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Operations Control Platform · Visibility

Walk into the CRO meeting already knowing.

One view across your ad servers, SSPs, and distribution partners. The questions leadership is about to ask — answered before they’re asked.

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Three surfaces, one view

FreeWheel and GAM. Magnite, Index, SpringServe. Pluto, Samsung TV+, Roku, Xumo. Joined into one queryable state by the Context Graph.

Cross-system coverage · at steady state
All joined
Systems joined · sample tenant
8 surfaces
Reconciliation collapsed · sample tenant
~24 hrs / week
Unused impressions surfaced · multi-station broadcaster
91%
Queryable from Claude & ChatGPT
Every metric
Where visibility fails

Three systems. One operator. No single view.

The pacing report a CRO walks into Monday with: header, three segment columns (Linear 102%, CTV 94%, Programmatic 81% of plan), and a CRO commentary footer.
The pacing report · Monday morning
01 · End-to-end

Your stack reports in eight places. Your CRO reports in one.

FreeWheel tells one story. Magnite tells another. The distribution partner tells a third. The deck you’re about to present has to reconcile all of them — by Tuesday — without the reconciliation step reading as a caveat.

02 · Multi-system

The question crosses three systems. The answer sits in none of them.

Where did fill drop? Which partner pulled back? Which floor changed? Each system has half the signal. The other half is a Slack thread with the integration engineer, and the engineer is on another incident.

03 · Partner transparency

The inventory is yours. The pipe is theirs. The reporting is theirs too.

Pluto, Samsung TV Plus, Roku, Xumo — the partner controls the ad calls, the ad server, and the reporting. Your accountability for performance does not come with a matching seat at the dashboard.

How it works

One graph. One surface. One question at a time.

Context Graph

The relationships between systems, rendered as state.

The backbone of the Visibility surface. Every ad server, every SSP, every distribution partner joined as nodes on one graph — not as a diagram, as the live relational state the rest of the platform queries against. Ask a cross-system question; the graph answers it.

Walk the Context Graph · 30 min
AI & MCP

Every metric, queryable from Claude or ChatGPT.

The Context Graph surfaces as an MCP server. Ask the question in the operator’s own vocabulary — which publishers missed their fill rate threshold today, and what’s the revenue impact? — and the answer comes back with the cross-system join already done.

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Report

The Monday-morning view, with the reconciliation already done.

A Report sits on top of the graph. Pacing, fill, yield, unused inventory, partner distribution — one view, every system included, the reconciliation handled before the reader sees the number. Walk into the CRO meeting with the deck that reads as one story, not eight.

Walk a Report · 30 min
Visibility methodology: $1.42M canonical reconciled across four systems — ad server, SSPs, SSAI, and Watching That as the canonical reference.

Visibility is one of four needs the Operations Control Platform handles. The other three sit in the menu above.

The screen

One Report. Every system included.

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One need · three tenants

Distributed FAST. National publishing. Partner accountability.

Three different visibility problems. One Context Graph. Three tenants, three views.

Broadcaster · US
91% Unused ads on distributed FAST inventory — made visible

On Pluto, the partner controls the ad-serving decisions — and we don’t see them. 91% of what’s happening on our inventory sits outside our visibility.

— Director, Ad Operations, Broadcaster · US

Publisher · US
NY POST
2M+ · daily impressions protected

Watching That has given us full control of our video advertising. Their diagnostics and troubleshooting tools have helped us find, fix and solve revenue impacting issues much more quickly and easily than before.

— Amanda Gomez, VP Revenue Operations, New York Post

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Broadcaster · US
15 min From partner-system gap to partner fix — at the operator’s pace, not the support queue’s.

We told Samsung they’d stopped sending device IDs on their backfill tags. Fifteen minutes later they’d pushed the fix. Without the visibility layer, that’s a conversation we couldn’t have had — we’d just be the publisher saying we’re down 15%.

— VP Revenue Operations, Broadcaster · US

What it's worth

What visibility is worth.

The three meters visibility moves.

Yield protected

The unused inventory you weren’t billing for.

Unused impressions on distributed FAST inventory, partner SSP wastage, off-domain channels reporting back zero — these aren’t anomalies, they’re invisibilities. The visibility layer puts a number on them. Multi-station broadcaster: 91% surfaced.

Margin protected

Tuesday’s deck — already done by Monday.

Manual cross-system reconciliation runs 4-12 hours per week per analyst. Four analysts at $80K each is $30K-$90K of recurring reconciliation cost annually — before you count the variance that doesn’t get caught until the month-end review. The visibility layer collapses cross-system reconciliation into one pre-built view.

Revenue protected

The partner conversation you can finally have.

When the partner controls the ad calls, the ad server, and the reporting, your accountability comes without a matching seat at the dashboard. The visibility layer surfaces partner performance at your register — and once it’s at your register, it’s a conversation you can have. Not a complaint you can file.

Three meters. One Context Graph. The math gets attention from finance every time.

Start here

Start where
the three did.

Three tenants. One Context Graph. Same visibility problem, joined once.

Director, Ad Operations · Broadcaster · US
91% of partner-distributed FAST inventory ran where we couldn’t see it. Now it sits in the same view as the rest of our stack.
Amanda Gomez · VP Revenue Operations · New York Post
2M+ daily impressions protected.
VP Revenue Operations · Broadcaster · US
15 minutes from partner-system gap to partner-pushed fix — at our pace, not their support queue’s.

Every system. Every metric. One surface.