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The standard for AI in marketing

## Recommendations you can trust.

Any tool can generate a recommendation. The question is whether you should act on it. A recommendation is only as good as the data it's built on, the model behind it, and your ability to verify it before you spend.

1Grounded in real data

### Built on user-level data, not platform-reported estimates.

Every recommendation traces back to a real person, a real ad dollar, and a real revenue event. Not to a campaign-level conversion count that double-counts every time two platforms touch the same user. The recommendation can only be as accurate as the data underneath, so we start with the data.

2Work with the model

### Tune the model with AI, side by side.

You stay in control of how attribution gets calculated, and the AI helps you get it right. Compare models side by side. Ask which one fits your business. Get help tuning lookback windows, direct traffic handling, and cutoff events. No black box. Your model, your decisions, an expert in the room.

3Fully auditable

### Verify every number before you act.

When the AI tells you to shift $67K from one channel to another, you can drill into the underlying users, clicks, and revenue events that produced the recommendation. No black box. No proprietary model you can't inspect. Every dollar of reallocation defensible to your CFO.

The bar for AI in marketing is whether you can act on what it says. Attribution is built for that bar.

See the real cost of every user's journey

## Attribution tracks every visit, every dollar, every user.

Attribution tracks every visit, click, and dollar spent at the user and account level from acquisition to retention. It connects marketing data to real CAC Payback and LTV:CAC insights for scaling profitably.

Platform API Confusion

## Platform APIs don't lie. They just can't see everything.

Conversion APIs report at the campaign level, not the user level. When Meta's API says a campaign generated $8 in revenue, it claims credit for every conversion that touched that campaign — even if Google also touched the same user. The data from conversion APIs will never add up to your bank account because the APIs were never designed to reconcile across platforms. Attribution solves this by tracking the actual user, summing the actual cost of every ad that user clicked across every platform, and comparing it to the actual revenue that user generated. That is why Attribution's numbers match the bank account — and why an AI recommendation built on Attribution data is something you can act on.

![Meta](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/meta.png)

Meta Ad

$5.00

![Google](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/google.svg)

Google Ad

$5.00

✓

Converts

$8.00 rev

What each source reports

 ![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/meta.png) Meta Ads$8 rev on $5 spend+$3 profit

 ![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/google.svg) Google Ads$8 rev on $5 spend+$3 profit

Bank account$8 in, $10 out\-$2 loss

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Attribution$8 rev on $10 spend\-$2 loss MATCHES

The Four Pillars

## How Attribution gets to the real number

Matching your bank account requires four capabilities that most attribution tools don't have. AI on top of those four is what makes the recommendations trustworthy.

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### User-level cost data

Attribution calculates the actual cost of acquiring each individual visitor by binding real ad spend to each user's deterministic journey across channels and sessions. Without user-level cost data, ROAS is an estimate — platforms divide total campaign spend by platform-reported conversions, which double-count, over-attribute, and miss cross-channel paths entirely. Attribution eliminates this by tracking every dollar spent at the user and account level, producing true per-user CAC, ROAS, CAC Payback, and LTV:CAC metrics.

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### Full data auditability

Any metric on any Attribution dashboard — a CAC figure, a ROAS percentage, a conversion count — can be clicked into and traced back to the underlying visits, touchpoints, cost allocations, and credit assignments that produced it. There is no black box. There are no ML layers between the raw data and the reported number. When a VP of Marketing presents attribution data to the CFO, every number can be defended with a clear trail from ad spend to site visit to conversion to revenue.

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### Customizable models

Attribution offers five multi-touch attribution models — first touch, last touch, linear, time decay, and position-based — each configurable in four distinct modes: include all traffic, exclude direct, include direct until a cutoff event, and exclude all after a cutoff event. The cutoff event modes are specifically designed for product-led growth and trial-based businesses where post-signup visits should not receive attribution credit.

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### Raw data export

Attribution exports full-fidelity, raw visit-level and user-level data directly to Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift through a built-in ETL service, and to Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. This is not aggregated summary data. The export includes every visit with timestamps, source, referrer, UTM parameters, on-site behavior, and user identity. Data teams can query this raw data in SQL, build custom models, and feed events into AI and ML pipelines.

