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Stop guessing whether your marketing is working.
Ultimate Analytics answers the four questions your reporting probably does not: what you
achieved, where you stand against the companies you lose deals to, why, and what to do
next. Every answer carries its evidence.
Scorecard grid / absolute scale 1 to 5 Click any score to open its evidence
Competitive scorecard. Rows are companies, columns are the five scoring lenses. Each score
is a button that opens the evidence behind it.
Company
Positioning
Service architecture
Inbound & content
Conversion
Audience
Evidence
Your companyYou
31
Northgate Industrial
29
Meridian Field Group
26
Cardinal Works
24
Halyard Services Co.
22
Illustrative grid. Company names are substituted and figures show the shape of the shipped product, not a live client cohort. Note the flat column: not one company in this field scores above par on Conversion. That flatness is the finding.
The problem
Marketing frustration is almost always a visibility problem.
It is rarely a lack of effort or a lack of data. It is that the data on hand cannot answer
the questions leadership actually asks, so the meeting resolves on instinct and the budget
renews unchanged.
01You approve a marketing budget every month and cannot say what the last one produced.
02Two reports disagree, and nobody can explain which definition each one used.
03You find out a competitor launched a new service line from a customer, months late.
04You suspect one channel carries the whole result, but the numbers will not settle it.
What you get
One instrument for performance, competition, and what to do next.
Four capabilities, built for your business rather than pulled from a template. Each one
exists to answer a question a decision depends on.
Performance, defined and held constant
Every metric carries a written definition. Leads are deduplicated on contact identity, filtered for automated and internal traffic, and classified against one standard, so a trend means what it appears to mean.
You and the companies you lose deals to, scored on an absolute one to five scale across five lenses. Every score opens onto a verbatim quote, a source and a capture date.
New pages, rewritten positioning, fresh ad messaging, hiring velocity, new locations, new service lines. Threshold based, with the before and after attached.
Channel and lead economics reconciled to your CRM and accounting system, with the numerator, denominator, window, model and the stated unattributed share.
Your competitors publish their strategy. Most companies never read it.
Job postings, page changes, campaign messaging, service line additions and locations are
all public and dated. Monitored consistently, they arrive while the window to respond is
still open.
Content and publishing cadence, verified by direct sweep
Visibility on commercially scoped search terms
Reviews: volume, velocity and recurring themes
Pricing and packaging language shifts
Why the findings hold
Three controls, applied to every claim we deliver.
These are constraints on us, not features. They make the work slower, shorter and
defensible in a room where somebody has an incentive to dispute the finding.
The grounding gate
No claim without a quote. Every scored claim carries verbatim evidence, a source and a capture date. This rules out plausible summary that no source supports, and inference presented as observation.
The parity gate
Equal depth across the set. Uneven research depth silently biases a comparison: the company that received the most attention scores best. Coverage is enforced to a comparable floor for every company scored.
Absence discipline
A tool returning nothing is not a finding. Claims of absence require a direct check of the source, labelled as such, with a stated confidence level. Missing data is reported as missing, not as zero.
1–5Absolute scoring scaleTiers defined independently of the field
4Questions answeredAchieved, standing, why, what next
0Prices on this siteEvery engagement is custom quoted
How an engagement runs
Definitions first. Numbers second. Never the other way around.
01
The first conversation
What you sell, who you lose deals to, and what you cannot currently see. No prepared pitch and no pricing, because nothing has been scoped yet.
02
Access and definitions
We confirm which systems can be read, then write every metric definition before a single number is produced. You approve the definitions.
03
Baseline and scorecard
A cleaned performance baseline plus your market scored on the absolute scale, with the evidence trail attached to every claim.
04
Monitoring and review
Threshold alerts run continually. Performance is reported against the fixed definitions, and competitive standing is re-scored on a set interval.
The standard we build to
We did not invent evidence-based management. We enforce it.
Quotations below are from third-party authorities on measurement and strategy, cited to their source with their verification status printed. They are not endorsements of this service.
What gets measured gets managed, even when it is pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so.
Marketing agencies, consultants and advisors resell this under their own brand.
You keep the client relationship and the letterhead. You inherit the evidence standards,
which is the part that protects your brand when a client disputes a finding.
Find out what your marketing is actually achieving.
One conversation, no obligation: what you sell, who you lose deals to, and what you cannot currently see. If a build is a fit, it is scoped and quoted from there. There is no signup and no self-serve tier.
No prices on this site. Every engagement is scoped and quoted after the first meeting.
Ask the analyst
Same evidence rules as the service
Ask me anything about Ultimate Analytics. I run under the same rules as the product: I will tell you what is true, I will tell you what is not built yet, and I will not quote you a price, because every engagement is quoted after a conversation.
Answers come from what this site publishes, nothing else. It will not quote a price, because
there is not one to quote. Talk to a person.