SODII  ×  INTENTIONALPrepared for Cale & Jason
A way of working·July 2026
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audiences most companies couldn't hold together, and a brand people genuinely love.

We're not here to change who Sodii is. The job is getting every dollar and every piece of creative pulling the same direction, and judging that honestly, channel by channel, the feed on its own numbers, events and partnerships on theirs, without either side claiming the other's credit.

Every particle behind this page is one ad Sodii has run. The 166 glowing ones are live right now, we read every single one before proposing anything.

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01What we heard

Your words, played back

Before anything else, here's what we understood from our conversations. If any of this is wrong, the rest of the page doesn't matter yet.

Your positioning is rock solid: deliberately between sports performance and everyday wellness, serving four very different audiences at once. That tension is the identity, not something to fix. A refresh is underway with your brand agency, that's their lane.

The brand

Every shoot and every campaign has tended to deliver for that shoot or that campaign, not build toward something bigger over time. Nobody in your stack currently owns that connection.

The gap you described

Your last agency did decent work, but claimed credit for conversions your events and partnerships actually created. You're spending real money on demand your ad account then took the credit for. That can't happen again.

The wound

Wholesale is now roughly half the business, and invisible to your ad data. Meanwhile the new-product launch, athlete partnerships and three international markets all land inside the next six months.

The blind spot, and the moment
You told us no one has been able to really grasp what you want. This page is written to be judged on exactly that.
02What the feed says

The gap you described is visible in your own ad account

We read all 166 live ads in your Meta library before writing a word of this page. It's a well-run account, clean production, honest claims. But sort those ads by which audience they speak to and the problem shows up: everyday-wellness is running hard, but the 2026 story, the one your whole roadmap swings on, hasn't reached the feed yet.

Your 166 live ads, by the message they carry
Meta Ad Library, read 28 July 2026. Ads can carry more than one message. Hover a bar for the detail.
Two of your four audiences share 12 of your 166 live ads. The new-product launch, still two months out, appears in none of them.
↻ The formulation, in 47 of 166 live ads
“1000mg sodium, 210mg potassium & 70mg magnesium…”
The account's dominant note is the spec, restated. True and credible, but it looks almost the same in every audience's feed. It convinces people who are already convinced, it doesn't really reach anyone new.
◆ Your longest-running ad · live 257 days
“Sodii athlete Kalyn Ponga knows that success starts with fueling the body right.”
The oldest creative in the account is the performance story, and it's outlasted everything made since. The angle clearly works, it just hasn't had anything new since November.

And while your feed stays quiet on the 2026 story, other people are writing it for you. Challenger brands now name Sodii in their own comparison content as the brand to beat, and this year's dietitian-authored buying guides file you under heavy sweat only: “not ideal for casual daily sipping at your desk.” That's the opposite of the everyday-wellness swing your year is actually building toward.

None of this is a criticism of the people making the ads or buying the media, they're doing their jobs. It's what happens when the seat between them, the one that connects the brand's direction to what actually gets made, is empty. Q1 was meant to swing toward sports performance. It never made it into the feed.
03Where Intentional plays

The seat nobody owns

Every agency you've worked with sat in a chair that was already taken. This is the one that's empty, and the previous section is what its work looks like.

Your brand agency + you two
Who Sodii is

Positioning, identity, personas, the refresh. Yours and theirs. We don't enter this room, and we put that in writing.

● Taken
Intentional
Whether it performs, and what to make next

The translation layer between your brand and your ad account: creative territories everything ladders up to, an honest monthly read of what's actually working, and clear direction for the next cycle of creative.

● Open, until now
Your marketing team, designers, ads seat
Making & buying

Creative production, creators, media buying, day-to-day optimisation. Your team's, including the in-house hire you're planning. We arm this team. We don't compete with it.

● Taken
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Your positioning. It isn't broken. We'd be sceptical of anyone telling you it needs rebuilding.

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Your personas. You know your four audiences better than any agency ever will. We build on them; we never redefine them.

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Your brand agency's work. Their strategy is a locked input to ours, not a rival draft. Our work is proof theirs shows up in the real world.

