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Navigating the Complexity of Care: How Wisp Uses Rockerbox to validate Growth in Hybrid Healthcare-Ecommerce

Written by Ashley McAlpin | Nov 20, 2025 5:34:03 PM

Wisp, a fast-growing women’s telehealth platform, faces a unique challenge: balancing the transactional speed of e-commerce with the regulatory and operational complexity of a clinical provider. By implementing Rockerbox, Wisp moved away from bespoke, siloed reporting to a centralized data foundation. This shift allowed them to validate channel performance, distinguishing between "rosy" platform metrics and actual incremental growth, across complex channels like TikTok, Reddit, and CTV.

Company Overview: More Than Just E-Commerce

Wisp operates at the intersection of two distinct worlds: they possess an e-commerce front end but function as a clinical provider on the backend. Specializing in female sexual and reproductive wellness, Wisp provides accessible care for conditions ranging from acute issues to complex, long-term care.

This hybrid model creates a "really challenging ecosystem" requiring Wisp to mirror the tenets of e-commerce while strictly adhering to healthcare regulations and patient privacy.

The Marketing Data Stack: To manage this complexity, Wisp utilizes a modern stack:

  • Pipelines: Fivetran
  • Attribution: Rockerbox
  • Source of Truth: Snowflake
  • Visualization/Front End: Looker

The Challenge: The "Bespoke" Measurement Problem

Before centralizing their data, Wisp’s measurement strategy was disjointed. Measurement was largely "bespoke channel to channel," often stitched together manually.

As the business scaled, two primary issues emerged:

  1. Platform Bias: Ad platforms often claimed inflated success. As Tim Ragland, VP of Marketing and Strategy at Wisp, notes, "Every platform is going to say you're doing a two to three ROAS... they're going to take credit for every single touch point.”
  2. Business Complexity: Wisp needed to account for a mix of one-time purchases and subscriptions, clinical privacy (PHI), and rapid channel expansion into email, SMS, and social.

Wisp needed a way to normalize this data to see if there was actual "smoke" behind the fire reported by ad platforms.

The Solution: A Centralized Foundation & Unbiased Testing

Wisp partnered with Rockerbox to establish a single source of truth that could integrate with their data warehouse and provide unbiased validation.

1. Data Foundation

Rockerbox became the validation layer for Wisp. By using Rockerbox’s Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA), Wisp could normalize performance data across all channels. This data is now integrated into workflows at every "elevation" of the company:

  • Tactical: Channel owners use it for day-to-day optimization.
  • Strategic: It informs monthly reporting and board-level discussions regarding channel-level CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost).

2. Partnership in Testing

Wisp utilized Rockerbox’s testing services to run incrementality tests. Ragland emphasized the value of third-party testing to remove the inherent conflict of interest found when agencies or platforms grade their own homework.

"You were in the metaphorical kitchen with us baking the final product... Someone who really handheld us through the process." — Tim Ragland, VP of Marketing & Strategy, Wisp

The Impact: Validating "Rosy" Pictures and Finding True Value

Rockerbox has allowed Wisp to make investment decisions based on incrementality rather than platform-reported metrics.

  • Correcting the Narrative on Reddit: When Wisp launched on Reddit, the platform reported a "rosy picture." However, Rockerbox revealed that while it was a good engagement platform, it was not driving the performance marketing results the platform claimed. This allowed Wisp to adjust their strategy quickly .
  • Unlocking TikTok’s Value: Conversely, on TikTok, click-based conversion is often less than 1%. However, Rockerbox validated that the view-through conversion was high, proving the channel had a significant influential impact on the final purchase decision .
  • CTV Investment: An incrementality test for Connected TV (CTV) provided the hard data Wisp needed to strategically invest or divest based on actual results.

Looking Ahead: Measurement for Complex Care

As Wisp evolves from acute care to comprehensive women’s health (e.g., perimenopause and weight loss), their data needs are shifting toward understanding long-term value.

Rockerbox will be instrumental in helping Wisp understand the LTV (Lifetime Value) curves of these new, complex care models, which require ongoing provider check-ins rather than simple one-off transactions.

Advice to Industry Leaders

When asked what advice he would give to other brands evaluating Rockerbox, Ragland emphasized the importance of service levels:

"The service level has been aces... You guys are in the business of our success because candidly if you're not, we would walk away. That shared goal is really important."