PRE-SPEND CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE

Understand your Brand before you spend.

Signal helps brand, strategy, and media teams optimize creative before production and media budgets are locked.

Turn algorithmic discoverability into a controllable growth lever.

Overview hub

Unified mandate and brand health

Live
48
Health
1.42x
Eng.
#6
Rank
670
Vids
Overview
Performance
Creative
Positioning
Action
Strategic insightssensate
BET312.5KEFF.
Scale Educational
WHITESPACE#1OF 10
Bridge Educational gap
RISK1.1KEFF.
Deprioritize Testimonial
Health components
Format
Narr.
Platform
Fresh.
48
Health
55
Format
30
Narr.
40
Fresh.
CNA
Guru
T1
BMG
SkillHouse

Used by teams trying to reduce weak creative before production.

300% content lift·3.9M viewson top-performing content·65% faster alignmentbefore launch

One system

One system for deciding what to make next

Signal reads the market, decodes what drives attention, and turns that evidence into clearer creative decisions before spend is committed.

Read the market

Track your brand, competitors, and category across short-form video.

Decode performance

Break winning and losing content into hooks, formats, narratives, emotions, and aesthetics.

Direct the next move

Turn insight into stronger briefs, better tests, and higher-confidence creative decisions.

Real results from sprint participants.

These outcomes reflect performance improvements achieved during and after the Social Relevance Sprint. Case studies available on request.

+340%

Increase in engagement

SkillHouse, The Movie

233X

Views

Columbia Pictures Aquaverse

6x

Increase in content output

Unify.org

Problem

Why teams end up looking for Signal

The work looks polished. The budget gets committed, but results are inconsistent because teams cannot clearly see why content is working, why competitors are winning, or what campaigns to create next.

Good creative still misses

No one can explain which choices hurt performance, or how to replicate success.

Competitors win without a clear read on why

Your team sees the result, not the pattern behind it.

Too many weak ideas make it into production

By the time you learn, time and budget are already in motion.

What Signal does next

Signal turns that uncertainty into clear decisions before budget gets committed.

Instead of guessing why creative missed, why competitors won, or how to position in a fast-moving category, Signal shows teams what is working, what is changing, and what to do next before production and media spend are locked.
TT0:47
+280%
C
@calm
4.2M312K
Educational4.2M views
IG0:32
+145%
H
@headspace
1.8M94K
ASMR1.8M views
TT1:12
+92%
T
@therabody
890K67K
Product890K views
IG0:58
+210%
A
@apolloneuro
540K41K
Educational540K views
TT0:23
+67%
S
@sensate
320K28K
Comedy Skit320K views
TT0:41
+320%
W
@whoop
2.1M185K
Product2.1M views
Diagnose why content underperformed
Benchmark what competitors are doing differently
See the formats and narratives the market is rewarding
Brief stronger work before the next campaign goes live

50-70%

of campaign sales lift is driven by creative quality

The biggest controllable growth lever is the quality of the creative decision before spend is deployed.

12x

ROI gap between strong and weak creative

Better decisions change how much reach, efficiency, and revenue every marketing dollar can buy.

2%

lower CPM from a 10% creative quality improvement

Even modest lifts in creative quality create immediate media efficiency at scale.

Why teams buy it

A single system that helps teams make better bets before the expensive part begins.

Instead of chasing scattered decks, tools, and opinions, teams get one shared view of what is changing, where the opportunity is, and what to back next.

Outcome board
Before spend
3
Weak ideas cut
14d
Faster approval
1
Shared view
5
Priority plays
Waste
Ideas
Signal
Alignment
Moves
Plan
Coverage
Content formats
Educational
1.1M
Product
374K
ASMR
208K
Comedy Skit
43.9K
Dialogue
7.4K
TOPEducational · 57 vids · 312.5K V/C
Cultural adjacency
EntityCompLift
Skincare460.1x
Recovery360.1x
Therabody203.5x
Apollo Neuro152.3x
4 high-lift opportunities detected

Decision workflow

How Signal fits into the decision workflow

See what is driving performance, who is winning and how, where the category is saturating, and what to brief next.

