SoudCoh Compound™ — how the team works

Nothing gets
wasted twice.

We are a team of specialists in Melbourne running the whole thing end to end — ads, search, e-commerce, the website, the tracking underneath it. Compound is how we work together on your account, and how what one account learns reaches all of them.

See how a change reaches your account Read the Refusal List

Two names, every time

Changes pushed without a person

In order, not in parallel

Stages every change passes

Fixed, good news or bad

3-day

Reporting rhythm

Read before a dollar moves

PAUSED

How campaigns launch

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In short

You can ask us for any of this in writing.

01We give every change a number before it exists.
02A second person signs it off before it reaches your account.
03The record is yours to read, not ours to summarise.
04When we say no to something, we write down why.

The room it happens in

You'll know who is on your account.

A group of specialists in Melbourne work on it together, and they sit near enough to argue about it: a strategist and an analyst disagreeing over what the numbers actually say, an account lead who knows your business well enough to push back on us, and a standing agreement about what none of us are allowed to do on our own. Whatever you came to us for, most of this list ends up in the room.

Strategist: Reads your market, your margins and your account, then writes the plan you sign off on. Runs the strategy sessions and owns the argument for why we are doing this and not that.
Analyst: Lives in the numbers — what converted, what did not, which suburbs, which devices, which hours, which pages. Turns up to the session with evidence rather than opinions.
Tracking specialist: Builds the measurement before anything is bought: tag manager, analytics, server-side conversions, call attribution — then proves each one fires. Everything downstream is only as honest as this.
Media buyer: Runs the paid side day to day — search and shopping, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, remarketing. Reads every term that spent money and writes the reason for every change.
Search and content lead: The long arc: local and international SEO, the pages themselves, and generative engine optimisation — being found in the answers people are given now, not only in the ten blue links.
Design and build: Websites, landing pages, online stores and custom web apps. If the page cannot take a visitor to a booking or a basket, nothing upstream of it matters.
Account lead: Your person. In the sessions, on the calls, accountable for the rhythm and for the relationship — and the second name on anything that goes live.

What we run

Search and shopping campaigns, Meta, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, local and international SEO, generative engine optimisation, e-commerce, websites, landing pages and custom web apps, the tracking and analytics underneath all of it, and advisory work for boards, growing companies and public-sector teams. One team, one record, one reporting rhythm — whichever of those you start with, and what each one hands the next is the reason we would rather you did not buy them one at a time.

The industry default

Ask your agency for the record of what they changed last month.

There usually isn't one — not because anyone is careless, but because an account managed on its own, by whoever happens to be free, has nowhere to put the record and nothing to compare it against. That is a structural problem, not a character flaw, and it is worth knowing what a monthly report is supposed to contain before you decide whose fault it is. Compound is what we built instead, and then agreed to live inside.

The industry norm

How we work

The report arrives when the numbers are good

We send the report on its date, good month or bad

"We optimised the account"

We date every change, type it, and put a name against it

One person can push anything, any time

Two people sign it off, or it does not go live

Every channel is a different agency, and none of them talk

One team runs the ads, the search presence, the site and the tracking together

You hear from a customer that the page was wrong

We catch it before the ad is ever pointed at it

Campaigns launch live and get fixed afterwards

We launch campaigns PAUSED and read them first

Targets live in somebody's head

We write the targets down and show them to you

Ask what changed in March, get a story

Ask what changed in March, get a dated list

Your account pays to learn what other accounts already know

Day one, your account starts with what the others already paid for

How the work runs

How a change actually reaches your account.

Mandate, meter, sweep, countersign, ledger, statement. Six stages, in that order, every time — and the last one feeds the first, because we write the next cycle from what you tell us in the reporting session. Each one below names the person holding the change at that point, how we really do the work, and the record you can ask us for.

Specimen records · client code redacted — the way we redact yours

Each dot lights as you pass its stage.

