Startup
For you$219–459base fee every 30 days
- Monthly ad budget
- Under $5K
- Funnel tools
- 3
- Holdout
- 10%
- Core unit
- Included
Enterprise-grade AI marketing at a startup cost.
Connect360 picks certified AI tools for every stage of your funnel and locks a 30-day forecast for each one. You pay a flat platform fee. The performance fees on top are paid only for results proven against a holdout.
Every dollar, connected all the way around.
Saguaro Skin Co.
Growth plan · $12,000 a month · period 3, day 21 of 30
Sample figures
Revenue to date
80%
of locked target
Period elapsed
Day 21
of 30
Tools on target
4 of 5
1 in tuning
Incremental revenue vs. locked forecast
Measured against a 15% holdout
Incremental revenue$38,410114% of $33,588 pace
Projected at day 30$54,221113% of $47,983 target
Recovered checkouts296target 380 by day 30
Connect360 fees this period$3,960base fee + 4 performance fees
About Connect360
See how Connect360 closes the loop
A short tour of how Connect360 matches certified AI tools to every stage of your funnel, locks a 30-day forecast for each one, and pays performance fees only for results proven against a holdout.
2 min 37 sec
The gap
Big brands market in a closed loop. Everyone else markets in a broken line.
Large companies forecast, hold out a control group, measure real lift, cut what fails and feed what they learn into the next cycle. Everyone else has a pile of AI apps that don't share data, reports they can't verify, and ad spend with no clear proof of what came back.
A broken line
Most brands todayEach tool grades its own work. Money leaks between tools, between spend and proof, and between what a vendor promises and what it delivers.
A closed loop
With Connect360Every tool has a locked forecast, a holdout to measure against, and a fee that depends on hitting its target. What it learns feeds the next period.
Which of your AI tools actually made you money last month?
If you paused your agency tomorrow, would revenue drop? How do you know?
Are you paying for results, or for reports?
Connect360 closes the loop for any brand, at any size. See how it works
How it works
One loop, every 30 days.
You set up once. After that, every period runs the same loop: forecast, ramp up, measure, pay, tune or swap, and forecast again with what was learned.
- Set up once
- 1
Onboard in one session
Add your business profile, budget and margin. Connect your store and ad accounts: Shopify, Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads and Klaviyo. Upload your brand kit and the claims you never want made.
- 2
AI recommends a plan
The engine picks your plan and matches certified tools to your business type, market and budget. You don't have to evaluate dozens of apps yourself.
- Then every period
- 3
Forecast locks
Each tool gets a 30-day target. Targets reset only if you change your budget.
- 4
30-day ramp-up
New tools learn your audience first. Scoring starts on day 31.
- 5
Measure against a holdout
A share of your audience is held out, so results show real lift, not what a tool claims.
- 6
Pay for results
A flat base fee covers the core unit. Performance fees on top are paid only for results proven against a holdout: in full at target, on a sliding scale from 80%.
- 7
Tune or swap
Early warnings fire when a tool trends below target. The vendor gets a tuning window. If it still misses, the engine recommends a replacement and you approve the swap.
- 8
Grow
When your budget holds at the next tier for 2 months, you graduate to a bigger plan. Tools hand off audiences, winning creatives and conversion data.
What you get
A certified tool at every stage of the funnel.
Each stage has its own package and its own measure, so no part of the funnel is left to guesswork. Your plan sets how many funnel tools you run.
Stage 1
Drive traffic
Bring qualified visitors into the funnel.
Measured byShare of your ideal market reached
Stage 2
Generate leads
Turn visitors into people you can reach again.
Measured byQualified leads
Stage 3
Promote your business
Ads and creative, with hands-on design reviews.
Measured byClick-through rate
Stage 4
Increase sales
Convert demand into orders.
Measured byIncremental revenue
Stage 5
Retarget prospects
Win back site visitors, checkout exits and churned customers.
Measured byRecovered checkouts
In every plan
The core unit
The enterprise intelligence underneath every funnel. A startup gets the same engine an enterprise does.
Target specific audiences
Audience intelligence that finds the people most likely to buy.
Optimize AI
AI bidding and budget allocation across your channels.
Measure and report
The dashboard, locked forecasts and holdout measurement.
