CalvinBall·Command centre for/Reckitt marketing portfolio
✓ Governed · every figure traceable
Reckitt · LSE:RKT · FY2025 filed
8 BRANDS · EVERY MARKET DECISION LAYER AGENTS TEAMS

Your agents create. Your teams execute. This is the layer that decides what they should do — overnight, while you sleep.

Dettol · #1 Powerbrand by net revenue, FY25 Core Reckitt +5.2% LFL Emerging Markets +14.6% Brand-equity investment 14.6% of NR
Good morning, Sameen. I worked the portfolio overnight — one decision is shaped and waiting, three briefs are ready to dispatch.
Try
While you slept · overnight watch
04:02 BST · no one asked it to · runs every night
9
data sources read across the portfolio
2.1M
rows reconciled to source
4
signals triaged · 2 muted so you don't waste spend
1
decision shaped, costed & ready
~3 weeks
of analyst turnaround the layer just saved you — done before 4am
✦ The night shift · agent activity
00:00 → 04:02 BST
You didn't open a single dashboard. The layer found the money, wrote the decision, and queued the briefs. You decide; your machine executes.
The one decision · caught overnight
Dettol spend is working harder in the East than the West — an allocation problem, not a brand-health one.
Emerging-market germ-protection demand is outrunning its media; a mature-market flight has pushed past wear-out. I shaped the £18.6M reallocation, the creative angle, and the routing into your agents and your RGM lead — before you opened your laptop.
Brand-equity investment in play
£18.6M
→ £14.6M measured · representative
How this changes your Monday
Same data. Same agents. A different job.
Without the layer · today
Tuesday, after the numbers land
You brief an analyst. Three weeks later a deck describes the problem — not the decision.
A meeting to align, another to decide. Your agents wait, pointed at last quarter's target.
By the time spend moves, the window has half-closed.
With the command centre · now
Monday, 8:00am, coffee still hot
The decision is shaped and costed — £18.6M east, £14.6M measured, sources attached.
Three briefs sit ready for your agents and your RGM lead — one click each.
You walk into Kris's office holding the answer, and move on to the next bet.
The shift: from the person who commissions the analysis to the one who walks in with the decision. The layer gives you back the three weeks.
Don't take my word for it — shape the live decision yourself and watch the guardrail hold.
Core Reckitt LFL+5.2%▲ ahead of 4–5% targetFY2025 filed · tap for detail
Emerging Markets+14.6%▲ China · India · ASEAN d-digitFY2025 filed · tap for detail
Europe−1.4%▼ challenging consumerFY2025 filed · tap for detail
Top CMUs holding/gaining share51%▼ from 55% · watch itFY2025 filed · tap for detail
The marketing portfolio, read as decisions
Each brand leads with the number that moves it · tap any card for detail
Decisions in motion · your playbooks
You're inside a simulation built for Reckitt. Real FY2025 public filings anchor the portfolio (Core +5.2%, EM +14.6%, Dettol #1 Powerbrand, BEI 14.6% of net revenue, Activ Botany ~£60m). Market-level shares, media-efficiency figures and the £18.6M reallocation are representative / synthetic, clearly labelled — generated by the Context Graph above Reckitt's marketing data, on Reckitt's cloud, inside Reckitt's governance. No spend moves until you dispatch.
Playbooks·Repeatable motions · human-led & agent-led

The motions the layer runs for you — some by agents, some by people.

A playbook is a decision pattern the command centre knows how to run end-to-end. It detects the trigger, shapes the decision with a governed trace, and routes execution to whoever does it best — an agent in your suite, or a person on your team. You run it; the layer does the work.
Why·Dettol · germ protection · East vs West · 12 weeks

The growth engine is real. The media behind it isn't keeping up.

Governed trace · four agents · every figure reconciled to source
FetcherPulled FY25 brand P&L, BEI by market, media mix-model, panel + social velocity · 9 sources2.0s
SQLGoverned marginal-ROI decomposition by market — zero free-form generation5.8s
KnowledgeApplied Reckitt premiumisation logic + media wear-out curves + share-tolerance bands3.1s
SupervisorCross-checked every figure to source · 36/36 reconciled · assumptions stated1.7s
The diagnosis · marginal return on the next £1 of media
2.4× wider
The next pound works 2.4× harder in the East cohort than in the fatigued Western flight · representative
This isn't a brand-health problem — Dettol equity is holding or rising in every market read. It's an allocation problem: the money is sitting where it has stopped compounding, while demand outruns it elsewhere.
Ranked causes
Each one opens straight into the workflow that fixes it
1
East demand is outrunning its media — Activ Botany & the plant-based surge
China plant-derived launch (~£60m first year, FY25 filed) and double-digit India/ASEAN growth pull demand faster than share-of-voice. Opportunity · compounds if funded now
+£11.2Munfunded upside
↳ Routes to Content + Media Agent · Launch Amplify
2
A mature-market germ-protection flight is past wear-out
Frequency crossed the diminishing-returns knee; marginal ROI ~0.7. The money buys reach you'd get anyway. Recoverable · reallocate, don't cut equity
−£7.4Mwasted weight
↳ Routes to Media Agent · Catch & Reallocate
3
Share competitiveness slipping where price-value gap widened
Top CMUs holding/gaining share fell to 51% from 55% (FY25 filed). Two mature markets crossed the tolerance band — a content + RGM answer, not a list-price cut.
−0.6pts share
↳ Routes to RP Ravi P. · RGM Lead · Premium Defence
▴ Structural vs marketing-fixable · read before the EXCO
Of the East upside, ~£4.0M is structural category tailwind — it accrues whether or not you act, and claiming it as ROI would be dishonest. What your reallocation actually moves is the £7.2M that needs share-of-voice to convert plus the £7.4M of wasted Western weight you redeploy. The honest number is what the decision changes, not the whole pool. Measured, not promised.
The "what to do" is shaped. Open the composer to shape the constraints and route it, or take the whole decision to the board.
Brief·Dettol · Q3 brand-equity reallocation · for Sameen Gul

The decision, written verdict-first — in your language, sources attached.

I have the diagnosis. Generate the board-grade brief — the reallocation, the creative angle, the markets, the measured impact, and the source appendix — then download it or dispatch it.
Dispatch·Decision → your people & your agents

The decision is made here. It executes through your machine.

CalvinBall doesn't make creative, buy media, or price packs. It decides what to make, where to spend, and what to defend — then hands each piece to whoever does it best: an agent in your suite, or a person on your team.
Your 10-agent suite and 500+ marketers are the muscle. This is the layer above them that turns a portfolio signal into governed, traceable briefs each one can act on. The Supervisor signs off before anything routes. Nothing leaves without your click.
Portfolio signal
CalvinBall · 04:02
Governed decision
CalvinBall · the brief
Content Agent
Your suite · creates
Media Agent
Your suite · executes
Your RGM lead
Your team · decides price
Supervisor guardrail active. Each payload carries its own source appendix and held-equity constraint. The reallocation is bounded to wasted weight — no market drops below its equity floor. A payload that would breach a brand guardrail is blocked, not routed.
Routing into your machineAzure OpenAI · EPAM/Empathy Lab
0 of 4 briefs routed.
Signal·Emerging-issues radar · last 24h

What I caught while no one was watching.

Ranked by value × closing window · the Dettol reallocation fired from signals 1 and 2 · 2 muted so you don't act on noise.
Ask·Portfolio-aware · answers in place

Ask the command centre anything.

Context: Dettol reallocation · £18.6M in play · 9 live sources
✦ Ask me anything — here's where leaders like you start