01
Mandate
You set the number before we spend the money.
WhoYour strategist and account lead — with you in the room.
We read everything there is to read first: your own numbers, your margins, what a customer is actually worth to you, what is already happening in your market. Then we sit down together and agree what a good result looks like, and we write it down — what counts as waste, what you are measuring us on, which benchmarks we will be held to. We put it in your own settings file so nobody has to remember it, and we show it to you before we spend anything.
Ask us foryour threshold block and the benchmarks we agreed to hold ourselves to.
What you receiveSigned
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Your targets, agreed and written down
Waste threshold
$10 spent and two clicks with nothing to show for it
Relevance floor
Under 50% match to the ad group we cut it — over it, a person reads it
Benchmarks
The industry figures we agreed to be held to
Shown to you
In the room, before a dollar was spent
Prepared byStrategist
CountersignedAccount lead
Signed 6 July 2026
02
Meter
If it can't be measured, it doesn't get bought.
WhoThe tracking specialist — before a single dollar is bought.
Our tracking specialist goes through your tag manager container by hand, wires up analytics and the server-side conversion feeds, and puts call attribution on every phone enquiry — then fires each one and shows you it landed. She finishes before we switch the first campaign on, not six weeks later when somebody asks where the leads went. It is the least glamorous week of the engagement and the one everything else stands on.
Ask us foryour container audit and the conversion map that came out of it.
What you receiveVerified
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The measurement audit, with proof each one fired
Checked by hand
Tags, triggers and variables, one at a time
Conversions mapped
Analytics, server-side, and call attribution
Evidence
Each one fired and witnessed — not assumed
Finished
Before the first campaign was switched on
Prepared byTracking specialist
CountersignedAccount lead
Verified 13 July 2026
01
First click
An ad, a search result, a map listing.
02
Tagged on arrival
Your container checked by hand, one tag at a time.
03
Enquiry
A form, or a phone call with attribution on it.
04
Conversion recorded
Fired and witnessed, not assumed.
05
Booked job
Traced back to the click that started it.
One continuous line from a stranger's first click to a job in the calendar. Every stage is measured, and nothing is lost at the joins.
03
Sweep
Waste is found daily, named, and priced.
WhoWhoever runs your account — every working day.
Your media buyer reads every search term that spent your money and sorts each one three ways: cut it, question it, or back it. Our tools pull the list; nobody here lets a tool decide what is on it. Terms with no business being there he cuts on any spend. Terms that match what you sell but are not converting he sends to a person rather than quietly killing them — that is usually a bid or a landing-page problem, and killing it would hide the real one.
Ask us forany dated clean log — including the days we found nothing.
What you receiveLogged
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The daily clean log — every term that spent your money
Cut
Irrelevant intent, on any spend at all
Cut
$10, two clicks, no enquiry, and a poor match to the ad group
Questioned
$10 and no enquiry — but a genuine match, so a person looks
Backed
Anything that converted and is not being targeted yet
Prepared byMedia buyer
CountersignedAccount lead
Logged 4 August 2026 — and every working day
04
Countersign
Nothing reaches a live account with one name on it.
WhoA second specialist, then your account lead.
A proposed change waits in a queue — pending, approved, pushed — and a second specialist has to argue it through with the person who wrote it before it moves. Sometimes that argument takes a minute. Sometimes it sends the whole idea back. Nothing pushes itself; we keep that switch off. We build new campaigns PAUSED so your account lead can read the whole thing end to end before a dollar moves.
Ask us forthe queue for your account, pending items included.
What you receiveRefused
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A change that was sent back at the second read
What it was
A new ad group, drafted, priced and ready to go
Second read
The landing page contradicted the ad group's intent
Outcome
Returned to the author with the reason attached
Reached your account
No. Nothing here pushes itself.
Prepared bySecond specialist
CountersignedAccount lead — declined to sign
Refused 4 August 2026
05
Ledger
Every change we make becomes a record you can open.
WhoThe person who made the change, on the day they made it.
Whoever makes the change writes it down twice, that day: exactly what we sent the platform, and a task on your own board, filed by the kind of change it was
Ask us foryour board, and the raw payload behind any row on it.
What you receiveLodged
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The record of one change we made
What changed
One keyword added, phrase match
Where it lands
Your own board, under Keywords Added
How it went live
Paused first, switched on once countersigned
Kept alongside
Exactly what we sent the platform, in full
Prepared byThe person who made the change
CountersignedAccount lead
Posted 4 August 2026 — the same day
06
Statement
A fixed rhythm, good news or bad.
WhoYour account lead and analyst — then all of us, with you.
Every third day your analyst pulls the numbers and reads them properly, then writes what we think you should do next. Your account lead reads it before you do. You get it as a Word file and a PDF — same numbers, same date, so nobody is arguing about which version is current. Then we sit down with you and go through it: what worked, what did not, what your customers are telling you, what is changing in the business. We write the next mandate from what you say in that room. And we turn up on the date whether the month was good or bad.
Ask us fora real statement, redacted, before you sign anything.
What you receiveIssued
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Your statement pack — Word and PDF, same numbers
Pulled
Performance, and every search term behind it
Read
Clusters, opportunities, and where the waste went
Written
Recommendations and the narrative, in plain English
Issued
Word and PDF, matched, on the date — good month or bad
Then
We sit down with you, and the next mandate comes out of it
Prepared byAnalyst
CountersignedAccount lead
Issued 1 August 2026 — every third day

