the price.

You said it yourself: better knitwear, but still a t-shirt. Nobody can feel GSM through a phone screen. Everything above the base layer is what a customer can actually perceive, and it is what she pays the difference for.

The garmentAlready yours. Sells at parity.
Service and responseDM answered at 11pm
Packaging and unboxingThe first physical touch
Narrative and positioningWhy this costs what it costs
Photography and art directionWhat she judges in 1.2 seconds
Luxury price
The premium
Created entirely above the base layer
Mid-market price

Cut layers out of the stack and you cut the price you can defend. That is why this cannot be run as five disconnected line items.

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05 / THE CATEGORY

The opening is real. The category is not empty.

Jacadi opened its first India boutique in Mumbai in March 2025 and runs D2C alongside it. Choupette has sold luxury kidswear here for years with stylist assistance and boutique service. Little Tags puts Dolce and Gabbana in front of the same customer.

₹300 to ₹800FirstCry, Babyhug, KuchipooMass
₹800 to ₹1,500H&M Kids, Zara Kids, UCB Kids, Mango KidsMid
₹1,500 to ₹3,500Ed-a-Mamma, Nino Bambino, Masilo, Mom & ZoeyPremium organic
₹3,500 and aboveJacadi Paris, Choupette, Little Tags LuxuryLuxury and imported
Where you intend to sitAgainst three incumbents who already say a version of itTo be defined

Premium organic has already trained Indian parents to spend ₹1,500 to ₹3,500 on a baby garment that comes with a story. "Luxury kidswear for India" is not a sharp enough wedge on its own. Finding the one that is sharp enough is the first thing we do together.

Bands indicative, from publicly listed pricing as of mid 2026.

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06 / THE PRIZE IS NOT THE FIRST SALE

You are not acquiring a purchase. You are acquiring a decade.

BIRTH2 YRS3 YRS 4 YRS6 YRS8 YRS
0 to 24m
24 to 36m
36 to 48m
4 to 6y
6 to 8y
8 to 12y
What most brands
optimise for
First order
What we would
optimise for
One family, six size ranges, roughly a decade of wardrobe
Often, also
Second child, starting again at 0 to 24m

Acquisition cost does not have to be recovered on the first order, which changes what we can afford to pay for the right customer.

Knowing when a child is about to outgrow a range is worth more than another 10% off a Meta CPM. The size-up prompt becomes a growth channel.

Most kidswear brands in India are run for the first transaction. Running this for the decade is a real structural advantage.

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07 / WHAT MASONRY STUDIO IS

One point of accountability, and a bench behind it.

Mithil and the Premina team
Product, manufacturing, final decisions
Masonry Studio
Fractional CMO. Strategy, planning, creative direction, and the number.
Build partner
Shopify and stack
Design partner
Brand and social craft
Photo and video
Campaign and catalog
Performance agency
Meta and Google
Specialists
By task, as needed

Where we do not already have the right partner, we run an RFP, down-select, run the interviews, and hand you a shortlist with a recommendation. You make the final call. If you later want marketing in house, we scope the role, run the hiring and onboard the person, then step back to advisory.

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08 / STAKEHOLDER, NOT PASSENGER

Outsourcing usually costs you visibility. This is built so it does not.

DecisionHow it worksSits with
Positioning and brand narrativeWe develop and present options with reasoning. You choose.YOU APPROVE
Campaign concepts and creative directionConcepts come to you before production spend is committed.YOU APPROVE
Pricing, discounting and promotionWe recommend and model the margin effect. You decide.YOU DECIDE
Budget allocation across channelsProposed monthly, adjusted in the business review.YOU APPROVE
Partner selectionRFP, down-select, interviews, shortlist with a recommendation.YOU DECIDE
Day to day execution and optimisationWe run it. You see it in the dashboard, not in your inbox.MASONRY
Weekly working sessionWhat shipped, what is next, what needs a decision from you.MASONRY RUNS
Monthly business reviewAgainst the numbers agreed at kickoff. No surprises.MASONRY RUNS

A live dashboard you can open any day, not a PDF that arrives on the 5th. Direct access to me, not an account manager. You spend hours on this, not weeks.

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09 / SCOPE, PART ONE

Eight workstreams. Decide what is in and what is out.

01
Commerce foundation

Shopify build, merchandising architecture, product data and copy, payments and COD, shipping and returns, gifting infrastructure, analytics and tracking, pre-launch QA.

