How It Works

The full mechanism, nothing hidden

PhronexusAI is a cross-promotion network — SaaS businesses within the network promote each other reciprocally, instead of paid ads. It exists for one purpose: to give your SaaS business real exposure to a warm, complementary audience — with no ad budget, and never exposing you to your own competitors. This page describes the exact mechanism, formulas, and logic — not general marketing talk.

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The core guarantee: never your competitors

During signup, your business's category and subcategory are stored. Every time the system chooses who shows on your page, businesses in your category are automatically excluded — before any other calculation even begins. Plus, you have extra control: you can exclude any other category you're not interested in.

Step 1 — before anything else

Which pool is used: Auction or Balance?

This is the first decision, made before any other calculation. Every time someone visits your page, the system decides which of the 2 pools this specific impression falls into.

Manual Mode

You set the ratio yourself (e.g. 70% Auction / 30% Balance) from your dashboard. The system follows that exact ratio, generation after generation.

Automatic Mode

Let the platform decide for itself — based on which ratio (Auction/Balance) has historically brought the most conversions specifically for you, adjusting the ratio over time.

Step 2A — if it falls to the Auction

How the auction weight is calculated

1

AI Score (matching)

When you sign up, AI compares your business's description/category with every other business of the same type (B2B↔B2B, B2C↔B2C; B2B2C connects with everyone). For every pair, a numeric score is stored — how complementary the audiences are.

2

Profile Points

Exact formula: impressions given ÷ RATE + conversions. RATE varies by type — 175 for B2B, 320 for B2C, 248 for B2B2C. Every verified conversion adds 1 point directly.

3

New-business boost

If you're among the top 3 combinations by AI score for an advertiser, you get an initial "boost" — only when AI points are between 20–320. The boost is subtracted automatically from your profile points — the more active you become, the faster it fades on its own.

Total weight = AI Score + Profile Points + Boost (if applicable)

Win probability = your weight ÷ the sum of weights of all qualifying candidates (weighted lottery, not a fixed ranking).

Step 2B — if it falls to Balance

How the Balance model decides

Unlike the Auction (weighted lottery), Balance doesn't use randomness — it's a deterministic decision, based on deficit.

1

Calculate the deficit

For each candidate: impressions given − impressions received (from the Balance pool only). Whoever has given more than they've received has a positive deficit.

2

The largest deficit wins

If only 1 candidate has the maximum deficit, they win immediately — no further calculation. This is the most common case.

3

Tie → AI score → random

If 2+ candidates tie on deficit, the one with the higher AI (matching) score wins. If that also ties (rare), the choice is made randomly.

Step 3 — after the winning business

Which specific ad shows

Here's another, separate decision from Step 1 — once the winning business is determined (from either the Auction or Balance), if they have 2 or more active ads, which one specifically to show must be decided.

A

New ad (<5 views)

Gets automatic rotating priority — every new ad goes through a "data collection" phase before real performance starts deciding.

B

2 ads, both with history

Weighted lottery based on performance scores (views+conversions) of each — not a fixed 50/50, the higher-performing one has better odds, but no guarantee.

C

3+ active ads

The same weighted-lottery logic extends across all ads at once — each participates proportionally to its own score, regardless of the total count.

4

Snippet & real placement

Add one line of code to your page. This does two things at once: enters your business into the auction pool, and opens the real space where an ad shows. Takes up zero space when there's no ad to display.

5

AI-created ad formats

Three formats: image, video (YouTube link), or interactive HTML5. Upload your own, or let AI create it from scratch based on your business description.

6

Tracking & Analytics

Set up conversion tracking (confirmation URL, button snippet, or global) and see everything on your dashboard: impressions given/received, per-ad performance, verified conversions.

That's it — no third parties, no ad budget

The more exposure/conversions you give, the higher you naturally rank in the auction — and your competitors never show, in either pool.

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