The Refusal List

Most agencies will tell you what they'd do.

We'll show you the list of things we decided we won't let ourselves do.

Incident · 2026-05-05 · closed

We briefed a bond-cleaning ad group against a carpet-cleaning page.

The brief mapped “Bond Cleaning” to the carpet-cleaning landing page, so the draft that came back pointed a bond-cleaning ad at the wrong service. One of us caught it at the countersign, before we had spent a dollar — which is the entire reason a second person reads these. Then we did the part most agencies skip: we wrote the check. url-guard.js now refuses to push an ad when the landing page contradicts the ad group's intent, and it runs on every cleaning account we manage — including the ones that were never anywhere near this. A mismatch like that does not usually announce itself as an error; it arrives as a run of enquiries that are technically leads and useless to you, which is why the check runs before the push rather than after the invoice.

src/google-ads/url-guard.js — the check itself

// url-guard.js — refuses to push an ad whose landing page
// contradicts the ad group it is about to go into.
// (The header comment in the real file names the account. Redacted.)

if (/\bbond\b/i.test(adGroupName) && !SERVICE_ADDON.test(adGroupName)) {
  const violation = ALWAYS_WRONG_FOR_BOND.find(s => lc.includes(s));
  if (violation) {
    throw new Error(
      `URL guard: refusing to create Bond ad in '${adGroupName}' — `
      + `URL contains '${violation}', never correct for a bond ad.`
    );
  }
}

We redact the account involved. We do not redact the decision: it is a file with a date and a reason in its header, and it is the reason this page exists. A rule with a dated cause is worth more than ten claims of rigour — and publishing your own near-miss takes a decision, not a budget.

An ad whose landing page contradicts its ad group's intent.
A campaign switched on before the build has been read end to end.
A phone number written into ad text instead of a call asset.
A phrasing a platform has already rejected on another account.
A change pushed with one name on it.
A report held back because the month went badly.

The carry

Your first entry opens with everything the accounts before it learned.

You do not wait for the compounding. You inherit the compounding that other people already paid for.

A near-miss becomes a check

We catch something on one account and turn it into a check that runs before every push on all of them. The bond-cleaning mismatch above is the clearest example: one person caught it once, and it has been refused on every push since.

A rejection becomes a standing rule

A strategist once rejected an ad for offering free advice to tenants, and wrote down why. We turned her reason into a rule, and it blocks the same phrasing on every legal account we run. The rule has her reason in it, not a score.

Every trade inherits a negative pack

Plumbing, electrical and cleaning each have a negative-keyword bank the team maintains by hand. A new account in that trade starts pre-negated on day one — paid for, term by term, by the accounts before it.

Platform blocks become notes on the wall

We write up every phrasing the platforms silently reject, with the rule it breaches: an all-caps FREE is a capitalisation breach, some water-leak phrasings trip clickbait, ad path fields hard-cap at fifteen characters. Somebody here learned each one the hard way, once.

