Collective42

I’m the CEO of VST, a distributor of machine vision products. We specialize in ultra-high-resolution machine vision cameras and components.

We hired Collective42 to design and develop our website.

Collective42 has helped us design and develop our website. We started the process by helping Collective42 learn about our company, what we were looking for, and the vision we had for the website. We wanted a modern, clean, and dynamic website that highlighted our products. We also wanted a camera selector that was more streamlined and easier to use, making it more user-friendly and easier to navigate for customers to find what they needed.

We worked with 6–8 individuals, including the owners, a project manager, developers, and designers.

We found Collective42 on Clutch.

We've spent $26,000.

We started working together in January 2025, and the website launched in June 2025. The engagement is ongoing.

Collective42 has exceeded our expectations. The team has been instrumental in nailing down our vision and the overall vibe we wanted.

After the website launched, I reached out to the owner and let him know that his communication was outstanding. We noticed this very early on. We've used Basecamp, emails, phone calls, and Zoom meetings.

Their communication is outstanding. Their strengths are their communication and ability to help us find what we need. They're effective at pulling information from us to get the desired product.

No, there’s nothing they can improve on.

Hire them the first time around.

I’m the director of marketing for Nutrishare. We’re a home infusion pharmacy specializing exclusively in parenteral nutrition (PN). We’ve been providing IV nutrition services to consumers nationwide for over 30 years.

We needed help managing our paid media and website. We had limited data history and needed to optimize for conversions for a very niche audience (long-term home TPN). Our website was built on extremely outdated code, and we needed to integrate it with existing platforms. We also needed to migrate two CRMs.

Collective42 provides SEO management, paid advertising management (Meta and Google), and website support (creative, development, and project management). They’ve also helped us with a website redesign project.

We work with six team members.

I’ve worked with them in the past, and they’re my preferred partner for paid media and web management.

We’ve spent around $100,000.

We started working together in June 2024, and the partnership is ongoing.

We’ve seen an increase in traffic and conversions.

They deliver on time and are extremely responsive. We communicate via email and virtual meetings.

They’re reliable and quick to respond when any issue arises. They truly act as an extension of our team, eager to learn more about the target audience and provide solutions and recommendations to optimize for company goals. They immerse themselves in the industry to better understand our audience. I can call on them anytime with a question and don’t feel like I’m being nickel and dimed for it. They take the time to focus on the end result.

No, they’re fantastic!

I’m the head of marketing for a clothing company.

We needed help with digital marketing, creative, and web design.

Collective42 has helped us redo our entire website. The team designs all of our email and social media using Figma. We hand off the copy, assets, and general ideas, and Collective42 does the layouts and designs. They're responsible for the creative process. We're currently working on redoing the entire copy on our website. The team is working on putting that all on a development site so we can review everything and approve it from there.

We work directly with Collective42's co-founders, Steven and Ricardo, and three more teammates. We maintain contact with them, although Collective42 has more internal staff on our account.

Our previous consultant referred us to Collective42.

We've spent between $50,000 and $199,000 yearly.

We started working together in January 2023, and the engagement is ongoing.

Our ROAS has gone up. Collective42 has done a great job of tracking our performance. The team has given great advice on increasing our Google and Meta ads budget. We're up about 20% to 30% year-over-year in revenue, site traffic, and conversion. Collective42 has helped us manage our budget efficiently and in a controlled manner, which has been beneficial.

Collective42 meets deadlines and stays on budget. They work with us and are very open about the budget. The team has accommodated us when we've gone a little outside the scope of work.

Collective42 has been super patient and understanding. They're open to ideas. Collective42 is outstanding at bouncing ideas off of to see if they align with the industry. Ricardo and other teammates have excelled in addressing some communication issues we've experienced.

We had some growing pains in the beginning. We were trying to relay a message, and what we were getting back wasn't exactly what we wanted. That wasn't all on them. We had a consultant who was relaying the information. Things got lost in communication, and things had changed by the time it got back to us.

Communicate with Collective42. Be open and honest. The team has a great outlook and perspective on things. They're super accommodating. If you're not getting what you want, express it. Sometimes Collective42 misunderstands you and what you want. Have a strong point of contact with Collective42. Honest and open communication always goes a long way.

I'm a tech advisor for NuroLux.

We hired Collective42 for website design and development services. Our website was a mess, and we had a short timeline.

Collective42 provided us with website design and development services. The team helped us increase our online presence. They built a platform aggregating material for caregivers of autistic individuals, from children to adults. The team also helped us with our readiness test, which is a test that individuals take to get a report back that helps them get into more detail. They also built our LMS system.

We worked with a design resource and three engineers.

Our founder knew Collective42's CEO, Ricardo, for a few years. They met at a networking event a long time ago. Our founder was originally with another company and had some websites done by Collective42. Then, she was with another engineering firm to build out the website, and they were terrible.

We spent between $10,000–$25,000.

We worked together from December 2024 to February 2025.

We just launched the website on February 5, 2025, so we don’t have any analytics. Their work exceeded our expectations. I've worked in software development for a long time, and their attention to detail was phenomenal. The team critically thought through other problems before they arose, and their problem-solving skills were on point.

They delivered the work before the deadline and came in well within the budget. Their pricing was amazing. The team worked with us to complete the project, and the timeline brilliantly exceeded our expectations without increasing cost. They found ways to make it happen. We communicated using Slack, and they provided incredibly detailed documentation.

I want to give a shout-out to Ricardo; he was phenomenal. He oversaw everything that was going on, was on top of any detailed questions we had or anything we needed, and literally made the impossible happen in an impossible timeline. He saved us for a launch that we had to do.

Collective42 took the time to find the right teammates and capabilities at the right time. Their team was great, and they grew so much. They were phenomenal in getting this proof of concept buttoned up, and some excellent engineers were working behind the scenes.

No, there’s nothing they can improve on.

If you don't have a clear vision of what you want, they will help you. If you haven't talked to Collective42 or gotten a quote, I would do that and meet the team, or you'd miss out on an opportunity for great rates and awesome work.

I am the Founder and Owner of Lang Enterprises, LLC

We provide fractional CMO and digital marketing services for small and mid cap DTC companies.

Worked on another project together

Worked on several other projects together

2-5 Employees

The Collective 42 team & I were scoped to help grow a new women's DTC premium jewelry brand's e-commerce business through through a multi-pronged approach of email, paid search & SEO services. We were hired on a trial basis in April of '24 and after our first 3 months of performance were asked to stay on for an indefinite period of time, picking up an incremental paid social channel (Meta) as part of our incremental, on-going scope. The client was very pleased with our performance, contribution to growth & new customer acquisition as well as our overall process for working hand-in-hand with the client in their internal teams.

Doubled sales growth, increased new customer acquisition by 2x and contributed a 3.0+ ROAS in the first several months of being in market with our strategies & tactics.

Yes, the team is very flexible and professional and works towards hitting your and the client's objectives. The project management team is strong and helps keep all projects and team members abreast of progress and any sticking points, as well as offering relevant creative solutions to work around any foreseeable bottlenecks.

The ability to adapt and also go above and beyond what is asked of scope.

None that I can think of.