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Wildmoor Wildlife Park

An illustrative Crane Intelligence suite for a fictional family wildlife park and conservation charity. Every figure is invented; a real suite is built around your own admissions, memberships and supporters. Browse the instruments below.

Performance · month to date

The whole picture, on one screen.

Paid media leads because that is where most visits begin. The same screen extends to the online shop (admissions, memberships and donations), your email audience and GA4 as each is wired in, every channel held to one definition of a good day out booked.

Admissions value · MTD
£11,800
▲ 14.2% vs last year
Investment · MTD
£1,690
▲ 6.0% vs last year
Return on ad spend
698%
▲ 7.7% vs last year
Visits booked
390
▲ 9.4% vs last year
Shop & memberships
🔒 Wired on request
Tie spend to real bookings

Admissions value, this year vs last

This yearLast year

Budget pacing · Crane Engine

Spent so far£1,690
Day 21 of 3170% of budget
Projection£2,370
Budget£2,400
On a smooth glide to land just under budget, the next pound placed where it earns most, recomputed each morning.
PlatformInvestmentClicksCPCVisits bookedCost / visitROAS
Google Ads£1,090640£1.70256£4.26735%
Meta£460318£1.4598£4.69612%
Microsoft£14064£2.1936£3.89690%
All paid£1,6901,022£1.65390£4.33698%

Illustrative figures for a fictional park. In a real suite these read live from your Google, Meta and Microsoft accounts, with admissions and memberships matched back from your online shop.

Crane Engine

The budget has a right answer.

Pacing is not an art. It is the deterministic maths of releasing a budget over time and across campaigns, recomputed every morning so the month lands on target, every pound goes where it earns the most, and the bidding leans into the days families actually choose to visit.

This weekend’s outlook · the Engine’s lean

A bright, dry Saturday is forecast, the kind of weekend when day-out demand climbs. The Engine is leaning harder into Google and Meta from Thursday, so you are front of mind while families are deciding, and it eases back automatically if the forecast turns. It learns this from how your own visits respond to the weather, not a rule of thumb.
Thu
18°
Hold
Fri
21°
+ Lean in
Sat
24°
+ Push
Sun
23°
+ Push
Mon
17°
Ease

This month’s glide

Spent so far£1,690
70% of budgetProjected 99%
Projected month£2,370
Monthly budget£2,400
Comfortably within budget, the headroom put to work where it earns the most. No feast-then-famine, no late scramble.

Where the next pound earns most

Brand search£8.90
Family days out · search£6.40
Prospecting · Meta£5.10
Microsoft search£4.30
Marginal value delivered by the next pound in each place, so budget flows to the strongest and eases off the tired.
Crane Engine · next month

A better split, same total.

Before we spend a pound, the Engine proposes next month’s allocation, holding the total identical and moving budget toward where the evidence says it will earn more.

Current split
Google Ads£1,500
Meta£650
Microsoft£250
Total£2,400
Proposed split
Google Ads£1,650 +£150
Meta£550 −£100
Microsoft£200 −£50
Total£2,400
Projected outcome at the same spend: ROAS 698% → ~735%, roughly £640 more admissions value for the month. Moves are damped, so nothing lurches, and each is proposed before it is applied.
Crane Engine · under the bonnet

What the Engine weighs.

Every morning, before it moves a single pound, the Engine reads all of this and rebalances, then holds the line.

Pace to targetWhere today’s spend sits against budget, and the glide needed to land the month exactly on plan.
Marginal returnWhich campaigns and platforms turn the next pound into the most value right now.
Real bookingsLive conversions and, where your online shop is wired, the actual admissions, memberships and donations each channel produces.
Weather & conditionsTomorrow’s forecast set against how your own visits respond to it, so a sunny weekend is met with more presence and a washout with restraint.
Seasonal demandThe shape of demand ahead, learned from a full year of school holidays, events and half-terms, so spend leans into the days that convert.
Competitor pressureHow hard other attractions are bidding into the same searches, so a hot auction is met with judgement not reflex.
Forward commitmentsThe budget confirmed for this month and the months ahead, so pacing never borrows from a set plan.
Data freshnessHow long bookings take to report, so a quiet morning is never mistaken for a poor one.
Crane Index

How machines read you.

AI search decides who to cite when someone asks it for a family day out. The Crane Index scores that readability for your site and each comparable attraction, on the same deterministic rubric, so you can see exactly where you stand.

Your Crane Index
81/100
Mean of the three reads
Standing
1 of 4
On the retrieval read
Your lead
+9 pts
Ahead of the closest comparable

The three reads · retrieval · agent execution · brand representation

84 /100
Retrieval
Can AI read and cite you
74 /100
Agent execution
Can an AI agent book a visit
85 /100
Brand representation
Does AI know who you are

The reading order · you vs comparable attractions, on the retrieval read

You84
A nearby wildlife park75
A county farm park62
A regional day-out attraction49
The same twenty-seven deterministic checks run against every site. A higher score means machines can read that attraction more easily than the others, and the most readable attraction is the one most likely to be in the answer when a family asks where to go.
Competitive Landscape

Who you meet in the auction.

Where you stand against the attractions bidding on the same searches, read from auction insights, so a hot auction is met with judgement rather than a reflex bidding war.

Impression share · the family days-out auction

You38%
Attraction A29%
Attraction B20%
Attraction C13%
RivalImpression shareOverlap ratePosition aboveTop of page
Attraction A29%44%28%61%
Attraction B20%37%21%55%
Attraction C13%26%15%47%
You38%79%
Read weekly, like-for-like, so a surge in a rival’s share is a signal to answer with judgement, not a reason to chase every impression at any price.
Every figure on this page is illustrative and belongs to a fictional attraction. A real Crane Intelligence suite is bespoke, live and built around your own admissions, memberships and supporters. Speak with Nic → · About Crane Intelligence →