Diagnose your brand

See what is actually driving your own performance.

01Read

Ingest the market

Signal continuously ingests social video across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, indexing every post from your brand, competitors, and category at scale.

02Decode

Break down resonance

Every video is decomposed into its constituent signals: narrative structure, visual aesthetics, emotional hooks, format patterns, subculture cues, and engagement dynamics.

03Map

Surface whitespace

Signal maps saturation and opportunity across the category, revealing where competitors cluster, where audiences are underserved, and where your brand can own a position.

04Direct

Guide execution

Insight resolves into concrete direction: which narratives to pursue, which formats to test, which aesthetic territory to own, and which briefs to build first.

Buyer outcomes

What changes when Signal is in the workflow

Teams launch with more confidence, catch weak ideas earlier, and move faster on what the market is rewarding.

Fewer weak bets. Faster approvals. Better use of media budget.

Filter weak creative before production
Back paid spend with stronger ideas
Move faster on emerging opportunities
Build reusable intelligence over time
Avg views by format
Educational
1.1M
Product
374K
ASMR
208K
BTS
71K
Brand Story
41K
10
TikTok exemplars
18
IG exemplars
Top performing videos
Calm
Educational
43.0M5.0x
Headspace
Educational
14.6M5.0x
Therabody
Product
10.3M5.0x
Efficiency by format
FormatVidsV/C
Educational57312.5K
ASMR1488.8K
Comedy Skit443.9K

Alternative to fragmented tools

Replace fragmented research with one pre-spend discoverability layer

Most teams stitch together listening tools, testing tools, one-off research, and agency workstreams after the fact. Signal gives them one system for deciding what to make, how to structure it, and what to avoid before production and media budgets are committed.

What teams use today

Each tool solves one fragment after the fact, which leaves teams stitching together insight after budget is already in motion.

$413K-$1.4M combined
Social listeningFragment only

Brandwatch · Sprinklr · Meltwater

Shows what people said.

Does not decode what creative choices drove performance.

$30–120K
annual spend
Creative testingFragment only

Zappi · System1 · Kantar

Evaluates assets after they exist.

Does not tell teams what to make next.

$50–200K
annual spend
Trend / research decksFragment only

WGSN · GWI · Pulsar

Useful context.

Hard to tie directly to a brief or production decision.

$75–250K
annual spend
Agency workflowFragment only

Strategy firms · creative agencies

Custom decks and campaign cycles

Expensive, non-compounding, project-based.

$100–300K
annual spend

What Signal replaces it with

One decision layer before the commitment.

Read what is emerging

See patterns in formats, narratives, and subcultures before budgets and briefs are locked.

Explain why it is working

Connect performance to structure, creative choices, and audience behavior instead of guesswork.

Direct what to do next

Turn market evidence into clearer briefs, sharper bets, and fewer weak concepts entering production.

Replaces fragmented workstreams

ListeningTestingTrend researchAgency retainers
One system for deciding what to make next
Why this gets approved

Signal pays for itself in waste avoided.

For a brand spending $2 million annually on digital media, a 20–40% creative waste band is $400K–$800K of wasted potential.

The Social Relevance Sprint helps you capture that value by aligning content with what actually performs, before you create or spend.

See both case studies

The brands that read culture lead it.

CultureAI changed how we make decisions. Instead of debating creative instincts, we could see exactly which emotional and narrative combinations were already winning in our clients' categories.

Thomas Herd

Owner, T1 Advertising

CultureAI gave us visibility we've never had before. We understood which formats and story structures were resonating across markets, and where we had whitespace competitors hadn't seen yet.

Liakat Dhanji

CEO, Columbia Pictures Aquaverse

As an agency we get asked all the time to help with social growth, but until CultureAI we were shooting in the dark. Now we can run sprints for clients knowing why certain content works for a brand and implement with confidence.

Gagan

Founder, Guru Agency

Final CTA

See what your market is telling you before the next campaign goes live.

Book a demo to see how Signal helps your team protect working media, shorten approval cycles, and make better calls across campaigns, launches, and growth.

Home