Case study — Digital Marketing2026

Northbeam

Every channel, measured the same way

A marketing attribution and campaign analytics platform that puts paid, organic and lifecycle performance on one comparable footing.

Industry
Marketing, E-commerce
Year
2026
Screens
09
Northbeam marketing overview with blended acquisition cost, revenue trend and performance by channel

Overview

About the project

Northbeam is a concept product for marketing teams whose spend is spread across six or seven channels, each reporting on itself in its own dashboard with its own definition of a conversion. It pulls ad platforms, site analytics and the order table into one model, applies a single attribution rule across all of them, and shows what each channel actually contributed. The design problem was trust: a number nobody believes is worse than no number, so every figure can be opened to reveal the events behind it.

The challenge

Each ad platform reports the conversions it can see and claims credit for them, so adding the dashboards together gives a number far larger than the orders that actually happened. Marketers end up rebuilding the picture by hand in a spreadsheet every Monday, and by the time it is reconciled the week it describes is already gone.

Our solution

We modelled every touchpoint into one event table and applied a single attribution rule across all channels, so the numbers add up to the orders in the ledger. Channel performance, blended acquisition cost and contribution are computed from that one model, every figure opens to the events behind it, and the weekly reconciliation is a page rather than a morning's work.

What we built

  1. 01Channel overviewSpend, revenue and contribution for every channel on one comparable basis.
  2. 02Attribution modelOne rule applied across all channels, with the events behind each figure visible.
  3. 03Campaign detailCreative, audience and placement performance inside a single campaign.
  4. 04Blended acquisition costAcquisition cost across the whole mix, not one channel at a time.
  5. 05Cohort retentionWhat each acquisition cohort was still worth in month three and six.
  6. 06Budget pacingSpend against plan, with an alert before a channel runs out of month.
  7. 07Mobile reportingThe Monday numbers on a phone, without exporting anything.

Desktop

Where the product doesits heaviest work.

The full-width interface, screen by screen.

Northbeam channel table comparing spend, attributed revenue, acquisition cost and contribution for every channel
Fig. 01 — Channel performance
Northbeam attribution view showing the path to conversion and how credit is split between touchpoints
Fig. 02 — Attribution model
Northbeam cohort view showing what each acquisition cohort was still worth in later months
Fig. 03 — Cohort retention
Northbeam campaign detail with creative performance, audience split and daily pacing
Fig. 04 — Campaign detail

Mobile

Rebuilt for onehand.

The same information hierarchy, rebuilt for a screen you hold in one hand.

Northbeam mobile weekly overview with attributed revenue, spend and the channel mix
01 — Weekly overview
Northbeam mobile channel comparison with acquisition cost and contribution per channel
02 — Channel compare
Northbeam mobile campaign detail with spend pacing and creative performance
03 — Campaign detail
Northbeam mobile alert list with budget pacing and channel performance warnings
04 — Pacing alerts

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