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 "id": "quartile",
 "name": "Quartile",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "quartile.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Retail media optimisation across Amazon Sponsored Ads and Amazon DSP, Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Google, Meta and Microsoft, and ChatGPT Ads as well since August 2026 (the vendor told us on 31 Aug 2026; we have not seen it ourselves), sold as a platform plus a dedicated account team rather than a self-serve tool. Demo-led with no public pricing of any kind: no tiers, no entry rate, nothing on the pricing page. The 41% average ROAS uplift on their homepage is the vendor's own claim.",
 "best_for": "brands and sellers already running paid media across several retail networks at once — Amazon Sponsored Ads and Amazon DSP, Walmart, Instacart, Criteo, Google, Meta, Microsoft and, newly listed on the site in September 2026, ChatGPT Ads — who would rather hand the whole set to one team than wire together a tool per channel. The fixed account team is the actual product here, not a support tier, and if you were going to hire an agency anyway then a platform with people attached is a fair shape for the money",
 "skip_if": "you want to know what something costs before you take a sales call — nothing on this site will tell you, and two of its direct competitors will. Skip it as well if your spend sits on one marketplace and you are comfortable running the bids yourself. The multi-network reach and the account team are what you would be paying for, and neither does much for a single-channel seller with a working routine",
 "honest_knock": "Everything about the sales motion here is a conversation. The product is sold as a platform plus a dedicated account team, and there is no self-serve entry: the only route in is Request Demo. That carries a cost which never appears on the page — you cannot size this against your ad budget before you talk to someone, and you cannot put it next to a competitor on paper. It matters more than usual in this category, because the direct peers do publish. Our own dossiers have Teikametrics at $149 a month billed annually for up to $10K in monthly ad spend, plus 3% of spend above that (read 2026-08-01), and BidX at €495 a month for its self-service Amazon tier (read 2026-08-06). Against those two, Quartile is an unknown until you have a quote in hand.\n\nThe introductory offer that used to soften this has been withdrawn. In August 2026 a referral link carried 40% off a new customer's first three months; re-read on 11 September 2026, quartile.com/partners publishes no customer discount at all — it now rewards the person making the introduction, by an amount it declines to name. So there is no published discount left to negotiate against, and the quote is the only figure in the entire transaction.\n\nOne more figure to handle carefully: the 41% average increase in ROAS on their homepage is Quartile's own number, measured by Quartile on Quartile's customers. Nobody independent has checked it and neither have we, so ask what the sample was and over what period before you let it weigh on the decision.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(2026-09-11, re-read on their own site and again on 13 October 2026) There is no public pricing. quartile.com/pricing serves the same page as the homepage — no tier, no rate card and no entry figure anywhere on it, and the only call to action is Request Demo. The dollar amounts the site does show are volume claims about their customer base rather than prices: over $2B in annual retail advertising spend managed and over $25B in annual managed revenue, across 5,300+ customers in more than 32 countries. Two audiences are named, Small Business and Mid-Market/Enterprise, with no rate attached to either. The 40% introductory discount that the referral route carried in August 2026 is no longer published: quartile.com/partners now rewards the referrer by an unnamed amount instead. Budget for this one from a written quote, because nothing else exists.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: quartile.com/pricing mirrors the homepage with no tier or rate card, only a Request Demo CTA (read 11 Sep 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Teikametrics",
  "why": "the useful comparison, because it is broadly the same job with the opposite pricing posture. Teikametrics publishes: $149 a month billed annually for up to $10K in monthly ad spend, $179 billed monthly, and above that threshold a custom base plus 3% of ad spend (our dossier, read 2026-08-01). Quartile publishes nothing at all and sells through a demo. What Quartile offers in exchange is reach and people — Instacart, Criteo, Google, Meta and Microsoft alongside Amazon and Walmart, with a fixed team on the account — where Teikametrics is Amazon and Walmart software you run yourself. Get a written quote from Quartile at your real monthly spend and hold it against the Teikametrics arithmetic at that same number; that is the only comparison here that means anything."
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/quartile.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/quartile-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/quartile/",
  "vendor_site": "https://quartile.com"
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 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.quartile.com/request-demo?utm_source=Partner%20Affiliate%20Referral&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=aibuildermarketplace",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "quartile:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quartile:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quartile:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quartile:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "quartile:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
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 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
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  {
   "offer_id": "quartile-reader-offer",
   "version": "5dcb6a51a2",
   "offer_type": "price_discount",
   "benefit": "40% off the first three months",
   "verification_status": "needs_confirmation",
   "expires_at": null,
   "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/offers.json#quartile-reader-offer"
  }
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