02
Brand activation and creative direction

Narrative and messaging framework, tone of voice, message hierarchy by audience, art direction for the launch campaign, packaging and unboxing, customer journey mapping.

03
Content production

Campaign shoot from pre-production through post, casting, styling, lookbook and catalog imagery, campaign film and cutdowns, monthly production, copywriting, asset library.

04
Organic social and community

Channel strategy, content pillars, calendar and publishing, community management and response SLAs, social search and answer engine optimisation.

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10 / SCOPE, PART TWO

The demand and retention half.

05
Creator, influencer and PR

Creator tiering and sourcing, seeding program, paid partnerships and whitelisting, launch PR and press kit, ambassador program design.

06
Performance marketing

Meta and Google account structure, audience strategy, creative testing operations, feed and catalog management, budget pacing, measurement on MER and blended CAC.

07
Lifecycle, CRM and conversational commerce

Email and WhatsApp, automated flows including size-up and replenishment, WhatsApp Business API, AI assisted query handling, loyalty and referral, single customer view.

08
Growth operations and expansion

Operating cadence and dashboard, pricing and promotion architecture, marketplace strategy for phase two, hiring support for your first in house marketing hire, vendor management.

Safe to defer to Q1: marketplace expansion, loyalty program, offline activation, international. Everything else compounds, and cutting one piece weakens the others.

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11 / WHO ACTUALLY DOES THE WORK

We hold the thinking. Execution goes to specialists we manage.

Commerce foundation
Strategy and planning
Build partner
In house
Brand and creative direction
Strategy and planning
Design partner
In house
Content production
Strategy and planning
Freelance photographers and videographers
Organic social
Strategy and planning
Design partner
In house
Creator, influencer and PR
Strategy and planning
In house
Agency, only at scale
Performance marketing
Strategy, creative and testing plan
Performance marketing agency
Lifecycle, CRM and automation
Strategy and execution, entirely in house
Growth ops and hiring
Strategy and planning
In house
Partners or freelancers by task
Masonry Studio
Partner we select and manage

Every partner is managed by us and paid through a structure you approve. You never chase a vendor, because we do.

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12 / WHY ONE TEAM

Five vendors gives you five strategies.

THE USUAL SHAPE
You
Refereeing five briefs
Social
Engagement
Performance
Reported ROAS
Web dev
Launch date
Photographer
Portfolio
Influencer
Reach

None of them optimises for the brand, and the brand is the only thing you are actually selling. When conversion drops, performance blames the site and the developer blames traffic quality. You end up refereeing.

THIS SHAPE
You
One conversation
Masonry Studio
Accountable for the number
Build
Managed
Creative
Managed
Performance
Managed

One strategy and one person answerable for it. When something breaks it comes to us, and it comes back with an answer. You are buying judgment, not just hands.

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13 / DAILY QUERIES

Automated in four tiers, because full automation would be a mistake.

A customer paying a premium expects a human when it matters. So we automate the volume and protect the moments that carry the brand.

DEFLECT
Proper help centre, size guide, delivery promise widget, order tracking page.
Removes 40 to 60% before it becomes a message
AUTOMATE
AI agent across WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and site chat, grounded in your real catalog, sizing, order status and policies. Your brand voice, not a bot voice.
Most of what remains, awake at 2am
ESCALATE
Anything the agent is unsure about, plus every complaint, defect and high value order, routed to a human with the full conversation attached.
Agreed SLA, reported weekly
LEARN
Every escalation logged and categorised. Recurring ones become new coverage, new site content, or an ops fix.
Feeds back into tier one
Loops back to Deflect, so the system needs less human time each month

WhatsApp Business API approval takes one to three weeks. That makes this a September task, not a November one.

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14 / THE PLAN TO DECEMBER

Four months of runway, sequenced.

AUGSEPOCT NOVDECJAN FEBMAR
Scope lock and kickoff
NDA, scope, commercials
Discovery and strategy
Product, ICP, pricing, positioning, channel plan, targets
Build
Shopify, payments, logistics, WhatsApp API, analytics, shoot prep
Produce and go live
Shoot, Instagram live, waitlist opens, seeding, PR
Demand build
Paid warm-up, lifecycle flows, early access
Launch
Launch
Scale and expand
Paid scaling, retention, second drop, 24 to 36 months, marketplace evaluation
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15 / CRITICAL PATH

Four things decide whether December happens.

