Josh's job is Head of Paid Search. What he built off his own back has changed how we operate entirely.
He isn't a developer, but he saw a problem nobody had formally named and decided to fix it himself.
The problem: we were managing £170M+ in spend across 250+ brands and the data that actually mattered was everywhere.
Shopify for revenue. Meta Ads Manager for spend. Triple Whale for attribution. A spreadsheet for forecasting. Another for reporting. Foreplay/Motion for creative analytics.
Every team member + client starting their day opening six tabs, piecing together a picture that still didn't fully reconcile.
Josh looked at that and thought: someone should fix this.
So he did. Alone.
He built the Control Room. A native Shopify app pulling live data from Meta, Google, TikTok, and Shopify into one dashboard. A 12-month revenue forecast built from each brand's own historical data & modelling. Targets tracked against actuals every day. Incremental reach calculated automatically. Creative win rate. Growth Compass score. All of it live. All of it automated.
300+ hours of development. Two months waiting for Shopify app approval.
We're 70 people. Josh built this alongside a full-time role because he saw a gap and had the conviction to close it. The fact that we're sitting ahead of teams with ten times the resource is insane and it’s all down to the culture we’ve built.
It's what happens when someone takes ownership of a problem nobody assigned them.
The Control Room has recently began rolling out to tens of clients we manage. Every brand gets it from day one. Forecasting, Analytics & Reporting all under one roof.
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