Naviga · Managed services

An order system team, without the hire.

Most media companies need an order system administrator some of the time, an integrator occasionally, and somebody watching when the campaigns and the billing depend on it. Managed services covers all of it: a monthly block of hours, a weekly cadence, a backlog you control, and people who already know how your instance is built.

When this is the right engagement

  • The admin left, or was never hired
  • The backlog of rate card changes and new products is longer than anyone can get to
  • Releases land and nobody checks what changed
  • You want the implementation team to stay on after launch
  • Leadership wants a roadmap for the ad stack, not just tickets closed

What you get

  • A named lead and a second consultant who both know the instance
  • A weekly working session and a prioritized backlog you own
  • Administration: users, permissions, products, rate cards, and hygiene
  • Release review before each Naviga release, with anything affected fixed ahead of it
  • Workflow and reporting builds from the backlog
  • Data quality monitoring for duplicate advertisers, orphaned orders, and rates nobody uses
  • A monthly position on booked, delivered, and billed, and a quarterly review against your roadmap

How it runs

  1. 01

    Onboarding and instance review

    If we did not build it, we read it first.

  2. 02

    Backlog and cadence agreed

    What matters most, who decides, and when we meet.

  3. 03

    Weekly delivery

    Builds shipped, hygiene kept, releases reviewed, documentation updated.

  4. 04

    Monthly position

    Booked, delivered, and billed, with the differences explained.

  5. 05

    Quarterly review

    The instance against the roadmap, and the roadmap against the business.

Questions we get

Is there a minimum term?

Managed services run month to month after an initial period agreed at the start. If the backlog runs dry, we say so rather than inventing work.

Work and news

Notes from Naviga engagements.

Case studies and announcements from work that runs on Naviga Ad.

Start with the stuck point

What should the order system be doing that it isn’t?

Bring the handoff, the reconciliation, or the make-good that keeps resurfacing. We will tell you whether it is a Naviga problem, a workflow problem, or a systems problem, and what to do about it.