These four capabilities are what make agentic analytics work. When an AI tells you to shift $67K from one channel to another, the recommendation traces back to individual users, individual clicks, and individual revenue events. Not modeled aggregates. Actual data.

Most attribution tools give you one or two of these four capabilities. Attribution is the only platform that delivers all four — user-level cost data, full auditability, customizable models, and raw data export — in a single product. That is why more than 1,000 companies trust Attribution to tell them the number that matches their bank account.

Integrations

## Connects to your entire marketing and revenue stack

Attribution integrates with more than 20 advertising platforms, CRM systems, CDPs, revenue tools, and data warehouses. Attribution is one of only two preferred integration partners for Twilio Segment.

CRM

![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/hubspot.svg)HubSpot![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/salesforce-pardot.svg)Salesforce![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/pipedrive-symbol-1.svg)Pipedrive

Attribution syncs lifecycle stages, deal/opportunity data, and closed-won revenue bidirectionally. Track which marketing touches influenced each deal through the full sales cycle. Account-based attribution binds user journeys to company accounts.

CDP and Analytics

![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/segment.webp)Segment![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/RudderStack_Symbol_0.svg)RudderStack![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/amplitude_icon.svg)Amplitude![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/heap.svg)Heap

Attribution sends user traits, conversion events, and cost data to your CDP and receives unified profiles and funnel events back. The Segment integration is bidirectional and deploys in a single click.

Ecommerce

![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/shopify.webp)Shopify![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/bigcommerce.webp)BigCommerce

Attribution's Shopify integration and CDP Connector give ecommerce brands full-funnel visibility from first ad click to first purchase to repeat revenue. Separate first-time purchaser costs from returning customer revenue. Plans start at $19/month.

Payments

![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/stripe.svg)Stripe![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/recurly-symbol.svg)Recurly![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2020/04/zuora.webp)Zuora

Attribution connects directly to your payment and subscription platform to pull real revenue data — not self-reported conversion values from ad platforms. This is what makes CAC Payback and LTV:CAC calculations accurate down to the individual user.

Data Warehouses

![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/Snowflake_idCkdSg0B6_0.svg)Snowflake![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/BigQuery-512-color.svg)BigQuery![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/Amazon-Redshift-Logo.svg)Redshift![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/Simple%20Storage%20Service.svg)S3![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/Microsoft_Azure.svg)Azure![](https://www.attributionapp.com/assets/images/uploads/2025/02/Cloud_Storage-512-color.svg)GCS

Attribution exports raw visit-level and user-level data through built-in ETL. Your data team gets structured, queryable event data with cost, timestamps, and identity resolution — not aggregated summaries. Available as an add-on for any plan.

Hear from High-Growth Customers

## Loved by 1,000+ companies — B2B, SaaS, E-Commerce, Marketplaces and more.

Want to know the hardest thing about multi-touch attribution? Finding a platform that actually tells you everything a visitor does from first visit to first purchase and beyond. We’ve got you covered.

Learn About Multi-Touch Attribution

## Get actionable insights on attribution.

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Agentic marketing analytics is a new approach to marketing measurement where an AI agent has direct access to your attribution data and can pull reports, analyze performance, compare models, and make optimization recommendations through natural language conversation. Instead of navigating dashboards and selecting from dropdowns, marketers ask questions like "what's my ROAS by channel this quarter" or "what should I change to improve performance next quarter" and receive complete reports and actionable recommendations in seconds. Attribution offers agentic marketing analytics through its native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, which connects to Claude, Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant.

An AI tool for marketing attribution is only as good as the data it works on. AI recommendations built on platform-reported conversion data inherit the structural double-counting problem of conversion APIs — multiple ad platforms each claim credit for the same revenue, so the recommendations are based on a number that doesn't match actual revenue. AI recommendations built on user-level data, where every ad dollar is tied to a specific person and every conversion is counted exactly once, produce numbers that match the payment system. Attribution tracks marketing performance at the user level and exposes that data to AI assistants like Claude through a native MCP server, so the recommendations match the bank account.

