Every time we finished a campaign, we’d do a post-mortem, document a few takeaways, and then… file it away. The knowledge existed, but it was scattered across emails, shared drives, and people’s heads. When we ran a similar campaign three months later, we’d basically start from scratch.
Then someone finally asked the obvious question: “Why aren’t we reusing what we learned?”
So we decided to tackle it differently. Instead of random post-mortems, we built a structured template for every campaign we run. Each case study documents: what was the objective, what actions did we take, what were the quantifiable results, and—most importantly—what’s the insight that applies to the next campaign?
But the real shift was deciding that this wasn’t just an internal archive. We started building cross-market case studies where Russian and US teams could see what worked on both sides. A campaign that killed it for a Russian e-commerce brand became a reference point for a US team’s next strategy.
Then we added one more layer: we stopped burying the failures in the same way. Negative case studies are just as valuable. A campaign that didn’t hit targets, analyzed honestly, often teaches more than the wins.
The impact was bigger than expected. New team members could onboard faster because they had reference material. Strategic decisions got better because we could point to precedent. And we started saying “we’ve tested this exact angle before, and here’s what happened” instead of guessing.
For us working cross-market, this became a huge lever. We could say to a new US partner, “Here’s exactly how Russian brands approach this challenge,” and show them structured data. Trust built faster. Collaboration deepened.
But it’s still manual in a lot of ways. We’re using Notion and Google Sheets, and as we scale, it’s harder to keep consistent. And the knowledge exchange between markets is still a bit random—we’re not systematically pulling insights from Russian campaigns and applying them to US strategy, or vice versa.
I’m curious how others are handling this. Are you turning campaign results into a reusable knowledge base? What structure works for you? And how do you make sure that casework from one market actually informs strategy in another?