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How we find the margin other audits miss.

No black box. Your audit runs the same strategic, financial, creative and operational frameworks a top-tier consultancy would use — across five methodology pillars, with senior human review at every step.

▸ You’ll know exactly where your margin is leaking — and the three fixes worth the most — in 7 days.

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◆$10k–$50k-or-refund guarantee ◆No retainer · fixed fee
5
methodology pillars
25+
proven frameworks
5–7 days
to delivery
How we work

How our marketing audit works: five working principles.

01
Strategic clarity over guesswork
Decisions grounded in established frameworks and benchmarks — not opinion or habit.
02
Evidence-led recommendations
Every recommendation is backed by data, modeling and a defensible rationale.
03
Prioritized by margin & effort
Findings ranked on contribution-margin impact against implementation effort.
04
Human review, always
A senior auditor validates every finding to ensure quality and relevance.
05
Fast, without cutting corners
A complete, boardroom-ready audit in 5–7 days — rigor intact.
The audit, stage by stage

Findings move through four stages.
Nothing advances unsigned.

  1. 1Intake · 6

    Discovery & benchmarks

    6 agents map funnel, spend & market vs 74 audits.

  2. 2Analysis · 18

    Channel & margin teardown

    18 agents dissect acquisition, retention, economics.

  3. 3Synthesis · 9

    Prioritized findings

    9 agents rank by margin impact and effort.

  4. 4Gate · Human

    Senior human review

    4 agents draft; an auditor signs off.

Core methodology pillars

Five pillars. 25+ proven frameworks.

Pick a pillar — strategy, measurement, search, creative, operating model — to see the frameworks inside.

Pillar 01

Strategic & consulting-grade frameworks

Anatomy of a finding

What one leak actually looks like.

1 · SIGNAL
The agent flags an anomaly
A $6M DTC skincare brand was spending $14k/mo on branded-search ads — bidding to win clicks it already got organically for free.
2 · VALIDATE
A senior auditor pressure-tests it
The auditor checked competitor conquesting and incrementality (did the spend cause sales that wouldn’t have happened anyway?), confirming ~80% was pure cannibalization.
3 · QUANTIFY
It becomes a ranked action
Reallocate the budget, keep a small defensive floor. Modeled impact: $134k/yr recovered, effort: low.
What you receive

A 40-page audit you can act on Monday.

✓Executive summary — the three findings that matter most, quantified.
✓Channel-by-channel teardown — where every dollar goes and what it returns.
✓Margin & unit-economics model — your real contribution, mapped.
✓Prioritized 90-day roadmap — sequenced, with expected lift and effort.
DAY 0 · signed NDA + access checklist DAY 3 · interim findings call DAY 5–7 · 40-page report + live readout DAY 30 · re-measure check-in (fresh data you provide)
See the sample report →
The human gates

AI does the volume. Humans own the judgment.

A model can process a thousand data points in seconds — but it can’t be accountable to your board. So a senior auditor reviews and signs off every stage before it advances — seven human gates across the four stages. That’s why the output reads like a consultant wrote it — because one did. Under the hood, our senior auditors work with an orchestrated system of 37 specialized analysis agents — it’s how a consultancy-scope audit ships in 5–7 days.

[ Lead auditor name ]
Senior Marketing Auditor · [ ex-firm / years ]
✓Agent output flagged for review
✓Senior auditor validates & corrects
✓Only then does the stage advance
✓Read-only access ✓NDA on request ✓CCPA & GDPR ready ✓Data deleted ≤ 30 days after close
Audits your: Paid Acquisition · Lifecycle & Retention · Tech Stack Signal Health · Financial Margin Erosion
On the report itself

“I’ve paid consultancies six figures for less. The report was sharper, faster, and every finding had a number attached.”

[ Client name ]
Founder · [ Company ]
The guarantee

$10,000 to $50,000 of findings, or your money back.

The method is only worth what it finds. If your audit doesn’t surface your tier’s guaranteed $10,000–$50,000 in identified margin or savings, you don’t pay.

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What this audit is not

Three things we will never sell you.

NOT AN AGENCY PITCH

We sell no media management and take no implementation retainer — so there’s no incentive to find problems only we can fix. The audit is the product.

NOT A DASHBOARD

You get a decision document with an owner and a deadline per finding — not another tool to check. Nothing to log into, nothing to maintain.

NOT A RETAINER

One fixed fee, one deliverable, done in a week. If you want a re-audit next year, that’s a new decision — never an auto-renewal.

Methodology questions.

How do you choose which frameworks to apply?
Every audit runs the full five-pillar method, but the depth per pillar flexes to your model.
Do the frameworks work for my business type?
Yes — model-agnostic across DTC, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, subscription and multi-location services.
Isn’t this just theory?
No. Each framework is applied to your actual data and turned into a specific, quantified action.
Who reviews the analysis?
A senior marketing auditor validates every finding and presents the report live.
How are findings prioritized?
Scored on contribution-margin impact against implementation effort — highest-return first.
What if the method finds nothing worthwhile?
If it doesn’t surface your tier’s guaranteed $10,000–$50,000 in identified margin or savings, you don’t pay.

See the method applied to your numbers.

Book an audit today. Prioritized findings within a week — or your money back.

1Book & grant read-only access
230-minute kickoff call
3Report & live readout in 7 days

Fixed fee · No retainer · Limited monthly capacity

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