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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RAW EXPORT · WORKING PAPERCAMPAIGNCONTRIBUTION MARGINRetargeting+12%Google Shopping+8%Prospecting camp. A & B−7%+$134,240 margin improvement / yr · reconciled to the cohort P&LBoth windows · Redacted · campaign names redacted.
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ORCHESTRATOR · PAID SOCIAL MIX
Flags the two largest prospecting campaigns as buying revenue below break even once shipping, returns and payment fees are charged against each order.
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HUMAN GATESenior auditor · reviewed and signed offVictoria Miller, named in the report
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PRICED FINDINGCRITICAL +$134,000 / yr
Both campaigns rebuilt around contribution margin after returns. 6 days from kickoff to the readout.
How our marketing audit works: five working principles.
The week, and where your auditor’s 14 hours go.
Nothing advances unsigned.
The homepage shows the totals. This is the operating schedule: what the machines run, what we ask of you, and where every one of the 14 senior auditor hours lands, day by day.
You Sign the NDA and grant read only access from the checklist. That is the whole ask.
You Join the kickoff. Your CEO and your marketing team each sit a 1:1 pain point session. You never fill a form.
Machines The Orchestrator is briefed from what your team actually said, not a questionnaire.
You One 30 minute interim findings call on day 3. Nothing else on your calendar.
Machines Intake: 6 agents map funnel, spend & market vs 74 audits. Then analysis: 18 agents dissect acquisition, retention, economics.
You Nothing scheduled. The audit runs.
Machines Synthesis: 9 agents rank every finding by margin impact against implementation effort.
You Nothing scheduled.
Machines 4 agents draft. Your senior auditor pressure tests and prices every finding. AUDITOR SIGNS ✓
You The live executive readout, then a sprint planning session with your team. The full report is yours.
Machines BOARDROOM READY ✓
You Day 30: your auditor reruns your numbers with fresh data you provide. Day 90: a second check in.
Five pillars. 25+ proven frameworks.
Pick a pillar (strategy, measurement, search, creative, operating model) to see the frameworks inside.
Strategic & consulting grade frameworks
What one leak actually looks like.
An audit report you can act on Monday.
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 to 7 working days.
$10,000 to $50,000 of findings, or your money back.
The method is only worth what it finds. If your report identifies less than your tier’s guaranteed $10,000 to $50,000 in margin or savings, the fee is refunded on request and you keep the report.
“Short version, we were about to cut the wrong thing. Glad we got this done first.”
$134k a year, read a year after a 6 day audit
Contribution margin on the two top campaigns: −7% → +9%
“Revenue grew and cash didn't. Victoria rebuilt margin per order after shipping, returns and payment fees, and our two biggest prospecting campaigns were losing money on every sale. We stopped scaling them.”
Victoria MillerLead auditor on this audit“Founder was on the kickoff call, the auditor who did the work ran the readout. Small thing but I've never had that with a consultancy before. You actually talk to the people who know the answers.”
$118k a year of wasted spend cut in 7 days
Rebates paid on volume never actually earned: 19% → 1%
“Rebate expense outran distributor volume and we could not see why. Cristian reconciled rebates paid against volume actually shipped and paid for, tier by tier: accruals had run off gross purchase orders. Quarterly true ups now catch it.”
Cristian BragauSenior Auditor · signed this audit off“The thing that won me over was a line in the report that basically said "we can't prove this one, so we're not counting it". Nobody does that. Made me trust everything else in there.”
$96k a year of wasted spend cut in 7 days
App installs that funded a real account: 24% → 63%
“Installs looked great and funded accounts stagnated. David followed sign ups through to funding, and the bonus was buying registrations from people who claimed it and never transacted. Incentives now pay on activation, not the download.”
David JacksonSenior Auditor · signed this audit off“I've paid for a few of these "audits" over the years and they usually end with a pitch. This one ended with a list of what to fix and which parts we could do ourselves. Some of it was not what I wanted to hear. All of it was right.”
$92k a year found in 7 days
Enterprise deal margin lost to quarter end: 5 pts lost → 0 pts lost
“Bookings hit target while margin slipped. Cristian split our discounting by timing and rep: concessions spiked in the last days of every quarter because buyers had learned to wait. Approval thresholds fixed it without losing deals.”
Cristian BragauSenior Auditor · signed this audit off“Solid work. Lost a star only because the first week dragged, mostly getting them access on our end so partly our fault. After that it moved fast and the readout was really clear.”
$88k a year of wasted spend cut in 7 days
Paid social proven to lift store visits: ~1 in 3 → 9 in 10
“Our CFO doubted that online ads drove store visits. David's matched market geo lift test proved the doubt right: footfall barely changed where the ads were off. The budget moved to markets and channels that passed the test.”
David JacksonSenior Auditor · signed this audit off$88k annual budget redirection identified in 7 days
Congress spend with a tracked return: 8% → 88%
“Six figures a year in congresses and KOL sponsorships, renewed on habit. Leslie tried to connect it to share of voice, engagement or prescribing and found no instrumentation at all. The unmeasurable part now funds engagement we can track.”
Leslie MartinSenior Auditor · signed this audit off$74k a year of wasted spend cut in 7 days
Courier bonuses paid into already full zones: 22% → 3%
“Incentive spend rose while service levels stayed flat. Alex matched bonus payouts against real time courier availability by zone: in dense areas we paid couriers who would have worked anyway. Bonuses now fire only where coverage is short.”
Alex PopSenior Auditor · signed this audit off$63k a year found in 6 days
Active users actually being billed: 93% → 99%
“Expansion lagged what we saw inside accounts. Victoria reconciled active users against billed seats: many customers used more seats than they paid for. Automated true ups now capture it, and nobody pushed back.”
Victoria MillerSenior Auditor · signed this audit off$62k a year found in 6 days
Qualified inbound calls that became bookings: 2 in 3 → 9 in 10
“Marketing hit every target and revenue stalled. Leslie followed our qualified calls into intake and about a third were dropped at busy times or never followed up. Fixing staffing and call handling converted demand we had already paid for.”
Leslie MartinSenior Auditor · signed this audit offThree things we will never sell you.
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. See what a normal agency markup looks like.
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.
One fixed fee, one deliverable, done in a week. If you want a second audit next year, that’s a new decision, never an automatic renewal.
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