DevBrother

AdTech & MarTech engineering

Own your marketing stack. Trust your data. Prove what every dollar returns.

We architect, build, and integrate the infrastructure behind modern marketing — CDP, server-side tracking, multi-touch attribution, and a unified data layer that connects ad platforms, CRM, and analytics into one source of truth. Engineered by us, owned by you.

A 30-minute technical review of your stack. We map your data flow, tracking gaps, and attribution blind spots — whether or not you work with us.

Built by the team behind work for Animoca, Polkadot, Solana
SOC2 · GDPR · HIPAA-ready data engineering
Your stack, your data — fully owned by you

The hidden tax on every marketing team

Your tools work. Your data doesn't.

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A stack that doesn't talk

Ad platforms, CRM, analytics, and CDP each hold a slice of the truth — and none of them agree. Reporting becomes a manual reconciliation job.

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Attribution you can't trust

Last-click lies. iOS and cookie loss broke client-side tracking. You're optimizing budget on numbers you quietly know are wrong.

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Signal loss to the ad platforms

Without server-side tracking and clean conversion data, the algorithms optimize blind — and your CAC creeps up while you watch.

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Locked into vendor black boxes

Your "platform" owns your data, your pixels, and your logic. Switch tools and you start from zero. You're renting your own growth engine.

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Compliance as an afterthought

Consent, PII handling, and regional rules are bolted on later — a risk no one owns until it becomes a problem.

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Every change needs a ticket

A new event, a new integration, a new report — and it's weeks of back-and-forth, because no one engineered the stack to be changed.

Why this needs engineers

Agencies operate tools. We build the infrastructure underneath them.

Modern AdTech and MarTech is software — data pipelines, APIs, identity resolution, server-side events, and integrations. That's not a marketing skill set. It's ours: we've shipped production systems in regulated, high-stakes environments, and we bring that rigor to your stack.

Agency / off-the-shelf setup

  • Client-side pixels, lossy data
  • Last-click attribution by default
  • Disconnected dashboards
  • Vendor owns your data & logic
  • Compliance bolted on later

DevBrother engineering

  • Server-side tracking, durable signal
  • Multi-touch attribution to revenue
  • One unified data layer
  • You own the pipelines and code
  • Consent & PII handled by design

How it works

From a fragmented stack to one source of truth.

We start by mapping what you have — then engineer the gaps, not rip-and-replace.

1

Audit

A technical review of your stack: data flow, tracking coverage, attribution model, and compliance posture. You get a documented map of every gap — free.

// 30 minutes · technical · no cost

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Engineer

We build the data layer, server-side tracking, attribution, and integrations — connecting ad platforms, CRM, and analytics into one pipeline you control.

// production-grade, documented, owned by you

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Operate & evolve

Clean signal feeds better optimization, real attribution informs spend, and the stack is built to change — new events and integrations in days, not quarters.

// CAC down, confidence up

What we build

The full AdTech & MarTech stack — engineered as one system.

Every layer connected, every event accounted for, every integration owned by you.

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Customer Data Platform (CDP)

A unified profile across every touchpoint — identity resolution, audience segmentation, and activation into your ad and lifecycle tools.

Outcome: one customer, one record, everywhere.

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Server-side tracking

First-party, server-side event collection that survives cookie loss and iOS restrictions — durable conversion signal sent cleanly to every platform.

Outcome: the algorithms see what's really happening.

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Multi-touch attribution

Attribution modeling that ties every touchpoint to pipeline and revenue — so you can prove which channels, campaigns, and creatives actually pay.

Outcome: spend where it provably returns.

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Unified data layer

A clean, governed schema feeding warehouse, BI, and activation — the single source of truth your whole stack reads from and writes to.

Outcome: no more reconciling five dashboards.

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Integrations & APIs

We connect ad platforms, CRM, analytics, and your product — bidirectional, monitored, and built to extend as your stack grows.

Outcome: tools that finally work together.

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Consent & compliance

Consent management, PII governance, and regional rules engineered into the pipeline from day one — SOC2, GDPR, and HIPAA-ready by design.

Outcome: growth that won't become a liability.

AdTech projects we deliver

The systems behind modern advertising — built from scratch.

From programmatic infrastructure to clean-room data sharing, here are the AdTech systems we engineer end-to-end.

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Demand-Side Platform (DSP)

Custom DSPs that buy programmatic inventory across open exchanges — real-time bidding engine, targeting logic, budget pacing, and creative serving, all under your control.

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Supply-Side Platform (SSP)

Publisher-side auction infrastructure — header bidding wrappers, floor price optimization, yield management, and demand source integrations built for scale.

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Ad Exchange

Marketplace infrastructure connecting buyers and sellers in real time — bidstream processing, auction mechanics, fraud filtering, and billing logic engineered to handle millions of QPS.

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Ad Server

Custom ad-serving infrastructure for publishers and advertisers — campaign management, delivery optimization, frequency capping, and reporting without third-party lock-in.

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Data Clean Room

Privacy-safe environments for first-party data collaboration — enabling audience matching, measurement, and insights between partners without exposing raw PII.

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Audience Segmentation Engine

Real-time pipeline that builds, scores, and activates audience segments from behavioral, contextual, and CRM data — fed directly into your ad platforms and CDP.

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Fraud Detection & Brand Safety

Pre-bid and post-bid fraud filtering — invalid traffic detection, viewability measurement, and brand safety logic integrated directly into your bidding and reporting pipeline.

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Retail Media Network

End-to-end infrastructure for retailers launching their own ad network — sponsored listings, display inventory, self-serve advertiser portal, and closed-loop attribution to purchase data.

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Programmatic Direct & PMP

Private marketplace and programmatic direct deal infrastructure — deal ID management, guaranteed delivery mechanics, and reporting that ties every impression to revenue.

How we compare

The difference between operating tools and owning infrastructure.

Tracking
Agency / off-the-shelf Client-side pixels, lossy
DevBrother Server-side, durable signal
Attribution
Agency / off-the-shelf Last-click, platform-reported
DevBrother Multi-touch, tied to revenue
Data
Agency / off-the-shelf Siloed across tools
DevBrother Unified data layer you own
Who builds it
Agency / off-the-shelf Account managers
DevBrother Engineers shipping production systems
Ownership
Agency / off-the-shelf Vendor owns data & logic
DevBrother You own pipelines and code
Compliance
Agency / off-the-shelf Bolted on after
DevBrother Engineered in by design

Why teams trust the engineering

Handover was impeccable — typed schemas, IaC bundles, and runbooks we could actually use. Our engineers felt supported, not replaced.

Lucius Meredith · CEO, F1R3FLY

Your free stack audit

See exactly where your data and attribution are leaking — in 30 minutes.

We'll review your tracking, your data flow, and your attribution model, and hand you a documented map of every gap — whether or not we build it for you.

A technical conversation, not a pitch. You leave knowing what to fix first.