For B2B GTM teams

Look at your pitch promise through multiple lenses.

A library of lenses — six classical ones today. Compose your perspective from any of them. Each angle reveals something different.

Brand name or URL · the page you want read
Competitors · auto-suggested from a URL, or add your own
For the PR lead, the brand strategist, the comms director, the founder writing her own copy.
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After a read · what you can do

Tighten. Differentiate. Align.

Three things a perspective makes do-able — and each one builds on the last.

01 · Tighten

Cut the hedges. Keep the claim.

Every “might,” “could,” “leading” flagged — with the rewrite sitting right beside it.

02 · Differentiate

See where the page stands.

Three competitors, automatically. The page’s appeals, pillars, and beats set against the field — the gaps obvious.

03 · Align

ChatGPT and the human see the same brand.

Compose the perspective deliberately and the summaries agree — every channel, one voice.

How it works · about ninety seconds

One URL in. One perspective out.

01 · Drop a URL

Any positioning page.

Homepage, product page, one-sheeter, launch announcement. Paste the URL, or paste text directly, or upload a doc.

02 · Compose

Pick your lenses.

Choose one framework or several. Each lens adds one specific question to the read. The combination is your perspective.

03 · Read

Three to five Move Cards.

Each with a verbatim quote from the page, a source URL anchored to that surface, and a specific recommendation. Export the brief. Forward it.

The problem · everyone has an opinion

Everyone has an opinion. How do you sort them out?

Decks. One-sheeters. Performance stories. Website redesigns. Different format, same debate.

Everyone weighs in — the logic, the emotion, the credibility, the structure. And they’re often right. Three honest takes, three different answers.

Lens reads the page through six classical frameworks the great arguments were built on — Hermagoras · Aristotle · Minto · Adler · Hoey · Fowler.

Each is a perspective, not a verdict — a way of seeing how a strong argument holds together. You read along, and you decide.

The library · six classical lenses

Six lenses today. Build your own.

The starting six are classical — frameworks that have been arguing about argument for 2,500 years to twenty. Each asks one question. Each reveals what the others miss.

Is the page arguing the right thing for the buyer's question?Hermagoras · Stasis theory · 1st century BCE
Does the claim have real support, or are the pillars claims dressed as evidence?Minto · The Pyramid Principle · 1987
Is the page leaning on ethos, logos, or pathos in the right proportion?Aristotle · Three Appeals · 4th century BCE
Which timeless concepts is the page invoking, and which would land harder?Adler · The 102 Great Ideas · 1952
Which words anchor across surfaces, and which scatter?Hoey · Lexical Priming · 2005
Is the buyer named the same way everywhere, or shifting subtly?Fowler · Modern English Usage · 1926
More from the canonVonnegut · Cialdini · Campbell · Heath · moreComing. Narrative arc, persuasion principles, story structure — each new lens adds another angle.
Your lensCustom · built by youComing. Whatever question matters most to your brand. You set the criteria; Throughline applies it consistently and adds it to your library.
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Twenty-five years making promises measurable.

Building the analytics and research capability inside the big holding companies — dentsu, Havas, Initiative, and MarketShare in London. Same work everywhere: stand up the measurement for some of the most-measured brands in the world — American Express · Exxon Mobil · Accenture · Dyson · GrubHub · Rocket Mortgage · Emirates.

Co-author of the CIMM CTV best-practices study. Speaker at CIMM East. Pepperdine Great Books Colloquium with Dr. Michael Gose — the Hutchins / Adler Chicago method that taught me how to read.

Throughline is what happens when that experience meets the discipline that was always there.

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Brand communications, in perspective.

Any B2B GTM artifact — page, deck, one-sheeter, performance story. Two minutes to read. One to forward.

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