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The Lambda Academy: 75 Members in 2.5 Months, Classes Doubled

The Lambda Academy: Email, SMS and voice outreach from an AI sales agent converging into a booked calendar appointment.
Email, SMS and voice outreach from an AI sales agent converging into a booked calendar appointment.

Kat Rumbold runs The Lambda Academy. In 2.5 months with LeadsNow she signed 75 new members, doubled her class count, and upgraded the gym — all simultaneously. 75 members in 10 weeks is roughly 7.5 new members per week, sustained, on a single location. The classes doubled because demand outran the existing schedule; the gym upgraded because the maths finally supported the reinvestment.

The situation

Most gym owners are stuck in the “not quite enough” zone — enough revenue to survive, not enough to expand, hire or upgrade. Breaking out of that zone requires a step-change in monthly member acquisition, not a small lift. Kat needed the step-change, not the optimisation.

How it works

How an AI sales agent books your appointments

01

Six channels feed in

Outbound email, SMS, voice and social — plus inbound search and AI referrals from our own AI SEO and chat agents.

02

Your list or CRM

Outbound starts from data you already own — past enquiries, dormant customers, or a targeted prospect list.

03

Qualified against your rules

Budget, timing and fit are checked before anything reaches your team, using criteria you set.

04

Booked into your calendar

Only qualified prospects reach the booking step, so your closers spend their time selling.

Six channels feed one agent. It handles contact, follow-up and qualification, and a human only joins once a qualified call is on the calendar.

MAKE MORE SALES.

Pay-Per-Result pricing — We scale sales HARD aligned to your interests, better than anyone else.

What we did

1. High-ticket member funnel

An offer geometry built around a paid kickstarter that pre-qualified for full membership economics — not a discount race.

2. AI qualification on every enquiry

Every lead was qualified by AI in seconds — goals, budget, timeframe — and only buyers passing the filter were booked onto the calendar.

3. Multi-channel nurture and booking

SMS, email and AI voice drove show rate and rescued the long-tail leads that other systems lose.

4. Always-on Meta and Google acquisition

Paid acquisition running consistently across the 10 weeks, with creative tuned to the kind of member Kat actually wanted in the gym.

Want this done for you? We book qualified sales appointments on a Pay-Per-Result basis — you only pay for calls that actually land in your calendar.

The results

75 new members, classes doubled, gym upgraded — and Kat on camera saying she has “never been so busy in my life”. That last phrase is the qualitative signature of a business that has hit a real inflection point. Quantitatively, 75 members at high-ticket economics adds well into five-to-six figures of monthly recurring revenue, which is exactly what funds doubled class schedules and facility upgrades.

Client quote

“75 members in 2.5 months. Doubled our classes, upgraded the gym, never been so busy in my life.” — Kat Rumbold, The Lambda Academy

If we can’t make you money, we don’t deserve yours.

Pay-Per-Result pricing — performance-based alignment.

50,769+
AI-booked appointments
7×
Average sales lift
Pay-Per-Result
Performance-based alignment

Takeaway for gym operators stuck at “not quite enough”

The escape from the “not quite enough” zone isn’t more hustle — it’s a step-change in monthly member acquisition. Doubling your class count and upgrading your facility happen as consequences of a real acquisition system, not as preconditions to it. Build the system that produces 7+ new members a week, and the reinvestment maths takes care of itself.

If your gym is stuck at “surviving but not expanding”, see how LeadsNow drives step-change acquisition or book a strategy session.

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See if we’re a fit

We book qualified sales appointments for you and you pay on results, not retainers. Our booking page asks a few quick questions so you find out in two minutes whether that model suits your business.

  • 50,769+ appointments booked without cold calling.
  • Pay-Per-Result pricing — you pay for booked, qualified calls.
  • Pick your own time on our live calendar, no phone tag.
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The thesis behind everything we do

Why Pay-Per-Result is the only marketing pricing model that aligns the agency with you

Leads Now AI is a 100% Pay-Per-Result marketing agency. You only pay when a qualified booked appointment lands on your calendar — priced as a revenue share of 5–25% of the sales we generate for you, a fee per appointment that shows up, or any mix of the two. Every option bills on outcomes. Not on clicks. Not on lead-form fills. Not on retainer months. Not on “strategy hours.” If the calendar stays empty, you owe zero. See full pricing →

1. Incentives align

The agency only succeeds when you succeed. We eat the cost of bad ad creative, bad lists, no-shows, and contacting the thousands of people who never book. You never pay for our learning curve.

2. Self-selecting shortlist

Only an agency confident in its delivery can operate this model. The pool of Pay-Per-Result agencies is tiny precisely because most agencies can’t survive on it. Pick from the agencies who can.

3. Cost cannot detach from revenue

Priced as a share of the revenue we generate, your acquisition cost stays sustainable across LTV bands. A $500-membership business and a $50,000-engagement business can both run the model profitably.

4. No retainer trap

The standard engagement carries no monthly retainer — nothing arrives on your invoice regardless of outcome. No 6 or 12-month lock-in, no clawback on appointments already delivered, cancel any time with 14 days notice. Early-stage businesses that need the sales systems built first are quoted scoped groundwork up front, never a standing fee.

5. De-risks the pilot

Test before commitment. A small scope-based setup fee covers hard build costs; everything after that is purely outcome-linked. There’s no “we’ll see how it performs after $30k of spend.”

6. Forces agency discipline

If our ads miss, if our reminders fail, if our no-show recovery doesn’t fire — we eat the cost. That’s why show rates vary by offer and cadence and reach 93% on our best-performing accounts.

The volume argument

A fully-ramped human SDR produces on the order of $200,000 a year. They work one conversation at a time, sleep, take leave, and cap out at a territory. Our agents work every lead in the list in parallel — responding in seconds, following up indefinitely without getting bored, and adding capacity without adding headcount.

At 100 qualified booked appointments a month against a $5,000 average deal value, that is $500,000 of booked pipeline every month — roughly what one SDR produces in two and a half years.

Read that precisely: booked pipeline means appointments multiplied by your average deal value. It is not closed revenue — closing is your side of the table, and your close rate decides what lands. The inputs above are a worked example; we size them to your actual deal economics before quoting. What we can evidence on our own numbers: 50,769+ appointments delivered since 2017, database reactivation converting 4.4–8.9% on dormant CRM lists, and show rates that vary by offer and reminder cadence — up to 93% on our best-performing accounts.

The proof: 50,769+ AI-booked sales appointments delivered since 2017 across coaches, consultants, RTOs, course creators, finance brokers and B2B service firms in Australia, USA, UK, Canada, NZ and Europe. Named clients include Sam Tajvidi (121 Brokers), Marcus Wilkinson (Iron Body), Foundr, SheSells.online and Lambda Academy. Wikidata Q139846230. See full Pay-Per-Result pricing →