You should be in control of your creative

CRAFTSMAN+ is the creative infrastructure for interactive, playable ads that people actually engage with.

Our Journey

Where We Are Heading

  1. 2018
    2018

    Alex Merutka, an early builder at AppLovin, saw that performance creative was the most overlooked lever in advertising. And almost nobody was building tools for it. Interactive had the clearest potential — and the biggest bottleneck.

  2. 2019
    2019

    While building the tech-forward vision, CRAFTSMAN+ focused on mobile app advertising, with a Creative Services structure, to power the business.

  3. 2020
    2020

    A purpose-built platform bringing consumer-grade simplicity and speed to performance advertising creative. CRAFTSMAN+ becomes a software company.

  4. 2021
    2021

    CRAFTSMAN+ partnered with global brands to engage a surging gaming audience with one solid idea: gamify brand advertising.

  5. 2025
    2025

    Analytics, pre-click data, dynamic creative. An efficiency platform became an intelligence system, laying the groundwork for what came next.

  6. 2026
    2026

    The bet made in 2018 is the infrastructure that AI runs on: purpose-built agents that generate, ship, and optimize ad creatives in minutes.

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Who We Are

  • Alex Merutka CEO & Founder Alex Merutka
  • Olivia Barnett COO Olivia Barnett

We are built different. Real people who care, led by a founder who builds the same way he leads: with integrity and bias for action.

Our Values

What We Stand By

Customer First

Everyone has a customer to serve. We strive for excellence at every single step, whatever it takes.

Lead By Doing

We are hands-on leaders who take action, bring solutions, and do the right things the right way.

Own It

Your word, your work, your actions. We operate with integrity and do what we say.

Win Together

We have each other's back, and succeed as one team.