01 · Competitive Reality

The Category Is Drowning In Its Own Creative

National wireless is flooding the air with creative volume. Attention is finite. Rank and airings tell you who is buying the room — and who is renting it.

Blue = our brain / systemOrange = Boost brand / money

Creatives in market · iSpot.tv brand scorecards · 30-day window 07/11/2026–08/10/2026

Verizon
1,269
T-Mobile
1,062
AT&T Wireless
748
Metro by T-Mo
365
Boost Mobile
144
Mint Mobile
93
#5 / #8
Verizon / T-Mobile spend rank
#263
Boost spend rank
#570
Mint spend rank
14,848
T-Mobile national airings (30d)

Boost airings and all dollar spend figures are gated behind an iSpot enterprise seat. Ranks shown are directional. Source: iSpot.tv brand scorecards, data available through 08/10/2026.

Efficiency curve · airings per creative

4.7
Verizon
14.0
T-Mobile
13.2
AT&T
12.9
Metro
58.0
Mint

Boost unknown (airings gated). Computed: national airings ÷ creatives in market.

Mint runs 58 airings per creative on a #570 spend rank and still out-airs Verizon. They are not buying attention. They are earning it, then buying cheaply.

02 · The Diagnosis

Boost Is Playing Someone Else's Game

Three plays are live in the category. Boost is currently cast in the wrong one.

Play 01

Network authority

Verizon, T-Mobile. Spend ranks #5 and #8. Celebrity-fronted. Boost cannot buy in and should not try.

Play 02

Free-phone offer churn

Metro (365 creatives), and most of Boost's current 144. The most crowded, least differentiated space on television. Metro owns it with "Nadayada Island." Today Boost reads as a worse Metro.

Play 03

Price theater with a face

Mint. One person, one joke structure, one number. Ryan Reynolds is the entire moat.

Boost has 144 creatives and no character, no recurring format, and no reason to be remembered between offers. Offer-led jingles rent attention. They never own it.

The open lane

Every competitor sells the network, the phone, or the price. Nobody is selling what happens after you sign — bill creep, activation fees, the upgrade trap, the twelve-month teaser rate. Verizon's own Dr. Evil campaign is arguing against activation fees, which means the category has already conceded the ground is real. Boost is the only major player with no legacy postpaid business to protect, so Boost is the only one who can take that ground without cannibalizing itself.

+212K
Q2 2025 wireless net adds
~7.36M
Subscribers (Q2 2025)
2.69%
Churn (Q2 2025)
−9K
Q4 2025 net adds
~7.53M
Q1 2026 retail wireless
~$17
/sub/mo network access

Business context: EchoStar reported results / trade press. Network access ~$17/subscriber/month to T-Mobile and AT&T (Light Reading). An MVNO cost structure means Boost cannot out-spend anyone. It has to out-remember them.

03 · Ecosystem

The Brain — Boost Encoder

Signal encoding → cross-modal fusion → high-resolution catchment prediction. Click any node.

MULTIMODAL FEATURE EXTRACTION Encoding Boost's signals UNIFIED TRANSFORMER Cross-modal fusion + governance CATCHMENT MAPPING High-resolution response prediction ZERO-PARTY Declared intent · brand-room sessions · in-store preference 1P RETAIL 7,500 STORES Activations · ports · upgrades 1P DIGITAL App · billing · autopay · care contacts · usage telemetry 2P / 3P CTV exposure · publisher logs co-op partners · panels IDENTITY CONSENT RUDDERSTACK BIGQUERY VERTEX AI BRANDFOLDER PERLOCITY CONTEXT STATE · trim · compress · retrieve PERLOCITY ENGINE TRIBE v2 → CAST → GEN → CRITIQUE SALIENCE FLUENCY LOSS AVERSION IDENTITY SIGNAL PEAK-END 7,500 STORE CATCHMENTS Response predicted at catchment resolution, not DMA resolution. Every other carrier measures a market. Boost can measure a block. Illustrative architecture diagram. Cortical rendering is a visual metaphor for response modeling, not fMRI output.
CLOSED LOOPExposure → household → catchment → activation
GOVERNANCEConsent gates every rung; brand rules never leave the boundary
OUTPUTCreative conditioned on the lever the signal licenses

04 · Resolution

The Identity Graph

This is not a concept diagram. This is the Myosin baseline file as delivered: nine linked datasets, joined on persistent Individual, Household and Address IDs, with measured Q4 coverage on every single attribute. Consent gates every rung.

