Define the budget decision and constraints
30-60 min
30-60 min
Document campaign-group objective, minimum commitment, learning floor, maximum change, target outcomes, and protected brand or launch spend. Work from LinkedIn Ads using campaign group, campaign, objective, status as the minimum evidence set. Complete this work in LinkedIn Ads or the controlled working file; no Claude prompt is needed for this step. Save the finished artifact in the budget reallocation decision table with the run date, owner, evidence reference, confidence, and approval status. Treat brand campaigns as a separate exception class and do not count it as failure unless the policy says so.
Define the budget decision and constraints completed as a dated section of the budget reallocation decision table, with campaign group, spend pace, evidence links, owner, and approval status for increase budget.
Do not let campaign group stand in for campaign; that shortcut creates false positives in campaign-group budget reallocation. Document the result in the same run folder so the next cycle can compare like with like. Apply it specifically during “Define the budget decision and constraints.”