Proof · Nine Questions · Nine Answers

Nine questions.
Nine answers.
All verified.

Each case study below was built to answer a specific question a prospect brings to a first call — not to impress, but to inform. Pick the question closest to yours. The answer is there, in full, with every number sourced and every assumption stated. Nine questions. Nine complete answers. From two real engagements.

9
Case studies
43×
Best ROI result
37×
Second ROI result
2
Engagements
How to read this page

Find the question
you'd ask on a first call.

Every prospect arrives with a different objection, a different priority, a different way of evaluating evidence. These nine case studies were each built to meet a specific one. They share the same underlying data — two complete engagement records. The organising principle is the question, not the client.

A proof page organised by client is useful to an agency. A proof page organised by question is useful to a prospect. The nine case studies below answer the nine most common questions that come up in first conversations: Who are you beating and by how much? What does the before-and-after actually look like? What did you build, in what sequence, and why does the order matter? How do you arrive at the ROI number, and what did you exclude?

The fact that these questions are answered from two real engagement records — not fabricated across ten thin ones — means the answers are internally consistent. If the 43× ROI figure in The Money Page were inflated, it would not survive contact with The Transformation's full Day 1 audit, or The Discovery Pipeline's channel-by-channel breakdown. The nine stories cross-check each other automatically because they are all derived from the same verified data.

Each card names its source venue at the top — Chequer Lane by Jamie Oliver (18 months) or Marco Pierre White Dublin 2 (15 months). That information is there for transparency. It is not the organising principle of the page because it is not the most useful lens for a prospect deciding whether to have a conversation.

Two complete engagement records
Chequer Lane by Jamie Oliver
Dublin City Centre · 18 months · ongoing · 5 case studies
ROI43×
Attributed revenue~€312,600
Annual covers · 202561,885 · +25% YoY
vs 84-venue benchmark+20pt above market
Domain Authority15 → 44
Marco Pierre White Dublin 2
Dublin 2 · 15 months documented · 4 case studies
ROI37×
Attributed revenue~€290,000
Cover swing vs market26pt · +7% vs −13%
Domain Authority33 → 47
Pack coverage83% on tracked terms
Same methodology. Different venues, different numbers. The infrastructure sequence, attribution model, and compounding dynamic are identical in both records.
Nine Case Studies

Pick the question
that sounds like yours.

Each case study is complete and standalone. You don't need to read all nine — you need to read the one that answers the question you'd ask first.

