trackinG isn’t set and forget.

Ad platforms update their APIs. Privacy regulations evolve. Your website changes. New campaigns need new events. Without ongoing management, tracking infrastructure drifts — silently, constantly — until the data your campaigns depend on stops reflecting reality.

The Retainer keeps your tracking accurate, compliant, and performing. Continuously monitored. Proactively maintained. So your campaigns always optimise on data you can trust.

Ongoing Tracking Management

what changeS without warning

Your tracking infrastructure is not a static build. It is a living system connected to platforms, browsers, regulations, and websites that change on their own schedule — not yours.

Multiple/yr

Ad Platform API Updates

Google, Meta, and TikTok push API changes multiple times per year. A CAPI endpoint that passed verification in January may silently stop passing data after a version deprecation.

Evolving

Privacy and Consent Regulation

Consent frameworks evolve. Browser policies tighten. What was compliant six months ago may not be today. Non-compliant events get silently dropped.

Ongoing

CRM and Pipeline Evolution

Your sales team adds a new stage. Someone renames a field. Each change can break the mapping between your CRM data and your ad platforms.

Any time

Website and CMS Changes

A developer pushes a plugin update. A new landing page goes live without tracking. Conversion events vanish without a single error message.

Gradual

Data Drift

Match quality scores drop. Deduplication rules drift out of alignment. Event parameters no longer conform to updated schemas. Gradual enough to miss. Significant enough to cost you.

what the retainer covers

Every tier of The Retainer is built on the same core capabilities. The difference is depth, speed, and how proactively we work on your behalf.

Continuous Monitoring

Infrastructure watched around the clock. Event volume, CAPI delivery, match quality, data freshness, and consent compliance tracked in real time.

Proactive Optimisation

We actively tune match quality scores, optimise event parameters, and refine data flows to keep tracking performing at its peak.

API Change Management

When platforms update APIs, we handle the migration before the old version stops working.

Priority Support

Tracking issues don’t wait for business hours. Something looks wrong? We investigate and resolve it.

Monthly Reporting

Plain-English summary of tracking health every month. What we monitored, optimised, and what is coming.

CRM Integration Updates

New fields, stages, workflows — each change flows through to your ad platforms so offline conversion data keeps flowing.

choosE the level that fits

Three tiers. Each designed for a different stage of tracking maturity and a different level of hands-on involvement. No lock-in contracts.

Monitoring

We watch. You act.

  • Crystal Ball Dashboard access
  • Alert notifications
  • Monthly tracking health report
  • Quarterly review call
  • Email support
Most Common

Managed

We watch. We fix. You focus on campaigns.

  • Everything in Monitoring
  • Proactive optimisation
  • API change management
  • New event configuration
  • CRM integration maintenance
  • Priority support, same-day response
  • Monthly reporting with recommendations

Dedicated

Your embedded tracking partner.

  • Everything in Managed
  • Named dedicated specialist
  • Strategic tracking roadmap
  • Custom dashboard views
  • Advanced offline conversion management
  • Multi-domain coordination
  • Direct Slack/Teams access
  • Weekly check-ins

built for how you operatE

Lead Generation Businesses

Your CRM-to-platform connection is only as reliable as the maintenance behind it.

The Retainer keeps your offline conversion data flowing accurately, every day, without you thinking about it.

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Ecommerce Brands

Server-side infrastructure requires maintenance. CAPI endpoints change. Match quality degrades.

The Retainer keeps your server-side tracking performing at the level it was built to.

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Agencies

Client changes are potential tracking breaks across any account.

The Retainer gives you a single partner managing tracking health across your entire portfolio.

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your trAcking health, visible in real time

Every Retainer client gets full access to the Crystal Ball Dashboard — the same monitoring layer that powered your Setup verification, now running continuously.

$ crystal-ball status --all
> Checking tracking infrastructure...
[PASS] Google Ads CAPI — events delivering
[PASS] Meta Conversions API — match quality 8.4/10
[PASS] TikTok Events API — all events verified
[PASS] CRM Sync (HubSpot) — offline conversions flowing
[WATCH] GA4 data freshness — 2.1hr lag (threshold: 4hr)
[PASS] Consent compliance — all events properly consented
Tracking Health Score: 94/100
Last checked: 3 minutes ago
We assumed our tracking was fine after the initial setup. Six weeks later, Kazam flagged a Meta API change that had silently dropped our match quality score from 8.2 to 4.1. Without The Retainer, we would have lost weeks of campaign data before anyone noticed.
Tracking ClientMarketing Director, Enterprise Advertiser

common questionS about the retainer

your trAcking worked on the day it was set up. does it still work today?

Every API update, every privacy change, every website edit is an opportunity for your tracking to silently break. The Retainer makes sure someone is always watching — and always fixing.