Add-ons:Auto AI creativesbulk image and video variants, approved against your brand guardrailsBuild awareness
One honest dashboard
Illustrative scenario · Sample figures
See what each tool added, what it earned, and why.
A locked forecast, real lift over a holdout, and a bill that shows every fee next to the result that earned it. Here is one year for a sample brand.
Saguaro Skin Co., year one
Skincare brand on the Growth plan, $12,000 a month in ad spend
- Day 0Onboards in one session. The engine recommends the Growth plan with 5 funnel tools and a 15% holdout.
- Day 31Ramp-up ends. Scoring against the locked forecast starts.
- Day 44Retarget prospects trends below target. The vendor gets a tuning window.
- Day 90Revenue reaches 113% of target. The retargeting tool is still at 78%, so the brand approves a swap.
- Day 300Budget has held above $25,000 for 2 months. The brand graduates to Established, and tools hand off their data.
- Day 360About $375,000 in net gain, 5.3× the Connect360 fees.
Tools vs. forecast · day 90
Period 3, scored against a 15% holdout
| Tool | Target | Actual | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive traffic | 18% of market | 21% | On target |
| Generate leads | 1,200 | 1,344 | On target |
| Promote | 1.8% CTR | 2.1% | On target |
| Increase sales | $47,983 | $54,221 | On target |
| Retarget prospects | 380 | 296 | 78% of target |
Needs your OK
Retarget prospects is at 78% of target. Boomerang AI was tuned on day 44. Recommended replacement: Recall Labs.
Approve swapKeep tuning
Net gain, year one
$375,000
5.3× the Connect360 fees · graduated on day 300
Sample figures from the Connect360 product demo. Saguaro Skin Co. is not a real customer; tool and vendor names are illustrative.
Plans and pricing
A small base fee. Tools earn the rest by hitting their targets.
Your monthly ad budget sets your plan. Every plan includes the core unit and a holdout, so results are always measured against what would have happened anyway.
Growth
For you$540–1,400base fee every 30 days
- Monthly ad budget
- $5K–25K
- Funnel tools
- 5
- Holdout
- 15%
- Core unit
- Included
Established
For you$1,580–4,300base fee every 30 days
- Monthly ad budget
- $25K–100K
- Funnel tools
- 10
- Holdout
- 20%
- Core unit
- Included
Enterprise
For youCustomset with your finance team
- Monthly ad budget
- $100K+
- Funnel tools
- Custom
- Holdout
- Custom
- Core unit
- Included
What would you pay?
Enter your numbers to see your plan, your base fee, and how much in added sales the tools would need to cover it.
The share of each sale left after product and fulfillment costs.
Determine your budget
Enter your information to generate a tailored marketing budget recommendation grounded in SBA guidelines, Gartner CMO research, and real-world agency results.
Your planGrowth5 funnel tools · 15% holdout · core unit included
Base fee every 30 days$540–1,400Depends on the tools in your plan
Added sales to cover it$1,000–2,400at a 50% margin
At $12,000 a month, the tools need to add $1,000–2,400 in sales every 30 days to pay for the base fee. That's 8–20% of your ad budget in added sales.
Performance feesPaid only for results proven against a holdout: the full fee at target, a reduced fee from 80% of target, nothing below 80%. Rates are set out when you join the pilot.
Get a forecast for your budget
Pilot pricing. An estimate, not a quote or a forecast of results.
Base fee
One flat fee every 30 days. Covers the core unit (audience intelligence, AI bidding and budget allocation, and the dashboard with forecasts and holdout measurement) and includes a small ready fee for each tool in your plan.
Performance fee
Paid only for results proven against a holdout. The full fee at its locked target; from 80% of target, a reduced fee on a sliding scale; below 80%, none.
Bonus
Shared only on gross profit above target, never on revenue. It applies to the portion above target and is capped each period.
Ad spend
Paid directly to the ad platforms from your own accounts. Connect360 never marks it up.
Pilot pricing. The base fee within each range depends on the tools in your plan, and the model may change before general launch.
Apps
Run Connect360 where you already work.
One account and one dashboard: inside your Shopify admin, inside WordPress, or on your phone.
