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Recommendations and testing

Turn learning into direct action

Odins delivers much more than a dashboard. Every month, get specific, ranked recommendations: What to reallocate, how much to spend, and what needs further testing. All of it backed by expected outcomes and confidence ranges.

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A model you won't just forget about

Most companies build a marketing mix model once a year. They run scenarios during budget season. The plan gets locked, the spreadsheet goes into a shared drive, and by March it's already stale. By June, nobody remembers what the model said.

Our model not only keeps learning, but helps you act on what it learns. Through clear, prioritized suggestions, you always have a line of evidence-backed options for what to do next.

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Three types of recommendations

Every month, Odins analyzes your latest results against your current plan, delivering ranked recommendations on what to do. Not just in general terms, but down to specific actions, including what to expect in return.

  • Reallocate
  • Adjust
  • Test

Move money where it works harder

The model identifies which channels are oversaturated and which have room to grow. Reallocate recommendations tell you exactly how much to move, where from, where to, and what results are likely: 

"Paid Social is at 87% saturation — marginal ROAS has dropped to 1.2x. Paid Search is at 54% saturation with marginal ROAS of 4.1x. Shifting NOK 1.5M from Social to Search over the next two months is expected to deliver an additional NOK 3.2M in revenue with no increase in total spend."

As the model updates, saturation curves shift, and the optimal allocation changes. No need to go looking. The model always keeps you up to date.

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Change up the total

If marginal returns across all channels are well above your threshold, you're leaving money on the table. If they're below it, you're wasting budget. Adjust recommendations let you know when it's time to change the budget as a whole.  

"Current monthly spend is NOK 12.5M. Marginal ROAS across the portfolio is 3.8x — well above your 2.0x threshold. Increasing total spend by NOK 2M/month is expected to deliver NOK 5.4M in additional monthly revenue. Marginal ROAS at the new level: 2.6x — still comfortably above threshold."

With numbers like these, it's much easier to ask for a higher budget. Show exactly what you get for your money today, and how confident you are that an increase would yield strong returns. 

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Find out what you don't know

Some channels show promising signals, but results are still uncertain. Test recommendations are designed to create the variation the model needs, including duration,  cost, maximum downside and expected certainty once the test is finished.

"TikTok shows a positive but uncertain effect. Recommended: Increase spend to NOK 800K for weeks 1–2 of March, reduce to NOK 200K for weeks 3–4 and all of April, then return to NOK 800K for weeks 1–2 of May. Total incremental cost vs. current plan: NOK 400K. After the test, the confidence interval is expected to narrow to ±1.2x."

Odins designs the entire test for you, based on what data it still needs. Uncertainty is not a reason to do nothing, just a sign that you should seek more information.

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Every recommendation shows you the full picture

No false precision. When we're sure, we say so. When we're not, we tell you how to find out.

For reallocate and adjust recommendations

  • Expected outcome:
    The central, most likely estimate.

  • Confidence range:
    The range the model is 80–90% confident in.

  • Downside scenario:
    What is the most pessimistic result? 

  • Key assumptions:
    What is the model basing the estimate on?

For test recommendations

  • Current vs. post-test confidence:
    How much the uncertainty is narrowed.

  • Value of information:
    What could you gain (or cut) by what you learn?

  • Maximum downside:
    The most you could lose if the channel is ineffective.

A system that gets smarter every month

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Model always updated

New spend and outcome data flows in weekly. The model is always current.

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New monthly recommendations

The model is analyzed against your current plan and recommends actions, quality checked by our team.

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Your team reviews and acts

Approve, modify, or dismiss each recommendation. Approved actions update the spend plan.

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Results feed back into the model

Every action generates new data, which sharpens the model, giving you even better recommendations next month.

Acting on the model's recommendations means more data it can learn from. The more you use Odins, the stronger it gets.

What this means for your team

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For the CMO

Every month, you get a concrete list of actions ranked by expected impact. Walk into any budget review with: "Here's what we changed, what happened, and what we're testing next."

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For the CFO

Marketing spend becomes auditable. Every recommendation comes with an expected return, a confidence range, and a maximum downside. Every test has a maximum downside. No more black box.

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For the media team

Get clear monthly direction, specific enough to execute (channel, amount, time period) without needing to interpret model outputs themselves. Just get to work!

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Always a human in the loop

Recommendations aren't just generated and dumped into your inbox. Our team always reviews what the model suggests before anything reaches you. We check the logic, consider context the model can't see, and make sure every recommendation is something we'd follow ourselves.

 

You get the rigor of a quantitative system and the judgment of a team that's seen this across dozens of companies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Odins handles data integration, setup, and ongoing maintenance as part of the platform. Your team does not need to build or maintain pipelines, APIs, or custom scripts.

It depends on the number of sources and markets, but most customers are fully integrated during onboarding. New integrations are handled as part of the process, not left to your team.

That’s normal. Odins is built for real-world marketing data, including gaps, inconsistencies, and offline sources. We structure and validate data so it can still be used for modeling and decision-making.

Yes. Your structured marketing data can be exported or fed into your data warehouse and reporting tools. Some customers even use Odins primarily as their single source of truth for marketing spend data.

Yes. Odins supports both digital and offline channels. We break down and structure offline spend, such as TV at spot level or OOH and event costs, so it can be analyzed alongside digital activity.

Odins maintains integrations on your behalf. When APIs change or new channels are added, we handle the updates so your data continues to flow without disruption.

Very flexible. Data can be structured by company, country, brand, product line, or other dimensions that reflect how your business actually plans and allocates budget.

No. While structured data powers MMM, the same data can also be used for reporting, analysis, and internal alignment. Modeling is one use case, not the only one.

You do. Odins structures and processes your data, but ownership remains with you.

Yes. Odins is designed to handle complexity across markets, brands, and regions, including smaller countries where off-the-shelf models often fail.