THE CAMPAIGN OS FIELD GUIDE

Build your first campaign strategy, step by step.

Campaign OS carries each saved decision into the next stage. Keep the app open in another tab and follow this guide in order.

Campaign OS is a paid platform. Founding beta pricing is currently available for early customers.

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Set yourself up for a useful result.

HOW CAMPAIGN OS USES AI

Connected to specialist AI providers.

Campaign OS connects to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Perplexity. Auto mode uses Perplexity for research and Claude for most strategy and content stages. You can use Change inside the app to select another available provider for a run.

STAGE 00

Business & Offer

Set the business, service and audience context that every later analysis will use.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Choose the correct business and service.
  2. Complete the required fields. Add a website only if it accurately represents the offer.
  3. Run Research This Business, then read and correct the editable summary.
  4. Select Save & Continue to Buyer Research.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Active Business

Switches between businesses. Check this before entering or generating anything.

02

Active Service / Offer

Keeps every analysis and content asset attached to the correct offer. Use New Service when the offer is genuinely different.

03

Research This Business

Uses the website and information you supplied to create an editable research summary.

04

Save & Continue

Saves the approved business context and unlocks Buyer Research.

THE SCREENComplete the Business & Offer setup
Business & Offer: Complete the Business & Offer setup
THE RESULTReview the researched business summary and continue
Business & Offer: Review the researched business summary and continue

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The summary accurately describes one business, one offer and one audience. Remove assumptions the business cannot support.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Buyer Research unlocks after the business context is saved.

Next stage

STAGE 01

Buyer Research

Collect the real language, anxieties, objections and desired outcomes behind the purchase.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Choose one relevant source and enter a focused search phrase.
  2. Run Mine Buyer Sentiment. Perplexity will research the selected source and return a report.
  3. Read and clean the mined output. Remove irrelevant material, duplication and unsupported conclusions.
  4. Select Add to Voice of Customer to place the cleaned mined output inside the Voice of Customer prompt box.
  5. Check the Voice of Customer prompt, then run Analyse VoC with AI.
  6. Review the completed themes and exact buyer phrases before continuing.

* The same steps apply to every other source you choose to mine. Clean each new research result and add it to the Voice of Customer prompt box before running the VoC analysis. Evidence first: a large amount of weak research won’t improve the strategy.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Perplexity Research

Campaign OS uses Perplexity for this live web-research step because it is designed to find and summarise current public sources. The later strategic analysis may use a different AI provider.

02

Mine from

Chooses one research source, such as Reddit/forums, reviews or comments.

03

Keywords

Tells the research tool what buyer problem and market language to investigate.

04

Mine Buyer Sentiment

Perplexity collects the source material and returns a research report.

05

Clean the research result

Remove irrelevant passages, duplicates, weak claims and anything that does not sound like genuine buyer evidence.

06

Add to Voice of Customer

Moves the cleaned research into the Voice of Customer box used by the strategic analysis.

07

Analyse VoC with AI

Turns the cleaned Voice of Customer material into themes, exact phrases, objections and buying motivations.

THE SCREENSet up Buyer Research
Buyer Research: Set up Buyer Research
THE RESULTReview and clean the research result
Buyer Research: Review and clean the research result
THE RESULTAnalyse the Voice of Customer material
Buyer Research: Analyse the Voice of Customer material

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The Voice of Customer prompt contains real buyer language, recurring anxieties, objections and desired outcomes. It should not be a generic market summary.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Select Continue to Core Buyer Desire only after the cleaned research has been added to the Voice of Customer box and the Voice of Customer analysis is complete.

Next stage

STAGE 02

Core Buyer Desire

Identify the strongest emotional outcome your buyer is ultimately trying to achieve.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Review the visible context.
  2. Run Analyse Buyer Desire once.
  3. Read the completed options and their evidence.
  4. Select the desire that is urgent, persistent and relevant to the whole market.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Editable AI context

Shows the saved information that will be used in the next analysis. Edit only when something important is wrong or missing.

02

Full summary

Changes how much saved context is displayed. It doesn’t run AI.

03

Change

Switches the AI provider for this run. Auto is normally the safest choice.

04

Analyse Buyer Desire

Finds and scores the deeper outcomes driving the purchase.

THE SCREENRun the Core Buyer Desire analysis
Core Buyer Desire: Run the Core Buyer Desire analysis
THE RESULTReview the identified buyer desires
Core Buyer Desire: Review the identified buyer desires
THE RESULTReview the top recommended desire
Core Buyer Desire: Review the top recommended desire

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

One clear emotional outcome explains what the buyer is ultimately trying to feel or become. It is deeper than a product feature or immediate benefit.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Save the selected desire, then continue to Why Your Offer Wins.

Next stage

STAGE 03

Why Your Offer Wins

Connect the selected buyer desire to the strongest credible reason to choose your offer.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Confirm that the offer facts and proof are accurate.
  2. Run the analysis.
  3. Reject generic claims that any competitor could make.
  4. Select the strongest supportable recommendation and continue.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Editable AI context

Carries forward buyer research and the selected Core Buyer Desire.

02

Analyse Why Your Offer Wins

Builds the strategic argument between buyer desire, offer benefit, mechanism and proof.

03

Select

Marks the recommendation you want later stages to use.

04

Continue

Saves the selection and opens Buyer Awareness.

