A Marketing & Advertising business where this lands in Operations.
02 — What is actually going wrong
The first week of every month disappears into building the same reports. Account managers copy numbers between platforms, paste them into a deck, and write a commentary that says roughly what last month's said. It is entirely non-billable and clients skim most of it.
Data pulls from the ad platforms and analytics on a schedule, populates a house template, and drafts the commentary: what moved, by how much, and what is unusual against the account's own history. The account manager rewrites the "so what" and sends it.
Reports land on the same day every month without anyone blocking out a week. Account managers spend their reclaimed time on the strategic conversation rather than the assembly, and the anomaly flags start catching account problems before the client does.
03 — The problem, in money
06 — How this goes wrong
07 — How you would actually do it
09 — Run it on your numbers
Start from the stated assumptions, then drag the inputs to match your business. The number moves live.
10 — The evidence · what others report
Reported numbers are third-party claims, source-attributed — not verified by me, and never blended into the model above.
11 — Questions owners ask
Get your free AI Opportunity Score — the same first pass used to identify which opportunities deserve a closer look.
Get Your Free Score04 — The options
05 — The call
Build it. A custom system is the right move here — the payback justifies owning it rather than renting a compromise.
08 — Tools worth looking at
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