Prepared for BeyondTrust
Confidential · Nov 4, 2026 · KlientBoost
Growth Plan ● Paid Search ● Core Security and AI Security

Today's pipeline from search, at your 2027 cost per opportunity.

Microsoft already runs at your $1,000. Google runs about 10% over your $1,600. The fix starts with what bidding learns from: your pipeline. Then Core Security and AI Security run as two programs, planned around your January switch.

~$1,766
per Google opportunity last quarter, against your $1,600 (rough)
~155
opportunities a month from paid search, last 14 months
Up to ~$59.5K
a quarter, on rough numbers: the Google gap to $1,600, or up to about 12 more opportunities a month on the same spend

Start Here

The short version: the problem, the fix, and what's at stake.

The problemYour non-brand search learns from form fills, not pipeline. Your pipeline stages reach Google Ads, but they sit outside your account-level goal.
The fixPoint bidding at the stages that turn into revenue, like SQL and Opportunity, then run Core Security and AI Security as two programs with their own budgets and scorecards.
What's at stakeUp to about $59.5K a quarter, on rough numbers: what closing the Google gap to your $1,600 is worth, or up to about 37 more opportunities a quarter on the same spend. And a clean handover when your current partner leaves on January 13.

Rough: last 90 days of Google Search spend over last quarter's opportunities, from the exports your team shared.

Three problems, three fixes.

The problemThe fixWhat's at stake
Your account-level goal can't see which clicks became opportunities.Pipeline stages into the goal, deal values passed, click IDs checked form by form.Your non-brand search spend.
Non-brand learns from form fills.Move non-brand onto your pipeline through tests.Google at about $1,766 an opportunity against your $1,600.
One account, two different buyers.Core Security and AI Security as two programs.Your AI Security launch, on its own budget line.

At your targets, ~$225K a month buys today's volume, on a little less spend.

~$2.7M2027 paid search, directional
~$225Ka month
About 150opportunities a month at $1,600 Google and $1,000 Microsoft
~155a month today, last 14 months

Split by your last 90 days of Google and Microsoft search spend, which ran about $245K a month. Arithmetic, not a forecast.

NextTracking

Tracking

Your pipeline reaches Google Ads. Your account-level goal doesn't include it.

9
pipeline stages, SQL to Closed Won, import as conversions
0
of them in your account-level goal. All read "Needs attention."
$0
of value on Opportunity and Closed Won

Your Google Ads conversions page, July 27 to October 27, 2026, from the screenshots your team shared.

Click IDs dropped after your site move.

Jan to Apr
98%
Jul to Aug
79%
September
89%

Google opportunities with a click ID, by month created. Microsoft fell too: 86% in July and August. Your team told us the June and July site move and form changes broke some tracking, so part of the summer dip may be lost attribution, not fewer opportunities.

What we build on.

Pipeline stages already importMost opportunities carry a click IDMicrosoft runs at your targetCampaigns named by theater, product and brand
NextWaste

Waste

Brand campaigns record your pipeline. Non-brand records form fills.

Brand
$3,074
Non-brand
$69

Value per recorded conversion, Google Search, July 2025 to September 2026: brand Target CPA campaigns against non-brand Maximize Conversions. Only your imported pipeline stages carry values that size.

Microsoft is at your target. Google is about 10% over.

Google

Last quarter
~$1,766
Your target
$1,600

Microsoft

Last quarter
~$990
Your target
$1,000

Cost per opportunity, rough: Search spend from July 27 to October 27 over opportunities created July to September, about four weeks apart. Targets: your team's directional 2027 numbers, November 2.

Brand campaigns also buy searches that don't name you.

13%
13% of brand-campaign spendwent to searches that don't name BeyondTrust or a product, last 90 days.
The fixRoute those searches to campaigns built for them, agreed with you campaign by campaign. N-Gram Refinement

Four more things your exports show.

