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YOU'RE PAYING FOR CREATIVE THAT NEVER REACHES A CUSTOMER.

Production keeps shipping. Spend keeps moving. The next brief gets sharper. Marshal connects the three so DTC brands stop paying for creative that never earns its keep.

Matt Lady
Matt Lady
CYO & Founder
10 years in media buying, agency ops & creative production across 350+ brands
YIELD Score
Live snapshot
Creative Yield
64/ 100
Produced42
Routed31
Live18
Activated9
Learned From4
⚠ Leak Detected
Approved assets stuck in routing — $8,400 estimated opportunity cost
The Reframe

Your creative engine leaks before the ad account ever sees it.

Most brands only measure the end: top ads, ROAS, spend, and fatigue.

But the waste starts earlier: creative gets scattered, delayed, misrouted, approved but unused, launched without spend, or forgotten before it teaches the next brief.

01
Produced
Asset is created
Lost in Drive
02
Received
Lands in your stack
03
Cataloged
Named, tagged, filed
Missing rights
04
Reviewed
Rights + brand check
Approval delay
05
Routed
Sent to the channel
Never routed
06
Live
Published in-platform
Spend-starved
07
Activated
Spend behind it
08
Measured
Performance read
09
Learned From
Feeds the next brief
No learning captured
Activation > Live

“Live” is not enough. Activated, learned from, and reused is the real bar.

The Snapshot

Here's what Marshal sees in your first 30 days.

A concrete diagnostic output, sized to your brand and your team — not a generic category benchmark.

487

Assets Cataloged

Every asset across Drive, Frame, Slack, Notion in one map.

7

Active Leaks Identified

Specific stages where assets stall before launch.

$32K

Trapped Spend Value

Approved-but-unused creative carrying real opportunity cost.

4partners

Partner Yield Ranking

Which creators and agencies produce durable winners vs. filler.

+24days

Novelty Debt

How far behind your concept refresh actually is.

HIGH

Stockout Risk

Weeks of runway before usable creative runs out.

64/ 487

Liquidity Ratio

Assets rights-cleared, sized, approved, and launch-ready this week.

3priorities

Top Actions

Ranked plays to ship in the first week, sized for your team.

The Framework

Meet the YIELD Score.

YIELD measures how efficiently your creative supply chain turns production into live, value-producing learning.

Y
Yield

How much creative actually reaches the market?

I
Integrity

Is it usable, rights-cleared, on-brand, and trusted?

E
Efficiency

How fast and cost-effectively does it move?

L
Leverage

Do winners become variants, briefs, and learnings?

D
Durability

How long does creative keep working?

How We Measure

Behind the snapshot: five metrics nobody else tracks.

47/ 200

Creative Liquidity

Inventory isn't liquidity. The other 153 are working capital frozen in legal, sizing, and approval — paid for, not earning.

HIGH

Creative Stockout Risk

Your winners are running on fumes. Without a runway signal, spend stays parked on fatigued ads while fresh concepts sit unapproved.

32%

Partner Yield

Concepts shipped is vanity. Durable-winner rate is the only number that says which partners pay for themselves and which ones don't.

+18days

Creative Novelty Debt

How many days your concept refresh is behind the platform's fatigue curve — and what every day of debt costs in CPA drift.

$24Ktrapped

Opportunity Cost of Stuck Creative

$24K of approved creative sitting unlaunched. At your media efficiency, that's the revenue it would have earned in market.

The Operating Loop

One operating layer from creative demand to activated spend.

Marshal closes the loop between the sources that produce your creative and the channels that spend against it — with TRACER measuring every handoff in between.

Creative Sources
Creators
Agencies
Editors
Drive
Slack
Air / Frame / DAM
MARSHAL YIELDOPS
Powered by TRACER
01
Track
Connect creative sources and build the asset ledger.
02
Control
Verify rights, metadata, approvals, and routing eligibility.
03
Flow
Move approved creative to the right channel before it goes stale.
04
Measure
Verify what went live, what delivered, and what activated.
05
Forecast
Plan how much creative the account needs next.
06
Orchestrate
Allocate briefs, partners, and production budget toward the highest-yield opportunities.
Activated Channels
Meta
TikTok
Google / YouTube
Klaviyo
Organic
PDP / Landing Pages
Outputs Marshal Produces
YIELD ScoreWaste MapCreative Current ReportPartner YieldDemand Plan

Marshal runs on TRACER, our internal creative supply-chain ledger — built to power the service, not to be a product you log into.

Pilot

LIVE PILOT. REAL BRAND.

She's Birdie × Marshal

This pilot is in flight right now. Marshal is mapping the creative supply chain, organizing sources, and establishing the baseline YIELD view across production, routing, and deployment. Verified before/after lands once the pilot has 90 days of activated spend through it.

“Marshal took over the coordination chaos that was eating our team's time. Within the first month, every source and destination was mapped, and nothing sits idle anymore.”

Richie, CEO of She's Birdie

RICHIE

CEO, SHE'S BIRDIE

Get your YIELD score →
Start Here

GET YOUR YIELD SCORE.

Five questions. Five minutes. Get your YIELD score, your archetype, and your waste number in dollars. Connect your data at the end for the real audit.

Engage

ONE TIER. DONE FOR YOU.

After the score and the audit, brands that are a fit move to Track. We run your creative operations end to end — intake, routing, partner coordination, asset organization, and weekly reporting.

You add the sources and creators. We handle everything else.

Track
$5,000/mo

Done for you.

3-month start, then month-to-month.

  • Intake & Organize — every asset received, named, tagged, and filed
  • Route & Deploy — right asset to the right channel at the right time
  • Partner Coordination — follow-ups, briefs, and delivery tracking
  • Asset Organization — your Drive or DAM stays organized, current, and deployment-ready
  • Weekly & Monthly Reporting — what was produced, deployed, and what's sitting idle
After 30 days you'll have
  • Every asset cataloged, named, and filed
  • Top creative leaks identified and closed
  • Partner yield ranking baseline — who produces winners vs. filler
  • Weekly reporting cadence live — what shipped, what's idle, what to make next
  • YIELD Score baseline + 90-day target set
Book a Right-Fit Call →

Built for DTC brands $5M–$100M with 2+ creative partners and $15K+/mo creative spend. See full fit criteria →

SEE YOUR REAL
CREATIVE YIELD.

Start with your estimated YIELD Score. Then Marshal can connect the source files, routing, and ad account data to find the real number.