Coming to the Shopify App Store
For Shopify merchants
Connect360 for Shopify
Your Connect360 dashboard inside Shopify admin. Install it, connect your ad accounts and approve your plan without leaving Shopify.
- Results against your locked forecast, every day
- Approvals, tool swaps and bills in one place
- Billed through your Shopify account
Free · Available now
For WordPress sites and local businesses
Local Marketing Hub
A marketing dashboard inside WordPress admin for social posts, reviews and local listings, with every number scored against a goal.
- Write once, approve, post everywhere
- Reviews and listings tracked in one place
- Listing in the WordPress.org plugin directory coming soon
Coming to iPhone and Android
For brand owners and marketers
Connect360 mobile
Know the moment a tool falls behind its target, and decide on the spot whether to replace it or keep it.
- Alerts with replace-or-keep decisions
- Approvals, results and bills on the go
- Messages with partner success
Shopify, WordPress, iPhone and Android are trademarks of their respective owners. Connect360 apps are not yet listed in these stores.
Grows with you
The same system from your first $5K month to your $500K month.
Start at startup prices. When your budget holds at the next tier for 2 months, you graduate to a bigger plan, and nothing you've learned is left behind.
Under $5K a month
Startup
Close the loop for the first time: 3 funnel tools, a 10% holdout and the full core unit.
$5K–25K a month
Growth
5 funnel tools across the whole funnel, measured against a 15% holdout.
$25K–100K a month
Established
10 funnel tools and a 20% holdout. Tools compete with others in their category.
$100K+ a month
Enterprise
The full loop at scale, with proof you can take to finance.
Graduation comes with a handoff
When you move up a plan, or a tool is swapped out, the outgoing tools pass on what they learned. The new tools start from your history, not from zero.
- AudiencesThe segments that bought, and the ones that didn't.
- Winning creativesThe images, videos and copy that beat their targets.
- Conversion dataWhat drove orders, by stage, so the next forecast is sharper.
For AI tool vendors
Qualified customers, and a fair way to prove your results.
Every active tool earns a ready fee. The real money is earned on proven lift. Build a Connect360 Edition of your tool and get matched to brands that need your stage of the funnel, with no sales team needed.
Matched placements
The engine places your tool with brands that fit its business type, market and budget.
A category leaderboard
Tools are ranked against others in their category on measured lift, not on claims.
Earnings that grow with results
A ready fee every period, performance fees from 80% of target, a share of the bonus when brands profit above it, and a launch incentive for new vendors.
How the bonus is shared
On gross profit above target, each period
Connect360 also keeps a share of performance fees: 20%, falling to 15% for top tiers.
Tier status
CertifiedPassed the reporting spec test · 20% share
PreferredOn target in 75% of periods · 17.5% share
Top PerformerTop 20% of its category · 15% share, paid in 15 days
Certification before listing
- Build a Connect360 Edition of your tool.
- Pass the certification test against the Connect360 reporting spec.
- Get listed and matched to brands in your category.
How vendors get paid
Every active tool earns a ready fee. The real money is earned on proven lift.
- A ready fee every period, ramp-up included, paid at period close with no holdback.
- Pay on a slope, not a cliff. Performance fees start at 80% of target: half the fee at 80%, rising to the full fee at target.
- Fair targets. See each target before it locks and challenge it within 48 hours. Your first two scored periods use the conservative end of the forecast.
- A locked budget, three steps before any swap. A tuning window first, then up to 25% of budget to a trial tool, and only then a swap, with a paid 7-day handoff.
- Tiers that reward the best. Preferred and Top Performer tools get more matches and budget, a Connect360 share as low as 15%, and payouts in 15 days.
Amounts and thresholds are pilot placeholders, confirmed with pilot vendors before wave 1. When lift can't be measured yet, the tool earns its ready fee plus half its performance fee.
Creative partners · Ideation Lab
Make the content AI marketing tools run on.
The Ideation Lab is where Connect360 brands create, grade and remake their marketing content. It launches with the pilot, and we're choosing founding creative partners now: freelancers, networks, AI creation tools and boutiques.
- Brands ready to buy content, often right after their numbers show something isn't working.
- Work judged on results. Content is graded on real performance, and good work gets reused.
- Connect your way: by API, a sign-in flow or uploads.
