Why CO8

Volume or quality was never the real choice. It was a missing system.

You have seen the generic AI output. You have waited on the agency. CO8 exists because both dead ends nearly capped one of the fastest-growing D2C brands on earth — until the trade-off was refused, not accepted.

Three routes to volume

Two of them cost you something you can't get back.

Every growth team eventually tries all three. Only one survives contact with a real ad account at real spend.

Route 1

Generic AI tools

Volume, instantly — and the feed can tell in half a second. Off-brand palettes, melted logos, uncanny product shots, and no memory of what your account already proved. The category earned its reputation, and every extra ad just spends it faster.

Volume
High
On-brand
Rarely
Memory
None
Route 2

Agencies & freelancers

Quality you can trust — two weeks and three revision rounds later. Briefs, approvals, resizing, invoices. By the time the batch lands, the winner you needed has already fatigued and the account has been starving on three tired creatives.

Volume
Low, slow
On-brand
Yes
Memory
In people
The CO8 way

On-brand, at volume, in minutes

Your brand is encoded once and enforced at generation time. Angles are mined from your customers' own words. Every cohort is structured for testing and exports in every channel size — then the results feed the next batch, so quality compounds instead of resetting.

Volume
Thousands / mo
On-brand
By construction
Memory
Living library

The category's reputation is earned

What generic AI gets wrong.

Five specific failure modes — and the mechanism CO8 uses to close each one.

The failure mode

  • Brand drift

    Off-brand colors, fonts, and layouts creep in the moment volume goes up — nobody is enforcing the rules at scale.

  • No cohort structure

    Outputs are one-offs. Nothing is comparable, nothing is sized to teach you anything as a batch.

  • No channel sizes

    One image, one ratio. Resizing for Meta, TikTok, and Pinterest is still your afternoon, every time.

  • No memory

    Every prompt starts from zero. Yesterday's winner teaches the tool nothing about tomorrow's brief.

  • Prompt dependency

    Quality depends on how well you can prompt a model, not on your brand, your product, or your customers.

How CO8 solves it

  • Brand rules are encoded once and enforced at generation time, not at review time.
  • Every batch renders as a structured, launchable cohort sized to your account's learning speed.
  • Every ad exports in every channel size — 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9 — together, per ad.
  • Winners and losers both feed a living angle library, so every batch starts smarter.
  • Angles are mined from your real reviews, offers, and claims — no blank prompt box, ever.

Proven at operator scale

Built inside the brands the case studies are written about.

Before CO8 was a product, it was the production engine behind some of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the world. The numbers below are theirs — and the playbook is now yours.

5K–20K

static ads shipped per month inside IM8

$200M+

IM8 year-two revenue, fueled by CO8 creative

$1B+

Comfrt 2026 projected revenue — the operator playbook behind CO8

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channels covered: Meta, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Display

IM8 NASDAQ: PRE

Health & longevity, co-founded with David Beckham

The fastest-growing supplements brand in history. Co-founded with David Beckham and wholly owned by Prenetics, IM8 is on track to surpass $200M in revenue in its second year — fueled by thousands of high-performing ads a month, produced with CO8.

$200M+
Year-two revenue
5K–20K
Ads shipped per month
Case study
Comfrt DTC apparel

Community-led comfort apparel

One of the fastest-growing DTC brands in the world — bootstrapped with no outside capital and on track to surpass $1B in annual revenue in 2026, up from $16M in year one. Hudson Leogrande built it into the most-sold hoodie globally and the #1 apparel brand on TikTok Shop.

$1B+
2026 revenue (projected)
$0
Outside capital raised
Case study
CircleDNA NASDAQ: PRE

The world's most comprehensive consumer DNA test

Prenetics' consumer-genomics brand, sister to IM8 under the same operators. Whole-exome sequencing turns a single saliva sample into 500+ personalized health, nutrition, and performance reports at >99.9% analytical accuracy.

500+
Reports per test
99.9%
Analytical accuracy
"Campaign success depends on volume and variation of ads."
Meta — on what actually moves paid social

Built by operators

Not a software company's guess. An operator's answer.

The three people who built CO8 needed it to win first.

At IM8 we were running thousands of ads a month, and the constraint was never spend — it was creative. We couldn't produce enough high-quality work fast enough to feed the machine. CO8 fixed that, and it became one of the biggest reasons we scaled the way we did.

Danny Yeung

Co-Founder, CO8 · Co-Founder & CEO, IM8 · CEO, Prenetics (NASDAQ: PRE)

Hudson has built consumer brands by moving fast, reading the market, and turning emotional connection into repeatable growth. He brings that DTC operator mindset to CO8 — creative should be fast enough to match culture, but disciplined enough to scale.

Hudson Leogrande

Co-Founder, CO8 · Founder & CEO, Comfrt · Founder, PurelyWHITE

Great creative shouldn't require a big agency or a huge team. We saw firsthand what this platform did inside IM8 — keeping it in-house stopped making sense. CO8 puts the ability to make high-performing static ads, at scale, into anyone's hands.

Gary Hui

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, CO8 · Former AI growth strategist, IM8

The questions you're already asking

No demo gate. Straight answers.

If a question isn't here, the team answers it directly — no sales call required.

Is this just another AI image generator?
No. Image generators make pictures; CO8 makes performance creative. It starts from your real brand — products, reviews, offers, identity — mines the angles your customers actually respond to, and produces structured ad concepts built to be tested, not admired. The output looks designed, not generated, because obvious AI artifacts quietly kill performance in the feed.
What does 'on-brand at volume' actually mean?
Your palettes, logos, fonts, layouts, and tone — encoded once, enforced on every asset, at any volume. When you ship hundreds of ads a month, consistency isn't a nice-to-have; it's what separates a brand from a content farm. That discipline is the difference between volume and slop.
How do I know the quality holds up?
Because the system was never a demo. It was the internal engine feeding IM8 — co-founded with David Beckham, on track to surpass $200M in year-two revenue — thousands of live, spending, performing ads every month. CO8 wasn't built to look good in a pitch deck; it was built to survive a real ad account.
Why static ads and not video?
Focus. Static is the fastest format to produce, test, and iterate — which makes it the highest-velocity learning loop in performance marketing, and where most DTC accounts still win. Everyone chases video; disciplined statics at volume out-test them week after week.
Can it replace my agency or design team?
It replaces the bottleneck, not the people. Teams use CO8 to remove production drag — the resizing, the variations, the tenth revision — so designers and strategists spend their time on taste and direction. A team of one gets agency-grade output; an agency serves more clients without more headcount.
Who owns what I create, and is my brand data safe?
You own your creatives — commercial usage is included on paid plans. Your brand assets are used to generate your creative and keep it on-brand, nothing else. Your products, identity, and inputs stay yours.

Your brand deserves better than slop.

See what your products look like through the engine that scaled IM8.

No demo gate. Transparent pricing. Cancel any time.