Profit Guardrail
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PROFIT INTELLIGENCE FOR DTC BRANDS

Your ROAS says you’re winning.
Your profit says otherwise.

Profit Guardrail watches contribution profit after ads across every campaign, SKU and discount, finds the leaks your ROAS dashboards hide, and proposes protective moves you approve in one click.

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Connects to Shopify, Meta Ads & Google AdsRead-only by default
LEAK DETECTED · 06:12
MOVE 01Reduce Budget
EVIDENCE
High

Reduce Meta Broad Prospecting budget by 20-25%

Revenue is up 18%, but contribution profit after ads fell 6% over 7 days. Extra spend is buying a worse product mix.

EXPECTED EFFECT+$4,200
RISK IF YOU ACTLow
RISK IF YOU WAITHigh
Owner · You · review in 3 days
RejectApprove
BUILT ON THE DATA YOU ALREADY TRUST
Shopify
Meta Ads
Google Ads
Product Costs · CSV
Inventory · CSV
THE BLIND SPOT

Revenue went up 18%.
Profit went down.

ROAS rewards revenue. But a campaign can scale revenue while quietly buying a worse product mix, more discounted, low-margin, high-return units that cost you contribution profit on every order.

On the dashboard it looks like a winner. After ad spend, discounts, returns and COGS, it’s a leak. Profit Guardrail measures the number that actually matters.

META · BROAD PROSPECTING · LAST 7 DAYS
Ad spend
$8,420+18%
Revenue
$31,200+18%
Contribution profit after ads
$2,180-6%
Low-margin SKU share
41%+13pp
This campaign reads as a winner on ROAS, and loses you money at the margin.
WHAT A LEAK LOOKS LIKE

Five ways profit leaks, that ROAS will never show you.

Profit Guardrail runs these checks continuously across every campaign, SKU and discount code, and ranks each leak by the contribution profit at stake.

$5.8k-7.2k / 7d

Campaign Eats Profit

A campaign scales revenue while contribution profit after ads quietly falls.

$3.1k / 14d

Low-Margin Product Mix

Spend drifts toward SKUs that don't cover their own acquisition cost.

$2.4k / 30d

Discount Eats Margin

A promo code stacks on already-thin SKUs until realised margin hits zero.

At risk

Inventory Scale Risk

Budget scales into a SKU whose days of stock are running out.

$1.9k / 30d

Return Rate Leak

Returns erase contribution profit that ROAS never accounts for.

Blocked

Stale or Missing Data

Missing costs or 3-day-old inventory that would make any decision wrong.

HOW IT WORKS

From raw data to a decision you can defend.

01

Connect

Link Shopify, Meta & Google Ads, plus your cost and inventory CSVs. Read-only by default.

02

Detect

Continuous checks find where spend, discounts and product mix destroy contribution profit.

03

Decide

Get one specific guardrail move with expected effect, risk, owner and a stop rule.

04

Review

Every decision is logged with expected vs actual outcome, an audit trail you can defend.

Profit Truth

The real P&L of your store: contribution profit after ads, margin, MER, refund and discount rates, in one place.

Profit Leaks

A ranked, live list of where money is leaking, each with the contribution profit at stake and the evidence behind it.

Guardrail Moves

Specific, reversible protective actions you approve or reject, with risk of acting versus waiting on every one.

Profit Model

Per-SKU and per-campaign economics: cost, margin, discount, returns, inventory cover and whether it's safe to scale.

Data Trust

A freshness and completeness score that gates every recommendation, so you never act on bad data.

Decision Evidence Log

Every move recorded with who approved it, what it expected, and what it actually delivered.

PROTECTIVE MOVES

Four moves. You always approve.

Profit Guardrail never touches your ad accounts on its own. It proposes one specific, reversible action, with the expected effect, the risk of acting versus waiting, and a clear rule for when to stop.

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01

Reduce Budget

Pull spend back on a campaign that's buying a worse product mix as it scales.

Fully reversible
02

Block Scale

Hold spend flat when inventory is thinning or margin is eroding, prevent the damage.

Fully reversible
03

Change Promoted Product / Offer

Swap a discounted low-margin hero for a SKU that actually earns its traffic.

Reversible
04

Fix Data Before Decision

When trust is low, the right move is to repair the feed first, and it says so.

Always available
Data Trust · Limited
Data is partially incomplete
Only cautious, reversible moves are being proposed.
Shopify · orders & productsConnected
Meta & Google · ad spendConnected
Product costs · CSV86% coverage
Inventory · CSV3 days stale
DATA TRUST

It won’t act on data it can’t trust.

Missing costs, stale inventory, a shifted attribution window, every recommendation is gated on the freshness and completeness of the data behind it.

When trust is Limited, Profit Guardrail proposes only cautious, reversible moves. When it’s Blocked, it tells you to fix the data first, never guesses.

A SINGLE 7-DAY WINDOW

What one audit surfaced

$11.4kof contribution profit leaking across active campaigns
5ranked profit leaks surfaced in a single 7-day window
18%revenue growth that was actually destroying margin
0changes made without your explicit approval

Find the profit you’re
already losing.

Connect Shopify and your ad accounts, and see your first ranked profit leaks in minutes. Read-only, no changes without your approval.

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