Bottled Baking Co already had the hard part solved. Real traffic was arriving to the site and the brand itself was genuinely growing. This was never a demand problem.
The gap sat entirely on the monetization and infrastructure side of the business. Email was underbuilt relative to the traffic arriving: it was generating under 5% of total revenue, a significant under-monetization gap for a brand with a growing, engaged audience.
At the same time, paid media was running without clear conversion tracking. Every media decision, every "this is working" call, every budget reallocation was being made on a number nobody could fully vouch for.
Until measurement was fixed first, scaling paid media further would only have scaled a broken signal faster, and the real opportunity sitting in that traffic would keep going uncaptured.