A Marketo instance that finally earned its keep.

A manufacturer had invested in Marketo and the operations around it had drifted out of step with the business. We audited the instance and rebuilt how the team runs it. [[PROOF NEEDED — verify client name, metrics, quote, and approval to publish]]

The outcome

A rationalized Marketo instance.

  • 40% reduction in campaign build time once the Marketo instance was rationalized.
  • 2x gain in lead-routing accuracy after the scoring and sync logic was rebuilt.
  • 18 mos of accumulated platform debt cleared in a single structured audit.
The challenge

A platform that still ran. No one trusted it.

The Marketo instance still ran, but nobody was confident in what it produced. Lead routing missed, reporting didn’t reconcile, and every new campaign added another workaround. The manufacturer didn’t need a new platform. It needed the one it owned to work the way the team thought it did.

What we did

An audit, then a rebuild.

Not a reimplementation. A structured audit of the instance, a rationalized foundation, and the operating habits that keep it clean.

01 Audit

We mapped what the instance was doing in production.

Years of quick fixes had left the Marketo instance with overlapping programs, orphaned campaigns, and scoring rules nobody could explain. We documented every working part and every broken one before touching a thing.

02 Rationalize

We rebuilt the foundation, not the surface.

A clean program architecture, a scoring model the team could defend, and sync logic that matched how sales actually worked. Each change was made inside the platform the manufacturer already owned.

03 Operations

We left behind a way of working.

New build standards, a governance cadence, and documentation the team owns. The instance stays clean because the operating habits around it changed, not because we patched it once.

Testimonials
We’d stopped asking the platform hard questions because we didn’t trust the answers. Now the instance is something we build on, not around.
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The engagement

This was a MarTech Stack Optimization.

When the platform is sound but the way it’s run isn’t, the work is an audit and rebuild of how the stack actually operates.

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