Welcome to Agentic Channel Attribution & CAC thatprices every channel by the students who enrolled.

Marketing buys clicks and enrollment counts students, and nothing joins them. Risely's agents follow every inquiry to the seat it became, so each channel's cost divides by what it actually produced.

Spend to seat · this cycle

joining the path

clickinquiryapplicationdepositseat
Paid search$1,925
$412K · 214 enrolled
Every other channel
rolled into the blended line
Transfer partnerships$805
$95K · 118 enrolled
Blended over every dollar spent$693K · 12,790 inquiries · 473 enrolled$1,465

Last click defunds the channel that opened the relationship.

A regional school visit in the fall started this student, and a paid search click in March finished her. Risely's agents keep the whole path on one record, so the opener gets judged as an opener.

One seat and the path that produced it

the falla regional school visit
Januarythe program page, twice
Februaryan opened nurture message
late Marcha paid search click
Aprilthe deposit

last click says

Paid search produced this student, and the school visit produced nothing.

the record says

The visit opened it and the search closed it, and the ledger names both.

The cheapest inquiry can be the most expensive student.

Paid search fills the file and transfer partnerships barely touch it, yet the partnerships seat students for a fraction of the cost. Only a record that follows every click to its seat can show the difference.

Inquiries bought, seats produced

same cycle

Paid search$1,925
inquiries
seats
Transfer partnerships$805
inquiries
seats

The spread between them is what last-click attribution was hiding.

Risely's agents draft the move. The director spends the money.

At each channel's own cost per seat, sixty thousand dollars fills far more seats on one side of the ledger than the other. The draft arrives beside the numbers that produced it, and it waits.

The reallocation

drafted, not done

drafted

move $60K from paid search to transfer partnerships

arithmetic

at each channel's cost per seat, the same dollars fill 74 seats where they filled 31

held

for the marketing director, beside the ledger it came from

executed

in the ad tools the team already runs, once the director says yes

Risely's agents draft the move from the joined record. The director decides whether the money goes.

An attribution argument is usually a definition argument.

What counts as enrolled, what counts as spend, and how long first touch survives. Risely's agents hold the definitions the cabinet agreed on and apply them the same way every cycle.

Agreed before the cycle opens

·enrolleda seat that the student system shows on census day
·spendmedia, agency fees, and staff travel, all of it
·first touchkept for the whole cycle, never expired by a later click
·source of truththe institution's own record of who enrolled

An attribution argument is usually a definition argument. Settle the definitions once.

One thing moves. The ledger re-prices.

A deposit, a melt, a late invoice from an agency, a channel that starts mid-cycle. Any of them changes what a seat cost, and every one runs the same way.

  1. A deposit posts

    one more seat lands on the record

  2. The whole path gets credited

    the opener and the closer, both named

  3. Every channel's cost per seat recomputes

    including the one nobody was measuring

  4. The shift is redrafted

    same dollars, different channel

  5. The director moves the money

    in the ad tools the team already runs

What changes, and how it runs.

Budget follows enrolled students

Each channel's cost divides by the seats it actually produced.

Openers stop getting cut as closers

First touch survives the channel that finished the job.

Everyone agrees on one number in advance

The chief financial officer and the marketing director argue from the same ledger.

The technical read

Connects read-only to your CRM, SIS, and ad platforms to start

A marketing director approves every budget shift

Every action lands on an append-only log

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Runs alongside what you have. Nothing rips out.