Convert

Attribution & server-side tracking

Knowing what a booked job cost you, by source.

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The problem

Most businesses at this level cannot answer one question: what did the last customer cost to acquire, and where did they come from? Without it, every budget decision is a guess, and every agency report is about activity because activity is all there is.

How it works

What we actually do.

  • Tracking rebuilt so each lead carries its source from first click to your CRM.
  • A lead store we keep, so the click-to-customer link survives the platforms forgetting it.
  • Your closed outcomes fed back to the ad platforms, which is what lets bidding optimise for customers.
  • Everything on accounts in your name.
What is included

The work itself.

  • An audit of your existing conversion actions and tags against what they actually count.
  • A lead store we keep, so the link between a click and a customer survives the platforms forgetting it.
  • Per-step conversion actions, valued by how far down the process someone actually got.
  • Every lead recorded with its source, click identifier and timestamp.
  • A monthly reconciliation: your sheet against the platform, outcomes in, offline conversions back out.
Check it yourself

One question

There is no benchmark for this and there does not need to be. The diagnostic is a single question.

  1. Take the last customer you invoiced. Say where they came from, what you paid to get them, and which campaign it was.
  2. If that took longer than a minute, or ended in an estimate, every budget decision you make is being made without it.
  3. Then check whether your ad platform's reported conversion count matches the number of real leads in your inbox for the same week. They rarely agree, and the gap is the size of the problem.

What we cannot tell you yet. No published benchmark exists for attribution coverage, so we will not pretend you are below a median. The argument is that you cannot currently answer a question you need answered, which you can verify in about a minute.

Questions

Asked and answered.

Is this not just Google Analytics?
Analytics tells you about sessions. This is about leads and customers, held in a store we control, so that when a platform drops an identifier or a cookie expires the link between the click and the sale still exists.
What is an offline conversion upload?
Sending the outcome back. The platform knows a form was filled; it does not know the job closed for a certain amount three weeks later. Feeding that back is what lets bidding learn from revenue instead of from form fills.
Do we need this before running ads?
You can run without it. You cannot judge what you ran without it, which means the first months of spend teach you less than they should.
Does this involve tracking people?
It involves tracking your own leads through your own process, with consent captured at the form and recorded with the record. It is not third-party profiling and we do not build audiences from it.
What you get

Start with the diagnosis, not the pitch.

We look at what you are running now and tell you what we find, including when the answer is that this is not your problem.

  • Cost per lead by source, and cost per customer once outcomes come back
  • A record that outlives any single platform
  • The measurement that makes every other decision arguable
Start here

Ready to forge a system that compounds?

Start with a free audit. In 24 hours we map your spend, funnels, tooling and data, then show you what we would build on top of it.

  • Audit back in 24 hours. Findings are yours either way
  • Owner-led. You brief the engineer, not an account manager
  • Engineered for revenue, not vanity metrics
  • AI woven through, not bolted on