Ideation LabFounding partner program
Canvas360Boards and the brand's content library
Studio360AI-created assets, graded once they run
Guild360Briefs to creative partners: where you come in
Crew360Project teams, from brief to delivery
Free WordPress plugin from Connect360
Local Marketing Hub
One marketing dashboard for local businesses: plan and approve social posts, track reviews and local listings, and see your Google Analytics numbers, all inside WordPress.
- Write once, approve, post everywhere. An approval lock means what goes out is exactly what was approved.
- Reviews and listings in one place. Track ratings over time and flag listings not checked in 90 days.
- Every number scored against a goal. Green, amber or red against targets you set, plus a printable board summary.
Collective360 · For US small businesses
Advertise like one big company. Stay your own business.
Collective360 brings non-competing local small businesses together into a chapter. Members pool their ad budgets into one regional fund, so together they can compete for premium, high-intent search placements that one small budget rarely wins.
Open to for-profit US businesses that are small under SBA size standards and spend $25,000 a month or less on ads.
- Pooled bidding power. Many small budgets become one high-volume fund.
- One business per industry. You never share a chapter with a competitor.
- Fair, graded leads. Ready-to-buy leads routed instantly by fair-share points.
One chapter, eight tradesFounding chapters forming
PlumbingHVACRoofingElectricalLandscapingPest controlCleaningGarage doors
Join the pilot
Close the loop on your marketing.
The pilot is open to ecommerce brands, with a focus on budgets of $5K–25K a month, and to AI tool vendors ready to build a Connect360 Edition. Tell us a little about you and a member of the team will be in touch.
Pilot success criteria. These are targets, not results.
Target75%of pilot clients at or above forecast
Target99.5%platform uptime
Proven against a holdout, or replaced.
Received
You're on the pilot list.
A member of the Connect360 team will email you within two business days to set up a short call.
FAQ
Questions brands ask first
What is a holdout, and why does it matter?
A holdout is a share of your audience that no tool reaches: 10% to 20% depending on your plan. Comparing people who saw a tool's work with people who didn't shows the lift the tool actually added, rather than sales that would have happened anyway.
What is a locked forecast? Can it change?
Before a period starts, each tool gets a 30-day target. It's locked so nobody can move the goalposts. It resets only if you change your budget.
What exactly do I pay?
A flat base fee every 30 days for the core unit, including a small ready fee for each tool in your plan. On top of that, a performance fee for each tool, paid only for results proven against a holdout (in full at target, on a sliding scale from 80%), and a bonus shared only on gross profit above target, capped each period. Your ad spend goes straight to the ad platforms and is never marked up.
What happens if a tool misses its target?
Below 80% of its target, you pay no performance fee for that tool. Between 80% and 100%, you pay a reduced fee on a sliding scale. Then there are three steps: after a first miss, the vendor gets a tuning window with our help; after a second miss in a row, up to 25% of that tool's budget can move to a trial tool; after a third, the engine recommends a replacement, with a 7-day handoff. Nothing is swapped until you approve it.
The vendor still earns its small ready fee, which is already part of your flat base fee, so a miss never adds to your bill.
What stops Meta or a big agency from doing this?
They can't do it without hurting their own business. Meta and Google sell the ads, so they'd be grading their own homework. Brands won't accept that as neutral across platforms. Agencies are paid on retainers or a share of spend, so billing only on measured lift would cut their own revenue. Connect360 has no media to sell and no tools of its own, so its numbers are the ones both sides can trust. And every period adds to an outcome dataset across competing vendors that none of them has.
How soon will I see results?
New tools get a 30-day ramp-up to learn your audience. Scoring against the locked forecast starts on day 31. Your dashboard shows progress against target from the first day.
What happens to my data?
You connect your own store and ad accounts, and your data stays yours. Tools use it to do their stage of the funnel. When a tool is swapped or you graduate, audiences, winning creatives and conversion data hand off to the next tool so you don't start over.
Am I locked into a long contract?
Plans bill every 30 days. Pilot terms, including how to leave, are set out in writing before you start.
Which platforms does Connect360 work with?
At launch: Shopify for your store, Meta Ads, Google Ads and TikTok Ads for paid media, and Klaviyo for email. If you're on WooCommerce, Wix or another platform, join the pilot list and tell us which.