How the Guarantee Works

A guarantee built on evidence, scope, and performance guardrails.

Atocha does not apply a blanket guarantee to every marketing cost. The guarantee is sized to the addressable portion of investment, scored for confidence, and protected by performance guardrails that are agreed before any activation.

Atocha guarantees the agreed savings level against a defined scope of addressable marketing investment, subject to data quality, implementation control, and performance guardrails established with the client before activation.
01 · What we analyse

Four pillars, one financial view.

PILLAR 01

Media Performance

How efficiently media investment converts into agreed business outcomes — by channel, audience, market, and partner.

PILLAR 02

Technology Utilization

How effectively tools, platforms, data services, and reporting systems support performance and control.

PILLAR 03

Commercial Clarity

How costs are structured across platforms, agencies, technology, data, and services.

PILLAR 04

Operating Model Alignment

How internal teams, agencies, and partners are organised to deliver agreed marketing outcomes.

02 · Addressable investment

Not every cost is in scope. The guarantee is sized to what is.

Addressable investment is the portion of marketing spend that can reasonably be improved within the engagement — given contract structure, data quality, implementation control, and agreed performance guardrails.

Locked contracts, non-addressable commitments, and out-of-scope costs are isolated up front and excluded from the guarantee.

Addressability filter · sample $10M
Total marketing investment$10,000,000
Less locked contracts−$0.9M
Less non-addressable commitments−$0.5M
Less out-of-scope costs−$0.2M
Addressable investment $8,400,000
03 · How savings are estimated

Five factors. One confidence score per opportunity.

Data quality

Completeness and integrity of platform data, contract data, and operating-model context.

Historical performance

Comparable benchmarks, prior outcomes, and platform-level performance over time.

Contract structure

Where contractual terms permit, and where they do not, change to be made within the engagement.

Platform coverage

Whether all material channels and partners can be observed at sufficient resolution.

Implementation control

Who controls the levers — Atocha, the client, an existing agency, a technology partner.

Performance guardrails

The KPI index that the guarantee must protect while savings are delivered.

04 · How the guarantee is set

Confidence in. Range out. Recommendation agreed.

Albert produces a confidence-scored savings opportunity. Atocha then proposes the level it is prepared to guarantee, the scope it applies to, the exclusions, and the performance guardrails that protect both sides.

  • Recommended guarantee falls within a defined range, not a blanket figure
  • Scope is explicit: which lines of investment are included, which are not
  • Exclusions are listed before activation, not discovered after
  • Performance guardrails are agreed in writing before the engagement begins
LineValue
Total marketing investment$10,000,000
Addressable investment$8,400,000
Estimated savings opportunity$2,000,000
Recommended guarantee range$1.6M–$2.0M
Recommended guarantee$1,800,000
Performance guardrailMaintain agreed KPI index
05 · How delivery is tracked

Albert Fuel · live, board-grade reporting.

Once the guarantee is approved, Albert Fuel tracks every action that contributes to delivery. Existing agencies, technology partners, and internal teams update progress; Atocha aggregates and reports.

Savings delivered

Realised savings against agreed scope, reconciled monthly with the client's finance function.

Performance protected

KPI index tracked continuously against the agreed guardrail. Drift is escalated, not absorbed.

Partner actions

Each agreed action is owned by a partner, scoped, and tracked through to completion.

06 · What is excluded

Stated up front. Reviewed at every stage.

The guarantee is rigorous because what it does not cover is just as visible as what it does. Atocha lists exclusions transparently before activation.

Ready to begin

The diagnostic comes first. Then the guarantee.

Atocha will assess the opportunity, isolate addressable investment, and recommend the level of savings it is prepared to guarantee — before any activation.