THE EXECUTION LAYER
You start every quarter with a plan. You finish it reacting.
You set the priorities. You build the plan. Then week three brings a fire, week six brings a reshuffle, and by week ten the plan and the quarter have quietly parted ways. The gap was never the strategy. It was the rhythm that keeps a plan alive across thirteen weeks.
This is the rhythm your quarter runs against.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Eight tabs. They feed each other.
Not eight separate sheets you maintain by hand. Enter your budget once and it flows through your priorities, your campaigns and your phasing. The system flags when you have over-allocated or left budget undecided, paces you at Week 7, and calculates your variance at close. The formulas and the structure are already wired in. You bring the quarter.
How to Use
A thirty-second start and a six-step flow, start to finish. Yours to change, rename and keep, with the formulas locked so nothing breaks by accident.
Quarterly Priorities
Four initiatives, maximum. One measurable outcome each. Enter your budget here once. It flows through the rest of the system, and flags you the moment your priorities outrun it.
90-Day Focus Plan
Auto-populates from your priorities into the one page you present or share. Includes what you are deliberately not doing this quarter, because a plan without trade-offs is not a plan.
13-Week Campaign Schedule
One row per campaign, each mapped to a priority, marked across the three months. Checks your total campaign spend against the budget so nothing creeps unnoticed.
Budget Phasing
Allocate by channel across the quarter. Pulls your total automatically and shows what is still unallocated, because unallocated budget is just an undecided decision.
Mid-Quarter Review
The Week-7 intervention. Five decisions to force, plus a pacing check that tells you in plain language whether you are on track to spend, running ahead, or falling behind.
Quarter Close
Results against plan, what carries into next quarter, and a planned-versus-actual variance by channel that calculates itself. The close becomes the input for the next quarter.
AI Decision Engine
Five prompts built to produce decisions, not summaries: priorities, budget, mid-quarter replan, quarter-close analysis, and a stakeholder debrief. Paste into your AI assistant and go.
WHAT THIS IS
A system to run the quarter. Not a planner to fill in.
WHAT THIS IS
- A connected system where one budget input flows through every tab
- An operating rhythm with a fixed Week-7 intervention point
- Built to force trade-offs: four priorities, maximum
- A close that becomes the input for your next quarter
- Yours to keep, in Excel and Google Sheets
WHAT THIS ISN'T
- A static planner you fill in once and never reopen
- A reporting tool that tells you what happened after it is too late
- A blank template with formatting and no thinking
- A list of everything, which is the same as no plan
- A subscription, a login, or another tool to learn
Before you buy
Questions, answered.
Is this a subscription?
No. Buy once and the system is yours permanently, in Excel and Google Sheets. Use it quarter after quarter. There is nothing to cancel and no recurring charge, ever.
What's the difference between this and the Marketing Performance & Decisions System?
They are two halves of one loop. The Marketing Performance & Budget Decisions System decides what deserves your budget: every campaign flagged scale, hold, review or cut against your own thresholds. The 90-Day Marketing Operating Rhythm then runs the quarter that delivers those decisions: priorities, campaign map, phased budget, the Week 7 review and the close. Decide, then deliver.
Do I need the Marketing Performance & Decisions System to use this?
No. The 90-Day Marketing Operating Rhythm works completely on its own. The two systems simply do different jobs: the Marketing Performance & Budget Decisions System helps you decide which campaigns deserve your budget, and this system runs the quarter that delivers them. If you own both, use the recommendations from one to set the priorities in the other. And if you want both, the bundle saves you 20% against buying them separately.
How much time does it actually take?
One planning session of about two hours before the quarter starts. After that, the system costs you minutes a week and one honest hour at Week 7 for the Mid-Quarter Review. The close at Week 13 takes an hour and saves you the first week of next quarter.
Does it only work for calendar quarters?
No. It runs any thirteen-week block, whenever yours starts. Calendar quarters, financial-year quarters, or a 90-day push that begins next Monday all work the same way.
Can I share this with my team?
QFS products are sold as single-user licences. If you'd like to roll the rhythm out across a team or function, contact us about team licensing and we'll discuss options.
ALREADY HAVE THE DECISIONS HANDLED?
Get both, and save.
This runs the quarter. The Marketing Performance & Budget Decisions System makes the calls that set it up. Buy them together as The Marketing Operating System and you have the full loop: decide, then execute, quarter after quarter. Bought together, the bundle saves you 20% compared to buying the two separately.
One-time purchase, like everything here.