Progency and the Long Tail of Customers

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Strategic Imperative

In today’s marketing landscape, brands confront a stark reality: despite investing billions in sophisticated martech platforms, 70% of marketing budgets—approximately $500 billion annually—vanishes into what we call “AdWaste.” This systemic inefficiency stems from a fundamental misallocation of resources, where brands repeatedly pay premium rates to reacquire customers they already know whilst neglecting the untapped potential within their existing customer base.

The traditional approach treats all customers as equally deserving of the same generic marketing attention. This one-size-fits-all mentality represents a profound strategic miscalculation. Customer value distributions in virtually every business follow a power-law curve with a pronounced long tail, yet most marketing departments organise around campaign-centric thinking rather than segment-specific value creation.

Enter Progency—a new performance-based business model that transforms this inefficiency into opportunity. Rather than replacing existing marketing teams, Progency creates a symbiotic partnership that maximises the strengths of both internal resources and external expertise through strategic customer segmentation.

The Power-Law Reality

Most revenue and customer lifetime value (LTV) distributions follow a predictable pattern: the top 20% of customers (Best) generate 60-80% of revenue and 200% of profits, whilst the middle 40-50% (Rest) show declining engagement despite significant untapped potential. The bottom 30-40% (Test) have gone dormant, and new acquisitions (Next) require careful nurturing to reach their full potential.

This distribution creates a critical strategic opportunity. Whilst in-house marketing teams naturally gravitate towards managing high-value Best customers and pursuing shiny new Next acquisitions, the middle segments—Rest and Test—often receive inadequate attention despite representing the largest reservoir of unrealised growth potential.

Progency’s breakthrough lies in recognising that these underserved segments require different expertise, different technologies, and different performance metrics than traditional marketing approaches can deliver. By focusing on the long tail through a performance-based model, Progency creates value for both brands and martech companies whilst eliminating the wasteful reacquisition cycles that plague modern marketing.

The genius of the Progency approach lies not in displacement but in strategic division of labour. Rather than competing with internal marketing teams, Progency complements them by taking ownership of segments that require intensive, specialised attention—specifically the Rest and Test customers who represent the greatest opportunity for incremental growth.

In this series, we will examine how Progency unlocks the hidden revenue potential within Rest and Test customer segments—creating a performance-based engine that generates substantial returns for brands whilst building a scalable business model for Progency itself.

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Two Teams

The B-N (Best-Next) and R-T (Rest-Test) segmentation-based partnership model leverages the unique strengths of each team:

In-house marketing teams excel at brand stewardship, strategic vision, and managing relationships with the highest-value customers. They understand the brand’s voice, values, and long-term positioning better than any external partner ever could. Their focus on Best customers—where deep brand knowledge and strategic thinking matter most—and Next customers—where brand messaging and conversion optimisation drive acquisition efficiency—plays to these natural strengths.

Progency, meanwhile, brings the PEAK framework—Platform, Experts, AI Agents, and Kaizen methodology—to bear on segments that require intensive, data-driven intervention. The Rest segment demands sophisticated journey mapping, predictive analytics, and personalised engagement at scale. The Test segment requires advanced reactivation strategies, multi-channel orchestration, and cost-effective reacquisition techniques that bypass expensive adtech platforms.

Given that most revenue and LTV distributions follow this power-law pattern, Progency’s optimal strategy focuses on the long tail segments, creating a clear strategic division that benefits both parties.

(The following table has been created by Claude based on my previous writings.)

