
Free Online Marketing Capability Audit
Uncover Blind Spots. Benchmark Performance. Lead with Confidence.
Take our strategic 5-minute audit to assess your marketing performance across six core capabilities. Instantly receive your results, plus a personalised PDF highlighting strengths, gaps, and priority actions. No fluff. No cost. Just clarity.

Your Marketing Challenge
Marketing activity is not the same as marketing performance. When strategy and execution blur, results plateau. Budgets stretch, teams work harder, but growth stalls. In most cases, underperformance isn’t caused by lack of effort — it’s caused by lack of insight.
Ask yourself:
- Is our brand meaningfully differentiated in the eyes of our ideal customers?
- Are we generating real demand — or just traffic and noise?
- Are our systems, suppliers, and spend decisions aligned to commercial goals?
Most teams guess. This audit gives you the data to decide.

The Cost of Flying Blind
If your marketing is busy but unfocused, the risks compound over time:
❌ Untested suppliers remain on retainer while ROI erodes
❌ Sales misalignment weakens conversion rates
❌ Pricing power leaks due to weak brand positioning
❌ Leadership decisions rely on outdated or incomplete information
You cannot fix what you have not assessed. Our Marketing Capability Audit is your fast, frictionless way to understand what’s working — and what’s holding you back.

What You'll Get From Our Online Audit
✅ Instant overall score and results across six strategic capabilities
✅ Personalised PDF report sent directly to your inbox
✅ Clarity on priority actions to focus time and budget effectively
✅ Complimentary workshop with our experts for an objective review of your results*
* This is optional and carries no-obligation to engage with our services.

What We Assess — The BANKSE Framework
The audit is built on our proprietary BANKSE model, covering six pillars of strategic marketing capability:
- Build – Brand and strategy foundations that create and protect competitive advantage
- Attract – Content and campaigns that draw the right audience, at the right time
- Nurture – Value propositions that convert interest into sustainable revenue
- Keep – Retention strategies that deepen loyalty, increase spend, and drive advocacy
- Systems – Fit-for-purpose tech stack, measurement, and supplier accountability
- Excellence – Marketing that is strategic, compliant, customer-centric, and well led
Who This Is For
The audit is designed for decision-makers who need a fast, strategic snapshot of marketing capability:
✅ Founders, CEOs & Managing Partners — External view to challenge internal assumptions
✅ CMOs / Marketing Heads — Health-check to focus leadership effort when entering a new role
✅ Investors / NEDs — Rapid insight for pre-deal or post-deal evaluation

Why Take This Audit?
🕐 Fast — Average completion time is 5 minutes
📊 Strategic — No generic “web presence” scores
🌍 Universal — Works for B2B and B2C, across sectors
💡 Actionable — Direction you can use immediately
💬 Proven — Forms the foundation of our marketing audits and advisory work
This is not a vanity metric generator. It’s a strategic mirror — and it starts with 5-minutes of your time.
FAQ’s
Absolutely. The PDF report is formatted for easy sharing — many leaders use it to align internal teams, brief external partners, or frame board-level conversations about marketing maturity.
Most free audits are website graders or SEO reports. This is a strategic capability assessment grounded in our proprietary framework (BANKSE™), developed by chartered marketing leaders. It focuses on marketing maturity, strategic alignment, and growth levers — not vanity metrics.
The online assessment takes on average 5 minutes to complete. It’s fully self-guided and optimised for desktop, tablet or mobile. We recommend you sit in a quiet environment with no interruptions. There are 48 questions each with a Yes/No answer.
Yes. The Marketing Capability Audit is completely free to complete, with no hidden costs. Business leaders tell us the results provide an accurate reflection of their current marketing context. You’ll also receive a complimentary consultation to review the findings — and you’re welcome to bring other members of your senior team. There’s no hard sell, but many of our long-term clients began their journey with this free audit.
You’ll receive:
- An instant overall score and individual scores across the six strategic dimensions
- A personalised PDF report with tailored recommendations
- A no-obligation strategic workshop to discuss your results with one of our Chartered Fractional CMOs
- Optional follow-up steps to explore advisory support or workshops
Click here to see an example of the report you'll receive.
If your audit highlights gaps that need more attention, we offer more detailed Marketing Audits, Advisory Workshops, and Fractional CMO support. Many clients use the free audit as a first step to those services.
The audit is designed for founders, CEOs, CMOs, marketing leads, and investors who want a strategic overview of marketing capability — not just a surface-level performance check. It’s suitable for B2B, B2C, and hybrid businesses across sectors.
No, unless you request the complimentary results review with one of our experts. Your results are private and confidential. If you’d like to discuss them, you can choose to book a no-pressure discovery call at the end of the audit. Links are provide in the report to book a no-pressure follow-up workshop to discuss your results and priority areas.
Ready to see how your marketing capability scores in five minutes? It just takes one more click.
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