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Problem

Every growth decision you made this quarter ran on data you've never verified. Broken tracking doesn't fail loudly: it produces confident, specific, wrong numbers.

The Tracking Audit Playbook

A five-layer audit that tells you whether your numbers are real, with the exact checks and the manual test that catches what the platform tools miss.

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Why This Publication Exists

You don't have an optimization problem. You have a measurement problem masquerading as one.

Which campaign to scale. Which to kill. Whether that new landing page worked. All of it decided by numbers most founders have never verified, because almost nobody checks whether their tracking actually works. It gets installed once, usually by someone who's since left, and it's trusted ever after.

Here's the trap: broken tracking doesn't fail loudly. It produces confident, specific, wrong numbers. And a wrong number feels exactly like a right one. So you scale the winner that was never winning, and kill the campaign that actually worked.

This publication is the audit I run before diagnosing anything else in a brand, five layers, the exact checks for each, and the manual test that catches what the platform tools miss. About two hours, and you'll know, not assume, whether your numbers are real.

What You'll Be Able to Do

After reading this publication.

  • Audit your tracking stack from the foundation up, one layer at a time
  • Run the two-minute test that exposes the most expensive tracking bug in DTC
  • Reconcile platform-reported revenue against what actually happened
  • Spot duplicate firing, missing CAPI, and unparameterised events
  • Fix broken tracking in the right order, so every fix is measurable
  • Know which of your numbers you can trust before you make another decision on them

Inside the Publication

What the publication covers.

01

The Five Layers

Why tracking is a stack: foundation, events, connections, attribution, reporting, and how one break makes every layer above it lie.

02

The Foundation & Events Audit

What must be installed, what must fire, and the duplicate check most brands fail.

03

Platform Connections

Meta CAPI, Google Enhanced Conversions, Merchant Center, whether the platforms actually receive what you're sending.

04

Attribution & Reconciliation

The monthly test that reveals whether your platforms are under-tracking or inflating.

05

The Three-Purchase Verification Test

The manual check across three real conditions that catches what test tools miss.

06

The Fix-Priority Order

What to repair first when several layers are broken, and the re-learning window after.

Preview

A look inside.

Publication 003 · Framework

The Tracking Audit Playbook

Adnan Kabir · 2026

Included

What you receive.

Document

PDF

17 pages · print-ready

Reference

The Five-Layer Audit Checklist

PDF · quick-reference

Framework

Reconciliation Worksheet

PDF · fillable

Built from real diagnostics

Built From Real Diagnostics

80+

Founder-Led DTC Audits

  • Fashion
  • Beauty
  • Supplements
  • Luxury
  • Home
  • Skincare
  • Apparel
  • Jewelry

This is the first thing I check in every diagnostic, because everything else depends on it. The failures in this publication aren't theoretical; they're the same broken configurations found again and again across real brands.

Before You Download

Questions founders usually ask.

01

Is this a physical book?

No. It's a digital publication: instant PDF download. Nothing is shipped.

02

Can I print it?

Yes. The PDF is print-ready at A4 and Letter size.

03

Do I get updates when it's revised?

Yes. Lifetime updates are included, which matters here, since platforms change their tracking requirements often.

04

Do I need to be technical to use this?

No. If you can access your GA4, GTM, and ad accounts, you can run the audit. It tells you exactly what to click and what to look for.

05

What's the catch if it's free?

None. You get the full publication for an email. If it's useful, you'll know where to find me.

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This audit tells you if your numbers are real. A diagnostic tells you what they mean.

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