ElenIQ is a media planning and forecasting platform built for performance marketers, agencies, founders and growth teams who need better answers before budget is spent.
It gives teams a more accessible way to forecast paid media performance, model budget scenarios, understand marginal returns, identify saturation risk and improve creative decision-making - without needing enterprise-level analytics infrastructure. ElenIQ is designed for the people making real media decisions every week. Not just large agencies. Not just enterprise brands. Not just teams with six-figure measurement budgets. ElenIQ exists to make better planning intelligence available to more marketers.
Paid media has changed. Platforms are more automated. Attribution is more fragmented. CPMs are rising. Creative fatigue is harder to diagnose. And most planning still happens in spreadsheets, platform forecasts or expensive enterprise tools that are out of reach for smaller teams.
That creates a gap. At one end, marketers have spreadsheets and platform dashboards. At the other, they have enterprise measurement, attribution and creative analytics platforms. ElenIQ sits in the middle - a practical, affordable and commercially useful way to forecast, plan and make decisions before spend is committed.
The goal is simple
Forecast before you spend.
A More Accessible Alternative to Enterprise Planning Tech
ElenIQ is not trying to replace every enterprise MMM, attribution or creative analytics platform. Those tools have a role for large brands with complex data infrastructure, large internal analytics teams and significant budgets. But most businesses do not need to start there.
Many agencies, ecommerce brands, lead generation businesses, SaaS companies and growing teams need something more practical:
Faster than a full MMM project
More useful than a static spreadsheet
Easier to use than enterprise analytics software
More affordable than big measurement stacks
Focused on planning decisions, not just reporting
Built for real paid media workflows
ElenIQ is built for that gap. It helps teams make smarter media planning decisions without the budget, complexity or setup time usually associated with enterprise-level marketing intelligence platforms - a shift toward media planning without spreadsheets that does not demand an enterprise stack.
What ElenIQ Helps Teams Answer
ElenIQ helps marketers answer the questions that matter before spend goes live:
What happens if we increase spend?
Which channel has the most headroom?
Are we approaching saturation?
What is the marginal return from the next pound of budget?
Should budget move from one channel to another?
Is this media plan realistic?
Are we scaling into diminishing returns?
Which creative is tiring?
Which creative should we scale, refresh or pause?
What markets, audiences or channels should we test next?
Most reporting tools tell you what happened after the money was spent. ElenIQ helps you understand what could happen before the money is committed.
Built for Everyone Planning Paid Media
ElenIQ is designed for the teams responsible for making paid media decisions. You do not need to be a global agency or enterprise brand to use proper planning intelligence. If you are making decisions about where budget should go next, ElenIQ is built for you.
ElenIQ is one platform with five capabilities: Media Planning, Forecasting Intelligence, Annual Investment Planning, Creative Intelligence and Affiliate Growth Intelligence. Ask Dex is the AI that works across them. Every plan includes the complete platform, with unlimited users.
Forecasting Intelligence: Scenarios and Budget Movements
Forecasting Intelligence is ElenIQ’s forecasting and scenario planning capability. It helps marketers understand what could happen when paid media budget increases, decreases or moves between channels.
Ad spend forecasting
Budget scenario planning
Marginal ROAS analysis
Ecommerce forecasting
Lead generation forecasting
CAC forecasting
POAS planning
Budget reallocation modelling
Saturation & diminishing returns logic
Forecasting Intelligence is built for teams who need to know where the next pound should go. Instead of relying only on historic averages, platform projections or spreadsheet assumptions, it helps you model future budget decisions before spend is committed - which is why the distinction between marginal ROAS and average ROAS sits at the heart of every forecast.
Media Planning: Market, Audience and Channel Plans
Media Planning is ElenIQ’s strategic planning capability. It helps marketers identify relevant channels, audiences, markets and planning opportunities based on the business objective, vertical and market context.
Audience planning
Channel recommendations
Market planning
Funnel strategy
Campaign planning
Media mix guidance
Planning rationale
“Which channels could we use?”
becomes
“Which channels make sense for this objective, market and audience?”
Media Planning is designed to support smarter planning before media is activated. When you are ready to turn that thinking into an allocation, the budget allocation simulator lets you split budget across channels, and you can then build a media plan from forecasted response rather than assumed averages.
Annual Investment Planning: Building the Year
Annual Investment Planning turns an annual budget or commercial target into a plan: how much to invest in each channel and market, and how to phase it month by month around seasonality and peak trading - with scenarios compared against target and every assumption visible.
