Akshun Dogra × Traide | hire.akshundogra.com/traide

36x ROAS. Built AI pipelines.
Now let's build it for Traide.
Compliance market, owned.

I scaled AI-sourced traffic from 1% to 20% of total pipeline at a B2B SaaS startup — and cut manual SDR effort by 80% via intent-signal automation. Traide sits at the intersection of AI and trade compliance, where buyers are searching but few vendors are visible — that's exactly the gap I know how to close.

✉ businessakshun@gmail.com

AI meets customs: a category worth owning now.

Traide is building a genuinely novel category — AI-driven tariff classification and export control compliance — in a market where most buyers still rely on manual processes. The founding team has proven the model works; now the growth challenge is making sure procurement leads, compliance managers, and trade teams find Traide before they find vertexinc or mic-cust. I've done exactly this kind of category-creation growth work at an AI B2B SaaS startup, and I want to bring that to Berlin.

Part marketer,
part engineer.

I don't fit neatly in one box — and that's the point. I design systems that connect data to revenue across paid, organic, and automation channels.

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Performance Marketing

End-to-end paid media across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn. 36x+ ROAS, $50K+ monthly budgets managed. Demand creation and capture in one unified funnel.

At Ingestro — cut CPC 20%, raised CTR 30% via A/B testing across Google & LinkedIn.

Google Ads

Meta Ads

LinkedIn Ads

A/B Testing

Full-funnel architecture

Demand Creation LinkedIn · Meta

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Demand Capture Google Search

↓

Retargeting Display · Social

36x+ Peak ROAS achieved

Most relevant for Traide

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Marketing Automation

Full pipelines from intent signal to outreach with human-in-the-loop gates. −80% manual SDR effort. Built on Make, Clay, Apollo, Lemlist.

At Ingestro — built RB2B → Clay → Lemlist pipeline. SDR effort cut 80% in 3 months.

Make

Clay

Apollo

Lemlist

HubSpot

Intent signal pipeline

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RB2B

Visitor ID

→

🔗

Apollo

Enrich

→

Make

Route

→

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Clay

ICP Score

HIGH

📧 Lemlist

MID

💬 SDR Review

LOW

🗑 Discard

−80% Manual SDR effort saved

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SEO & GEO

Technical SEO, schema markup, and LLM/GEO visibility strategy. 400% organic growth. Early practitioner of Generative Engine Optimisation.

At Ingestro — AI-sourced traffic from 1% → 20% of sessions. Now 10% of total pipeline.

SEMrush

GA4

Schema

GEO

Python

LLM visibility strategy

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Dynamic Schema

Per-page structured data, LLM-readable

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Prompt Tracking

Peec AI + Search Console gaps

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Community Signals

Reddit + LinkedIn citations

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Authority Profiles

G2 + Crunchbase optimised

400% Organic traffic growth

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Technical Marketing

Webflow builds, GTM, conversion tracking, and ABM page generation at scale. I build and measure without needing a dev team.

At Ingestro — built personalised ABM pages at scale using Make + Clay + ChatGPT feeding Webflow.

Webflow

GTM

HTML/CSS

Tracking & measurement stack

Webflow

HTML/CSS/JS

↓ events fire

Google Tag Manager Central hub

↓ distributes to

GA4

FB Pixel

Google Ads

0 Dev team needed

What I'd do in the
first 90 days

At Ingestro, I built an intent-signal pipeline — RB2B → Apollo → Make → Clay → Lemlist — that cut manual SDR effort by 80% and enabled personalised outbound at scale without growing the team headcount. Traide's sales motion, with a small AE team closing demo-led deals, is exactly where this kind of automation compounds fastest. I also built personalised ABM landing pages at scale using Make, Clay, and ChatGPT feeding dynamic Webflow templates — a playbook I can run for Traide's ICP of logistics operators, manufacturers, and customs teams.

Launch intent-driven outbound pipeline — I'll build a signal-to-sequence pipeline using tools like Clay and Apollo targeting companies with active HS code classification or export control pain — delivering personalised outreach to compliance managers and trade leads without adding SDR headcount.

Own paid search for compliance keywords — SpyFu shows Traide is bidding on 9 keywords including 'hts classification software' and 'zollklassifizierung software' but estimated monthly PPC clicks are near zero — I'll audit campaign structure, test German-language landing pages against lp.traide.ai, and scale what converts.

