Centralized Marketing Data Platform for Smart Insights

Today’s marketers face a massive challenge: disconnected data across channels, tools, and teams. Without a single source of truth, performance suffers and customer experiences become fragmented.

LayerFive’s Marketing Data Platform solves this by bringing together all your first-party customer and campaign data into one powerful, privacy-compliant platform—designed to drive smarter decisions, higher ROI, and measurable growth.

LayerFive is designed for businesses that want to break down data silos, boost ROI, and engage customers with privacy-compliant, first-party data.

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The Hidden Cost of Marketing Data Chaos

Marketing teams today face an uncomfortable truth: 47% of marketing spend—approximately $66 billion annually—goes to waste due to broken attribution and fragmented data. Even more concerning, 51% of CTOs don’t trust the marketing performance data their platforms report.

 

The culprit? Marketing data chaos.

 

Modern marketing teams juggle 15-20 different tools on average—from Google Analytics and advertising platforms to email marketing systems, attribution tools, and business intelligence software. Each platform speaks its own language, tracks metrics differently, and creates data silos that make it nearly impossible to understand what’s actually driving results.

 

A marketing data platform solves this fundamental problem by unifying all your marketing data sources into a single source of truth, enabling accurate attribution, and empowering data-driven decision making across your entire organization.

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What Is a Marketing Data Platform?

A marketing data platform is a unified system that connects all your marketing data sources—advertising platforms, analytics tools, CRM systems, e-commerce platforms, and more—into one centralized hub. Unlike traditional business intelligence tools that simply visualize data, a modern marketing data platform offers:

 

  • Automated data collection and integration from 100+ marketing sources
  • Identity resolution to track customers across devices and channels
  • Multi-touch attribution to understand which channels truly drive conversions
  • Unified reporting and analytics that eliminate data silos
  • AI-powered insights that surface opportunities automatically
  • Audience activation to turn insights into action across channels

 

The result is a complete view of your marketing performance with the context needed to make confident decisions about budget allocation, creative strategy, and channel optimization.

Why Traditional Marketing Stacks Fall Short

Data Collection Layer:

Supermetrics or Funnel.io to pull data from advertising platforms
Google Analytics for web analytics
Custom scripts to export data from various tools

 

Data Storage & Processing:

Spreadsheets (lots of them)
Data warehouses like Snowflake
Multiple disconnected databases

 

Analysis & Reporting:

Looker, PowerBI, or Tableau for dashboards
More spreadsheets for custom reports
Manual data reconciliation across platforms

 

Attribution & Optimization:

Separate attribution tools (if any)
Platform-reported metrics (which often conflict)
Best guesses about what’s actually working

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This fragmented approach creates several critical problems:

1. Massive Time Drain on Data Teams

Data analysts spend 50% or more of their time just wrangling data—pulling reports, cleaning inconsistencies, and updating dashboards—instead of generating insights that drive growth.

2. Broken Attribution

Without unified identity resolution, you can’t accurately attribute conversions across channels. Platform-reported metrics often contradict each other, and marketers are left guessing which channels deserve more budget.

3. High Tool Costs

The typical marketing analytics stack costs $200K-$850K annually when you factor in data integration tools, business intelligence platforms, attribution solutions, and the personnel needed to maintain everything.

4. Slow Decision Making

By the time your team pulls data from multiple sources, reconciles discrepancies, and creates reports, the insights are already outdated. Marketing moves too fast for weekly or monthly reporting cycles.

5. No Context for AI

Without unified, identity-resolved data, AI tools can’t deliver meaningful insights. Agentic AI workflows require high-quality, contextual data to function effectively.

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The LayerFive Marketing Data Platform Advantage

LayerFive takes a fundamentally different approach by providing an integrated marketing data platform that unifies data collection, attribution, audience intelligence, and AI-powered automation in a single system.

LayerFive Axis: Unified Marketing Data & Reporting

LayerFive Axis eliminates the need for multiple data integration and BI tools by connecting all your marketing and advertising data sources within minutes. Whether you’re a data analyst or a marketer, you can immediately focus on analyzing unified data and delivering insights instead of wrestling with data pulls and dashboard maintenance.

 

Key Capabilities:

  • Connect 100+ marketing data sources instantly
  • Integrate planning and budgeting spreadsheets
  • Build custom dashboards with drag-and-drop simplicity
  • Schedule automated reports to Slack or email
  • Get creative performance insights for Meta ads
  • Identify top performers and creative fatigue automatically

 

Value Delivered: Replace $60K-$200K in data integration and BI tools while saving 50% of data analyst time—a total value of $100K-$300K annually.

