Strategy · Assessment

Everything we can find out about your business.

The deepest look we offer. Two to three weeks of interviews, account analysis and competitive work, ending with a plan for the next twelve months.

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How we think about it

Your accounts tell you what happened. Your people know why.

Data is good at telling you that something is wrong and bad at telling you how it got that way. A campaign that underperformed three years ago and quietly shaped every decision since does not show up in an analytics report. Neither does the reason nobody follows up on Fridays.

So we do both. We get into the accounts and work out what the numbers actually say, then we sit down with the people who know the parts that were never written down. What has been tried. What got dropped and why. Where the pressure really is.

Then it ends with a sequence rather than a verdict. Not a list of everything that could be improved, which is always long and never useful, but what to do first, what to do once that is working, and what can wait until next year.

Take this when growth has stalled and you want the whole picture before committing money to any of it. If you only need to know what your advertising and search are doing, the Growth Diagnostic is faster and cheaper. How the engines work →

What is included

The scope of work.

  • Interviews with the owner and anyone material to the findings
  • Your advertising and search accounts, read directly
  • A full read on what is limiting growth, with the evidence behind it
  • How you sit against the competitors who are beating you
  • A phased roadmap for the next twelve months
  • A presentation to your leadership team if you want one
  • Everything written down and yours to keep

Questions we get

Before you call.

How is this different from the Growth Diagnostic?
This contains it. The diagnostic gets into your advertising and search accounts and works out what the numbers say. The assessment adds everything the numbers cannot tell us: what your team knows, what has been tried before, why things are set up the way they are. Then it ends with a plan rather than a finding.
Who do you interview?
Whoever matters to the answer. Always the owner. Usually whoever handles inquiries when they arrive, whoever runs delivery, and anyone who has been there long enough to know why a previous attempt did not work. We will tell you who we want to talk to and why.
How long does it take?
Two to three weeks from the kickoff call, depending on how quickly we can get platform access and time with the people we need to speak to.
What do we walk away with?
A written assessment covering what we found and the evidence behind it, and a phased roadmap for the next twelve months. We present it to you and to your leadership if you want that. It is yours to act on, with us or with your own team.
What if we only want the numbers?
Then the Growth Diagnostic is the right size. It is faster, it costs less, and it will tell you what your accounts say is wrong. The assessment is for when you also need to understand why, and what to do about it in what order.

Find out if this is what you actually need.

Includes a free marketing audit.

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We work with B2B companies from $2M to $50M and up, typically investing $10,000 a month or more in marketing, including media.