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Marketing intelligence

Marketing that produces revenue, not leads — and you can see it a year out.

Every channel scored on the customers it produces and how they retain, expand and pay back — not the leads it counted. Put money in, quality pipeline comes out, and the whole company runs on one pipeline, one ICP, one forecast. It all starts here.

Every marketing tool stops at the click

Marketing hit its lead target. And sourced the cohort that churned by month 12.

Every tool you own scores a lead on the way in — then goes quiet the moment it converts. So the cheapest channel wins the dashboard while the customers it produced quietly leave.

The ad platform
Knows
Impressions, clicks, cost per lead, best creative.
The catchWhether those leads become customers who stay — or churn.
The attribution report
Knows
Which touch to credit for every conversion.
The catchThat the cohort it credits never pays back what it cost.
The MQL dashboard
Knows
How many leads hit the target this month.
The catchWhich of them sales can actually close — and keep.
Every marketing tool stops at the click.Beacon reads past it — to the revenue your marketing actually produces.
Every source, a decision

Every channel, ranked by the revenue it produces.

Not a lead report — a read on where the money is working. Every source against the 3.0 LTV/CAC floor, next to the customers it actually produces and what they're worth.

SourceWhat's happeningFit at acquisitionSourced ARRLTV/CACStatus
Paid social
Channel · SMB self-serve
Cheapest leads — hit the MQL target.
Low fit
$0.7M
1.4
Below floor
Outbound SDR
Channel · Mixed
Volume up, fit sliding.
Drifting
$1.3M
2.6
Below floor
Field & events
Channel · Enterprise
Slow to show — but it holds.
Solid
$1.1M
3.1
At floor
Content & SEO
Channel · Mid-market
Compounds quietly. Underfunded.
High fit
$1.8M
5.2
Above floor
Mid-market inbound
Segment · Inbound
Steady, and compounding.
High fit
$3.4M
4.8
Above floor
Partner-sourced
Segment · Enterprise
Low volume, best customers.
Best fit
$4.2M
6.1
Above floor

Illustrative — ranked by the revenue each source produces, not the leads it counts. This is a reading surface: no spend moves from here.

The forward read

On every source: what it produces, and whether it lasts.

The reads behind each call — the revenue a source produces, the fit of who it brings, and the cohort it's building right now.

Mid-market inbound — $3.4M sourced ARR, traced to the customers.
top-producing channel
12-month retention of what it produced91%
New customers38this quarter
Sourced ARR$3.4Mand rising
Expansion+18%a year
CAC payback9moand tightening
VerdictHighest return of the six
Routed to Ask BeaconShifting paid-social budget into inbound & content
Same lead volume. One channel produces customers who fit — one doesn't.
steer spend to fit
Content & SEO~300 leads / qtr
83% fit
Paid social~300 leads / qtr
21% fit
Fit-weighted pipeline4.9× the value
Routed to Ask BeaconCapping paid social in favour of the higher-fit channel
The cohort this quarter's spend is producing — read forward to 12 months.
act while it's young
Predicted retention90%at 12 months
Predicted NRR116%this intake
CAC payback9motightening
WindowWon't improve by waiting
Routed to Ask BeaconIncreasing spend while acquisition is cheap

Illustrative — reading an open cohort forward, before it closes, ships in a later wave; everything here describes the designed behaviour.

Illustrative — every read carries the signals it's built from. The fit-weighted pipeline multiple is an illustration of the idea, not a published metric.

Accountable to the plan

Did marketing hit the plan?

Not leads and clicks — the sourced ARR the company is counting on, whether it's on time, the payback it can afford, and whether sales can handle the pipeline it's about to get.

$12.5M sourced of a $13.6M quarter plan — on track to beat it, with 3 weeks left.
Sourced ARRvs quarter plan
92%
Blended CAC paybackceiling: 14 months
11 mo
On paceAhead92% with 3 wks left
Share of new ARR61%of the company plan
Retention · high-fit vs low-fit94% / 71%cut by fit at acquisition
Blended LTV/CAC4.3above the 3.0 floor
Handed to sales $4.2M of qualified pipeline across 40 accounts — sales has 8 AEs, headroom for ~45. It's covered. Covered

The unit economics the board watches — the same targets the CEO set, on the one sealed forecast, not a separate marketing spreadsheet. Retention cut by fit needs closed cohorts and enough accounts in each; below that it is stamped an estimate.

The lever

Turn up marketing, turn up pipeline.

Put money into marketing, quality pipeline comes out. Want more growth next quarter? Move the budget — the pipeline, ARR and payback move with it.

Marketing budget · this quarter
$1.2M
Drag to plan the spend
$600k$3.0M
Sourced pipeline$19.8Mgenerated this quarter
Sourced ARR$12.5Mcloses and lasts
New customers119on-ICP
CAC payback11 mounder the 14mo ceiling
Disciplined Growthbest payback
Balanced Growthhealthy tradeoff
Aggressive Growthgrowth first
Disciplined Growth Spending inside your best-fit segments — payback is at its best and blended LTV/CAC holds at 4.3, with high forecast confidence.

Illustrative — the spend-response curve behind this slider ships in a later wave; everything here describes the designed behaviour. When it lands it is built from your own sourced-cohort history, with diminishing returns and confidence bands priced in.

One pipeline, one plan

It all starts in marketing.

Marketing sources it, sales works it, customer success grows it, finance plans the cash and capacity against it — one pipeline, one ICP, one forecast. It all starts with what marketing brings in.

Marketing Sales Customer Success Finance One plan & capacity
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