Beacon

Recommendations that show their own hit rate

One feed for four silos, ordered against the plan you set. Each rule carries how often it has fired, been followed, and been right.

Key takeaway

Every tool ships recommendations. Almost none of them tell you whether their own advice worked. Beacon keeps a record per rule of how often it fired, how often you acted, and how often the outcome was a win, and it orders the feed by that record.
A recommendation engine that can be wrong out loud

One feed

Four silos, one queue, one ranking

A tracking defect, a missing schema block, a keyword you rank fourth for and a campaign past its saturation point are four different problems in four different tools. Here they are four rows in the same list, competing on urgency and effort rather than on which tab you happened to open.

Four silos

Rank a broken tag against a paid move

Rank a broken tag against a paid move in one list. Instrumentation is the silo nobody else has, fed straight from the tracking audits.

Ranking

Work the top of the list, not the loudest row

Each row carries an urgency, an effort level and a category, and the list sorts on a score built from all three.

Lifecycle

Know what stage every action is at

Plan, Done or Dismiss, with each row moving from suggested to to-do to verified and the stage visible in a status column.

Evidence

Check why a row exists before you act on it

One full page per recommendation shows what fired it, the evidence behind it and what happened afterwards.

Beacon recommendation queue ranked by score, across four silos with a status on each

Strategy

Advice is worthless without a stated goal

Most recommendation engines optimise in a vacuum, so they will happily tell you to cut the channel that is building the audience you said you wanted. A strategy is the plan the weekly narrative reasons against, and it changes what gets recommended.

Strategy

Stop half-finished plans competing for the same budget

A month, a quarter or a year with an objective of leads, revenue or brand. Activating a new plan archives the old one.

Target metric

Set a goal that cannot silently go unscored

Six metrics: conversions, paid revenue, conversion rate, sessions, blended paid ROAS, GEO mention rate. The list is fixed on purpose.

Inputs

Set the budget once and let the plan read the rest

Set the budget and priority channels once. The plan reads the personas and competitors you already defined.

Weekly read

Find out if you are pacing ahead or behind

A narrative each week over the period so far, paced against your target and ending in what to move.

The active Beacon plan with its target, priority channels and pace against the period

Governance

We keep score on our own advice

This is the part that should be uncomfortable to publish. Each rule carries a running count of how often it fired, how often it was followed, how often the follow-up concluded, and how often it won. A rule that keeps losing gets demoted in the ranking.

Rule record

See how often a rule has actually been right

Four counts per rule, kept as a contract rather than a dashboard widget: publish the number that could embarrass us.

Precision

Demote a rule on evidence, not on instinct

A precision verdict sits alongside the counts, so demoting a rule with plausible advice and poor outcomes is an evidence decision.

One verdict

Compare a tracking fix against a paid win

One verdict rule covers every silo, because a win meaning ten mention-rate points here and two positions there ranks nothing.

TrustData Beacon rule governance with firing and outcome counts

One row, as it renders

What a Beacon recommendation contains

What fired it, the urgency and effort, the 14-day verdict, and the record of the rule that produced it.

Beacon · Paid · High urgency · Low effort · Verified

Move 640 EUR a week from Meta Prospecting to Google Performance Max

Fired by
Meta Prospecting FR past its saturation point: marginal ROAS of 1.4 against 2.6 on Performance Max, curves rebuilt Monday on 16 weeks of orders.
Action
Cut Meta Prospecting's daily budget by 91 EUR and add it to Performance Max. Planned on 3 September, done on the 4th.
14-day verdict
Winner: +0.4 adjusted ROAS, against a +0.1 drift on the other paid channels used as the control.
Rule record
Meta saturation to Performance Max: fired 12 times, followed 8, concluded 6, won 4. Precision judged plausible.
Illustrative values. No customer behind these numbers.

FAQ

Direct answers.

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See what the system would tell you to do

14-day free trial. Beacon is included from Optimize, with the strategy, the weekly read and the rule record it keeps on itself.