Data, Profit & Decision AI

Northbeam

Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.

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Buying view: Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.

Capabilities

The platform offers several ways to examine marketing performance: day-to-day attribution views, diagnostic reporting, longer-range budget models and incrementality tests. These views answer different questions, so teams should align their order, refund, timezone and tracking definitions before reallocating spend.

What problem it addresses

Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.

How people use it

The platform offers several ways to examine marketing performance: day-to-day attribution views, diagnostic reporting, longer-range budget models and incrementality tests. These views answer different questions, so teams should align their order, refund, timezone and tracking definitions before reallocating spend.

Northbeam marketing-measurement suite

This composition map separates Northbeam's data and operating views, attribution, causal and planning methods, and activation integration. These are complementary measurement jobs, not interchangeable scores; Apex uses a selected North Star signal after measurement rather than replacing MTA, MMM or incrementality work.

Northbeam marketing-measurement suiteThis composition map separates Northbeam's data and operating views, attribution, causal and planning methods, and activation integration. These are complementary measurement jobs, not interchangeable scores; Apex uses a selected North Star signal after measurement rather than replacing MTA, MMM or incrementality work.Data and operating viewsData foundation and OverviewMetrics ExplorerAttribution and diagnosticsMulti-Touch AttributionClicks + Deterministic ViewsCreative, product and subscriptionanalyticsCausal testing and planningMedia Mix Modeling+IncrementalityActivationNorthbeam ApexNorthbeam marketing-measurement suiteThis composition map separates Northbeam's data and operating views, attribution, causal and planning methods, and activation integration. These are complementary measurement jobs, not interchangeable scores; Apex uses a selected North Star signal after measurement rather than replacing MTA, MMM or incrementality work.Data and operating viewsData foundation and OverviewMetrics ExplorerAttribution and diagnosticsMulti-Touch AttributionClicks + Deterministic ViewsCreative, product andsubscription analyticsCausal testing and planningMedia Mix Modeling+IncrementalityActivationNorthbeam Apex

What each module does and its role

Data foundation and Overview

Northbeam's pixel, order feed and connected channel records form the data foundation for its measurement views. Overview is the first operating surface after login: teams can rearrange tiles, choose metrics such as ROAS, CAC or transactions, rename and save views, and share those views across the team. A configurable dashboard improves access to the data but does not resolve missing events, conversion lag or disagreement between source definitions.

Metrics Explorer

Metrics Explorer is the investigation surface for comparing selected metrics, attribution models, channels and dimensions without limiting analysis to a fixed dashboard tile. Growth teams use it to move from a high-level performance change to a narrower operating question. The interpretation still depends on the chosen model, date range and source completeness, so a chart difference is not automatically a causal effect.

Multi-Touch Attribution

Multi-Touch Attribution gives a growth team a daily operating view of customer touchpoints and attributed revenue across channels. Northbeam's models split credit according to documented definitions so operators can compare campaigns and budget decisions at a tactical cadence. The output is attributed performance under a model, not direct proof of incremental revenue.

Clicks + Deterministic Views

Clicks + Deterministic Views extends attribution beyond click events to supported view-through impressions. It helps teams inspect the revenue impact assigned to video and reach activity, subject to the participating platform data and the model's documented scope.

Creative, product and subscription analytics

Northbeam's diagnostic views break attributed performance into questions about creative, products and subscription behavior rather than stopping at a channel total. Operators use these views to identify what deserves a closer test or budget discussion. They inherit the same event, model and lag boundaries as the wider measurement system and should not be presented as a separate source of causal truth.

Media Mix Modeling+

Media Mix Modeling+ is the longer-horizon forecasting and budget-scenario workspace for the wider marketing mix. Teams can model spend, promotions and seasonality, then compare alternative allocations in a self-service dashboard. It supports planning over weeks or months and complements, rather than replaces, the tactical touchpoint view.

Incrementality

Incrementality testing asks whether a marketing action caused lift that would not otherwise have occurred. Northbeam presents it alongside MTA and MMM as a distinct measurement method that can help calibrate broader decisions. Test design, eligible channels, holdouts, timing and statistical interpretation need to be confirmed for the account; an incrementality label alone does not validate every campaign result.