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LayerFive Signal: Attribution & ID Resolution

Building on Axis, LayerFive Signal provides comprehensive web analytics, multi-touch attribution, and identity resolution through the L5 Pixel for granular first-party data collection.

 

With ID-resolved full-funnel data, marketers can finally answer critical questions:

 

  • Which channels truly drive conversions (not just last-click credit)?
  • What’s the halo effect of social and display advertising on direct/organic traffic?
  • Where are visitors dropping out of the funnel?
  • Which campaigns, ads, and creatives work across channels?
  • What percentage of funnel visitors are identified and addressable?
  • How complex is the customer journey?
  • Which landing pages lead to better conversion?
  • Where should the next marketing dollar go?

 

Key Capabilities:

  • Industry-leading first-party identity resolution (2-5X better visitor recognition)
  • Multi-touch attribution with view-through modeling
  • Funnel analytics and journey insights
  • Media mix modeling for channel optimization
  • Cohort analysis and product analytics
  • Meta and Google CAPI implementations for 20% ROAS uplift

 

Value Delivered: Replace $30K-$300K in analytics and attribution tools while driving 20% improvement in operating efficiency and marketing ROI.

LayerFive Edge: Predictive Audiences & Personalization

LayerFive Edge transforms your unified marketing data into actionable audience intelligence using cutting-edge AI to score every visitor for engagement propensity, purchase likelihood, and product affinity.

 

Most e-commerce businesses recognize less than 10% of site traffic. B2B companies fare even worse. Edge changes that equation by delivering 2-5X better visitor recognition, enabling you to re-engage the 95% of visitors who don’t convert on their first visit.

 

Use Cases Edge Enables:

  • Identify likely-to-purchase visitors for proactive outreach
  • Detect cart abandoners with specific items in real-time
  • Build product affinity audiences for targeted campaigns
  • Find disengaging customers before they churn
  • Activate personalized email flows automatically
  • Create dynamic retargeting audiences for Google and Meta
  • Deliver 1:1 personalized on-site experiences

 

Value Delivered: 20-50% increase in addressable audiences drives significant conversion rate improvements and enhanced customer experiences.

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LayerFive Navigator: Agentic AI for Marketing

LayerFive Navigator is the AI layer that runs across all LayerFive products, using your unified marketing data to power intelligent automation and insights.

 

Navigator goes beyond basic chatbots by offering:

  • Proactive AI agents that monitor performance and alert you to anomalies
  • Conversational analytics to ask complex marketing questions in plain language
  • Automated insight generation that surfaces opportunities before you ask
  • Workflow automation that creates slide decks, sends Slack updates, and emails reports
  • MCP server integration that makes your data available to enterprise AI tools

 

The future of marketing is agentic AI that works on your behalf—but only when powered by unified, contextual, identity-resolved data that Navigator provides.

Real Results: Billy Footwear Case Study

Billy Footwear, a LayerFive client, demonstrates the power of a unified marketing data platform. By implementing LayerFive’s integrated solution, they achieved:

 

  • 72% increase in ad revenue year-over-year
  • Only 7% increase in ad spend
  • Complete visibility into true channel performance
  • Accurate attribution across their full marketing funnel
  • Enhanced audience targeting with better visitor recognition

 

This dramatic improvement in efficiency came from one fundamental shift: knowing exactly which marketing channels were actually driving results and optimizing accordingly.

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Who Benefits from a Marketing Data Platform?

Shopify & E-Commerce Brands

E-commerce brands drowning in TripleWhale costs or frustrated by limited attribution capabilities find immediate value in LayerFive’s comprehensive yet affordable platform. Get unified data, accurate attribution, predictive audiences, and AI automation without paying for bloated enterprise platforms.

Marketing Agencies

Agencies managing multiple client accounts need efficient tools that scale. LayerFive provides agency-level dashboards, generous commissions (20% first year, 10% thereafter), and free agency management tools including user access control and easy client onboarding.

B2B SaaS Companies

High-growth SaaS companies running PLG and SLG motions need complete visibility into complex funnels spanning events, webinars, affiliate programs, and multiple advertising channels. LayerFive delivers unified reporting, company-level identity resolution, and engagement-based segmentation for personalized outreach.