Somebody here wrote every one of those rules, on a date, with the reason still attached — which is exactly why you are allowed to read them. And if we refused a change, it never reaches the carry: nothing gets into the shared rules that a second person did not sign.

Which raises the only question that matters about any of this: what, exactly, crosses between one account and another?

The data boundary

What travels between accounts, and what never does.

Our learnings carry. Your data does not. That distinction is the whole point, so here is the line in both directions — and the three controls that make it something you can check rather than something we say.

Travels — the learning

A negative keyword: When a term wastes money on one account, we negate it across that trade before the others ever serve against it. Plumbing, electrical and cleaning each have a bank the team maintains by hand.
A phrasing a platform rejects: An all-caps FREE is a capitalisation breach. Some water-leak phrasings trip clickbait. Ad path fields hard-cap at fifteen characters. Whoever hits one writes it up once, with the rule it broke.
A routing rule: url-guard.js refuses to push an ad whose landing page contradicts its ad group. Written after one near-miss; it now runs on every cleaning account we manage, including the ones nowhere near it.
A compliance guard: When a strategist argues a rejection and writes down why, we turn her reason into a check that runs on every account in that sector. The rule carries her reason in it, not a score.
A refusal: The Refusal List itself — the six things none of us are allowed to do, on anyone's account, including the ones that would be easier to let through.

Never travels — your account

Your spend: What you invest, and what it bought, stops at your account.
Your conversion data: Enquiries, calls, bookings and everything downstream of them are yours. They are what your statement is written from, and they are not an input to anybody else's.
Your bids: What you are willing to pay for a click is a commercial position, not a lesson.
Your creative: Headlines, descriptions, offers and pages are written for your business. They are never recycled into someone else's account.
Your name: We redact the account that caused a rule out of the rule — exactly the way we redacted the client code on every specimen record on this page.
Anything we refused: If we send a change back at the countersign, it never reaches the shared rules. Nothing gets into them that a second person did not read and sign.

One account — A rule proven on one account is applied to the rest. Nothing else moves between them — the cells are a diagram, not a client count.

A rule is a file somebody wrote: Every rule that carries is a file one of us wrote, with a date and a reason in its header. You can ask to read the ones running on your account, and we will hand them over.
Structure crosses, records do not: We carry de-identified structure — a term, a phrasing, a routing rule, a guard. A record of what happened in your account is not structure, so we do not carry it.
We do not run both sides: We do not take two directly-competing accounts in the same service area. That is the version of this boundary that cannot be audited after the fact, so it is a decision we make before signing rather than a control we run afterwards.

If you are buying this for a board

Ask for the rules that would run on your account, and ask what would have to be true for one of them to contain something of yours. The answer is that a rule holds a term, a phrasing or a routing condition and has nowhere to put a record — and you are allowed to read them and check.

Closed out

The same way of working, on three accounts.

Pink Flamingo · 41-day period

138

Jobs booked

A$20.43 cost per job · 21.20% conversion rate

Cleanetic Perth · 15-day period

Jobs, brand-new account

A$24.92 cost per job · 20.08% conversion rate

Cornerstone Roofing · 35-day period

Quote requests

Ready before the storm · insurance-literate

Figures are the campaign results recorded on each of three closed-out engagements over the dates shown, not a blended average.

Run under audit

10-year whole-of-life cost vs the SaaS comparator

−34%

Total cost of ownership

100% compliance across 194 requirements · 14 weeks build to UAT

Terms carried on a major Victorian council engagement: sole-tenant AWS Sydney with Melbourne DR, source-code escrow from sprint one, a 30-day data exit, and 194 requirements met.

On a real account

See it on someone else's account first.

Six closed-out engagements, each with the dates and the cost per job it actually ran at. They are trades and service businesses, which is the honest place to judge this: a job was either booked or it was not, and there is nowhere for a soft metric to hide.

Source: the case studies themselves. Each figure is the result recorded on that engagement over the dates shown — not a blended average, not a forecast, and not what your account will do. If none of these six is your trade, the full index is filed by industry, city and spend band.

All case studies

The ladder

Three tiers. One axis.

