A.I. Audits

AI Creative Audits: Know Before You Launch

Every Brainsight plan includes neuromarketing-grade AI analysis of your creatives, powered by predictive attention modeling, based on System 1, pre-attentive response: the split-second, subconscious reaction before conscious thought kicks in.

For a full creative diagnostic with a pillar-by-pillar breakdown, Deep Audits are what you're looking for. For quick design validations, use our instant Attention Snapshot.

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Full analysis and optimization suggestions for every creative

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10+ years of neuroscience & eye-tracking research

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5,000+ live eye-tracking studies behind our modeling

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Agency + Tech foundation, not just a model

Deep Audit (Business Plan and up)
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Full Neuromarketing Diagnostic

Brainsight's Deep Audits bring your channel, distinctive brand assets and creative objectives together in one assessment. It analyzes visual drivers for attention and cognitive load, and checks the structural foundation required for potential engagement and memory. It returns a scored, structured verdict with an overall Creative Impact Score, pillar-by-pillar analyses, and concrete optimization suggestions.
Read the science behind predictive attention →
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Watch: How a Deep Audit works · 1 min

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Pre-test and validate whether your brand, key message and creative strategy actually stand out and land in your audience's mind

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Neuromarketing assessment on creative effectiveness and performance. If heatmaps show you where attention lands, Deep Audit unravels what that means

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Pillar-by-pillar diagnostic breakdown, with optimization suggestions and ready-to-copy A/B testing hypotheses

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Integrated AI Analyst that understands your creative, scores, DBA and goals, for follow up sparring sessions

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Consistent, rubric-scored results: the same creative returns the same read, not a different answer every prompt

Attention Snapshot (included in every plan)

Attention snapshot for quick validations

Not every creative needs a full diagnostic. Sometimes you just need a quick, System 1 read before a meeting, a fast sanity check between two options, or a head start on a report you're building yourself. Ready in about 20 seconds.
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Quick creative content analysis

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Immediately understand benchmarked metrics

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Validates: Associations, Clarity, Attention. Brand, Message and Conversion scores in one pass

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Get a head start on your presentation with downloadable reports in 30 secs

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Attention Snapshots are available for Display Ads, Social Ads, (Digital) Out-of-Home, UX Design, Magazine Covers

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Included in every plan, no upgrade needed

Brainsight Attention Snapshot comparing Coca-Cola and Pepsi ad pre-testing scores
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Built for Your Channel, Your Objective, Your Brand

A branding campaign and a sales campaign are read differently: branding leans on whether the brand gets loaded and sticks, sales and activation lean on whether the offer registers fast enough to act on. Deep Audits are not a generic standard. They read your creative against its own channel, your objectives, distinctive brand assets, and contextual elements, like key assets or a specific message. Therefore, specific creative assessment models have been built for specific use-cases:

Web & Landing Pages

6 pillars

Checks Initial Hook, Visual Hierarchy, Processing Ease, Visual Guidance, Brand & Message, and Inclusive Design.

No separate accessibility audit needed: inclusive design is scored in the same pass as everything else.

Typical use: catching a confusing CTA or a buried headline before launch, and filling your A/B testing backlog with data-driven hypotheses instead of guesses.

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Advertising (Social, Display, OOH & DOOH)

5 pillars

Checks Breakthrough, Brand Linkage, Instant Understanding, Cognitive Ease, and Message Take-out, read against your campaign objective.

Branding campaigns weight Brand Linkage and Message Take-out heavier. Sales and performance campaigns weight Instant Understanding and Cognitive Ease heavier: same framework, read differently.

Typical use: design validation, checking whether your key message lands, and confirming brand, product/service and message load in the right order.

Also used for post-campaign analysis (why did this asset perform the way it did) and to verify cognitive ease: does the message register in a single glance?

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Video

Deep Audit only

The same 5-pillar framework (Breakthrough, Brand Linkage, Instant Understanding, Cognitive Ease, Message Take-out), tracked frame by frame across the full runtime, not a single moment.

Deep Audit reads video with the format and viewing situation in mind: a social video is judged on whether it stops the scroll in the first second, a TVC has more room for storytelling, and a cinema ad reaches a more engaged, captive audience. That's exactly why video needs the full Deep Audit.

Brainsight is known for extensive video coverage: the number and length of videos you can heatmap and analyze are included in your plan, with no additional credits.

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Magazine Covers

5 pillars

Format-aware scoring across the same 5 pillars (Breakthrough, Brand Linkage, Instant Understanding, Cognitive Ease, Message Take-out) for shelf and kiosk context, not a generic billboard read.

A cover is judged against what's next to it on the shelf, the same way a bus shelter ad is judged against its own placement. Is it shown as a full cover, or is it buried behind other magazines, only showing the top layer? 

Benchmarked against your own category, not a generic standard: a glossy magazine isn't judged like a car magazine. Clarity and Attention scores show how well your cover stands out in a busy, chaotic shelf at the bookstore or supermarket.