Yes, AI can analyze marketing performance data and recommend how to reallocate budget across channels, campaigns, and timeframes. The accuracy of those recommendations depends entirely on the underlying data. AI working on platform-reported conversion data inherits the double-counting problem that comes with conversion APIs — multiple platforms claiming credit for the same revenue. AI working on user-level attribution data, where every dollar of spend is tied to a specific person and every conversion is counted once, can produce recommendations that match what you'll actually see in your bank account. Attribution gives AI assistants like Claude direct access to this user-level data through its MCP server.

Multi-touch attribution is a marketing measurement method that assigns credit to every touchpoint a customer interacts with before converting — not just the last click. It tracks the full journey across channels like paid search, social ads, email, and organic so marketers can see which combination of touches actually drives revenue. Unlike single-touch models, multi-touch attribution reveals how channels work together. Attribution supports five multi-touch attribution models — first touch, last touch, linear, time decay, and position-based — with configuration modes designed for both B2C ecommerce and B2B SaaS customer journeys.

Multi-touch attribution (MTA) tracks individual user journeys and assigns credit to specific touchpoints using deterministic, user-level data. Marketing mix modeling (MMM) uses aggregate statistical analysis to estimate how budget allocation across channels affects total revenue — it does not track individual users. MTA is precise but limited to trackable digital channels. MMM captures offline and brand effects but produces estimates, not exact measurements. The most complete measurement strategies use both, plus incrementality testing for causal validation. Attribution offers MTA, MMM, and incrementality testing on the same dataset, so teams don't need separate tools or contracts to compare them.

Incrementality testing measures whether a marketing campaign caused conversions that would not have happened otherwise. The most common methods are geo holdout tests (run the campaign in some regions, pause it in others) and synthetic control tests. By comparing conversion rates between test and control groups, incrementality testing reveals the true causal impact of your spend — not just correlation. It is especially valuable for validating channels where attribution data is limited, like TV or brand campaigns. Attribution includes geo holdout and synthetic control testing alongside its multi-touch attribution and media mix modeling capabilities.

Accurate marketing ROI measurement requires tracking the actual cost of acquiring each customer and the actual revenue they generate, at the user level. The most common reason ROI numbers are wrong is double-counting: when multiple ad platforms each claim credit for the same conversion, the sum of platform-reported revenue exceeds actual revenue. Accurate measurement requires deduplicating spend and revenue across platforms, attributing touchpoints to individual users, and tying both back to the actual payment system. Attribution is built around this approach — pulling spend from ad platform APIs, revenue from payment systems like Stripe, deal data from CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, and tying everything to individual user journeys across every channel.

Facebook (Meta) Ads reports revenue based on its conversion API, which credits the platform for every conversion that touched any Meta campaign — even when Google, email, or organic also touched the same user. Other platforms do the same thing. When you sum platform-reported revenue across Meta, Google, TikTok, and others, the total will always exceed actual revenue in your payment system. This is a structural issue with how conversion APIs are designed, not a tracking error. Independent multi-touch attribution solves this by tracking each user across every channel and counting each revenue event exactly once. Attribution pulls spend directly from Meta, Google, and other ad platforms, deduplicates revenue across them, and ties everything back to the actual user.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard, created by Anthropic, that allows AI assistants to securely connect to external data sources and tools. An MCP server exposes specific functions and data that an AI assistant can call during a conversation. For marketing analytics, an MCP server gives AI assistants like Claude direct, real-time access to attribution data — reports, conversion paths, channel performance, model comparisons — through natural language queries. Attribution's MCP server is built natively for marketing measurement and exposes 60+ endpoints covering the full attribution dataset.

Yes. Attribution's MCP server connects to Claude, Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant via OAuth. Once connected, the AI can query your live attribution data through 60+ endpoints covering reports, conversion paths, visitor lookup, company journeys, model comparison, and spend. Queries happen through natural language — ask in plain English, get the data back as a response in the conversation. No attribution data is stored by the AI itself. The Model Context Protocol is an open standard created by Anthropic.

A marketing attribution platform needs direct API connections to four categories of systems: ad platforms (to pull spend data), payment and subscription systems (to pull revenue data), CRM and customer databases (to tie touchpoints to deals and accounts), and data warehouses (to export raw event data for further analysis). UTM-based tracking alone isn't enough because it can't reconcile spend across platforms or tie individual users to real cost. Attribution connects to Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Segment, Shopify, Snowflake, BigQuery, and more than 20 other systems across these four categories.