In early 2024 we onboarded Malai Kitchen — a four-location modern Thai/Vietnamese chain across Dallas-Fort Worth — as an Anderson Collaborative client. Their Meta ad campaigns were optimizing toward Link Clicks. Match Quality was 3. Cost per platform click was triple what it should have been. We knew the fix in theory: smart-link layer, server-side Meta CAPI, per-location custom data. We could not find a tool that did it well.
So we built one. The first version was a single page on malai.dineroute.com/southlake with hard-coded URLs and a CAPI integration. Match Quality hit 7 inside a week. Cost per platform click dropped 41%. We turned the page into a platform, dogfooded it on three more clients, and started selling it as DineRoute. The Malai pilot is still live — you can audit it in production right now.