Spread thinBudget is split across too many campaigns.
Not prioritizedSpend isn't weighted toward your best-performing campaigns.
Loose matchingKeywords pull in too many search terms, and many of those terms spend with no conversions.
Hidden detailKeyword-level results aren't visible in the reports. We confirm them once we're in the account.
NextStructure

Structure

Two programs, two scorecards.

Core Security · IT buyer

Protect the base, grow PAM

  • Keyword-rich, the searches you are known for
  • Brand, competitor and generic searches in their own campaigns
  • Scorecard: opportunities by product line and theater
AI Security · security buyer

Build it from what buyers ask

  • High mid-market accounts in regulated industries
  • Its own budget line and goals from day one
  • Scorecard: searches, clicks and form starts first, then opportunities
"setting those two work streams up differently and separately."Ryan Dunagan, October 21 call

Your AI campaign reaches people buying AI tools.

63%
About 6 in 10 dollarsin your AI campaign went to searches for AI tools themselves, with no conversions, mostly before the October 21 launch.
The fixPair those searches with securing the tools, and build keywords from the questions buyers ask your sales team.

How the account gets organized.

BrandHolds your name and products
CompetitorIts own budget and goal
Generic PAMBuilt out by intent
AI SecurityIts own program
  • The 4 Conversion Intent BucketsBrand's easy conversions stop hiding how generic performs.

Goals and reporting by theater stay, built on the theater and product names already in your campaigns.

NextThe Plan

The Plan

First, bidding moves onto your pipeline.

The Foundation Plan
Clear the flagsThe 9 stage imports out of "Needs attention" and into the goal.
Bid on SQL or OpportunityOne pipeline action per goal, so each lead counts once. Non-brand moves onto it through tests.
Pass deal valuesOpportunity and Closed Won stop reading $0.
  • Blood WorkClick IDs checked form by form after your site move.

Then the plays, program by program.

Core Security

Protect the base, grow PAM

  • The 4 Conversion Intent BucketsSearches that don't name you routed out of brand.
  • N-Gram RefinementYour full search-term history read for the words that don't pay off.
  • Gold Pan TechniqueSearches that bring opportunities at your cost get their own budget.
AI Security

Build it from what buyers ask

  • PPC Temperature CTA MatchingEach search gets the next step its intent fits.
  • Keywords and ads from the questions buyers ask your sales team.
  • AI tool searches paired with securing them.

How we change things safely

  • Brand bidding stays as it runs today through the handover.
  • Bidding changes reach part of your traffic first, with a rollback trigger agreed with you.
  • Your imports, your theater and product structure, and your converting pages stay.

Deliberately not in scope

  • Organic search, content and the site: those stay with your brand and web team.
  • Promises of rankings or AI citations.

One path, in three phases.

Phase 1 · Recommended start

Search: Google and Microsoft

  • Bidding on your pipeline, not form fills
  • Core Security and AI Security as two programs
  • Reporting by program and theater
Phase 2 · When you want it

Search plus YouTube

  • The YouTube program your current partner runs today, under one team
  • Measured against search and pipeline
Phase 3 · Once the signal is clean

Pages and CRO

  • Watching a demo takes a seven-field form today
  • Dedicated pages for Core Security and AI Security, built with your web team

Working back from January 13.

KlientBoostYour teamTiming set by your teamWhen you add itCheckpoint
 
Early Nov
Late Nov
Early Dec
Late Dec
Jan 1 to 13
Current partnerYour team
Runs your accounts through January 13
2027 planningYour team
Budget and goals by program settle
Your pickYour team
Pick a partner, then Coupa vendor setup and your security review
Read-only reviewTogether
Read-only access, every conversion action and goal inventoried
OverlapTogether
Overlap with your current partner, if you want it
Your datesCheckpoint
Dec 31
Jan 13

Bars before January 13 show order, not dates: your 2027 planning, Coupa and your security review set them. Connor schedules kickoff once the agreement is signed.

From kickoff, phase by phase.

