Case Studies
QSR & Retail

Campaign ROI Intelligence for Multi-Location Operators

A large franchise operator replaced weekly manual campaign reporting with a live cross-source dashboard — from raw sources to executive brief in 21 days.

City-wide campaign, same-day visibility, zero engineering after setup.

At a Glance

ClientMulti-location QSR/retail franchise operator
IndustryQSR & Retail — Multi-Location Campaign Operations
ScaleCity-wide promotional campaign, multi-store network
Systems ConnectedGoogle Ads · Meta Ads · Payment gateway database · Sales data warehouse
Workflow DeployedCampaign ROI Intelligence
Deployment21 days, read-only, zero engineering after governance sign-off

Key Metrics

Campaign Visibility

7 days → same-day

Time from a store underperforming to someone actually seeing it.

Time to Live

21 days

Read-only connection to a live campaign dashboard.

Engineering Dependency

Zero

Engineering hours to keep the pipeline running week over week.

The Situation

A franchise operator running a city-wide promotional campaign had spend data in Google Ads and Meta Ads, payment gateway splits in their operational database, and store-level sales data in a data warehouse. The exec team wanted live visibility on coupon redemption by store, campaign ROAS by channel, and underperforming store identification — updated as the campaign ran. What they had was a weekly spreadsheet assembled manually by two analysts, usually ready by Tuesday for the previous week. By the time an underperforming store was identified, the campaign window was nearly closed.

By the time Tuesday's spreadsheet was ready, the campaign window it described was already closing.
Current State — Before Autonmis
Broken

Data sources

Ad Platform Exports

Google Ads & Meta spend data

Payment Gateway DB

Coupon redemption & transaction splits

Store Sales DWH

Location-level sales & revenue

No unified view — sources never sync

Failure events

7-day visibility lag
Manual Tuesday spreadsheet
Underperforming stores found after campaign ends

What Was Breaking

Why manual operations couldn't scale

01

Spend, redemption, and sales lived in three places.

Google Ads and Meta Ads held spend, the payment gateway held redemption and transaction splits, the warehouse held store-level sales — none of it built to be queried together.

02

The only view was a weekly spreadsheet.

Two analysts assembled it by hand, usually ready the following Tuesday — for the previous week's numbers.

03

Underperformance surfaced too late to act on.

A store trending 20% below the regional average was typically found after the campaign window that could have saved it had already closed.

04

Every ad-hoc question meant another manual pull.

The CRO asking why a specific store dropped last week meant a new spreadsheet, not an answer.

The approach

The Approach

1

Connect your sources

Read-only connection to ad platforms, payment gateway, and data warehouse — no engineering sprint.

2

Configure ROAS rules in plain language

Campaign definitions, underperformance thresholds, region mappings — set by ops, not engineers.

3

Autonmis runs the pipeline continuously

Ingestion → transformation → dashboard refresh runs as a governed DAG. Alerts fire when thresholds are crossed.

After

Ad Platform Exports

Google Ads & Meta spend data

Payment Gateway DB

Coupon redemption & transaction splits

Store Sales DWH

Location-level sales & revenue

Autonmis

Governed Intelligence Layer

Knowledge Base

rules · thresholds · logic

Live Campaign Dashboard
Store Performance Alerts
Executive Self-Serve Brief

Connected to all three sources. The Knowledge Base was configured with campaign definitions, ROAS calculation rules, store region mappings, and underperformance thresholds. Autonmis built a multi-step pipeline — source ingestion, transformation, mart build, dashboard refresh — governed under a DAG where each step only executed when its upstream dependencies completed successfully. The campaign dashboard updated continuously. When a store's redemption rate dropped 20% below the regional average, a Slack alert fired to the ops lead. The CRO could ask "why did Noida drop last Thursday?" and receive a structured, data-grounded answer without opening a notebook.

The Workflow

TriggerA store's coupon redemption rate drops 20% below the regional average while a campaign is live.
Data SourcesGoogle Ads · Meta Ads · Payment gateway database (redemption/splits) · Sales data warehouse (store-level)
Runs AsA governed pipeline (ingestion → transformation → mart build → dashboard refresh) runs on schedule, each step gated on its upstream dependency; the dashboard updates continuously as the campaign runs.
Human in the LoopOps lead reviews store-performance alerts and decides whether to reallocate budget or pause a store's campaign; the platform surfaces the signal, it doesn't move spend on its own.

Results

7 days → same-day

Campaign visibility lag

Dashboard updates continuously as campaign runs

Audited against the prior weekly-spreadsheet cadence, same campaign type, before and after connection.

End of week → within hours

Underperforming store detection

Fires when store drops 20% below regional average

Eliminated

Weekly analyst reporting hours

Two analysts freed from manual spreadsheet assembly

Audited against the two analysts' manual assembly time prior to connection.

Without raising a ticket

Executive self-serve questions answered

CRO queries answered with grounded SQL-executed data

21 days

Time from sources connected to live dashboard

From raw exports to production campaign intelligence

Governance Note

Every ROAS and underperformance number here runs against the campaign and region definitions the ops team set in the Knowledge Base — the CRO's ad-hoc questions get the same grounded answer a scheduled dashboard does, with the SQL visible on request.

Implementation

Time to live

3 weeks to live dashboard

Sources connected

3 (DWH, operational DB, ad platform exports)

Engineering dependency

Zero after governance sign-off

Ready to see it in your stack?

We can scope your use case to a live workflow in the first session.

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Composite deployment example. The business workflow reflects real implementation patterns. Company names, operational data, and reported outcomes have been synthesized for illustration.