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Follow the inquiry beyond the campaign report.

An advertising report can show activity without explaining whether the inquiry reached the right person or became work. The Forge’s connected-record direction brings marketing, sales and operations into that discussion. The capability disclosures below distinguish available records from attribution and revenue connections that require further verification.

How does The Forge handle marketing and revenue attribution?

Review the inquiry, its recorded source and the follow-up that comes after it. The intended journey connects marketing activity to customer work and financial outcomes, but complete attribution depends on supported links, consent and rollout verification. Do not treat an ad click, a form submission or a closed deal as proof of collected revenue.

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Where it breaks down today

Marketing reports lead volume and cost-per-lead, but nobody can say which of those leads actually became revenue.

What runs on its own

Auto-tag lead source at intake from the form, call-tracking number, or referral link used.

What changes

A reviewable path from the inquiry toward its recorded outcome, with missing links visible until complete attribution is verified.

Forge — Exceptions
  • Invoice #2203 overdue

    Redwood HOA, 12 days past due

    Overdue
  • Job #1044 missing signature

    Community roofing job

    ExceptionNot in the app yet
  • Payment method declined

    Alvarez residence, retry scheduled

    ExceptionNot in the app yet

How this shows up day to day

Marketing reports lead volume and cost-per-lead, but nobody can say which of those leads actually became revenue.
Budget gets allocated based on which channel produces the most leads, not which channel produces the most closed deals.
Attribution is reconstructed manually at quarter-end by matching spreadsheet exports from two or three different systems.
A referral or repeat-customer source of revenue goes untracked because it never touched a trackable marketing channel.
Sales and marketing disagree about lead quality because they're each measuring different parts of the funnel.
Campaign-level ROI is estimated, not calculated, because the closed-deal data lives in a different system than the ad spend data.

The information this runs on

Lead source record

The originating channel, campaign, or referral for each lead, captured at intake.

Campaign / spend record

What was spent, on what channel, and over what period.

Opportunity / pipeline record

The lead as it moves through qualification to close, carrying its original source tag.

Closed-deal / revenue record

The final outcome — won or lost, and at what value — traceable back to source.

Who touches this workflow

Marketing

Runs campaigns and needs revenue outcome data, not just lead volume, to justify and allocate spend.

Sales

Works the pipeline; needs to log outcomes accurately for attribution to mean anything downstream.

Finance / Leadership

Approves marketing budget; needs to see cost-per-closed-deal, not just cost-per-lead, before reallocating spend.

Intake through improvement

  1. Intake

  2. Execution

  3. Monitoring

  4. Financial impact

  5. Improvement

  • Problems that need attention — Review a source that brings inquiries but few recorded next steps. Confirm the record coverage before deciding the campaign is the cause.

What surfaces automatically

A campaign or source with spend but no tagged leads in a given period.
A source with lead volume significantly above its historical close rate, worth investigating for lead quality.
Untagged or 'unknown source' leads exceeding a configured percentage of total pipeline.
A campaign's cost-per-closed-deal crossing a threshold worth a budget review.

What stops requiring a manual step

Auto-tag lead source at intake from the form, call-tracking number, or referral link used.
Roll up source-level pipeline value and close rate on a live dashboard instead of a manual monthly report.
Flag untagged leads automatically for manual source assignment before they skew attribution data.
Notify marketing automatically when a source's close rate drops below a configured baseline.

The systems you keep, and what they stay in charge of

Advertising platforms

Confirm supported access to spend and campaign records before using them in a comparison. The advertising platform retains its own official activity record.

Call-tracking / form platforms

Source tagging pulls from call-tracking numbers or form details where connected; those tools keep the official record of the raw call and form data.

CRM (if a dedicated platform is already in place)

Pipeline and close data can sync from an existing CRM rather than requiring migration — see /integrations for current connector status.

Current, connector-by-connector integration status lives at /integrations.

What changes once this is in place

A reviewable path from the inquiry toward its recorded outcome, with missing links visible until complete attribution is verified.
Budget decisions based on which channels produce revenue, not just which produce the most leads.
A shared view of lead quality that sales and marketing both work from, reducing the usual finger-pointing.
Clearer visibility into referral and repeat-customer revenue that would otherwise go untracked.

What you control

Define the source and campaign taxonomy used for tagging (channel, campaign, referral type).
Set which touchpoint gets attribution credit — first touch, last touch, or a defined multi-touch model.
Configure the close-rate and cost-per-deal thresholds that trigger a review alert.
Choose which roles see full attribution and spend data versus summary-level reporting.

Where this shows up by industry

Other areas worth connecting

The Forge for Marketing & Revenue Attribution
  • A reviewable path from the inquiry toward its recorded outcome, with missing links visible until complete attribution is verified.
  • Budget decisions based on which channels produce revenue, not just which produce the most leads.
  • A shared view of lead quality that sales and marketing both work from, reducing the usual finger-pointing.
  • Clearer visibility into referral and repeat-customer revenue that would otherwise go untracked.

See exactly how The Forge would run marketing & revenue attribution for your operation.

Full $249 applies toward Managed Launch, an annual Core or Pro agreement, an approved integration, or migration assistance.