ZPEi
Zero-Party Engagement Index

A new way to understand every customer relationship.

Reach tells you how many people you can get in front of.
ZPEi tells you how valuable the relationship is becoming.

ZPEi is the intelligence layer behind SWiiFT Studio. It measures how effectively a business turns third-party reach and anonymous audiences into direct, permissioned relationships, then tracks how those relationships deepen through participation, behaviour and information people willingly share.

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We have spent years measuring attention.

The digital economy has become very good at putting a price on reach.

Platforms such as Google, Meta and TikTok have built enormous businesses around helping brands find and reach audiences. These metrics are useful. But they predominantly tell you about media performance and platform activity. They do not tell you how strong the relationship between a customer and your business has become.

  • Cost to put an advertisement in front of 1,000 people.
  • Cost to generate a click.
  • Percentage of people who saw something and responded.

When the campaign stops, much of that reach stops with it.

ZPEi measures what happens after attention.

  1. A click has value.

  2. A customer choosing to establish a direct relationship with your business has more.

  3. A customer returning, sharing a preference, completing a survey, attending an experience, creating content, buying again or recommending you to someone else has more again.

ZPEi is designed to recognise that difference.

From third-party reach to evolving customer intelligence.

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Third-party

At first, you may know almost nothing about someone.

  • Social follower
  • Paid-media audience
  • Website visitor
  • Marketplace customer
  • Event attendee
  • Person walking past your venue

You may be able to reach them, but the relationship is largely controlled by somebody else.

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First-party

SWiiFT Studio gives that person a reason to establish a direct relationship with your business.

  • Claim an invitation
  • Join an experience
  • Add something to their wallet
  • Redeem an offer
  • Make a transaction
  • Become a member

You now have a direct, permissioned connection.

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Evolving zero-party data

The relationship can then become progressively richer.

  • Interests
  • Preferences
  • Intentions
  • Feedback
  • Needs
  • Experiences
  • Choices

Alongside this, ongoing first-party behaviour adds context around how the relationship is developing. A static customer record becomes a living relationship profile.

That evolution is fundamental to ZPEi.

Your ZPEi Score

Your ZPEi Score provides a view of the strength of the relationships your business is building.

Illustrative ZPEi score00–100
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Directional, not a calculation
  1. Conversion

    Moving people from anonymous or third-party audiences into direct, permissioned relationships.

  2. Participation

    Claiming, visiting, responding, sharing, creating, buying, returning.

  3. Frequency & recency

    How often and how recently people engage.

  4. Relationship depth

    How much customers choose to share over time.

  5. Commercial value

    Transactions, frequency, retention, lifetime value.

  6. Community value

    Creating content, referring others, participation, feedback, advocacy.

Not every action has the same value.

ZPEi is designed to understand the difference between being seen and actually being valued.

1,000 engaged relationships can be worth more than 100,000 passive followers.

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Passive audience
Sees · Scrolls · Leaves

Engaged relationship
Chooses · Shares · Returns

Traditional platforms naturally reward scale: more impressions, more reach, more traffic, more followers. ZPEi introduces another question: What are those people actually worth to the relationship?

Reach matters. Engagement matters more.

The most valuable dataset is the one your customers help create.

Businesses spend enormous amounts of money accessing audiences through third parties. Then they frequently spend again to reach the same people. ZPEi changes the economics.

Instead of continually paying to rediscover an audience, SWiiFT Studio helps a business progressively build its own relationship layer.

  1. Email / ID
  2. Preferences
  3. Participation
  4. Behaviour
  5. Intent
  6. Advocacy

Not a list of email addresses. Not another audience segment.

A continually evolving picture of who your customers are, what they care about, what they choose, how they participate, and how the relationship is changing.

The ZPEi model is designed to create richer permissioned customer intelligence at economics that can be materially more efficient than repeatedly buying reach through third-party platforms.

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SWiiFT Studio is the engagement engine.

Each interaction produces another signal. Together, those signals help ZPEi understand how the relationship is evolving.

Engagement should create value for both sides.

Today, much of the money businesses spend acquiring attention flows to the platforms sitting between the business and the customer.

What if some of that value went to the community instead?

ZPEi Coin

Tokenising engagement.

ZPEi Coin creates the reward layer within the ZPEi ecosystem. It is designed to allow a business to recognise and reward meaningful participation — not simply purchasing, but engagement.

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  • Joining an experience
  • Sharing a preference
  • Providing useful feedback
  • Creating content
  • Introducing another customer
  • Supporting a community initiative
  • Reaching a milestone
  • Participating consistently over time

The business determines which behaviours it values. The community can then participate in the value being created.

That is the thesis behind tokenising engagement.

Spend less buying the audience. Invest more in the relationship.

Traditional model

  1. Pay to find audience
  2. Pay for impressions
  3. Pay for clicks
  4. Pay to acquire
  5. Pay again to reach later

The ZPEi flywheel

  1. Reach
  2. Relationship
  3. Engagement
  4. Data
  5. Intelligence
  6. Reward
  7. Deeper relationship

Instead of all of the economics flowing upstream to third-party media platforms, a fraction can be redirected into the people creating the value.

  • The customerGreater recognition and utility.
  • The businessRicher permissioned data.
  • The outcomeA stronger relationship.

From buying attention to building an asset.

A media impression disappears.
A click is a moment.
A meaningful customer relationship can compound.

ZPEi gives businesses a way to begin measuring something they have historically struggled to put a value on: the strength of the relationship between the business and the individual.

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  • Know the value of the relationships you are building.
  • Understand what makes them stronger.
  • Reward the people contributing to them.

The new relationship economy

Reach is rented. Relationships compound.

Google can help you find people. Meta can help you reach people. Marketplaces can help you transact with people. SWiiFT Studio helps you build a direct relationship with them. ZPEi measures how valuable that relationship is becoming. ZPEi Coin creates a way to share value with the people helping create it.

Build the relationship.
Measure its strength.
Reward the engagement.
Grow its value.