Services · Acquisition

Demand that actually
converts to revenue.

Paid, organic, AI-search and outbound working from one reconciled attribution model — so budget follows the channels that create revenue, not the ones that claim it loudest.

The commercial problem

Ad platforms grade their own homework.

Every ad network reports the revenue it believes it caused. Sum them across a portfolio and the total tends to exceed what actually landed against finance — because platforms double-count overlapping touches. Meanwhile, the channels that quietly compound — organic search, brand, direct — are systematically under-credited. Budget follows the loudest claim, not the reconciled one. Over a year that quietly costs several points of margin and starves the compounding investments.

Why this hits the P&L

Efficient CAC, not a cheap CPM.

  • Blended CAC drifts up while platform-reported ROAS looks stable — a classic reconciliation gap
  • Incremental spend is priced against last-click, not against reconciled contribution
  • Brand and organic under-investment shows up as rising paid dependence next year
  • Board-level media decisions are made without a defensible view of marginal return
  • Finance and marketing stop trusting the same number — every review becomes a negotiation
Signal to reconciled outcome

How demand actually becomes attributed revenue.

  1. 01
    Paid media signal
    Search, social, display, YouTube, retail media
  2. 02
    Organic & AI-search visibility
    SEO, AEO, brand, direct
  3. 03
    Authority & content
    Digital PR, expert commentary, editorial
  4. 04
    Outbound & sales-led demand
    Coordinated with paid and content — one narrative
Reconciled outcome
Attributed revenue
Reconciled against orders, deals or booked work
Each layer is measured against reconciled commercial outcomes rather than platform-claimed revenue — with confidence bands, not claims of certainty.
Marginal efficiency, not average cost

Where the next pound actually earns back.

Attributed revenue per £ spent
Efficient
Saturating
→ Spend
  • Room to invest
    Brand & organic
    Long-cycle compounding — usually under-invested
  • Current position
    Paid search (non-brand)
    Approaching diminishing returns at current spend
  • Diminishing returns
    Paid social — broad prospecting
    Frequency and CPMs eroding contribution
Illustrative. Attributed models marginal return per channel against reconciled contribution, so budget moves from saturated channels to efficient ones rather than being scaled uniformly.
Audience & operating model

Who this is built for.

Founders and CMOs at £5m–£150m businesses whose media has outgrown a single ad platform's dashboard. Typical operating model is one or two senior in-house marketers plus specialist partners — Attributed replaces or augments the paid, SEO, PR and demand functions with senior operators who share your accountability.

What Attributed does

Plan, execute and measure demand as one system.

Senior media, SEO and demand operators own the channels, working from the same reconciled revenue model that Intelligence produces. Channel targets are set against attributed revenue, not platform revenue. We buy less where marginal return has collapsed; we buy more where the evidence supports it.

Typical workstreams

Where the work actually happens.

  • Paid search and paid social — strategy, structure, creative, bidding and budget allocation
  • SEO and content — technical, on-page, information architecture, editorial programme
  • AEO / AI-search visibility — how your brand shows up in AI answers and generative search
  • Digital PR and authority — earned coverage, expert commentary, backlink profile
  • Demand generation and outbound coordination — with your SDR team or ours
  • Channel and budget strategy — reconciled quarterly against attributed revenue, not last-click
Senior operators own it

Who does the work.

Named senior operators are accountable for each channel — no rotating juniors, no anonymous "team". Media decisions, structural changes and bid strategy are authored and approved by the same person who sits in your review. Intelligence surfaces the evidence; operators make the commercial call.

Findings, Recommendations & Alerts

What Intelligence surfaces for Acquisition.

  • Findings — channels whose platform-claimed revenue diverges from reconciled outcomes
  • Recommendations — budget reallocations grounded in marginal efficiency, not blended ROAS
  • Alerts — sudden CPM shifts, creative fatigue, feed outages, or bidding-signal drift
  • Implementation Packs — bid-strategy rebuilds, offline-conversion pipelines, creative test roadmaps
Implementation priorities

What we sequence first.

  1. 1
    Reconcile the numbers

    Bring platform, GA4, CRM and finance revenue into one view — with confidence bands and known gaps documented.

  2. 2
    Map marginal efficiency by channel

    Identify saturated and under-invested channels before touching the media plan.

  3. 3
    Rebuild bid strategy against reconciled revenue

    Feed offline conversions and reconciled outcomes back into Google Ads and Meta so bidding optimises against revenue, not clicks.

  4. 4
    Sequence a creative and landing-page roadmap

    Test where evidence says the incremental gain is, not where the brief is loudest.

  5. 5
    Publish a weekly reconciled view

    One number marketing, finance and the board work from — with commercial commentary.

Applied across models

B2B and B2C, done differently.

B2B applications
  • Named-account paid social and search bidding attributed against SQL and pipeline
  • Content and SEO built for long consideration cycles and multi-touch buying committees
  • Digital PR for senior-buyer authority and analyst visibility
  • Outbound and paid coordination so a prospect never sees the same message twice
B2C applications
  • Full-funnel media reconciled against Shopify orders, not GA4 sessions
  • SEO built around category, product and comparison intent
  • Creative testing programmes measured against first-order and second-order revenue
  • Brand vs performance investment modelled honestly against MER and repeat rate
QA & validation

How we know it moved.

  • Pre-flight — creative, tracking, feed and landing checks before spend scales
  • In-flight — daily anomaly monitoring on CPM, CVR, contact rate and reconciled revenue
  • Post-flight — reconciled contribution and marginal-return review against pre-agreed baseline
  • Every material change opens an Implementation Pack with named owner, QA checklist and success metric
Outputs

What you get, weekly and quarterly.

  • Attributed weekly revenue view — reconciled across channels, not platform-inflated
  • Channel-level Implementation Packs — each with brief, QA checklist and success metric
  • Creative and landing page test roadmap with prioritised sequence
  • Quarterly budget reallocation grounded in marginal return, not last-click
  • Board-ready commercial narrative — what changed, why, and what to do next
Success metrics

Attributed revenue and marginal return, not vanity.

Primary
Attributed revenue by channel, weekly
Efficiency
Blended CAC and MER against agreed target
Marginal
Incremental return on the last 10% of spend
Compounding
Organic and brand contribution over rolling 12 weeks
Connected system

Acquisition never works alone.

Acquisition

Paid, organic, AI-search and outbound run as one media plan against reconciled revenue.

Activation

Landing pages, forms and checkout tuned so already-earned demand converts before we scale spend.

Retention

Cohort economics and repeat rate signal which acquisition sources actually earn back on the P&L.

Intelligence

Ad platform claims reconciled against orders, deals and finance — evidence, not the loudest number.

Ready to buy demand you can defend?

A Growth Review starts with a look at where your spend is actually landing — and where the next pound would earn back most.