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Your team's wheel. No takeover of the ad account. Read access and an agreed lane for new creative; the driving stays with whoever you put in the seat.

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Competitor slides. You've sat through three agencies opening a first meeting with "here's your competitors," then pitching the category trend back as strategy. We won't do it. Milligram tables and us-vs-them ads aren't a strategic gap for Sodii, you decided against that path from day one, deliberately, and we're not here to relitigate it.

Session one, deliverable one: the constraint contract. One signed page: what's locked (your positioning, personas, tone, the between-two-worlds tension), what's ours to play in, and the words you'll never hear from us. Your brand on paper, restated in your words, agreed before a single territory is generated.
04The Buttr question

Why this won't feel like your last agency

Your last agency claimed credit because their model needed the credit. Ours produces no attribution claims at all. We work off your baseline, the numbers you already steer by: blended marketing efficiency, new-customer acquisition cost, contribution margin. We report movement against that baseline, with everything else you have in market laid over the same page. When a spike is your event and not the media, the report says so.

Attribution claims our model produces
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there is no mechanism by which we can take credit for what your brand built
The baseline we report against
Yours
blended ME, new-customer CAC, contribution margin: the numbers you already run on
Wholesale share of the business, invisible to ad platforms
~0%
we put it back in the picture your dashboards draw
Dashboards we'll sell you that pretend otherwise
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we'd rather tell you what's unknowable
If launch week spikes your numbers, we'll tell you honestly what was us and what wasn't.

And one thing we'll say plainly that no one else pitching you will: for a brand selling through a thousand independent stockists, piping store sales into Meta is structurally impossible. The platforms' offline tools were built for retailers who own their checkout. Anyone promising you that pipe is overpromising. What can be done honestly: make your blended numbers whole, watch reorder velocity by region, and, when the data's ready, run proper geographic tests.

05How it works

A short project. Then a rhythm

Part one · mid-Aug → mid-Sept
The install
≈ 4 hours of your time · timed to launch week

Together we land your Creative Territories: six to eight platforms every campaign can jump off from, built on your positioning and your four audiences exactly as they are.

  • The constraint contract, signed first.
  • The evidence base: real customer language mined per audience, from your reviews, your communities, your competitors' worlds. Nothing invented; everything cited.
  • Two working sessions with you both, including a live workshop where you sort and score the territories yourselves.
  • The new-product territory developed deep, briefed to your marketing team and ads seat immediately, so it's in the feed for the 23–30 September launch window.
Part two · monthly · six-month minimum
The rhythm
September → February

The seat, occupied. The kind of senior brand-and-performance function you'd otherwise hire at $130k+ and struggle to fill with someone who holds both halves. Every month:

  • We read everything: Triple Whale, the ad account, the creative itself, and what else you've got in market.
  • You get one report that states it as it is: no self-congratulation, no flattery. The full spec is the next section.
  • Your marketing team gets production-ready creative direction: hypothesis, references, drafted copy and scripts, per territory, per audience. Decisions, not homework.
  • Your remaining territories develop as they enter rotation (House of Salt next), and we hold a monthly call with you both.
1 · READ

Everything, in context

Money, media and creative, laid against your full activity calendar so nothing is read in a vacuum.

Owner · Intentional
2 · INTERPRET

The honest report

What's pulling, what's fatigued, what the brand work and the conversion work are each doing.

Owner · Intentional
3 · DIRECT

Next cycle, briefed

Production-ready direction into your team: what to make more of, what to retire, where the budget goes.

Owner · Intentional → your team
4 · PRODUCE

Make & buy

Your designers, your creators, your ads seat. Next month's data comes from creative that started with evidence.

