Free Behavioral Audit
The Behavioral Audit

Get a free, objective, behavioral science-based audit of one piece of your creative.

Send us one ad. Within one business day you get a one-page red, yellow and green scorecard showing what is working and where the biggest upside is. You can also book a free 30-minute walkthrough with Will. No pitch, no demo.

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Free. One ad. One page. Takes about two minutes to request.
What it is

What a Behavioral Audit is

A Behavioral Audit is an objective, behavioral science-based review of your creative across six behavioral design factors that drive creative success: Goals, Motivation, Approach, Heuristics, Emotion, and Strategy. It shows you what is helping your creative work and where the biggest upside is.

The six factors

What we look at

1

Goals

Does the creative show the future your customer is actually after?

2

Motivation

Does it speak to what really drives your customer to act?

3

Approach

Is it framed around gaining something or avoiding a loss, and does that fit your audience?

4

Heuristics

Does it work with the mental shortcuts people use when they decide?

5

Emotion

Will viewers walk away feeling what the motivation calls for?

6

Strategy

Is the offer clear at a glance, and is your customer the hero of the story?

How it is scored:Green1 pointYellow0.5 pointsRed0 points (biggest upside)
How it works

Three steps

Send us one ad

Upload an image or share a YouTube link, and tell us what the ad was meant to do.

We score it

Will’s audit team reviews it on the six factors.

You get your audit

A one-page PDF within one business day, plus a link to book a free 30-minute walkthrough with Will.

I’ll walk you through your Behavioral Audit: the Mindstates your customers are in when they decide, and one or two moves worth testing first. No pitch and no prep. Bring one decision your team is facing.

Book your free 30-minute walkthrough
See what you get

Sample audit

This is the kind of one-page scorecard you receive. Yours will cover your ad and your stated objective.

One-page Behavioral Audit scorecard for the Subway ad Feed Your SUBconscious, scoring 5 out of 6
Sample audit (Subway, Feed Your SUBconscious)
Will Leach
Who you will work with

About Will Leach

Will Leach is the founder & CEO of Mindstate Group, a behavioral research and brand consultancy, and best-selling author of Marketing to Mindstates. With over 25 years of behavioral insights experience, including leading Frito-Lay’s Shopper Marketing & Retail Testing lab and serving as VP of Behavioral Labs at System1 Research, he helps brands uncover the subconscious drivers that actually shape customer decisions.

Request your audit

Get my free audit

Tell us a little about you and the ad. We will take it from there.

  • Free, for one piece of creative
  • One-page scorecard within one business day
  • Optional free 30-minute walkthrough with Will. No pitch, no demo.