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We make the complex simple.

We turn the measurement you already own into budget decisions finance will back. Then we make it the way your team works.

Sound familiar?

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Meta, Google and your affiliates all claim the same sale.

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Your MMM says one thing, the platforms say another.

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The CFO asks what is driving growth and the room goes quiet.

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Brand is the first budget cut, every time.

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You have more dashboards than decisions.

Tangolab owns no model, sells no platform, and buys no media.

We are your marketing effectiveness partners. We're independent, and the only thing we care about is your growth. It's the only seat from which you can independently judge everyone else's numbers.

Our only focus is to reconcile what your data is telling you, translate it, and make sure it ladders up to a decision.

Your marketing team
Media agency
Creative agency
Tangolab Connected to everyone you work with. One read, one decision.
MMM vendor
Platforms
Finance

How we work.

One approach, three steps. Diagnose what you have, design the read finance trusts, default it into how your team plans.

What changes

You know what to trust, what to stop reporting, and where the gap is costing you.

What we do

We map every metric and source you use back to a commercial decision, then find where the numbers disagree and why.

What you getMeasurement Blueprint

The Measurement Blueprint. One page showing what you measure, what each source is reliable for, and what is just noise.

What changes

Marketing walks into the CFO conversation with evidence finance recognises.

What we do

We reconcile the sources into one read and translate it into finance language: incremental revenue, payback, risk.

What you getReporting framework

A board ready reporting framework and the narrative that goes with it.

What changes

The habit stays when we step back. No key person dependency.

What we do

We embed it in planning, reporting and budget cycles, alongside your team.

What you getTemplates & training

Templates, decision rhythms and training, with us in the room while it beds in.

The problems behind the numbers.

Most measurement issues are really business issues: who gets budget, what gets cut, and whether the board believes marketing's case.

The challenge

Marketing can't prove its contribution to growth.

What it costs

Budget gets set from last year's number, and marketing is the first line cut when targets slip.

How we help

We quantify what marketing adds to revenue and profit, in terms finance will sign off on.

The challenge

Every source tells a different story.

What it costs

Decisions stall, or get made on whichever report lands last.

How we help

We reconcile your MMM, platforms, experiments and brand tracking into one read the business agrees on.

The challenge

Brand and performance compete for the same budget.

What it costs

Short-term activity wins, and long-term demand erodes without anyone noticing.

How we help

We show what brand protects and what performance captures, so the split is set on evidence.

The challenge

Planning runs on habit.

What it costs

Money keeps flowing to channels well past the point of return.

How we help

We build the evidence into your planning cycle, so the next dollar goes where it earns most.

Ways to work with us.

Fixed scope

Start with a diagnostic

A defined piece of work that ends in your Measurement Blueprint. The fastest way to see where your numbers disagree.

Ongoing

An effectiveness partner

We stay in your planning and reporting cycles, turning each quarter's measurement into the next quarter's budget case.

Capability

Build the team's habit

We train your people and leave the templates and rhythms behind, so the way of working holds without us.

What we don't do.

We don't sell software. We don't buy media. We don't build you another dashboard. We don't replace your MMM provider. We make it count.

Questions people ask.

No. Plenty of our work starts before a model is in place. If you have one, we make it count. If you don't, we tell you honestly whether you need one.

No. We work alongside them. We are vendor agnostic by design, so the read we build holds up whoever is doing the buying or the modelling.

Usually marketing leadership and finance, together. The whole point is getting those two reading from the same page.

It starts with a fixed scope diagnostic. We agree what we are looking at, and you walk away with your Measurement Blueprint.

Then you have found the most expensive problem in the building. We show you what to fix first and what it is worth.

How we've worked with other clients.

From dashboards nobody trusted to a budget finance signs off.

A national retailer. Five channels, a modern data stack, and a widening gap between reported performance and the bank balance. Six months, three steps.

Starting pointQ3 $38M vs $29M

Revenue the dashboards claimed, against revenue in the bank. The team spent 15 to 20 hours a week defending numbers to the CFO.

01 DiagnoseMonths 1–2 7.2x → 1.1x

Branded search ROAS as reported, against what a 40-market holdout test proved. 88% of that traffic arrived organically anyway.

02 DesignMonths 3–4 $220k / month

Freed from branded search and moved into non-brand and competitor campaigns, judged on incremental margin.

03 DefaultMonths 5–6 15 · 85 · 70%

Incremental credit finance approved for brand search, non-brand search and paid social, built into the FP&A scenario planner.

12 months later. Same total budget.
+24%net-new customers
$1.8Msaved every year
2.10xtrue return on spend, up from 1.45x

From four teams pulling apart to one plan.

A $180M consumer brand. Strong teams, but each with its own KPIs, calendar and budget.

Starting pointBefore Conflicting KPIs

Brand tracked awareness, performance tracked CAC, category leads tracked volume and finance tracked EBITDA. Every review became a debate.

01 DiagnoseThe gap 6 weeks apart

Brand and performance ran on separate calendars, so the demand brand built had faded before performance spend arrived.

02 DesignThe model One shared measure

A contribution model finance co-owned, giving brand and performance credit for the same outcome.

03 DefaultThe rhythm 15% flex budget

Held centrally each quarter and moved to wherever demand and stock were strongest.

12 months later.
+19%conversion velocity
$3.2Mredeployed to where demand was
40%fewer cross-team alignment meetings

Tell us where your numbers disagree.

We'd love to work with you and your team.