Photo ready samples in handBY 30 SEP
Payment gateway and COD onboarding startedBY 07 SEP
WhatsApp Business API filedBY 15 SEP
Child model casting and permissions lockedSHOOT MINUS 4 WKS
December

The shoot feeds the website, the ads, organic, seeding and PR. Everything downstream waits on it.

If any of these slip we would rather cut launch scope than compromise launch quality. A focused December followed by a strong January beats a rushed December you only get to do once.

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16 / A DELIBERATE OMISSION

We left the content calendar out on purpose.

You asked for posts and reels per month. Any agency will give you that number, and every one of them will give you roughly the same one, whether the strategy behind it is excellent or nonexistent. That is what makes it a poor way to choose a partner.

Volume is an output. It falls out of the channel plan, and the channel plan falls out of positioning, and positioning falls out of the product, the price and the customer. None of those are settled yet. Committing to sixteen posts today would just be committing to fill sixteen slots.

What we will commit to now:

The channel never goes dark.

The content bank has real runway at launch, rather than a week of scramble.

Paid creative gets tested at a velocity that actually moves performance.

All three get numbers attached at kickoff, agreed with you, and reported weekly.

01
Product, price and customer
Not yet shared with us
02
Positioning
Blocked by 01
03
Channel plan
Blocked by 02
04
Budget allocation
Blocked by 03
05
Cadence and volume
The number you asked for

Ask us for cadence once we have agreed the strategy. Then the number means something and we can stand behind it.

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17 / HOW WE MEASURE IT

Targets get set at kickoff. The framework does not change.

Real numbers need your pricing, margin and inventory depth. What we optimise for is fixed regardless.

PRE-LAUNCH / OCT TO NOV
  • Qualified waitlist signups
  • Cost per waitlist signup
  • Creator partnerships live
  • Depth of the content bank
  • Site readiness against launch checklist
LAUNCH / DEC
  • Launch month revenue
  • Waitlist to purchase conversion
  • Site conversion rate and AOV
  • Sell-through by SKU
  • Blended CAC and return rate
POST-LAUNCH / Q1
  • MER
  • Contribution margin after marketing
  • Repeat rate at 90 days
  • Owned channel revenue share
  • CAC payback period
WE WILL REPORT BUT NOT CHASE Follower count Impressions Reach Platform reported ROAS in isolation All four are easy to inflate.
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18 / WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

To turn this into a real plan and a real price.

01The 24 SKU line list, with fabric and construction detail
02Samples or prototypes we can see
03Retail price points and gross margin by category
04Who you believe you are selling to, and why she pays the premium
05The differentiation you mentioned but have not shared yet
06Inventory depth per SKU and reorder lead time
07Pan India, or metro first
08Budget envelope for media, production and operations
09D2C only at launch, or D2C plus marketplace
10Whether December suits lightweight knits in your target cities, or whether launch should lean toward gifting sets

Happy to sign an NDA before any of this moves.

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19 / COMMERCIAL SHAPE

No numbers until you tell us what is in and what is out.

Fixed layer
Fractional CMO retainer. Strategy, planning, management, accountability.MONTHLY
Variable layer
Execution, priced against the workstreams you select. Scales up for launch, back down for steady state.MONTHLY
Project
Production. Shoot, talent, location, styling, post. At cost plus a management fee.PER PROJECT
Outside the engagement
Media spend, paid by you directly to the platforms. Tooling licensed in your name.NOT THROUGH US

We never take a percentage of media. An agency paid on a slice of your ad spend has a reason to want your ad spend to go up, and that is exactly the wrong incentive to build into the contract.

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20 / CLOSE

Do what you are
already the best at.

THE TRADE

You have spent fifteen years learning to make the garment. There is no version of the next four months where your time is better spent approving Instagram captions.

Hand the brand and the demand to a team that does this for a living, stays integrated with you, and answers for the number.

WHAT YOU GET

Strategy stays coherent, because one group holds all of it. Execution goes to people who are genuinely good at their piece. And when a marketing problem shows up, and it will, someone's job is to solve it rather than explain why it is not theirs.

You get your December. And you get to spend it on the product.

Next step: decide the scope, and we will get you a priced proposal within a week.

Justin Alva
Founder, Masonry Studio
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