Want that category benchmark built specifically for your own portfolio? See Custom Benchmarks →

quick guide: HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR PLAN

Which One Do You Need?

The Attention Snapshot (or Quick Audit) and the Deep Audit are both built on the same underlying foundations, predicting the System 1, pre-attentive response. The difference is in the AI modeling that is applied and how the analysis is delivered.
FeatureAttention SnapshotDeep Audit
SubscriptionAll plansBusiness Plan and up
Time to Result~20 seconds~3 minutes
Analysis TypeGeneral assessmentObjective-based, creative-specific analysis
Explains Why Your Scores Are What They AreYesYes
Full Creative DiagnosticsNoYes
Creative Impact ScoreNoYes
AI AnalystStarts fresh each timeIncorporated, with full context of your creative
A/B Testing HypothesesNoYes
Optimization SuggestionsLimitedExtensive, goal-oriented
ReportingOnline summary, downloadable reportOnline intelligence dashboard
Video CoverageDOOHAll formats (TVC, DOOH, Social, etc.)
FAQS

frequently asked questions

What's the difference between the Attention Snapshot and the Deep Audit?
Brainsight's Attention Snapshot is included in every plan and returns a read in about 20 seconds: Associations, Clarity, Attention, Brand, Message and Conversion scores, each with a plain-language explanation of why the score is what it is, plus a branded, downloadable report. Deep Audit is available from the Business plan up and takes about 3 minutes. It runs your creative through a full, channel-specific pillar framework (Full Creative Diagnostics), returns a benchmarked Creative Impact Score, ready-to-copy A/B testing hypotheses, and comes with an AI Analyst incorporated with the full context of your creative, scores, and goal, rather than starting a fresh chat. Results live in an online intelligence dashboard rather than a PDF export.
What are the pillars in a Deep Audit, and are they the same for every format?
No, Brainsight's pillar framework is format-specific. Web and landing pages are scored on 6 pillars: Initial Hook, Visual Hierarchy, Processing Ease, Visual Guidance, Brand & Message, and Inclusive Design. Advertising formats (social, display, OOH and DOOH) use 5 pillars: Breakthrough, Brand Linkage, Instant Understanding, Cognitive Ease, and Message Take-out. Video and magazine covers use the same 5-pillar advertising framework, adapted to their own placement context: a bus shelter ad is judged like a bus shelter ad, not a billboard. Within each pillar sit several sub-pillars, scored and weighted through Brainsight's own scoring and weighting matrix, built on our scientific and customer-research expertise.
Does Brainsight give the same result if I run the same creative twice?
Broadly, yes, though Attention Snapshot and Deep Audit get there differently. Attention Snapshot runs on a general analysis layer, guided by fixed logic and fed by consistent, benchmarked data, so results stay reasonably stable. Deep Audit is a dedicated scored model: fixed rubrics, weightings, and score floors, ceilings, and speed bumps, not a general-purpose response. Right at a threshold edge, a Deep Audit score can occasionally land just above or below it, but the underlying model and its logic never shift. Both are grounded in Brainsight's own neuromarketing science and customer-research experience, not a fresh guess each time.
How is Brainsight different from asking an AI to give feedback on my design or ad?
Brainsight is built on a three-layer model, not a single AI prompt. Layer 1 is a Predictive Attention Engine, validated against live eye-tracking in published studies. Layer 2 benchmarks that output against a defined peer set. Layer 3, the Deep Audit, interprets both against a fixed, research-grounded framework, not an open-ended response generated fresh each time. That structure, not a general-purpose model, is what makes the read reproducible and grounded in Brainsight's own neuromarketing science.
Does the Deep Audit take my campaign objective and brand assets into account?
Yes. Every Brainsight Deep Audit can be run with optional context: your brand's distinctive assets, campaign goal, and key message. A branding campaign is weighted differently than a sales or performance campaign. Branding reads lean more heavily on Brand Linkage and Message Take-out (does the brand get loaded, does it stick), while sales and performance reads lean more heavily on Instant Understanding and Cognitive Ease (does the offer register fast and effortlessly). The verdict and suggestions adjust to that context rather than judging every creative against one generic standard.
Can I run a Deep Audit on video, and is there a quick version for it?
Deep Audit covers all video formats, including TVC, DOOH, and social video, with frame-by-frame brand and message tracking across the full runtime, adapted to the format and viewing situation: a social video is judged on whether it stops the scroll, a TVC has more room for storytelling, and a cinema ad reaches a more engaged, captive audience. That format-awareness is exactly why video runs on the full Deep Audit. See full video brand tracking capabilities →
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Request a Deep Audit

If you are considering Brainsight, and would like to have one of your assets analysed by our Deep Audit Module, upload your creative here and our team will run it through our platform for you, no account needed. You'll get your Creative Impact Score, pillar breakdown, and optimization suggestions back by email.
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