diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 958ecaf..3a5b15b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -729,6 +729,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "test-bin"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "crunch-envelope",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "textwrap"
 version = "0.16.0"
diff --git a/crates/crunch-envelope/Cargo.toml b/crates/crunch-envelope/Cargo.toml
index 9d4ee5d..4ba9c6f 100644
--- a/crates/crunch-envelope/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/crunch-envelope/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ edition = "2021"
 name = "envelope_benchmark"
 harness = false
 
+[profile.bench]
+debug = true
+
 [features]
 default = ["json"]
 json = ["dep:serde", "dep:serde_json", "dep:base64"]
diff --git a/crates/test-bin/Cargo.toml b/crates/test-bin/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1485ae8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/test-bin/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[package]
+name = "test-bin"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[dependencies]
+crunch-envelope.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/test-bin/src/main.rs b/crates/test-bin/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2c1cbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/test-bin/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+fn main() {
+    #[no_mangle]
+    fn envelope_capnp_benchmark(content: &[u8]) -> () {
+        let out = crunch_envelope::wrap("some-domain", "some-entity", content);
+
+        let out = crunch_envelope::unwrap(&out).expect("to be able to unwrap capnp message");
+
+        println!("{:?}", out.1);
+    }
+
+    #[no_mangle]
+    fn envelope_json_benchmark(content: &[u8]) -> () {
+        let out = crunch_envelope::json::wrap("some-domain", "some-entity", content);
+
+        let out = crunch_envelope::json::unwrap(&out).expect("to be able to unwrap capnp message");
+
+        println!("{:?}", out.1);
+    }
+
+    let large_content: [u8; 1000000] = [0; 1000000];
+
+    _ = envelope_capnp_benchmark(&large_content);
+
+    _ = envelope_json_benchmark(&large_content);
+
+    println!("done")
+}
diff --git a/perf.data b/perf.data
deleted file mode 100644
index 54222ad..0000000
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