Northbeam Apex

Northbeam Apex is an activation integration that sends an ad-level and order-level Northbeam signal back to a supported ad-platform algorithm. The team selects a North Star revenue type, attribution model, window and accrual basis, connects the required account permissions and allows calibration; changing that North Star can reset a roughly two-week calibration period. Data sharing and live optimization are separate states, current platform support is uneven, and the integration is additive rather than a replacement for the platform pixel or CAPI.

Commercial plans

Northbeam publishes four commercial paths. Starter and Professional show starting or fixed reference prices, but pageviews and ad spend affect fit and final scope; MMM+ and Incrementality are optional rather than automatically included in every plan.

Northbeam public commercial reference

Product or sales surfaceScopePublic price and status
Growth

For brands under $200,000 in monthly ad spend that buy through an agency partner.

Included plan entitlements
  • Northbeam attribution and dashboards
  • Agency strategy and media support
  • Preferred partner pricing
Custom quote through an agency partner
Starter

For brands under $1.5 million in annual ad spend; pageviews can affect the price.

Included plan entitlements
  • Multi-touch attribution
  • Northbeam dashboards
  • Apex
  • C+DV
From $1,500/monthMonth-to-month billing published
Professional

For brands up to $500,000 in monthly ad spend; confirm pageview and refresh assumptions.

Included plan entitlements
  • All Starter capabilities
  • Unlimited users, exports and integrations
  • Any ecommerce platform
  • Northbeam MCP
  • Media strategist
  • Additional refresh options
Optional add-ons
  • Incrementality
$3,500/month for the published scopeUp to $500,000/month in ad spend
Enterprise

Enterprise contract with advanced service, refresh and integration options.

Included plan entitlements
  • All Professional capabilities
  • Media guidance
  • Customer success manager and Slack access
  • Optional hourly conversion-data refresh
  • Touchpoint exports
  • Regional dashboards
  • Custom ecommerce integrations
Optional add-ons
  • MMM+
  • Incrementality
Custom quoteFor more than $500,000/month in ad spend

Comparable tools: price and workflow

ToolWorkflow differenceOfficial public price reference
Triple Whale

The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process.

Free: $0/monthFoundation: Displayed from $219/month; GMV selection appliesAutomate: Displayed from $749/month; GMV selection applies
Cometly

The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process.

Usage-based: Usage-based
Rockerbox

The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process.

Shopify brand plan: From $150/month
Polar Analytics

The team needs a shared ecommerce data layer and recurring reports across sales, marketing, inventory, or finance inputs. Source mapping, transformations, metric definitions, refresh timing, and data ownership decide whether the report is trustworthy.

Core Plan: From $750/month; GMV-based scopeCustom Plan and add-ons: Confirm in sales proposal or order form
Daasity

The team needs a shared ecommerce data layer and recurring reports across sales, marketing, inventory, or finance inputs. Source mapping, transformations, metric definitions, refresh timing, and data ownership decide whether the report is trustworthy.

Starter Essentials Self Service: $1,499/monthEssentials Self Service: $1,999/monthEnterprise: Custom quote

Frequently asked questions

What question is Northbeam designed to answer?

It helps marketing teams examine how channels contribute to ecommerce outcomes and compare budget decisions with several measurement methods. It should be used as decision support, not as the only financial record for a business.

What must be in place before budget decisions use Northbeam?

Advertising spend, ecommerce events, orders, pixel data, tagged traffic and relevant conversion data need consistent definitions. Refund treatment, timezones and finance reconciliation should be agreed before the figures drive budget changes.

What public price is available?

Northbeam lists Starter from $1,500 per month for brands with annual media spend below $1.5 million. Larger media scale uses custom pricing, so the spend definition, platform count and service scope should be confirmed.

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User reviews

2 reviewsChecked Aug 28, 2026

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Alpha LionUnited States

Have been using Northbeam since it's early days. Love how detailed it is and has allowed us to scale our ads well beyond $1million+ a month in ad spend with its analytics and reporting.

Miracle BrandUnited States

Northbeam is the best attribution + modeling tool we have used by far. It's the only tool we have used that allows us to get consistent data across different attribution models and windows. It allows us to understand 1st purchase vs. LTV ROAS. Their customer support is also extremely knowledgeable both technically and about the industry and has helped us do things we had no idea were possible. Highly recommend.

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