01
Chequer Lane · Jamie Oliver
The
Competitive
Knockout
Best for
Owners who want exact competitor positions — named venues, specific terms, verifiable gaps.
#7
Maps Pack · "best restaurants Dublin city centre"
"Who exactly are you beating — and by how much?"
Wilde at #20. Hawksmoor absent. The Ivy Dawson Street trailing on 4 of 7 tracked pack terms. A position-by-position competitive map — every discovery term, every named competitor, every gap measured. The 42-point divergence from the 84-venue OpenTable benchmark is the macro result. This case study shows where it comes from in the local search stack, term by term.
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02
Marco Pierre White · Dublin 2
The
Turnaround
Story
Best for
Owners who want a before-and-after measured against a verifiable external benchmark.
26pt
Outperformance vs 205-venue Dublin 2 market
"Show me a before-and-after I can actually verify."
From −8% covers while the market was already declining, to +7% YoY while Dublin 2 fell a further 13%. The 26-point swing is measured against OpenTable market data from 205 competing venues — not an agency benchmark. The complete timeline of what changed and when, and why the +7% figure understates the actual impact when you account for where the engagement started.
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03
Chequer Lane · Jamie Oliver
The
Market
Proof
Best for
Data-driven operators who want results measured against a verified cohort, not the agency's own numbers.
+42pt
Divergence vs 84-venue Dublin benchmark · 2025
"Prove it against the market — not your own numbers."
84 competing venues. Same city, same conditions, same macro environment. The benchmark cohort declined. Chequer Lane grew. The 42-point spread opened in August 2024 and held through the full year — documented across three distinct periods with the exact dates of inflection. OpenTable platform data, not agency modelling. The divergence chart makes the story impossible to misread.
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04
Marco Pierre White · Dublin 2
The
Infrastructure
Story
Best for
Technical buyers who want to see actual work built — domain authority, citations, links — not just outcome claims.
DA 47
Highest in Dublin 2 competitive set · from DA 33
"What did you actually build — and in what order?"
Three layers of local infrastructure built over 15 months: citation consistency first, link authority second, pack coverage third. 197 linking domains, 50+ citations established, 83% pack coverage on high-intent terms — all from a fragmented baseline. Shows why you cannot skip to layer three, and what happens when competitors try. The sequence is the system.
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05
Chequer Lane · Jamie Oliver
The
Money
Page
Best for
P&L-oriented owners who want the financial case as a ledger — investment in, return out, break-even stated plainly.
43×
Revenue return on retainer · full methodology shown
"Skip the story. Just show me the numbers."
An animated accounting ledger — debit column (the investment), credit column (what came back). Break-even: 12 additional covers per month needed, 521 attributed per month actual. Conservative and full attribution figures shown side by side. We use the conservative number because it is more defensible, not because it is correct. Every assumption stated and auditable without exception.
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06
Marco Pierre White · Dublin 2
The
Attribution
Story
Best for
Prospects who have been burned by inflated agency claims and want to see the exact methodology behind the ROI.
37×
Return on retainer · three-tier model · full working shown
"How did you arrive at that number — and what did you leave out?"
A three-tier attribution model: confirmed digital bookings, probable digital influence, and what is explicitly not claimed. The outperformance is split — digital work claims half, the restaurant's kitchen, team, and brand earned the other half. €184,940 in Tier 1 alone (platform-verified OpenTable Network data) is already a strong return before any probabilistic modelling. Every assumption is stated and every exclusion is explained.
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07
Chequer Lane · Jamie Oliver
The
Transformation
Best for
Owners who want the full before-and-after — every metric from Day 1 versus Month 18, nothing selectively omitted.
DA 44
From DA 15 on Day 1 · 18-month documented arc
"What did it honestly look like at the start — and what changed?"
A full dual property survey: the same 8 infrastructure categories measured at Day 1 (DA 15, zero citations, unclaimed GBP, −7% covers) and at Month 18 (DA 44, 107 citations, 766K profile views, +25% covers). Plus the 18-month build timeline, the permanent asset ownership argument — what persists after the engagement ends — and the honest account of what the work did and what the restaurant earned on its own.
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08
Chequer Lane · Jamie Oliver
The Discovery
Pipeline
Best for
Analytically minded operators who want to understand the mechanism — how the journey from search to booking actually works.
5
Stages from first search to confirmed booking · mapped in full
"How does the mechanism actually work — step by step?"
One search. Five decision stages. One confirmed booking. Maps the exact guest journey — pack impression (#7 on the highest-volume discovery term), GBP profile visit (766K views, 73,438 actions), TripAdvisor validation (#186), OpenTable booking (16,606 network discovery covers). Where the venue appears at each stage — and where it was absent before. Includes 19,621 direction requests unpacked as the highest-intent pre-visit signal in the dataset.
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09
Marco Pierre White · Dublin 2
The Search
Visibility
Story
Best for
Data-driven operators who want funnel metrics, CTR by landing page, and a clear view of where demand is currently leaking.
706K
Search impressions · full engagement period
"Where is the traffic actually going — and what is it doing when it gets there?"
The full digital funnel from first impression to confirmed reservation: 706,000 impressions, 356,772 GBP profile views, 70,787 verified actions, 26,182 organic clicks at 7.15% average CTR. Includes the page-level breakdown that most agencies never show — 124,501 people were served the reservation page in five months. Only 1.15% clicked through. The gap between that latent demand and its current capture rate is the next lever to pull.
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#7
Pack rank · best restaurants Dublin
26pt
Cover swing vs 205 venues
+42pt
Divergence · 84-venue benchmark
DA 47
Highest in competitive set
43×
Revenue ROI · CL
37×
Revenue ROI · MPW
DA 44
From DA 15 · 18 months
61,885
Annual covers · 2025
706K
Search impressions
Honest context

What nine case studies
prove — and what they don't.

The most detailed publicly available record of what this approach produces. Also deliberately honest about the limits of that record.

What this demonstrates
A system that produced the
same result twice.
43× from one venue. 37× from another. Same infrastructure sequence — citation foundation first, link authority second, pack coverage third. Same attribution methodology — split the outperformance in half, claim only the digital contribution. Same compounding dynamic — assets that accumulate rather than reset. The nine stories cross-reference across both engagements because they were produced by the same playbook applied to different restaurants in the same city. Results that survive contact with nine different angles of scrutiny are not inflated. They are verified.
What this does not claim
Two venues. One city.
Two recognised brands.
Both Chequer Lane by Jamie Oliver and Marco Pierre White carry nationally recognised names with genuine existing pull. Neither started from zero name recognition — both started from underdeveloped digital infrastructure relative to that brand strength. These results are not representative of all restaurant types and all markets. A venue without a celebrity chef association should expect a longer timeline to similar outcomes — the infrastructure sequence is the same, the discovery curve is slower. The methodology is universal. The precise numbers depend on the starting conditions of the venue it is applied to.
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