Campaign operations, built for practice

Learn campaign operations by actually doing the work.

Makona is a guided campaign-operations environment for planning media, preparing creative, building activation, reviewing readiness, reconciling spend, and understanding how the pieces connect.

No client data required. Start with fictional campaigns and realistic operational scenarios.

Inside Makona

Start with the work that needs attention.

See what’s expected live, ready to traffic, blocked, starting soon, ending soon and requiring attention — then jump into the work. Confirmed Live requires its own evidence.

Makona Operations Overview in a fictional workspace, showing status queues, booked media, Ready for Trafficking, and upcoming work
Operations Overview · fictional campaign data
Makona Media Planner investment view with fictional campaign data
Media planning
Makona Activation workspace with fictional line items
Activation

Full campaign workflow

One environment. The full campaign workflow.

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  1. 01

    Intake

    Define the Client Account, Advertiser, Brand and scope.

  2. 02

    Plan

    Build the media recommendation and Plan Lines.

  3. 03

    Production

    Turn strategy into creative deliverables and evidence.

  4. 04

    Activation

    Prepare Line Items, naming, tracking and QA.

  5. 05

    Finance

    Reconcile charges, assignments and exceptions.

  6. 06

    Closeout

    Resolve delivery and financial blockers.

Creative production

From provider guidance to concrete deliverables.

Browse profiles by provider, choose the options for a campaign, preview its deliverables, then review received assets and values in Production.

01 / LIBRARY

Provider and source

Keep format rules, placements, version and source evidence together.

02 / CAMPAIGN

Requirement set

Select a quantity for repeatable groups such as Carousel cards before creating a request.

03 / PRODUCTION

Deliverable evidence

Review each card, file and value separately. Approval and fulfillment remain distinct.

Start with fictional data

Explore a fictional campaign before bringing in your own workflow.

Open Makona, choose Practice, and inspect a four-card creative deliverable case in its own context.

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Fictional workspace

Fictional records and provider guidance in a separate local context.

Guided practice

A clear objective and operational evidence to review; scoring is planned.

Practice

Practice decisions in realistic scenarios.

The Luma & Moss Creative Deliverables workspace is ready inside Makona. Other industry scenarios are coming soon.

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  1. 01Choose a scenario
  2. 02Review the objective
  3. 03Open its local context
  4. 04Inspect provider evidence
  5. 05Resolve deliverable gaps
  6. 06Decide readiness

What works today

A local workspace for connected operations.

Work across modules

Intake, media planning, creative briefs, Spec Library, Production, Activation, Campaign Links, Finance and Operations Overview.

Review before handoff

Use status queues and Ready-to-Traffic review/export from the implemented records. Launch confirmation requires separate evidence.

Keep a copy

Records stay in this browser’s local workspace. Export a native backup for your own records; there is no account sync.

What’s coming

More ways to learn and work.

Expanded guided practice, short instructional videos, and future account capabilities are planned concepts, not available features.

Makona · By Arvin Stewart

See how the work connects.

Start in a local workspace, explore fictional data, and move from intake to closeout.

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