The Machine
Strategic OS v2.0
Marketing effectiveness, operationalised

We turn marketing science into strategy.

Twenty connected models that tell you how much to spend, where to spend it, whether the creative is working, and what it was all worth. Use them yourself, have them run for you, or learn to build the argument from scratch.

20
Connected models

From objective setting and market sizing through budget modelling, channel optimisation, creative effectiveness and causal measurement. One system, one report.

4
Strategic areas

Strategic imperatives, growth planning, advanced optimisations, continuous learning — a route from ambition to allocation to evidence.

60+
Years of evidence

Grounded in the academic canon, from Ehrenberg's buying-behaviour work of the 1950s through the IPA Databank to the modern science of attention and creative quality.

0
Black boxes

Every model names the research it rests on, states its assumptions, and says on screen where its method stops being reliable.

What it answers

Four questions every plan has to survive.

How much should we spend?

Task-based budget modelling, share-of-voice dynamics and payback curves size the investment before a pound moves.

MOD 06–11

Where should we spend it?

Multi-screen optimisation weighted for attention, reach and cost — allocation driven by evidence rather than by last year's plan.

MOD 12–16

Is the creative working?

Creative effectiveness scored against the drivers of long-term brand growth and short-term activation, not against internal preference.

MOD 17–18

What was it all worth?

Discounted cash flow, causal impact and regression sense-checks turn marketing activity into financial evidence.

MOD 11, 13, 19
Ways to work together

The software is one of three doors.

Some people want the instruments. Some want the answer. Some want their team to stop losing the argument in the first place. All three are priced openly.

Platform
Run the models yourself

Twenty connected models, five of them free forever with no card and no expiry. The rest unlock the report you can put in front of a client.

Advisory
Have the work done for you

A diagnostic on your own spend, standing access for the decisions that carry consequences, or a pitch stress-tested before a client picks it apart.

Training
Teach the team to do it

Seven modules built from the primary literature rather than a summary of it, taught against your own numbers and your own live plan.

Built on the work of
EhrenbergSharpBinetFieldNelson-FieldRitsonAmblerDawesHarrison

Every model cites the research it rests on. Where a method has limits — a stationary-market assumption, a screening tool that is not a full marketing mix model — the tool says so on screen rather than in the small print.

Who built it

The Machine is built by Paul Ruscoe, a marketing strategist who has spent a career at WPP, Omnicom and Publicis working on accounts including Apple, Go.Compare, Sanofi, Stella Artois, Heineken, Pfizer, Sony Pictures and many more.

Every model here began as a spreadsheet built to answer a real question in a real pitch, then got rebuilt properly against the published research. It is one strategist's working method, made repeatable — which is also why the tools argue with you rather than flatter you.

The Machine senses. You decide.

Every module is built to sharpen strategic judgment, not replace it. The models constrain the argument and price the trade-offs. Choosing between defensible options is still your job.

The Machine
Strategic OS v2.0
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