Every business that comes to us for a Marketing MRI has tried something before it. Usually several things.
A new agency. A new platform. A restructure. A consultant who produced a report. A performance review that led to a headcount change. A channel experiment. A strategy refresh. Each carried genuine conviction. Each moved something. Nothing changed the core problem.
That is not a failure of judgement on the part of the people who made those decisions. It is the structural consequence of diagnosing a system problem at the channel level. When the real constraint sits in the connections between functions rather than inside any one of them, every channel-level intervention produces a local improvement that does not touch the system.
The Marketing MRI does not start with channels. It starts above them. With the question of whether the commercial architecture connecting those channels to revenue is structurally sound. That is a different question and it requires a different kind of read to answer honestly.
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