About

Built by a gym owner, for gym owners.

Founder

Layne Dowdy

I've been running Blackline Training for years — a real fitness business with real members, real overhead, and real problems with marketing. I spent tens of thousands on agencies that had beautiful decks and no results. They didn't understand the difference between a free-trial lead and a committed member. They didn't know what a intro session looked like or why no-show rate matters.

So I built it myself. I taught myself Meta ads, wired up automations, tested AI tools, and eventually got Blackline to a place where the growth systems ran without me being on my phone all day. The floor became mine again.

Linea is the formalization of that work. I took everything that moved the needle at Blackline — the specific ad structures, the follow-up sequences, the AI phone setup, the storefront architecture — and productized it for other gym owners who shouldn't have to figure it out from scratch.

I'm not an agency person who picked fitness as a niche. I'm a gym operator who learned to build marketing systems because there was no one else I trusted to do it. That difference shows in everything we build.

The proving ground

Blackline Training

Every system in the Linea stack was tested first on Blackline before it became a client offering. If it didn't generate members for us, it doesn't get sold to you. Real data, real gym, real results.

Tested first.Then scaled for clients.

How we work

Operator-first thinking

Every system we build is designed to run with minimal owner involvement. Your job is coaching. Our job is growth.

No vanity metrics

We don't celebrate impressions or clicks. We celebrate new members walking through your door and staying.

Built for the long game

Quick-burst promos burn out your audience. We build retention-first systems that compound over time.

Transparent by default

You own your ad accounts, your CRM, your data. We build in your infrastructure, not ours.

If you're building something serious, let's talk.

We work with a small number of gyms at a time. That's by design — every client gets a system built for their specific market, offer, and growth stage.

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