494.6M
Individuals · persistent ID
6.39B
Mobile device IDs
5.21B
Behavioral records · IAB
389.6M
Phones w/ carrier name · 90.62%
The single most valuable field in this file for Boost: MobileCarrier, populated on 389,600,085 of 429,945,315 phone records (90.62%), of which 207,560,366 are confirmed cell phones (48.28%). You can see which carrier a household is on before you spend a dollar. That converts a brand campaign into a targeted conquest campaign against Metro, Cricket and Total Wireless. Language is resolved on 218,966,613 records (53.71%) including 19,683,539 Spanish-language, so the bilingual creative gap identified in the competitive read is addressable at the household level rather than guessed by DMA.
DETERMINISTIC · 100% of file · persistent keys

Individual ID · Household_ID · Address_ID · Name · Full address

All three persistent IDs on 100% of records across every dataset. This is the spine that joins phone, email, device and behavior back to one person and one door. 231.0M carry a validated PII flag.

CARRIER & REACH · the conquest layer

MobileCarrier 90.62% · Cell 48.28% · Landline 41.46% · DNC flag 53.38%

429.9M phone records, carrier named on 389.6M, last-seen date on 82.31%. Contactability and compliance state travel with the record, so suppression is built in rather than bolted on.

DEVICE & DIGITAL · billions of keys

6.39B device IDs · 1.70B emails · 5.69B IP records · 236.7M social

Hashed identifiers throughout (MD5 68.34%, SHA256 68.03% on device; MD5 67.64% on email) so activation happens on hashes, never raw PII. IP present on 98.84% of device records.

GEOGRAPHIC · the Boost store layer

DMA 100% · Lat/Long 100% · CBSA 89.17% · Census Block 84.47%

Six-decimal lat/long on every PII record and a census block on 417.8M. This converts a national TV buy into a store-catchment buy against Boost's 7,500 doors.

ECONOMIC & BEHAVIORAL · varies, stated honestly

Numeric age 81.22% · Income levels 81.85% · Median income 69.95% · Net worth 53.46%

Coverage is uneven by design and we show it. Age resolves on 331.1M and income level on 333.7M, while marital status reaches 61.42% and children-in-household 33.62%. Targeting is built on the dense fields, not the sparse ones. Plus 5.21B IAB behavioral records with recency.

Key output

Household + Carrier + Store Catchment

A household, the carrier it currently pays, and the Boost door nearest to it. That triple is what turns a national brand buy into a store-level accountable conquest buy.

Why it matters

Coverage degrades as you descend, so the engine weights every creative decision by the rung that actually resolved the person. A deterministic join earns a personalized offer. A sparse attribute earns nothing. The percentages here are measured file coverage, not estimates.

Source: Myosin Baseline Audience Attributes, Q4 counts, nine datasets. Percentages are coverage within each dataset's own universe. They are not Boost match rates, which require a join test against Boost's subscriber file.

Explore the file — every attribute, measured

Nine datasets as delivered. Select one to see its universe and attribute coverage, ranked. Orange marks fields that carry the Boost conquest or store-catchment argument.

Why this file makes the guarantee underwritable

Competitive TV read
Rival creative by DMA
Identity file
Carrier + household + geo
Boost retail
7,500 store catchments
Every PII record sits in a known television market and carries six-decimal lat/long, and nine out of ten phone records name the carrier being paid today. A competitor's airing pattern, a switchable household, and a Boost store's catchment are all addressable in the same coordinate space. You can buy the market, target the switcher, and measure the door. That chain is why the guarantee in section 09 is underwritable at all.

05 · Pierce The Veil

The Neuro Layer

How do you engage a person neurologically given what they already consume? Expand any row.

