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The CLEAN scorecard (finally, a real starting point)
Jeff Sauer
March 12, 2026
Two out of three companies don't trust their own marketing data.
Not a vague industry gripe. A 2025 study found 67% of organizations look at their dashboards and quietly think, "I don't really believe these numbers."
You've probably felt this. Something looks off in GA4. The conversions don't match what your sales team told you. You close the tab and move on with your day.
After 20 years in this space, I can tell you: that feeling isn't paranoia. Your data probably is broken. The problem is nobody ever gave you a clean starting point to figure out where.
That's what this video is about.
We built a 10-question scorecard — 5 categories, 2 questions each — that shows you specifically where your data stack is failing and what to fix first.
It's called the CLEAN framework. Each letter covers a different layer that most marketers have never been taught to audit.
One thing I didn't expect when testing this: nobody scores a perfect 10. Not even close. I've worked with Fortune 500 companies that would land at a 5. Lower scores are actually more useful — they tell you exactly where to focus instead of trying to fix everything at once.
Walk through all 10 questions in the video above.
If your score landed lower than you expected, you're not alone.
Over 80% of quiz takers fell into Danger Zone or Leaking Profit, and Collection was the #1 breakdown area.
That's exactly why we built Tracking X-Ray — March 19th at 12pm Eastern. 90 minutes of live diagnostic work using the CLEAN framework. 12 professional tools included. Early bird pricing ends Sunday.
To Your Measured Success!
–Jeff Sauer
CEO of MeasureU
P.S. Want to skip straight to your score? We turned this into a free 2-minute quiz that gives you a personalized breakdown of your exact gaps — and what to fix first. Take the CLEAN Data Quiz.
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