You’re buying traffic, spending decent budgets, and reports look fine:
• Conversions are coming in
• ROAS looks okay
• Google says one thing, Facebook another — classic
Then small issues pile up:
• CRM orders with no source
• GA4 shows a spike in (direct) at checkout
• Meta overreports conversions
• Same user shows up 3 times in BI
• 40% of users “start” on the thank-you page
Ask someone who’s used to raw data and they’ll say:
“No click_id, no session_id, no user_id, no timestamps, broken UTMs — nothing to stitch. We’re blind“.
“We need raw data”.
It sounds like a technical issue. It’s not. It’s the foundation.
Raw data means:
• Full event-level logs
• Real user journeys
• Exact timestamps
• Traffic source details
• IDs to link clicks to sessions and users
Without this, you can’t:
• Build your own attribution logic
• Stitch users properly
• Break free from GA4 and Ads limits
• See the full path to conversion
Yes, you can look at polished GA4 dashboards or Amplitude reports.
But they’re built on aggregates — with sampling, gaps, and black-box logic.
Without raw data, you’re working with someone else’s version of the truth.
Want to get attribution right? Start with real raw data, not vibes.
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