Observed: category-typical opening frames, rapid skip
Salience & prediction error
+
The brain allocates attention to violated expectation. Creative instruction: the first sub-second artifact must be unpredictable within its own placement context. A category-typical opening frame is discarded pre-consciously.
Observed: Mint's fixed face + joke structure
Processing fluency
+
Repeated, easily-processed structures feel truer and safer. This is why a recurring character and a fixed format outperform a rotating library. It is the mechanism behind Mint's moat.
Observed: bill creep, teaser rates, fee stacking
Loss aversion
+
Losses loom larger than equivalent gains. "Stop paying for what you don't use" outperforms "save money." The bill-creep territory is built on this.
Observed: prepaid status penalty in culture
Identity signaling
+
People buy what confirms who they believe they are. Prepaid carries a residual status penalty; the creative job is to convert "what I can afford" into "what I'm too smart to overpay for."
Observed: 7,500 neighborhood store presence
Social proof & in-group
+
7,500 stores means the brand is physically present in a neighborhood. Localized proof beats national proof.
Observed: plan grids, feature matrices, fee footnotes
Cognitive load & the decision cliff
+
Every additional plan variable reduces conversion. "One price for life" is a load-reduction claim before it is a price claim.
Observed: "forever" pricing sold as future benefit
Temporal discounting
+
Immediate certain benefit beats larger delayed benefit. This is why "forever" pricing must be dramatized in the present tense.
Observed: ads, store visits, first bills forgotten mid-flow
Peak-end rule
+
Memory of an experience is dominated by its peak and its end. Applies to the ad, the store visit, and the first bill.

Tribe v2 · Character Casting for Boost

Villain

The contract

The contract-locking mega-carrier and the bill that grows while you sleep. Punch the mechanism, not the competitor's customers.

Hero

The customer

The person who took control of their telecom bill. Agency restored.

Sidekick

Sparky + the arithmetic

Sparky, and the arithmetic of a price that does not move. (Text treatment only — no fabricated mark.)

The villain is the contract, not the competitor's customers — punching at the mechanism, not at people, is what keeps it likable at high frequency.

These are applied findings from attention and behavioral decision research used as creative constraints. They are heuristics for making work more memorable, not deterministic levers. Every one of them still has to win in market against a holdout.

06 · Live Demo

The Perlocity Brand Room

Compose a brief from chips. Generate. Watch structured creative stream out offline.

Simulated session. Output shown is representative of live Perlocity generations.

00:00.0 concept → structured output

Select chips, then Generate.

00:00.0

07 · Consequence

Speed & Volume Math

Traditional

brief → agency → concept → production → post → legal → traffic

0

6 to 8 weeks per campaign · tens of thousands of dollars per finished asset

Perlocity

brief → generation → swarm critique → brand check → traffic

0

15 to 30 minutes · cents to low dollars per asset

Volume without a fixed brand device is just more noise. The engine only earns its keep because sections 4 and 5 tell it what to hold constant.

Modeled illustration. Not a quoted rate.

Creatives per quarter

50144800
Traditional modeled
Perlocity modeled
Modeled delta

Assumptions (conservative, illustrative): traditional blended finished-asset cost $8,000; Perlocity blended finished-asset cost $45. Not a quote. Boost at 144 creatives vs Verizon 1,269 / T-Mobile 1,062 is a fraction of creative surface area — a generation engine closes supply gap without closing cost gap.

08 · Uncopyable Layer

The 7,500 Stores

The layer nobody else in the category has at this granularity for prepaid.

Illustrative distribution — seeded PRNG weighted toward population centers. Not real coordinates.

Store as sensor

Every activation, port-in, and upgrade is a first-party conversion event with a physical location and a timestamp.

Store as creative unit

Catchment-level creative variants — local device mix, competitive density, language mix, payday cycle. Generation makes per-catchment creative economically possible for the first time.

Store as proof

Closed-loop: national exposure → household graph → store catchment → in-store activation → attributed CPA.

Every other carrier measures a market. Boost can measure a block.

