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The Reality Gap™ Calculator

What your ad spend returns
vs. what it should.

Most businesses don't have a traffic problem. They have a gap between what they're measuring and what they're making. Find yours in 60 seconds — no email required.

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About your advertising
What do you sell?
Currency
Monthly ad spend
Average value per client
First order / engagement value is fine — lifetime value makes it bigger.
£
Your Reality Gap
£0
per month, left in the gap

The difference between what your spend returns today and what the same spend returns when it's qualified, message-matched and tracked to the sale.

Current reality
£0
Qualified & tracked SAME SPEND
£0
range shown conservative → likely · tick marks the conservative bound
Where the gap comes from
01

Wrong clicks. A share of your budget buys clicks from people who were never going to buy — bargain-hunters, DIYers, wrong geography. Negative keywords and presence-only targeting remove them at the source.

02

Wrong landing. Generic pages leak intent. When the ad and the page say the same thing to the same buyer, more of the clicks you've already paid for convert.

03

Wrong target. If the system optimises to form-fills, it finds cheap form-fillers. Optimised to real sales, it finds buyers — same budget, different machine.

Every number we used — and why

Modelled, not guaranteed. Uplifts are conservative composites of three named levers, shown per lever above. The projection assumes conversion tracking is live and measuring real outcomes — the single most common gap we find. Your actual numbers depend on your market, offer and volume ceiling.

Close the gap
A gap this size is a systems problem — and systems problems are fixable.

The Strategy Session is where we map your highest-intent keywords, set the qualification rules, and design tracking around real sales — a paid working session, and the plan is yours to keep whether or not we run it together.

Book a Strategy SessionSession fee credits against month one if we proceed.
Your next step
At your current spend, the best ROI is knowledge, not management fees.

Start with our cost guides and setup walkthroughs — they'll help you close part of this gap yourself, and when your spend grows past 3k/month, professional management starts paying for itself.

Email me my gap breakdown
Your numbers, the three levers, and what closing each one is worth — nothing else, no sequence-spam.
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No audit theatre. This tool doesn't look at your account and doesn't pretend to. It models the structural gap we see across managed accounts, from your own inputs — every assumption is in the drawer above, and every one of them is editable.