What changes between tiers is how much of the record you get to look at — never whether the record exists, and never how carefully the work is done. Inheritance is the first row and it is ticked all the way across: what the other accounts learned costs nothing to apply to one more, so it is not something we ration.

How to tell which one you are

Not by revenue — by how many arguments the account has to settle. Building the first repeatable channel, in one market, is Inherit. Adding a second and third channel that compete for the same budget is Register — the argument that starts there is which channel is actually producing the cheaper booked job, not which produced the cheaper click. Defending a position you already hold, across business units, with a procurement process and rules you have to prove you followed, is Audit.

Inherit

Small business · single service

One service line, one market, one set of numbers to hit. An account lead and a media buyer work it weekly, and you get a report on a fixed date each month. The first fortnight is the busiest the account will ever have — we read the terms daily and cut the waste out before it becomes a habit.

Marketing for small business

Register

Growing companies · multi-service

More than one service, usually more than one channel, so the argument moves from “is this working” to “where should the next dollar go”. A strategist, an analyst, a media buyer and a search lead all sit on the account. We move budget weekly, take you through what changed and why each month, and sit down with your leadership each quarter.

Marketing for growing companies

Audit

Enterprise · multi-site · government

We write governance into the brief rather than bolting it on afterwards. Named people stay on the account, we review performance with you fortnightly, we agree targets at the start of each quarter, and you can have the register read independently whenever you want. On platform work the terms that made the council engagement possible apply here too — sovereign sole-tenant hosting, source-code escrow from sprint one and a thirty-day data exit.

Marketing for enterprise

What each SoudCoh Compound tier includes, by stage
Stage	InheritSmall business · single service	RegisterGrowing companies · multi-service	AuditEnterprise · multi-site · government
Inheritance	Included	Included	Included
01 · Mandate	One service line	Every service	Written into contract
02 · Meter	Included	Included	Included
03 · Sweep	Included	Daily, every account	Daily, every account
04 · Countersign	Included	Shared register + veto	Named accountable officer
05 · Ledger	Read access	Live register	Independent audit rights
06 · Statement	Monthly	3-day cycle	3-day cycle + data export

Inherit

Small business · single service

Inheritance: Included
01 · Mandate: One service line
02 · Meter: Included
03 · Sweep: Included
04 · Countersign: Included
05 · Ledger: Read access
06 · Statement: Monthly

Register

Growing companies · multi-service

Inheritance: Included
01 · Mandate: Every service
02 · Meter: Included
03 · Sweep: Daily, every account
04 · Countersign: Shared register + veto
05 · Ledger: Live register
06 · Statement: 3-day cycle

Audit

Enterprise · multi-site · government

Inheritance: Included
01 · Mandate: Written into contract
02 · Meter: Included
03 · Sweep: Daily, every account
04 · Countersign: Named accountable officer
05 · Ledger: Independent audit rights
06 · Statement: 3-day cycle + data export

The Opening EntryA scoped audit. We hand you two documents at the end of it: the mandate — what we would do, and the numbers we would be held to — and the refusal list, what we would stop. You keep both whether or not you engage.Start one

Before you decide

The questions you should be asking us.

These get asked in the second meeting, usually carefully. They are better asked in the first one, so here they are with our answers already written down — and, beside each, the stage that makes the answer checkable rather than merely well-meant.

