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Decision Teardown Campaign

Get one messy client decision turned into an approval-ready report.

Send an anonymized ecommerce decision. Clear Margins will turn it into a plain-English profitability report you could use in a client call: recommendation, assumptions, guardrails, and next action. No account creation and no pitch required.

Best for agencies, fractional CFOs, ecommerce bookkeepers, and consultants who need to explain whether a client can spend, discount, reorder, or wait.

Send a decision for teardownView sample client report

The question

Can this client scale ads, run a promo, reorder inventory, or commit cash without hurting margin or runway?

That question often gets answered with a spreadsheet screenshot and a manual writeup. The teardown turns the same raw assumptions into a client-ready decision record: what changed, what it means, what to do next, and what guardrails should be monitored.

What you can send

DecisionScale ad spend without breaking the ROAS floor

A rough or anonymized client scenario is enough. If an assumption is missing, the teardown will call that out instead of pretending the data is clean.

DecisionRun a discount without destroying contribution profit

A rough or anonymized client scenario is enough. If an assumption is missing, the teardown will call that out instead of pretending the data is clean.

DecisionReorder inventory before a campaign

A rough or anonymized client scenario is enough. If an assumption is missing, the teardown will call that out instead of pretending the data is clean.

DecisionCommit cash to a hire, vendor, or operating plan

A rough or anonymized client scenario is enough. If an assumption is missing, the teardown will call that out instead of pretending the data is clean.

What the teardown includes

1

Approve, approve with guardrails, reject, or needs better data

2

The assumptions behind the recommendation

3

Best, base, worst, and stress-case context

4

Margin, ROAS, inventory, and runway impact

5

Plain-English guardrails for the client call

6

One sentence you can say to the client

How it works

StepWhat happensWhy it matters
1. Send the decisionUse the email button and include the smallest useful assumptions.No account, integration, or clean model required.
2. Get the teardownClear Margins turns it into a recommendation, cases, guardrails, and note.You can judge the output before seeing a demo workspace.
3. Test the workflowIf it is useful, ask for a demo workspace using the same decision flow.The demo starts from a real advisor/client use case.

Intake questions

Required
  • What decision is being considered?
  • What is the current baseline?
  • What change is being proposed?
  • What constraint matters most?
  • Can the client or company name be anonymized?
Helpful if available
  • Last comparable promo lift
  • Current refund or return rate
  • Unit cost and fulfillment cost
  • Inventory on hand and reorder lead time
  • Your current recommendation

Example output

Approve ad scale, reject the discount.

Approve a 15% ad spend increase, but reject the 20% discount. The discount requires a 57% unit-volume lift to preserve contribution profit, while the last comparable promo lifted volume by 27%. If ROAS falls below 2.4x for 7 days, reduce spend back to baseline.

Proof assets

Privacy note

Please anonymize client names and avoid sending sensitive exports, credentials, bank details, tax documents, or personal customer data. The teardown is designed to work from the decision context and key assumptions, not private raw records.

Is this a sales demo?

No. The first step is a useful teardown. A demo workspace only comes after you decide the output is relevant.

Can the decision be old or anonymized?

Yes. A current, past, or anonymized decision works as long as the baseline and proposed change are clear enough to pressure-test.

What happens if the data is incomplete?

The report will say “needs better data” where appropriate and name the missing assumption instead of forcing a false recommendation.

Have one messy client decision? Send the rough version and I will turn it into a clear approval-ready report.

Send a decision for teardownView sample client report