Dimension	In-House Marketing Team	Progency
Target Segments	Best (Top 20%): High-LTV customers requiring strategic stewardship Next (New): Fresh acquisitions needing brand education and conversion optimisation	Rest (Middle 40-50%): Declining engagement customers with untapped potential Test (Bottom 30-40%): Dormant customers requiring sophisticated reactivation
Primary Objectives	Maximise the Best: Drive LTV expansion through premium experiences, exclusive access, and strategic account management Convert the Next: Optimise acquisition funnels, refine messaging, and improve conversion rates for new prospects	Double the Rest: Transform declining engagement into growth through AI-powered personalisation and daily engagement hotlines Reactivate the Test: Deploy cost-effective reacquisition strategies that bypass expensive adtech platforms
Core Capabilities	Brand Mastery: Deep understanding of brand voice, values, and strategic positioning Strategic Thinking: Long-term vision, campaign creativity, and market positioning High-Touch Relationship Management: Personal attention for VIP customers and complex sales cycles	Data Science Excellence: Advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and customer intelligence Automation at Scale: AI-powered personalisation, multi-channel orchestration, and systematic intervention Performance Optimisation: Continuous testing, measurement, and improvement of conversion pathways
Technology Focus	Brand-Centric Platforms: Content management, creative tools, campaign orchestration, and customer experience platforms Acquisition Infrastructure: Landing page optimisation, conversion tracking, and funnel analytics	AI Agents Collective: Sophisticated automation for N=1 personalisation and predictive customer journey mapping NeoMails Platform: Interactive engagement tools that create daily hotlines and habit formation Advanced Analytics: Customer intelligence platforms that identify intervention opportunities and measure incremental impact
Success Metrics	LTV Expansion: Revenue per Best customer, retention rates, and advocacy generation Acquisition Efficiency: Cost per acquisition, conversion rates, and time to first purchase for Next customers	Growth Alpha: Measurable revenue increase above baseline performance with performance-based compensation tied to results Segment Migration: Rest-to-Best conversion rates and Test reactivation success, with clear attribution to Progency interventions
Operational Model	Strategic Campaigns: High-impact, brand-building initiatives that reinforce premium positioning Relationship Nurturing: Personal touchpoints, exclusive experiences, and community building for top-tier customers	Always-On Optimisation: Continuous monitoring, testing, and adjustment of automated systems Performance Partnership: Revenue-sharing model with “carry” percentage of upside, aligning incentives with business outcomes
Resource Allocation	Creative Investment: Premium content creation, brand experiences, and strategic communications Human Capital: Senior marketing talent focused on strategic thinking and relationship management	Technology Infrastructure: AI platform development, data integration, and automation systems Specialist Expertise: Customer intelligence analysts, journey architects, and performance optimisation specialists

This strategic framework ensures both teams operate within their zones of expertise whilst creating a comprehensive approach to customer value maximisation. The in-house team maintains control over brand strategy and high-value relationships, whilst Progency deploys advanced technology and specialist skills to unlock growth from underserved segments.

Most importantly, this approach transforms the traditional fixed-cost marketing model into a performance-based partnership where success is measured not by activities or impressions, but by actual business outcomes. Progency succeeds only when it delivers measurable growth above the revenue baseline, creating a true win-win dynamic that eliminates the waste inherent in traditional marketing approaches.

The result is a marketing organisation that finally matches resource allocation to opportunity distribution, ensuring that every customer segment receives the appropriate level of attention, expertise, and technology to maximise their contribution to sustainable business growth.

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Rest and Test

Before examining Progency’s intervention strategies, we must understand why Rest and Test customers end up in their respective segments. This diagnostic clarity is essential for designing effective reactivation pathways that address root causes rather than symptoms.

Rest Customers: The Erosion of Engagement

Rest customers represent perhaps the most critical segment for sustainable growth—they’ve demonstrated purchase intent and brand affinity but are experiencing declining engagement that, left unchecked, will inevitably lead to dormancy. Understanding their journey reveals specific intervention opportunities:

The Engagement Erosion Pattern

• Historical Success: These customers have completed multiple purchases, demonstrating both product satisfaction and brand acceptance
• Diminishing Returns: Recent engagement metrics show declining open rates, reduced browsing frequency, and longer intervals between purchases
• Personalisation Gap: Generic messaging fails to acknowledge their individual preferences, purchase history, or lifecycle stage
• Relevance Disconnect: Content feels increasingly irrelevant, creating the perception that “this brand doesn’t understand me anymore”
• Attention Fragmentation: Competing brands and life priorities have captured mindshare previously devoted to the brand

The Critical Warning Signs

• Reduced email engagement despite continued subscription
• Browsing behaviour showing interest but minimal conversion
• Longer gaps between purchases compared to their historical pattern
• Decreased response to promotional offers that previously drove action
• Absence of advocacy behaviours like reviews or referrals

Test Customers: The Conversion Failure Crisis

Test customers represent the most expensive failure in modern marketing—successful acquisition followed by relationship abandonment. Their journey highlights systematic weaknesses in post-purchase experience design:

