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Customer acquisition planner (free Excel)

Plan acquisition like a portfolio - customer value and allowable CAC by persona and geography, in one place.
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Acquisition goes wrong when every customer is treated as equal and budget follows habit instead of value. This planner treats acquisition like an investment portfolio: you define your entry personas, map what each is worth across your geographies, work out the allowable nCAC for every persona-geography cell, and weight your budget toward the cells with the longest runway. It ties what you can afford to pay for a customer back to what that customer is actually worth, so the plan is grounded in your unit economics rather than a channel dashboard.

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Founders and growth leads planning a quarter or a launch, who want budget weighted toward the customers worth the most - not spread evenly out of habit.

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