Owner · Your team
↻   every cycle of creative starts smarter than the last
06The report

Not just a dashboard. A judgement

Most reporting states facts: ROAS, clicks, spend. You've seen a decade of it. Section 02 of this page is a small taste of ours: the same reading, done monthly, on everything, with recommendations attached. Here's what it answers, every month:

Every month, the report answers
Your whole business, in the numbers that matter
Blended MER measured against total revenue, wholesale included, so the half of Sodii your dashboards ignore isn't invisible anymore. Plus new-customer CAC and contribution margin, the numbers that actually tell you something.
Everything in market, read together
Events, partnerships, product launches, retail pushes, laid over performance, so "what else was live when this moved?" gets answered before anyone has to ask.
Brand and conversion, each on its own terms
Brand-building work and conversion work read separately and honestly, with a clear view on where the next dollar should go between them.
Creative, read at territory level
Every ad tagged to territory, audience and funnel stage, so we know which platforms are pulling, which hooks are worn out, which audience isn't being served. That's what decides what gets made next month, not a hunch.
The category, watched
What LMNT, SALTT and the challenger tier are running in the feed, the comparison content that now names Sodii by default, and the "do you actually need this much sodium" counter-narrative building in 2026 dietitian media. Read alongside your own, every month.
The recommendation
Every report ends with the decisions we'd make and why, clear enough that you can act on it or push back on it.
Mid-August
Research begins
Constraint contract signed first, then the evidence base and the working sessions. Territories delivered for your feedback and tweaks by mid-September.
23–30 Sept
New product live
New category launch is live, with the sports-performance territory already in place to support it. Measurement framework already agreed, so we're not scrambling to explain the numbers after the fact.
Late September
The first report
Covers launch week itself: what the event built, what the ads did underneath it, stated plainly.
Oct → Dec
House of Salt, briefed from evidence
The everyday-wellness swing gets its own territory, developed deep, informed by a full quarter of reads on what each audience actually responds to.
Quarter mark
The planning layer
Once the baseline is clean, we bring the quarterly forecast: your objectives, prior-year seasonality, and required spend mapped forward. The model we've run for years, built to protect your margin, not to make us look good. And as you rebuild the in-house seat, down the track there's likely an option to automate much of the day-to-day execution under our direction. Something we're building now; worth knowing as you hire.
February
The honest review
Six months of as-is reporting, reviewed together. If it's working, you'll see exactly where. If it isn't, the report will have already told you.
07The arrangement

Simple, and in writing

The install · one-time
$9,500
fixed engagement fee · mid-Aug → mid-Sept

Everything in part one: constraint contract, evidence base, both sessions, the territory set locked, and the new-product territory developed and briefed ahead of launch week.

The rhythm · monthly · six-month minimum
$12,500 /month
September → February

The seat, occupied: the monthly report and its recommendations, the fortnightly creative pulse on live ads, production-ready briefs into your marketing team, media and production budget direction, install-grade development of each remaining territory, and the monthly call with you both.

  • Why six months, honestly: territories prove out across cycles, and your first read-through needs the launch spike and the settle. But there's a second reason too: judge an agency month to month and you incentivise it to claim credit every single month, that's the model you left. Six months lets our reporting stay neutral, we can say "that wasn't us" in month two without worrying about month three.
  • Covers AU/NZ. As Canada, Singapore and the UAE come online we'll scope each market's read deliberately: new markets deserve their own strategy, not a stretched one.
And if it isn't working? The reporting we hand you every month will be the thing that says so, in plain terms, with our name on it.
08Next steps

Three steps from here

01
Say the word, when the timing's right

You flagged the team's genuinely stretched right now, new hires starting, someone away. No rush on our end: whenever the shape works for you both, we'll paper the install and the rhythm.

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Session one, with you both

Two hours, mid-August if the timing lands: the constraint contract and the discovery that feeds the territories. Built around your calendar, not ours.

03
Coffee in Adelaide, Friday

Already in the diary: Chris is in town Thursday and Friday, we've said Friday works best. Just a text when he lands and we'll find the time, no agenda beyond saying hello to Jason.

The seat starts working the day you say yes.

This page opened with your own ad account read more closely than anyone's read it for you before. That's basically what the first week of the rhythm looks like in practice, not just described.

Start the engagement
Or just reply to Chris, whenever the team's ready. No clock running on this from our side.

You told us no one has been able to really grasp what you want. We've written this page to be judged on exactly that.

Chris Fraser
Intentional · experts@intention.al