It is a separate workflow from Forecasting Intelligence. Forecasting models proposed changes; annual planning builds the full year, using forecast returns as inputs where they help.
Creative Intelligence: From Reporting to the Next Action
Creative Intelligence is ElenIQ’s creative intelligence capability. It helps teams understand creative performance, fatigue, refresh needs and testing opportunities across paid social and video-led channels.
Creative fatigue analysis
Creative refresh recommendations
Creative testing planning
Creative volume guidance
Hook testing
Scale, refresh, pause or brief-next decisions
Creative pipeline intelligence
Creative is now one of the biggest performance levers in paid media. Creative Intelligence helps teams understand not just which campaigns are working, but which creative assets are driving performance, which are tiring and what should happen next - bringing creative fatigue analysis, refresh decisions and testing planning together in one creative intelligence layer.
Affiliate Growth Intelligence: Partner and Programme Growth
Affiliate Growth Intelligence turns advertiser, programme and partner data into clear growth opportunities. It shows which partners drive performance, where the programme depends too heavily on a few relationships, and what a change in commission or partner investment is likely to return before it is made.
For agencies, each advertiser keeps its own workspace with its own programmes and network connections, and networks never count as extra advertisers - see ElenIQ for affiliate agencies.
Better Than Spreadsheets. More Accessible Than Enterprise Stacks.
ElenIQ is built for teams who have outgrown spreadsheet planning but do not want the cost, complexity or commitment of heavyweight enterprise systems. Spreadsheets can show a budget split. Enterprise platforms can be powerful, but often come with high setup requirements, long onboarding cycles and pricing that does not work for every team. ElenIQ gives marketers a practical middle ground - planning intelligence without enterprise bloat.
More than spreadsheets. Less complex than enterprise planning tech.
How ElenIQ compares to spreadsheets, platform forecasts and enterprise measurement platforms
Option
Good for
Limitation
Spreadsheets
Basic budget planning
Static, manual and difficult to forecast properly
Platform forecasts
Single-channel estimates
Limited cross-channel planning context
Enterprise measurement platforms
Large brands with complex analytics infrastructure
Often expensive, slower to implement and built for larger teams
ElenIQ
Practical forecasting, scenario planning and creative intelligence
Built as an accessible planning layer for everyday media decisions
ElenIQ is for teams who need more than spreadsheets, but do not need enterprise complexity.
Our Belief
The future of paid media will not be won by teams who simply accept platform automation. It will be won by teams who can plan better, forecast more clearly and understand where investment should go next.
Better planning should not only belong to the biggest brands with the biggest tech stacks. ElenIQ exists to make forecasting, scenario planning and creative intelligence more accessible to the teams actually making paid media decisions every day.
Frequently asked questions
What is ElenIQ?
ElenIQ is a media planning and forecasting platform for performance marketers, agencies, founders and growth teams. It helps teams forecast paid media performance, model budget scenarios, understand marginal returns, identify saturation risk and make smarter creative decisions before spend is committed.
Who is ElenIQ for?
ElenIQ is built for anyone making paid media decisions - paid media managers, agency planners, ecommerce and lead-generation teams, SaaS marketers, founders, growth teams, freelancers, small agencies and performance directors. You do not need to be a global agency or enterprise brand, or have a six-figure measurement budget, to use proper planning intelligence.
How is ElenIQ different from spreadsheets and enterprise planning tools?
Spreadsheets are static, manual and cannot model how channels respond as spend scales. Enterprise measurement platforms are powerful but are often expensive, slow to implement and built for large teams. ElenIQ sits in the middle: a practical, affordable planning layer focused on decisions before spend, built for everyday paid media workflows.
What can ElenIQ help me forecast?
ElenIQ forecasts ad spend outcomes, budget scenarios, marginal ROAS, ecommerce revenue and ROAS, lead volume and cost per lead, CAC and POAS, and budget reallocation across channels - all with saturation and diminishing-returns logic so plans stay realistic.
What capabilities does ElenIQ include?
ElenIQ is one platform with five capabilities, and every plan includes all of them. Media Planning builds market, audience and channel plans. Forecasting Intelligence models scenarios, returns and budget movements. Annual Investment Planning builds annual budgets, phasing and market allocations. Creative Intelligence turns creative performance into prioritised actions. Affiliate Growth Intelligence finds partner and programme growth. Ask Dex is the AI assistant that works across all five.
Build Smarter Paid Media Plans
Use ElenIQ to forecast performance, model scenarios, understand creative fatigue and make clearer budget decisions before spend is committed. Start with the marginal ROAS calculator, then plan the full picture.