What if it doesn't work?: We tell you, in the report, in plain English, and we change what we are doing. A campaign that is not producing gets restructured, repointed at a different set of searches, or stopped. If the honest answer is that the constraint is not marketing at all — pricing, capacity, the offer, the follow-up after the enquiry — we would rather say so than keep billing you. What we will not do is let something run quietly and hope it comes good.
Stage 06 · Statement
We send the statement on its date whether the month was good or bad, which is precisely what makes a bad month impossible for us to sit on.
Can we leave?: No long-term lock-in. We would rather keep the work because it is producing than because a document says you have to stay. What we do ask for is enough runway to be fair to the account — a campaign judged on its first ten days is being judged during the fortnight we are still cutting waste out of it. On custom platform work the exit is written in before the build starts: source-code escrow from sprint one and a thirty-day data exit, which is how the council finance engagement is structured. The terms are put in front of you in plain English before anything is signed.
Stage 01 · Mandate
We write down what you are measuring us on and show it to you before we spend a dollar, so “is this working” has an agreed answer rather than two opinions.
Who owns the account?: We own and run the account, because the build is proprietary methodology refined across hundreds of engagements — bidding architecture, negative-keyword libraries, audience stacks and conversion tracking. You get full-visibility reporting on performance and spend at all times, and on long-term marketing agreements ownership and handover options are available to discuss. You will never be in the dark about what is in the account or what it is doing.
Stage 05 · Ledger
Every change we make lands on your own board, filed by the kind of change it was, with exactly what we sent the platform kept beside it. Visibility is not a report we choose to send you; it is where the work is written down.
What do you actually change?: Every change is filed on your own board by the kind of change it was. Every one is dated, typed, and has a name against it. Ask what changed in March and you get that list — plus the raw payload behind any row on it — rather than the sentence “we optimised the account”.
Stages 03 + 04 · Sweep, Countersign
Your media buyer reads the waste every working day, and nothing he finds reaches your account until a second specialist and your account lead have both signed it.
When would you tell us not to bother?: When the budget cannot gather enough conversion data to be optimised properly, we say so on the first call rather than take the money and hope — and the honest first move is often Google Business Profile, reviews and local search, which is slower but does not need a monthly cheque to keep working. Same answer if the real constraint is pricing, capacity or what happens after the phone rings.
Stage 01 · Mandate
A mandate we cannot honestly sign is a mandate we do not sign. That is the cheapest stage at which to be told no, and it is the one where saying it costs us the most.

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SoudCoh Compound is how our team works on an account. We number every change, argue it out, get a second person to sign it off before it goes live, write it into a record you can open, and close it out on a fixed reporting rhythm. Then we write whatever we learned into the rules that guard every other account we run. It is not a product you log into. It is the way the people here have agreed to work, and it exists before your first campaign does.

Because we take one change through them in order: the targets we agreed, then measurement, then the daily waste read, then a second person's sign-off, then the record, then the conversation with you. If it fails a stage we stop it there. And if we refused it, it never reaches the shared rules — nothing gets into them that a second person did not sign.

No. Nothing pushes itself — that switch is off by default. Our tools do the pulling, the sorting and the first draft; people do the deciding. Proposed changes sit in a queue as files — pending, approved, pushed — and two people move them between those states. New campaigns are built PAUSED so the whole build can be read before a dollar is spent.

No. We run the whole thing end to end: search and shopping, Meta, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, local and international SEO, generative engine optimisation, e-commerce, websites, landing pages and custom web apps, the tracking underneath all of it, and advisory work for boards, growing companies and public-sector teams. We work the same way whichever it is — same record, same second signature, same reporting rhythm, whether we are building a search campaign, an online store or a website.

We carry de-identified structure between accounts and nothing else — negative terms, policy rejections, URL-routing rules, compliance guards. We never carry spend, conversion data, bids or creative. And we do not run two directly-competing accounts in the same service area.

You do not wait for the compounding — you inherit the compounding that already happened. Before we spend a dollar, we open your account with your trade's negative-keyword bank, the rules we recorded for phrasings the platforms silently reject, and the checks we wrote after other accounts' near-misses. The accounts before yours paid for all of it.

The people here, using tools we built ourselves. The tools pull the data, sort it, draft a first version and refuse the pushes we told them to refuse. Every rule they enforce is a file one of us wrote, with a date and a reason on it. We do the deciding, and nothing goes live without somebody's name against it — which is precisely why you are allowed to read all of it.

01Mandate 02Meter 03Sweep 04Countersign 05Ledger 06Statement

Where this goes next

Tell us where you want
the business to be.

Then we build the whole thing that gets it there — the campaigns, the search presence, the site, the store, the tracking underneath it — and a team in Melbourne who run it with you, week after week, with every decision written down.

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Companies we work with

Real accounts. Real numbers. Every one of them clickable.

These are live Google Ads accounts we run. Each figure below is tied to a real, measured window of live spend — open any of them and you can read exactly what the account did.