Engine 02 · Paid funnels

Test the ad and the page together, before you pay.

300 agents click the ad, land on the page, and decide. Each one built from your buyers’ own reviews, calls and win/loss notes. Back in 30 minutes: what’s working, what’s broken, and what to fix.

300 agents, 60 per reader. Every finding quotes a real buyer.
AD CAMPAIGN · /funnelLive
Ad Campaign Simulation interface
Runs against
Ad + landing page
Catches
The scent-trail break
You get
A Kill Sheet
Ground Reality

You don’t write the personas. Your buyers already did.

Before they meet you: review sites, community threads, competitor complaints, and how all of it shifted over 18 months. After they meet you: call recordings, CRM notes, win/loss reasons.

Most tools get one half. A persona doc gets neither. How Ground Reality works

The process

Two stages, modeled apart.

The click decision and the conversion decision are different problems. We score them separately.

01

Read the ad

Every reader decides as a skeptic. Click or scroll past.

02

Check the promise

Clickers carry the ad’s promise to your hero. Does it hold?

03

Scroll and decide

Every point of friction logged, with a cause.

04

Rank the creatives

Projected CTR, CVR and wasted spend, per creative.

Why it breaks

Where the money leaks.

Each of these costs you spend, not just conversions.

Failure 01

The promise breaks

Ad says “30% lower TCO.” Hero says “The Modern Data Platform.” Gone in three seconds.

We catch the gap per reader, before you spend.
Failure 02

Built for the clicker only

A page built for the engineer loses finance and security, who review it next.

All five readers run the funnel, not just the one who clicked.
Failure 03

Nobody knows what failed

Ad, audience or page? Analytics cannot separate the click from the conversion.

Two stages scored apart, so you know which one broke.
What you get

The Kill Sheet, and everything around it.

Weeks of live A/B testing. Replaced by one run, before spend.

funnel report
Kill Sheet · scent trail
AD
“30% lower TCO”
PAGE break
“The Modern Data Platform”
Hero ignores the ad promisehigh
No ROI proof above the foldmed
CTA buried under testimonialsmed
Projected CVR 1.1% · est. wasted spend 62%

Kill Sheet

Ranked friction, each with a fix.

Scent-trail verdict

Where the promise breaks, role by role.

CTR / CVR / CPA

Projected metrics and wasted-spend estimate.

Creative A vs B

A statistical winner, with the reason.

Two-stage attribution

Ad-stage and page-stage, separated.

Who it is for

Built for whoever signs off on the spend.

Ad Campaign Simulation

Heads of paid

Validate the funnel before turning on spend.

Demand gen

Confirm the promise holds for the target roles.

Performance

Pick a creative without a slow live A/B test.

Product marketing

See who the message wins, not just the clicker.

Get started

Send us the campaign going live next.

Send us the creatives and the page they point at. We run both.