 
Days 1 to 30
Days 31 to 60
Days 61 to 90
Each quarter after
MeasurementKlientBoost
One pipeline action per goal, click IDs checked
Deal values passed, one UTM structure
Pipeline by campaign and theater
Core SecurityKlientBoost
Searches that don't name you routed out of brand
PAM coverage built out, proven searches get their own budget
Microsoft mirrors the Google winners
AI SecurityKlientBoost
Its own budget line and goals
Keywords from buyer questions, tool searches paired with security
Budget follows what converts
Your teamYour team
Access, the import owner, buyer questions
Your read on tests at each reporting call
YouTubePhase 2
When you add it: carried over as it runs, then a lift study
Pages and CROPhase 3
When you add it: dedicated pages, then testing
CheckpointsTogether
Goal
Tests

Phases count from kickoff. Expect some relearning when the signal changes, which is why changes reach part of your traffic first.

Your Growth Grid: every next step, sized before it starts.

Growth opportunityWhat it could moveWhat it takesWhen
YouTube under one teamPhase 2Search demand and brand searches, read with The Lift LabYour current video ads and accessWhen you want it
Demo pages and a shorter formPhase 3Opportunities per click on Core Security and AI SecurityYour web team, or our CRO teamOnce the signal is clean
Microsoft mirrors the Google winnersPhase 1More Microsoft opportunities near your $1,000Searches proven on Google firstEach quarter
A brand holdoutWhen you want proofWhat brand search really adds, read with The Black Mirror TestBrand ads off in a share of regions for a few weeksOnce results are in

The Growth Grid lists each growth opportunity with what it could move, what it takes and when. Phases 2 and 3 live here until you want them.

Who runs it: a dedicated growth team, alongside your web team.

Growth ManagerRuns your search program and is your main contact.
Growth DirectorOversees your program and the team behind it.
Business IntelligenceYour tracking, the pipeline imports and the Salesforce connection.
Director of SEOWorks with your brand and web team on AI search, scoped with them.

Organic search and the site stay with your brand and web team. We share our search term and conversion data, so both channels learn from the same signal.

NextInvestment

Investment

Start with Phase 1: $21,860 a month, plus a one-time measurement build.

Recommended start
$21,860 a monthPhase 1: Google Ads and Microsoft Ads management for Core Security and AI Security, with reporting by program and theater.
One time, separateMeasurement build: your pipeline stages wired into bidding on Google and Microsoft. Scoped with your team before launch.
TermsThree-month initial term. Renewal terms are set in the agreement.
How Phase 1 adds up
LineA month
Google Ads management, on about $193K a month of search$19,300
Microsoft Ads management, on about $32K a month of search$3,200
Second platform, 20% off−$640
A month$21,860
Measurement build, one timeScoped first

Management fee per platform: the greater of $2,500 or 10% of managed spend, and a second platform bills 20% off. Sized to about $225K a month of search spend, your directional 2027 budget.

Then, when you want them.

Phase 2: Search plus YouTubeYouTube joins when you want it. We price it with you.
Phase 3: Pages and CROPriced when we scope it with your web team.

What could go wrong, said up front.

We read your exports, not your account.

Every figure about your account comes from reports your team shared. Access comes after Coupa, and we re-run the math on your live data before we change anything.

The cost per opportunity is rough.

Spend runs July 27 to October 27; opportunities were created July to September, about four weeks apart. Click ID capture fell from 98% to 79% after your site move, so some opportunities may not be tied to a search.

Bidding relearns when its signal changes.

Google matches imported stages to clicks from the last 90 days, so bidding learns from earlier stages like SQL or Opportunity. Closed Won guides budget calls.

We aren't SOC 2 certified.

Your security review gets written answers. If SOC 2 is a hard gate, tell us early.

AI Security starts thin.

Few opportunities to read yet, so its scorecard starts with searches, clicks and form starts.

Why we still like this

Your pipeline already reaches Google Ads, most opportunities carry a click ID, and Microsoft already runs at your target. The fix builds on what your team has built.

What happens next.

Your read on this planAnd how your team defines a quality opportunity from search.
Your pickThen Coupa vendor setup and your security review.
Agreement signedConnor schedules kickoff once the agreement is signed.