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Marketing Data Platform vs. Traditional Tools

Replacing Your Fragmented Stack

Instead of:

 

  • Supermetrics/Funnel.io ($1,200-$3,000/month)
  • Looker/Tableau/PowerBI ($2,000-$15,000/month)
  • Attribution tools like Northbeam ($1,500-$3,000/month)
  • Customer data platforms ($2,500-$25,000/month)
  • Creative analytics tools ($1,000-$10,000/month)
  • Data analyst time (50% wasted on data wrangling)

 

Get LayerFive:

  • Unified data integration
  • Built-in dashboards and reporting
  • Industry-leading attribution
  • Visitor intelligence and segmentation
  • Creative analytics
  • AI-powered automation
  • Total cost: Starting at $49/month for Axis, complete platform from $247/month

 

Total savings: $100K-$300K+ annually

Key Differentiators: Why LayerFive?

1. Superior Identity Resolution

LayerFive delivers industry-leading first-party identity resolution with the flexibility to integrate third-party ID solutions, achieving 2-5X better visitor recognition than competitors.

2. True Unification

Unlike point solutions that solve one problem, LayerFive unifies data collection, attribution, audience intelligence, and AI automation in a single integrated platform.

3. Built for E-Commerce & B2B

Whether you’re running a Shopify store or a B2B SaaS company, LayerFive adapts to your specific needs with appropriate tracking, attribution models, and reporting.

4. Comprehensive Feature Set

Competitors lack many features LayerFive includes out of the box—from media mix modeling and creative analytics to predictive audiences and agentic AI workflows.

5. Transparent Pricing

No hidden costs or surprise enterprise pricing. Clear, scalable tiers based on your marketing spend and revenue.

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Getting Started with LayerFive

Implementing a marketing data platform doesn’t require months of technical work. Here’s how quickly you can get value:

Week 1 – LayerFive Axis:

 

  • Connect your marketing data sources (5 minutes each)
  • Upload budgets and marketing calendars
  • Access pre-built reports immediately
  • Create your first custom dashboard

 

Week 2 – LayerFive Signal:

  • Add L5 Pixel to your website
  • Configure tracking parameters for email/SMS
  • Enable Meta and Google CAPI
  • Start seeing attributed performance data

 

Week 3 – LayerFive Edge:

  • No additional setup required (builds on Signal)
  • Access AI-powered audience scores
  • Create your first predictive segments
  • Activate audiences to your marketing channels

 

Week 4 – LayerFive Navigator:

  • Ask Navigator about your marketing performance
  • Set up automated anomaly alerts
  • Build your first agentic AI workflow
  • Connect to enterprise AI tools via MCP server

 

Within a month, you’ve replaced your fragmented stack with a unified marketing data platform that delivers better insights at a fraction of the cost.

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The Future is Unified, Contextual, and Intelligent

Marketing is entering an era where agentic AI will automate insight generation, creative optimization, and budget allocation. But AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on.

 

A marketing data platform isn’t just about reporting what happened last week—it’s about building the data foundation that powers intelligent automation across your entire marketing organization.

 

The question isn’t whether you need unified marketing data. The question is how much longer you can afford to operate without it.

 

With 47% of marketing spend going to waste due to broken attribution and fragmented data, the cost of inaction grows every day. Meanwhile, companies leveraging unified marketing data platforms are achieving 20-70% improvements in marketing efficiency while consolidating $100K-$300K in redundant tool costs.

Ready to Unify Your Marketing Data?

See how LayerFive’s marketing data platform can transform your marketing operations, eliminate wasted spend, and unlock AI-powered growth.

 

Start with a free trial of LayerFive Axis and connect your first data sources in minutes. No credit card required.

 

Or schedule a demo to see how the complete LayerFive platform can replace your fragmented stack with unified data, accurate attribution, predictive audiences, and agentic AI automation.

 

 

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Product Overview​

One platform, Four products, End to end clarity

Replace the patchwork of connectors, BI tools, attribution models, and manual

spreadsheets with a unified, agentic-AI-ready data backbone.

Axis​

Data unification &
reporting

Connect sources in minutes, build custom metrics & dashboards, ship exec-ready reports.

  • Plug-and-play connectors
  • Custom metrics
  • Exec dashboards

Signal

Analytics, Attribution &
Journeys

First-party pixel + ID resolution, channel truth, halo and incrementality, MMM & cohorts.