The “One and Done” Phenomenon

• Successful Acquisition: Initial conversion demonstrates effective targeting and compelling value proposition
• Contextual Purchase: Many arrived through specific campaigns (seasonal, promotional, or problem-solving) without developing broader brand affinity
• Post-Purchase Neglect: Critical 30-90 day window following first purchase receives generic rather than strategic attention
• Value Realisation Gap: Customers fail to experience the full brand benefits or understand the broader product ecosystem
• Engagement Atrophy: Without sustained touchpoints, the brand relationship never develops beyond the initial transaction

The Reactivation Challenge

• Attention Recession: Having invested no further mental energy in the brand, these customers become increasingly difficult to re-engage
• Competitive Displacement: Other brands have likely captured their attention and subsequent purchases in the category
• Higher Reacquisition Costs: Traditional adtech platforms charge premium rates to reach customers that the brand has already acquired once
• Memory Decay: Positive associations with the brand diminish over time without reinforcement

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Byron Sharp on How Brands Grow

Byron Sharp’s seminal research in “How Brands Grow” provides crucial insights for Rest and Test customer reactivation. His findings on mental availability, physical availability, and distinctive brand assets offer a scientific foundation for the Progency intervention playbook that challenges conventional marketing wisdom about customer relationships. This table from Will Patrick captures the key ideas.

Mental Availability: The Forgotten Foundation

Sharp’s most important insight demolishes the traditional marketing assumption that customer loyalty drives brand growth. Instead, his extensive research across multiple categories demonstrates that brands grow primarily by increasing their mental availability—the probability that a brand comes to mind in relevant buying situations. This finding has profound implications for Rest and Test customer reactivation.

For Rest and Test customers, mental availability has eroded through “attention recession” and competitive displacement. These customers haven’t developed negative associations with the brand; they’ve simply forgotten the brand exists when category needs arise. They’ve mentally “divorced” from the brand despite previous positive experiences, not because of product dissatisfaction but due to insufficient mental refreshing.

Sharp’s research reveals that even satisfied customers will defect if competitors achieve higher mental availability through consistent, distinctive touchpoints. The reactivation challenge isn’t convincing Rest and Test customers that the brand’s products are superior—they’ve already demonstrated purchase satisfaction—but rebuilding the mental pathways that make the brand salient when category needs emerge.

Traditional retention approaches focus on emotional engagement and loyalty program mechanics, but Sharp’s evidence shows these tactics primarily benefit brands that already have strong mental availability. For declining customers, the priority must be systematic mental availability reconstruction through distinctive, consistent exposure rather than persuasive messaging or promotional bombardment.

Physical Availability: The Inbox Advantage

Sharp emphasises that mental availability alone is insufficient; brands must also be easy to buy when customers are ready to purchase. Traditional physical availability refers to distribution reach, shelf placement, and purchasing convenience, but for Rest and Test customers, the concept extends to what we might call “digital physical availability”—being present and actionable in the channels where customers make decisions.

The Brand Daily creates superior physical availability by occupying inbox real estate during micro-moments of attention throughout the day. Unlike traditional advertising that builds mental availability but requires customers to remember and act later, NeoMails with interactive AMP/CSS technology enable immediate action when interest peaks, eliminating what Sharp identifies as the crucial intention-action gap that costs countless conversions.

This approach recognises Sharp’s insight that customers typically don’t plan category purchases far in advance; instead, they make decisions when situations arise that trigger category needs. By maintaining daily inbox presence with actionable content, Progency ensures physical availability precisely when mental availability peaks.

Distinctive Brand Assets: Recognition Before Recall

Perhaps Sharp’s most actionable insight for Progency involves distinctive brand assets—the unique sensory elements (colours, fonts, logos, sounds, characters, taglines) that enable instant brand recognition. His research demonstrates that distinctive assets drive recognition significantly faster than recall-based memory, crucial for overloaded customers processing numerous daily marketing messages.

Sharp’s studies reveal that customers make brand recognition decisions within milliseconds, long before conscious processing begins. For Rest and Test customers who have cognitively “forgotten” their positive brand relationship, distinctive assets provide the fastest pathway to rebuilding brand salience without requiring effortful memory reconstruction.

The 7M Framework directly applies Sharp’s findings: the Mark element (BIMI-enabled logos) ensures immediate visual recognition even when customers haven’t consciously thought about the brand recently, while consistent design languages across touchpoints rebuild the memory structures Sharp identifies as fundamental to brand growth. This recognition-first approach works even when customers believe they’ve “moved on” from the brand, because distinctive assets bypass conscious processing and trigger subconscious brand associations.