Build GEO visibility for customs AI queries — Trade compliance buyers increasingly use AI tools to research vendors — I'll implement a GEO strategy using structured content, schema, and prompt-tracking via Peec AI to get Traide surfaced when buyers ask 'best AI for customs classification' or 'automated HS code software.'

I already did some
homework.

I reviewed Traide's paid presence, automation signals, and organic visibility across three angles — here's where the biggest growth opportunities sit for a founder-stage AI compliance company.

⬡ Observations · Traide Full analysis available on request

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Performance — Traide is bidding on 9 keywords with near-zero estimated clicks — expanding to competitor-conquesting terms like 'vertexinc alternative' and LinkedIn-paired demand capture could unlock faster pipeline.
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Automation — Adding a Clay-enriched intent layer between demo request form submissions and AE outreach would reduce qualification lag and let the current small sales team prioritise highest-fit trade compliance leads first.
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SEO / GEO — Traide's AI use-case content could be optimised with FAQ schema and LLM-visible formatting to capture growing generative search queries around customs tariff classification and export control automation.
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The dedicated demo landing page at lp.traide.ai shows smart conversion-focused thinking worth building on.
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I can share a Loom walkthrough with more detail — just ask.

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Data transparency: Observations are based on publicly available data (SpyFu, Screaming Frog, page source analysis) and may not reflect actual budgets or internal metrics. Public tools typically underreport actual spend and traffic by 5–10x — real figures are almost always significantly higher than what's shown here.

Marketing, engineering,
and a lot of borders crossed.

My name, Akshun, means "undestructable" in Sanskrit. That's not a personal brand line — it genuinely shapes how I move. I don't quit on campaigns, goals, or challenges like learning German from scratch after landing in a new country.

I started freelancing in digital marketing at 19 in India — working with Punjabi music artists, Australian businesses, and tech clients before I'd ever left the country. That early pressure to figure things out without a team or a budget is where the technical + creative hybrid came from.

I moved to Nürnberg in 2022 for an M.Sc. at FAU, added an Erasmus semester in Madrid, hit German C1, and picked up enough Spanish to embarrass myself. Outside the dashboards, I run a YouTube channel documenting the unfiltered reality of being an Indian expat in Germany — no filters, real stories.

What I keep coming back to: the best marketing sits at the intersection of creativity, data, and technical execution. Most teams have one or two. I try to bring all three.

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India — Where it started

Started freelancing at 19. Music artists, Australian businesses, tech clients. Taught myself SEO, PPC, and web dev out of necessity.

2016 – 2022

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Germany — The big leap

M.Sc. at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. German to C1. Joined an AI startup, built full growth stack from scratch.

2022 – Present

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Spain — The bonus chapter

Erasmus at UPM Madrid. Picked up Spanish, confirmed food in Madrid is genuinely incredible.

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

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On YouTube

The unfiltered reality of moving from India to Germany — visa stress, language barriers, real stories.

youtube.com/@akshundogra →

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The man behind all of this.

Akshun Dogra · Technical Growth Marketer

36x ROAS. Built AI pipelines.
Now let's build it for Traide.
Compliance market, owned.

AI meets customs: a category worth owning now.

Part marketer,
part engineer.

What I'd do in the
first 90 days

I already did some
homework.

Marketing, engineering,
and a lot of borders crossed.

Did we just build
something worth pursuing?

This page was built
specifically for Traide.

Glad you stopped by,
Traide.

36x ROAS. Built AI pipelines. Now let's build it for Traide. Compliance market, owned.

AI meets customs: a category worth owning now.

Part marketer,part engineer.

What I'd do in thefirst 90 days

I already did somehomework.

Marketing, engineering,and a lot of borders crossed.

Did we just buildsomething worth pursuing?

This page was builtspecifically for Traide.

Glad you stopped by,Traide.

36x ROAS. Built AI pipelines.
Now let's build it for Traide.
Compliance market, owned.

Part marketer,
part engineer.

What I'd do in the
first 90 days

I already did some
homework.

Marketing, engineering,
and a lot of borders crossed.

Did we just build
something worth pursuing?

This page was built
specifically for Traide.

Glad you stopped by,
Traide.