09 · The Money

Vision Bridge — Guaranteed CPA

A dedicated, performance-driven test mapped entirely to a guaranteed cost per acquisition. 100% performance-based — spend governed by the guaranteed CPA threshold.

$300,000
Reference scope · Q3 test allocation
  • RudderStackTagging deployed via RudderStack, establishing server-to-server data flow that bypasses client-side pixel restrictions so every acquisition is attributed in real time.
  • Google CloudData infrastructure managed on the Myosin side and integrated back into Boost's Google Cloud environment via unified API. Closed-loop reporting; acquisitions verified automatically with no manual reconciliation. (Integration spec owner: Omer.)
  • Creative delivery4–5 live creatives concurrently to prevent fatigue while giving budget density to optimize; :15 and :30 primary; every asset carries baseline URLs, dedicated QR codes, and short codes for cross-device continuity.

We provide the pipeline. You provide the endpoint. Real-time CPA validation directly into your existing data stack.

CPA model · arithmetic only

Enter your own target. We are not asserting your current CPA.

Acquisitions at guarantee

Example shown at $40. Replace it with your own target. Under a guarantee, variance sits with Myosin, not Boost.

Guaranteed CPA is only affordable to underwrite if creative supply is cheap and the identity graph closes the loop. The engine is what makes the guarantee underwritable. That is why the whole deck hangs together.

10 · The Model

Savings & Scale Model

Every number below is arithmetic on inputs you control. Change any field and the whole model recomputes. We assert none of your figures.

YOUR INPUTS

Your number. We are not asserting it.

Boost ran 144 in a 30-day iSpot window.

EchoStar reported 2.69% in Q2 2025.

~$17 reported by Light Reading.

Creative production

Media efficiency

Incremental subscribers

Creative surface area

TOTAL MODELED ANNUAL BENEFIT

Subscriber lifetime (1 ÷ churn)
Gross margin per subscriber / month
Contribution LTV per subscriber
LTV : CPA at guarantee
Year-one contribution from incremental subs
ANNUAL CREATIVE PRODUCTION COST
Traditional
Perlocity

Modeled illustration built entirely from the inputs on the left. Default values are reference points, not assertions about Boost: creative counts from iSpot brand scorecards (30-day window 07/11/2026–08/10/2026); churn 2.69% and network access ~$17/sub/mo from EchoStar reported results and Light Reading. Blended CPA, ARPU, budget, and per-asset costs are placeholders for Boost's own figures. Media efficiency assumes the same budget delivers acquisitions at the guaranteed CPA rather than the current blended CPA; it is a cost-per-outcome comparison, not a promise of incremental volume. LTV is contribution-based (ARPU less network access) and excludes device subsidy, retail commission, care cost, and taxes. Not a quote and not a forecast of financial results.

10 · What You're Buying

The Stack

01

Perlocity

Brand-room ideation, generation, swarm critique, asset library, brand governance.

REPLACES: slow agency concept cycles, unmanaged asset sprawl

02

The Identity Graph

Zero/first/second/third-party resolution, consent-gated, household + store catchment.

REPLACES: pixel-only attribution, market-level guesswork

03

The Neuro Framework

Tribe v2, Character Casting, the applied-lever library.

REPLACES: offer-led creative with no memory device

04

Vision Bridge

Guaranteed-CPA media with closed-loop server-side attribution.

REPLACES: brand spend without acquisition accountability

Boost stops selling the phone and starts selling freedom from the bill, through one owned device, in two languages, at a generation-engine cost structure, measured to a guaranteed CPA at store level.

Spanish-language beachhead

Boost already has meaningful Spanish creative in market and Metro is fighting hard there. Build the campaign world bilingual from concept, not as a translation layer.

11 · In The Room

Three Questions

  1. What is your true guaranteed CPA target?
  2. Who owns the brand device decision, and how fast can it be locked for 18 months?
  3. Can we get read access to store-level activation data for a single-market pilot?
Q3 pilot shape

Structural, not invented

Single market · one owned device · N creatives · guaranteed CPA · store-level readout. Reference allocation already on the table: $300,000 Q3 test. No additional dollar figures invented here.

Out-remember them.
Then measure the block.