Sharp’s research also reveals that distinctive assets become more valuable over time through repeated exposure, creating compound returns on visual consistency investments. For Progency’s long-term approach to Rest and Test reactivation, this means systematic deployment of distinctive assets across all touchpoints, building brand recognition infrastructure that strengthens with each exposure rather than requiring escalating promotional intensity to maintain attention.

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Progency Playbook

Understanding the decline patterns through Sharp’s evidence-based lens enables Progency to deploy targeted intervention strategies that address both the psychological and practical barriers to reactivation.

Rest Customer Reactivation: The Daily Engagement Architecture

Rest customers require sophisticated relationship rebuilding that transforms sporadic interactions into habitual engagement through strategic attention capture and trust reconstruction.

Phase 1: Mental Availability Reconstruction

• The Brand Daily Implementation: Deploy NeoMails to create consistent 15-60 second daily touchpoints that rebuild mental availability through repeated, distinctive brand exposure
• Sharp’s Recognition Principle: Lead with distinctive brand assets (logos, colours, typography) rather than promotional messaging to trigger faster brand recognition
• Category Entry Point Rebuilding: Use content that associates the brand with relevant buying situations (“meal planning,” “workout gear,” “weekend projects”) rather than generic lifestyle messaging
• Memory Structure Reinforcement: Consistent timing, format, and visual identity help rebuild the mental pathways Sharp identifies as crucial for brand growth

Phase 2: Intelligence Gathering Through Value Exchange

• Zero-Party Data Collection: Use Sharp’s insight that customers respond to brands that make purchasing easier—collect preferences that genuinely improve future experiences
• Behavioural Signal Analysis: Monitor micro-engagement patterns that indicate rebuilding mental availability—longer email viewing times, click patterns, and response timing
• Category Context Mapping: Understand when and how they think about the product category, applying Sharp’s research on buying situation triggers
• Competitive Displacement Assessment: Identify which brands have captured their mental availability in the category

Phase 3: Personalised Re-engagement with Sharp’s Principles

• AI-Powered Content Curation: Deploy the AI Agents Collective to create personally relevant content that increases mental availability for individual customers
• Distinctive Asset Consistency: Maintain visual and tonal consistency that Sharp’s research shows drives subconscious brand recognition
• Physical Availability Optimisation: Use AMP/CSS technology to enable immediate purchase when mental availability peaks, eliminating the delay between intention and action
• Category Expansion Strategy: Apply Sharp’s findings on repertoire buying to introduce complementary products when primary category mental availability is restored

Phase 4: Monetisation Through Enhanced Availability

• Primary Revenue Path: Guide customers back to purchases by being mentally and physically available when buying situations arise
• Secondary Revenue Stream: Monetise restored attention through NeoN ActionAds, creating additional revenue whilst they rebuild purchase habits
• Repertoire Building: Use Sharp’s insight that customers typically buy from a small set of brands to become one of their “go-to” options in the category
• Advocacy Development: Convert renewed mental availability into word-of-mouth recommendations, leveraging Sharp’s research on how brands actually grow

Test Customer Reactivation: The Graduated Intervention Model

Test customers require a more intensive reactivation approach that acknowledges their deeper disengagement whilst leveraging available historical intelligence.

Stage 1: Mental Availability Assessment (7-10 Days)

• The Brand Daily Reactivation Sequence: Deploy Sharp’s recognition-first approach through emails with strong distinctive brand assets rather than promotional content
• Historical Context Integration: Reference their previous purchase history to trigger memory structures Sharp identifies as crucial for brand recall
• Category Entry Point Activation: Address current life situations or seasonal needs that originally drove their purchase behaviour
• Distinctive Asset Deployment: Use consistent visual identity, colour schemes, and brand codes that bypass conscious processing for faster recognition

Stage 2: Sharp’s Double Jeopardy Assessment

• Responsive Customers: Those showing email engagement demonstrate maintained mental availability and move to the Rest customer playbook for systematic rebuilding
• Non-Responsive Customers: Following Sharp’s research on light buyers, these customers require more intensive mental availability reconstruction
• Competitive Analysis: Assess which brands have captured their mental space in the category during their dormancy period

