Proposal
Your ads, your search rankings and your AI visibility are measured by four systems that do not talk to each other, and three of them are marking their own homework. Read together they show you where the money is being wasted. Read separately they never will.
Each level contains the one below it
Get found without paying for it.
Stop spending in the dark.
Test it, do not assume it.
Measured costs about 14% of what you already spend on ads. It breaks even the month it finds that much of the budget doing nothing.
All in prices, not add ons stacked on each other. You are choosing one line, not adding them up. Your ad budget is separate at every level and paid to the platforms directly. Everything we connect is read only.
What you gain by moving up
| Found€1,250 | Measured€2,500 | Proven€3,000 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting found without paying per click | |||
| Content publishedaimed at named questions from your scan | • | • | • |
| Outreach pitchesnamed targets, properly researched | • | • | • |
| Review system built and runseeding blast + always on flow | • | • | • |
| AI visibility scan4 assistants, 3 runs, pinned versions | • | • | • |
| All your Google data readevery query, not the top twenty rows | — | • | • |
| Site fixes shippedwe make the change, not you | — | • | • |
| Knowing whether the money is in the right place | |||
| Setup check and traceable sharethe baseline everything later compares to | — | • | • |
| True break even per rangesilver, gold and meteorite priced separately | — | • | • |
| Daily exception alertfires only when something breaks | — | • | • |
| Weekly operational reportwhat moved, what broke | — | • | • |
| Your own Claudecarrying your margins and decision rules | — | • | • |
| Time back, and proof | |||
| One place for all of itbuilt for you, every channel in a single view | — | — | • |
| Customer service agentdrafts with order context, you send | — | — | • |
| Platform claims testedthe one check they cannot mark themselves | — | planned | • |
| Every level | |||
| Monthly verdictfix, reallocate, create or scale | • | • | • |
| Last month’s calls, scoreddone, not done, what happened | • | • | • |
| Confidence stated on every action | • | • | • |
| Call | monthly | monthly | weekly |
| Setup, once | none | €1,000 | €1,000 |
| Minimum term | none | 3 months | 3 months |
A normal month at Found is roughly two pieces published a week and eight researched pitches. Some months more. In a month where the numbers say one page is doing the damage, fewer pieces and more fixing, and we tell you why before we change it. Content and outreach never go to zero, because they only work by compounding.
At Proven, the reports get a front end. One view built around your business instead of five dashboards built around someone else’s, so checking something on a Tuesday does not mean logging into Meta, Google, Search Console, Shopify and GA4 and holding the answer in your head. The reports stay the judgement. This is where you go to look something up yourself.
The case for Measured, in one section
Every number you act on today is produced by whoever is being measured. Four systems report on your business and each one sees a different slice of it.
| Source | What it sees | What it cannot see | Which way it is wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | People who touched Meta | Everything else | Over claims |
| People who touched Google | Everything else | Over claims | |
| GA4 | Depends how consent is wired | Wired badly, it keeps the sale and loses the source | Under counts |
| Your store | Orders with a traceable link | Anyone who arrived plainly | Under counts |
Two overstate and two understate, and by how much is specific to your account. That is why the first thing we do is measure the gap rather than assume it. Typically only 60 to 75 percent of a European store’s revenue can be traced to a source at all. The gap is not a fault. Not knowing it is.
When Meta and Google both claim the same sale, their totals come to more than you actually made. There is one bank account and it can only be divided once.
What changes when it is read as one picture
The point of this is not to spend more. In a normal month the recommendation is move this money, not add more of it, and the reason we can say that is that we are paid a flat fee rather than a share of your budget.
Three things a supplier does not do
| A verdictevery month | The business gets placed in one of four states: fix, reallocate, create or scale. Four questions asked in the same order, and the first no is the answer. A report tells you numbers. A verdict tells you which of four different months you are in, and they call for opposite actions. |
| Our own scorecardevery month | Every monthly opens with what we told you last month, whether it got done, and what happened. Including the ones you ignored and the ones we got wrong. Nobody selling you a service publishes their own hit rate. |
| Confidence labelsevery report | Every recommendation is marked confident, likely or unresolved, because “we think” and “we know” should not look the same on a page. You decide how much of your own judgement to spend on each item. |
Measured and Proven · ads and attribution, three cadences
Before any of it, a baseline audit of your tracking and attribution. What the pixel and the consent wiring are actually doing, whether product costs are filled in, and what share of your revenue is traceable at all. Everything after that is measured against it, which is what separates “advertising got worse” from “a tag stopped firing”.
| Dailyexception only | Is anything broken? Budget going out with no sales coming back, a campaign that stopped, spend quietly moving somewhere nobody chose. Thresholds rather than statistics, so it works at any volume. A short report is a good day. No report is a better one. |
| Weeklyoperational | What do we adjust? Campaign and creative movement, plus anything sliding in the tracking itself. Creative judged on clicks, because at your volume no creative can be judged on sales inside a week. |
| Monthlythe judgement | Is the money in the right place? Everything read against your real margins, one recommendation, reasoning shown. Opens with the month in four sentences. Detail underneath, in sections you can skip. |
The decisions it puts in front of you
Every one of those is a budget decision. Today they get made from whichever dashboard happened to be open, on numbers the platform produced about itself.
The Producer School · 120 days
Niek, who you have been working with on the theme, runs an ecommerce business called The Producer School. Everything in this proposal has been running inside it for 120 days: the same reports, the same break even work, the same monthly verdict.
Short and readable
| Found | Rolling month to month. Cancel whenever, no minimum. |
| Measured and Proven | Three months minimum, then rolling. A one month engagement would end just before the point where it starts working. |
| Setup fees | Charged once, never again. Move up later and you pay only the difference. |
| Moving levels | Up any time. Down at the end of a term. |
| Paying yearly | Two months free if you prepay twelve. |
| Billing | Monthly in advance, card or wire via Stripe. |
| Your ad budget | Separate, paid to the platforms directly. Our fee is flat and never a percentage of what you spend, so when the honest answer is stop spending here, we can say it. |
| The accounts | Your freelancer keeps them. We are the read on the numbers, not a second pair of hands in the account. |
A part time person who could do all of this costs €2,500 to €4,000 a month, and you get one generalist. An agency doing the ads alone is €1,500 to €3,000, and most also take a cut of what you spend.
So there are no surprises
In order
Easier to talk it through. Email cristoforo@nodeagency.ai and we will find a time.