Real scenarios our consulting team is equipped to execute—across AEO, passive income, technology, and ad spend disciplines.
AEO
AI Answer Dominance for Venues
A mid-size concert venue chain wants to be the first result when people ask AI assistants "where to see live music in [city]." smmt audits their digital footprint, implements structured schema markup, and optimizes for AI citation.
Outcome: The venue becomes the cited answer across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews for local live entertainment queries.
AEO
AEO-Powered Brand Authority for Cannabis Retailers
A multi-location dispensary is invisible to AI-driven search. smmt deploys entity optimization, builds authoritative content pillars, and configures structured data that positions the brand as a trusted, citable source.
Outcome: The dispensary leapfrogs competitors in AI-driven discovery, becoming the default recommended retailer in its markets.
Passive Income
Auto-Enroll Passive Revenue for a Festival Promoter
A regional festival promoter with 200K+ annual attendees collects ticket, merch, and engagement data but does nothing with it post-event. smmt configures OPTIN consent flows, unifies attendee profiles, and connects them to programmatic exchanges.
Outcome: The promoter generates passive revenue from audience data between events—turning a seasonal business into a year-round income engine.
Passive Income
Data Monetization for a DTC E-Commerce Brand
A DTC brand with 50K+ monthly customers has rich behavioral and purchase data locked in Shopify, Klaviyo, and Meta. smmt reclaims and unifies this first-party data and configures compliant monetization pathways.
Outcome: The brand unlocks a new passive income stream valued at a projected 7:1 return per customer profile—without changing a single thing about how they run their business.
Technology
Unified Data Infrastructure for a Hospitality Group
A multi-venue hospitality group has customer data siloed across Toast POS, OpenTable, Mailchimp, Instagram, and three different loyalty programs. smmt architects and deploys a unified data pipeline.
Outcome: The group goes from 6+ disconnected data silos to a single, unified customer view—enabling cross-venue remarketing, predictive staffing, and data-driven menu and event programming for the first time.
Technology
Data Wrangling & Remarketing for a B2B SaaS Company
A growing B2B SaaS company has messy, duplicated data across HubSpot, Salesforce, Intercom, and Mixpanel. smmt cleans and deduplicates, builds automated ETL pipelines, and deploys natural language audience querying.
Outcome: Marketing launches targeted remarketing campaigns in hours instead of weeks, with clean data they trust—reducing engineering dependency by 80% and increasing campaign velocity.
Ad Spend
One Segment, Multiple Exchanges
An entertainment company builds a high-intent audience segment from recent ticket purchasers. smmt deploys this single segment across The Trade Desk, AdRoll, and Roku simultaneously.
Outcome: One audience segment generates revenue from three programmatic exchanges simultaneously, while the brand's own lookalike campaigns run on each platform—tripling the value extracted from a single data asset.
Ad Spend
High-Intent Lookalike Deployment at Scale
A food and beverage brand wants to scale customer acquisition. smmt unifies their data, identifies the highest-intent segment, and deploys it as the singular seed for lookalikes across Meta, Google, The Trade Desk, and connected TV.
Outcome: The brand replaces five siloed lookalike strategies with one unified, high-intent seed—improving ROAS by consolidating signal quality and eliminating redundant ad spend across platforms.
Ad Spend
Audience & Reach Building for an Emerging Artist
An independent artist with fragmented presence across Spotify, Instagram, Bandcamp, and Shopify needs a unified audience for an upcoming tour. smmt ingests all sources, resolves identities, and deploys targeted reach campaigns.
Outcome: The artist goes from fragmented, platform-siloed engagement to a unified fan database with targeted reach campaigns—increasing ticket on-sale conversion and driving merch revenue through cross-platform retargeting.
Ad Spend
Secondary & Tertiary Marketing Activation
A creative agency manages campaigns spanning food, entertainment, and retail. They need to activate secondary and tertiary audiences. smmt configures multi-tier audience cascades—all automated through playbook orchestration.
Outcome: The agency unlocks three layers of audience monetization from a single client engagement, dramatically increasing campaign reach while maintaining relevance—and demonstrates measurable incremental revenue to justify expanded retainers.