Pulse

Sixty minutes on the question that is blocking your decision.

Pulse is a productised lineup of single-issue diagnostics. One specific question. One scorecard. One short action brief. Delivered live.

Duration 60 minutes Live, structured, working session.
Output 1 scorecard Plus a short written action brief.
Delivered by One practitioner Arjen Segers. No subcontractors.
01 What it is

A diagnostic, not a sales call.

Most enterprise marketing organisations have at least one decision sitting on the desk that nobody wants to make first. A migration with surfaced dependencies. An AI pilot that works in the lab and stalls in production. A breach that exposed something that should not have been stored. A renewal whose business case nobody is willing to underwrite. Pulse exists for that decision. Sixty minutes on a single question, delivered live, against a defined assessment structure.

Each Pulse maps to one specific area of the Value Gravity framework, almost always somewhere in the Foundation Layer. The output is a visual scorecard that locates the issue inside the architecture, plus a short written brief with the recommended next move. It is independent, it is evidence-based, and it ends sixty minutes after it begins.

It is not a sales call. There is no implementation pitch waiting in the background, no preferred vendor, no follow-on engagement hidden in the recommendations. The point is to get one question off your desk faster than the alternative.

02 How every Pulse works

A consistent structure, adapted to your specific situation.

Every Pulse follows the same four-step shape. The structure is what makes a sixty-minute window productive. The adaptation is what makes it about your stack, not a template.

Step 01

Intake.

A short asynchronous brief is exchanged before the session, scoped to the diagnostic. It establishes the specific question, the current evidence, and the stakeholder context. Roughly fifteen minutes of your time.

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Step 02

Live session.

A structured sixty-minute working session against a defined assessment guide. Run live, video on, with the people who need to be in the room. The framework runs in the background; you stay focused on the question.

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Step 03

Scorecard.

A one-page visual scorecard locates the issue inside the Value Gravity framework and shows where the foundation is supporting the decision and where it is not. Delivered within two working days.

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Step 04

Action brief.

A short written brief, one to two pages, with the recommended next move. What to address now, what to defer, and whether the question is contained or whether the foundation gaps are wider than this single Pulse can resolve.

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03 The flagship diagnostics

Four Pulses for the questions that show up most often.

Each of these enters through the problem you are already experiencing and reveals where the root cause actually sits. The findings are useful on their own, and they make it visible whether the foundation gap is contained or whether it runs wider.

04 More foundation questions

The same structure, applied to questions that surface again and again.

Six additional Pulses run on the same format: sixty minutes, €1,000, scorecard and action brief. They address foundation issues that show up consistently across enterprise marketing organisations.

Data Quality.

The actual state of your marketing data: completeness, consistency, decay rates, and whether the governance structures around it cause quality to improve or degrade over time.

Attribution Health Check.

Whether your attribution model reflects commercial reality. Data inputs, model assumptions, stakeholder trust, and the gap between dashboard and boardroom belief.

Marketing-Sales Alignment.

The handoff between marketing and sales: lead routing, SLA integrity, data quality at the handoff point, and whether alignment is structural or aspirational.

Identity Resolution.

How well your organisation resolves customer identity across channels and platforms. Matching logic, data inputs, profile completeness, and the gap between the CDP promise and operational reality.

Stack Rationalisation & Renewal Readiness.

The overlap, redundancy, and utilisation gaps in your marketing technology stack. Which tools earn their place, which duplicate, and where renewal leverage exists.

Routing & Handoff Integrity.

Lead and opportunity routing logic across CRM and marketing platforms. Where handoffs break, where data degrades in transit, and where routing assumptions no longer match commercial reality.

05 When Pulse turns into a Scan

One question is sometimes the visible edge of several.

A single Pulse is enough when the question is contained. Sometimes it is not. When the action brief shows that the foundation gap runs across data quality, identity, governance, security, and integration at the same time, the right next step is a full diagnostic rather than another Pulse. The Pulse findings feed directly into the Gravity Scan structure when that happens.

Gravity Scan.

A three-week, 28-area diagnostic that reads the entire enterprise marketing foundation against the Value Gravity framework. €7,500 fixed. Same independence rules.

Read about Gravity Scan →
v Book a Pulse

One hour, one question, one scorecard you can act on.

Pulse is the entry rung of the offering ladder. It is the right starting point when there is one specific question on the table and an independent read would unblock the next move. If the foundation gap turns out to be wider than a single hour can resolve, the action brief will say so.

Value Gravity is the framework. IDADAY International Services is the advisory practice that uses it.