  • ID resolution
  • Attribution modeling
  • Customer journeys

Edge

Audiences &
Personalization

Predictive scoring, product affinity, rule- and AI-segments, activate everywhere.

  • Predictive scoring
  • AI segments
  • Cross-channel activation

Navigator

Agentic AI

Out-of-the-box agents, anomaly alerts, budget/creative suggestions, MCP to your AI stack.

  • AI agents
  • Anomaly detection
  • Auto optimization

Join 100+ customers across 5+ countries using LayerFive to
unify data and scale growth.

Why teams choose LayerFive

$100K - $1M+

saved per year (Axis consolidation)

20%

ROAS uplift with first-party CAPI & modeled attribution

2-3x

ROI when Edge + Navigator are activated

ISO 27001 & SOC 2

Built-in security and compliance

Seamless 50+ Integrations

Connect with your favorite tools in minutes

Enterprise Security

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International standard for information security management

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Audited controls for security, availability, and confidentiality

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18-month standard retention (longer on Enterprise)

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First-party data collection with optional third-party enrichment
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+23% Repeat Purchase in 90 Days

“Using LayerFive, we were able to leverage deeper insights that helped us double our sales in 3 months, while saving wasted ad spend.”

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Billy Price

CEO, BILLY Footwear

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between a marketing data platform and a CDP?

While Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) focus primarily on collecting and organizing customer profile data for activation, a marketing data platform like LayerFive provides a broader solution. LayerFive unifies not just customer data, but all marketing performance data—campaign metrics, ad spend, attribution, creative analytics, and more. Think of it as a CDP plus marketing intelligence plus attribution plus AI automation, all in one integrated platform. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for multiple tools and provides the complete context needed for effective decision-making.

LayerFive is designed for rapid implementation. Most clients see value within the first week. You can connect your first marketing data sources in just 5 minutes each, and start accessing pre-built reports immediately. The L5 Pixel for attribution can be added to your website in under an hour. Within 2-3 weeks, you can have the complete platform operational—including unified data collection, multi-touch attribution, predictive audiences, and AI automation. This is dramatically faster than traditional enterprise solutions that often require 3-6 months of implementation.

Yes, LayerFive Signal provides comprehensive web analytics that goes far beyond what Google Analytics offers. While Google Analytics provides aggregate data with limited identity resolution (especially after the shift away from third-party cookies), LayerFive delivers 2-5X better visitor recognition through industry-leading first-party identity resolution. You get individual-level insights, cross-device tracking, complete funnel analytics, and multi-touch attribution that Google Analytics simply cannot provide. Plus, LayerFive unifies your web analytics with all your other marketing data sources, eliminating the need to jump between platforms.

LayerFive clients typically see ROI in three key areas: First, immediate cost savings of $100K-$300K annually by consolidating data integration tools, BI platforms, attribution solutions, and analytics tools. Second, operational efficiency gains of 20-50% as data teams stop wrangling data and start generating insights. Third, and most importantly, marketing performance improvements of 20-70% through accurate attribution and optimization. Billy Footwear, for example, achieved 72% revenue growth with only 7% additional ad spend. When you eliminate the 47% of marketing spend that typically goes to waste due to poor attribution, the ROI becomes substantial.

LayerFive is built with privacy compliance at its core. All tracking is based on first-party data collection through the L5 Pixel, which is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations. LayerFive is ISO 27001 certified and SOC2 Type 2 compliant, ensuring your data security is maintained at the highest standards. The platform includes consent management capabilities, data deletion workflows, and transparent data governance—giving your customers control over their data while enabling you to maintain high-quality marketing attribution. Unlike third-party cookie-based solutions that are increasingly blocked by browsers, LayerFive’s first-party approach is future-proof and privacy-compliant.

LayerFive offers several key differentiators: (1) Superior identity resolution—we achieve 2-5X better visitor recognition than competitors through advanced AI-based cross-device tracking; (2) Complete unification—unlike point solutions, LayerFive integrates data collection, attribution, predictive audiences, and AI automation in a single platform; (3) Broader applicability—we serve both e-commerce and B2B SaaS companies, not just Shopify stores; (4) More comprehensive features—we include media mix modeling, creative analytics, predictive audiences, and agentic AI that competitors lack; (5) Better pricing—starting at just $49/month compared to $1,000+ for alternatives, with transparent tiered pricing that scales with your business. Most importantly, LayerFive provides the unified, contextual, identity-resolved data that powers effective agentic AI workflows—the future of marketing automation.