THE SCREENRun Why Your Offer Wins
Why Your Offer Wins: Run Why Your Offer Wins
THE RESULTReview the dominant benefit recommendation
Why Your Offer Wins: Review the dominant benefit recommendation

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The selected argument connects the core desire to a specific, credible advantage that the offer can actually prove.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Buyer Awareness uses the winning argument you selected here.

Next stage

STAGE 04

Buyer Awareness

Match the message to what the audience already knows about the problem, solutions and your product.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Run Map Awareness and wait for all five levels.
  2. Decide how warm or informed the audience for this campaign actually is.
  3. Read the matching hooks and choose one route.
  4. Save the route and continue.

Don’t choose the cleverest hook. Choose the hook that meets this audience where it is now.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Map Awareness

Creates message routes for Unaware, Problem Aware, Solution Aware, Product Aware and Most Aware buyers.

02

Awareness routes

Shows the questions, hooks and message direction appropriate to each starting point.

03

Select Route

Chooses the audience route that Marketing Content will use.

04

Continue

Saves the route and opens Market Competition.

THE SCREENRun the Buyer Awareness map
Buyer Awareness: Run the Buyer Awareness map
THE RESULTReview Most Aware and the funnel recommendation
Buyer Awareness: Review Most Aware and the funnel recommendation

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The selected route reflects what this audience already knows now. Its hooks neither over-explain to warm buyers nor sell too quickly to cold buyers.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Market Competition uses the selected awareness route and prior strategy.

Next stage

STAGE 05

Market Competition

Find a message that can stand apart from the promises buyers already see everywhere.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Add or research the claims your buyer already sees.
  2. Remove claims that aren’t direct or credible competitors.
  3. Run Assess Sophistication.
  4. Select the recommendation your offer can genuinely support and continue.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Competitor claims

Holds real examples of what alternatives are promising. You can enter these manually.

02

Research Competitors with AI

Optionally researches public competitor material and prefills the claims box.

03

Assess Sophistication

Identifies how crowded the market is and recommends the message approach needed to cut through.

04

Select recommendation

Saves the market approach that Marketing Content will follow.

THE SCREENResearch the competitive market
Market Competition: Research the competitive market
THE RESULTReview the strategic brief
Market Competition: Review the strategic brief

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The recommendation moves beyond familiar market claims and gives the campaign a distinctive direction the offer can defend.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Marketing Content unlocks after the market recommendation is saved.

Next stage

STAGE 06

Marketing Content

Turn the connected strategy into one focused asset for a specific channel and format.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Choose one hook, one channel and one format.
  2. Name the asset and add only useful final instructions.
  3. Select Create Content once and wait for completion.
  4. Review, edit and save the finished asset.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Buyer Awareness Angle

Chooses one hook from the awareness route you saved.

02

Channel

Sets where the content will be used, such as Meta, email, Instagram or LinkedIn.

03

Format

Sets the actual deliverable, such as short ads, caption, newsletter or article.

04

Save This Content As

Gives the generated asset a clear name so you can find it later.

05

Extra instructions

Adds genuine constraints such as tone, exclusions, proof or CTA. Don’t repeat the strategy here.

06

Create Content

Generates the asset from the selected route and all saved strategy.

THE SCREENSet up the Marketing Content brief
Marketing Content: Set up the Marketing Content brief
THE RESULTReview and edit the generated copy
Marketing Content: Review and edit the generated copy

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The content uses the chosen awareness hook and strategic angle, fits the selected channel and sounds connected to the saved buyer evidence.

READY TO CONTINUE?

Use the finished copy as your brief, or continue to Creative Review when you have a visual to assess.

Next stage

STAGE 07

Creative Review

Check whether a finished image or ad matches the strategy before you publish or test it.

WHAT TO DO

  1. Upload the finished creative and confirm the correct file is visible.
  2. Run Analyse Creatives once.
  3. Review the visible-text transcription and scores.
  4. Make the recommended strategic changes, then decide what is ready to publish or test.

Campaign OS gives strategic feedback. It doesn’t guarantee advertising performance.

CONTROLS YOU’LL USE

01

Upload creative

Adds the image you want to review. Use a final or near-final asset, not confidential source files.

02

Visible text

Lets the system read and evaluate the wording shown on the creative.

03

Analyse Creatives

Scores strategic fit, awareness fit, hook, emotional pull and improvement opportunities.

04

Creative Analysis Report

Explains what is working, what is weak and the most important next change.

THE SCREENUpload the finished creative
Creative Review: Upload the finished creative
THE RESULTReview the AI Creative Analysis report
Creative Review: Review the AI Creative Analysis report

WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE

The creative and its visible text express the intended hook clearly, suit the selected awareness level and support the campaign strategy at a glance.

READY TO CONTINUE?

The workflow is complete when you’ve reviewed the strategy, edited the asset and made the final human decision.

IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG

Check the saved decision before running AI again.

The result feels generic
Return to Buyer Research and add sharper evidence to the Voice of Customer prompt. Repeating the same request won’t repair weak context.
The next stage is locked
Return to the current stage, select or save its required result, then use the Continue button.
AI misunderstood the business
Correct the editable context or the earlier saved result. Don’t accept confident wording that is factually wrong.
An analysis is still running
Wait. Don’t refresh, leave the screen or create a duplicate request.

YOU’RE READY

Build one connected strategy.
Use it across every format.

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