Stage 3: Third-Party Mental Availability Rebuilding via NeoN

• Authenticated Identity Targeting: Deploy NeoN’s PII-based targeting to reach non-responsive customers through partner brand email channels, following Sharp’s principle that mental availability requires consistent exposure
• Distinctive Asset Consistency: Maintain brand recognition elements across partner channels to reinforce memory structures
• Cost-Effective Mental Availability: Achieve 30-50% lower costs compared to traditional adtech whilst building more effective mental availability than interruptive advertising
• Cross-Brand Halo Effect: Leverage the mental availability of partner brands to rebuild associations with the brand

Stage 4: Physical Availability When Mental Availability Returns

• Recognition-First Strategy: Focus on distinctive brand assets rather than complex value propositions, applying Sharp’s insight that recognition drives growth more than recall
• Immediate Action Capability: Use ActionAds to enable instant purchase when mental availability peaks, eliminating the intention-action gap
• Category Situational Triggers: Position brand messaging around specific buying situations where the category naturally fits into customer routines
• Long-term Mental Availability Building: Design touch points that gradually rebuild the brand’s category entry points rather than pushing for immediate conversion

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Flywheel

This systematic approach to Rest and Test customer reactivation incorporates Byron Sharp’s evidence-based insights to transform mental and physical availability from theoretical concepts into practical reactivation tools. By focusing on distinctive brand assets, consistent exposure, and enhanced physical availability rather than persuasive messaging or promotional bombardment, Progency builds sustainable mental availability that drives long-term customer reactivation.

The approach recognises Sharp’s fundamental insight: brands grow by being mentally and physically available to more customers in more buying situations, not by creating deeper emotional connections with existing customers. For Rest and Test segments, this means systematic rebuilding of mental availability through distinctive, consistent touchpoints combined with frictionless physical availability when purchase intent emerges.

Most importantly, this evidence-based approach transforms customer reactivation from expensive, interruptive advertising into systematic mental availability development that creates sustainable competitive advantage whilst delivering measurable growth alpha for brands and scalable revenue for Progency partners.

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The following flywheel created by ChatGPT captures the cyclical model Progency employs to rebuild mental and physical availability using Sharp’s principles applied to Rest and Test customers. (Note: there are a few typos in this graphic which I could not get ChatGPT to fix.)

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Sharp and BRTN

I asked Claude if Byron Sharp’s ideas conflict with the focus on Best customers and the BRTN segmentation. Here is its response.

Sharp’s research doesn’t conflict with the BRTN framework—it actually strengthens and validates it, but with important nuances that enhance your strategy. Let me explain:

Sharp VALIDATES Your Best Customer Focus

Sharp’s Position on Heavy Buyers:

• Sharp acknowledges that heavy buyers (your Best customers) are valuable and worth retaining
• He doesn’t argue against serving them well—he argues against over-investing in loyalty programs at the expense of reach
• His key insight: “Don’t ignore heavy buyers, but don’t assume loyalty programs will create them”

Your BRTN Framework Aligns Because:

• Your Best customer strategy (VRM, AI Agents Collective) focuses on retention and expansion, not loyalty creation
• You’re not trying to “manufacture” Best customers through loyalty schemes—you’re maximising value from customers who are already high-value
• Sharp would approve of your “extreme retention” approach for existing Best customers

Sharp REINFORCES Your Rest/Test Focus

Where Sharp’s Research Strongly Supports Your Approach:

Rest Customers: Sharp’s mental availability theory explains why Rest customers decline—they haven’t lost product satisfaction, they’ve lost mental availability. Your daily engagement strategy (The Brand Daily) directly addresses this by rebuilding mental availability through consistent, distinctive touchpoints.

Test Customers: Sharp’s research shows that “defection” is often just mental availability erosion. Your NeoN reactivation strategy aligns perfectly—using authenticated targeting to rebuild mental availability cost-effectively rather than expensive platform reacquisition.

The Strategic Synthesis

Sharp + BRTN = Enhanced Strategy:

1. Best Customers: Continue extreme retention (Sharp approves) but use his distinctive assets principles to strengthen brand recognition across all touchpoints
2. Rest Customers: Apply Sharp’s mental availability rebuild strategies through daily distinctive brand exposure (The Brand Daily with consistent visual identity)
3. Test Customers: Use Sharp’s reach-efficiency principles to rebuild mental availability through NeoN’s cost-effective authenticated targeting
4. Next Customers: Sharp’s growth comes from reaching more light buyers—your NeoN acquisition strategy does exactly this more efficiently than traditional platforms

The Critical Distinction

What Sharp OPPOSES (and you avoid):

• Believing loyalty programs create heavy buyers
• Over-investing in emotional engagement at the expense of reach
• Focusing on “deepening relationships” instead of building mental availability

What Sharp SUPPORTS (and you do):

• Maintaining distinctive brand assets consistently
• Efficient reach to light/lapsed buyers
• Building mental and physical availability
• Retention without loyalty program dependency

Bottom Line

Sharp’s research validates your BRTN segmentation by providing the scientific explanation for why it works:

• Best customers should receive excellent service (Sharp agrees) but through availability, not loyalty manipulation
• Rest customers need mental availability rebuilding (Sharp’s core insight) through consistent distinctive touchpoints
• Test customers represent the growth opportunity Sharp identifies—reaching light buyers efficiently
• Your performance-based model aligns with Sharp’s evidence that effectiveness comes from reach and availability, not engagement depth

Your framework is actually more Sharp-compliant than traditional loyalty-focused approaches because you’re building systematic mental and physical availability rather than trying to manufacture emotional loyalty.

The synthesis strengthens both approaches: Sharp provides the scientific foundation for why BRTN segmentation works, while BRTN provides the operational framework for applying Sharp’s insights systematically.

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Summary

The convergence of Byron Sharp’s evidence-based brand growth principles with Progency’s performance-based intervention model represents more than tactical innovation—it signals a fundamental transformation in how brands approach customer value creation. This synthesis addresses the $500 billion AdWaste crisis not through incremental improvements, but by rebuilding the scientific foundations of customer engagement.

The Power-Law Advantage

Traditional marketing’s greatest failing lies in treating the customer power-law distribution as a constraint rather than an opportunity. The BRTN segmentation framework, strengthened by Sharp’s mental and physical availability insights, transforms this distribution into a strategic asset. By systematically applying different intervention strategies to each segment—AI Agents Collective for Best customers, daily engagement architecture via NeoMails and The Brand Daily for Rest customers, graduated reactivation via NeoN-PII for Test customers, and authenticated targeting via NeoN-DMP for Next customers—brands can finally match resource allocation to revenue potential.

Mental Availability as Competitive Moat

Sharp’s research reveals that sustainable brand growth comes not from emotional manipulation or loyalty program mechanics, but from systematic mental availability development. The Brand Daily’s implementation of distinctive brand assets, consistent timing, and interactive technology creates what traditional advertising cannot: compound returns on attention investment. Each touchpoint strengthens brand recognition infrastructure rather than requiring escalating promotional intensity to maintain relevance.

Performance-Based Partnership Revolution

The Progency model fundamentally reimagines the economics of marketing transformation. Unlike traditional agencies that profit from activity regardless of outcomes, or martech vendors that succeed through software adoption rather than business results, Progency’s performance-based structure creates perfect alignment between vendor success and client growth. The “carry” model ensures that Progency wins only when brands achieve measurable growth alpha above baseline performance, eliminating the perverse incentives that perpetuate AdWaste.

Systematic Efficiency Creation

The strategic division between in-house teams managing Best and Next customers whilst Progency focuses on Rest and Test segments creates operational efficiency impossible under traditional models. In-house teams can concentrate on brand stewardship and strategic vision where their expertise creates maximum value, whilst Progency deploys AI agents, predictive analytics, and systematic intervention where technology and specialist knowledge drive results.

The Compound Advantage

Most significantly, this approach creates compound advantages that strengthen over time. As Progency successfully converts Rest customers to Best status and reactivates dormant Test customers, the brand’s customer value distribution improves systematically. Higher-quality customer bases generate better data for AI personalisation, create stronger referral networks, and reduce dependency on expensive acquisition platforms—creating a virtuous cycle that transforms marketing from cost centre to profit engine.

The ultimate promise of this Sharp-informed Progency approach extends beyond solving today’s AdWaste crisis. It establishes a new paradigm where marketing success stems from scientific understanding of how customers actually behave, systematic application of evidence-based intervention strategies, and performance-based partnerships that align all stakeholders around measurable business outcomes. This represents not just evolution in marketing practice, but the emergence of marketing as a precise, scalable discipline capable of delivering predictable, sustainable growth alpha for brands whilst creating scalable revenue models for specialist partners.