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Google and Meta in one view, audited every night by the crew, which reads every dollar against every lead and proposes the move before the waste compounds.
The problem, the product, the change.
Spend nobody reads.
Google and Meta each say they are working. Nobody reads the search terms at 2am, and waste compounds for a month before a report catches it.
A nightly audit that proposes the move.
The crew reads every dollar against every lead every night, catches waste and fraud, and drafts the change with the numbers behind it.
Cost per lead falls and stays down.
Negatives added the night they appear. Budgets moved to where the dollar works. You approve, the change ships, the brief reports it.
The ledger, read every night.
A typical night: every platform read, spend moved to where leads cost less, and anything bigger waits for your yes.
Clicks between 9 PM and 6 AM cost 38% more per lead and rarely booked, so the crew pulled bids back 60% for those hours and moved the money into the 7 to 10 AM rush.
Twelve things it does every week.
Search terms, schedules, placements, budgets, all read while you sleep.
Search, Performance Max, Maps and Meta reported as one account.
Every lead carries the click that bought it. Cost per lead is real, not modelled.
A move is drafted with the numbers behind it. You approve in the brief.
Invalid clicks identified, excluded and refunded where the platform allows.
Free, jobs, DIY and the rest of your list, added the night they show up.
Bids follow the hours that convert, not the hours that click.
Month-end forecast every night. No surprise overspend.
Ad sets in every size, proofread, straight from Creative Studio.
Speed, forms and tracking checked on every landing page nightly.
Who is bidding on your name, and what it costs them.
Spend, leads, cost per lead, and what changed.
What happens while you sleep.
One real evening, minute by minute.
- The crewReads the day. Arlington cost per lead up 38% in ten days, mostly after-hours clicks.
- The crewFinds 40 clicks from two IP ranges that never converted. Excludes them, files the refund.
- The crewProposes tightening the Arlington schedule and moving part of its budget to Frisco.
- The crewChecks the math. Same dollar, cheaper lead. Queues it for your yes.
- YouTap Approve. The change ships before your coffee is cold.
Someone reads every dollar while you sleep.
You will meet them soon. That is all we are saying for now.
Be first to meet them.
One email when the door opens. Nothing else.
This is what you open.
Plugs into what you already run.
Three people we built it for.
The owner paying an agency $500 to "manage" $1,500
You suspect half of it is wasted. You are right more often than not.
Gets: A nightly audit that shows the waste, and the fix, in plain English.
The regional manager
Six budgets, one card, no idea which location the dollar should go to.
Gets: Budget by location, ranked by cost per lead, with the move proposed every morning.
The media buyer
Forty accounts and no time to read search terms.
Gets: Forty audits a night, exceptions surfaced, approvals in one place.
Week by week, who does what.
| When | What happens | Who does it | You approve |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Connect the accounts read-only. Baseline a week. | The crew | Nothing yet |
| Weeks 2 to 4 | Negatives, schedules and exclusions proposed nightly. | The crew | Each proposal, then the auto rules |
| Weeks 5 to 8 | Budget moves between locations. Fraud filtering on. | The crew | The moves |
| Weeks 9 to 12 | New creative from the studio. Landing page fixes. | The crew | The creative |
Against the usual options.
| Ad Systems Lab | A reporting dashboard | A media agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reads search terms | Nightly | No | Weekly, maybe |
| Proposes changes | Every morning | No | Monthly |
| Fraud filtering | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| Attribution | Calls and forms | Clicks | Clicks |
| You approve | Every change | Nothing to approve | Rarely asked |
| Cost | Included in the managed service | Software | 15% of spend |
What is in it, and who runs it.
Ad Systems Lab comes with the managed service, for one business, an agency's clients or a franchise's locations, under your own name. AdLab™ adds a strategist who executes and a flat fee, not a percentage.
Get my planNumbers, by trade.
cost per lead in month one
of spend caught as waste in month one
traffic over the engagement
Ad Systems Lab questions, answered.
Does Ad Systems Lab run my PPC ads or only report on them?
Ad Systems Lab audits and proposes, and AdLab™ is the service that runs the ads. Every night the crew reads search terms, schedules, placements and budgets against every lead, then drafts each change with the numbers behind it. You approve it in the morning brief. If you want a person executing your Google and Meta campaigns, AdLab™ adds a strategist for a flat fee, not a percentage of your spend.
Which ad platforms does Ad Systems Lab audit?
Ad Systems Lab audits Google Search, Performance Max, Maps and Meta, reported together as one account. You see spend, leads and cost per lead across every platform in one view instead of logging into each one. More platforms are available on request. Every lead carries the click that bought it, so calls and forms are tied back to the campaign that paid for them.
How much does PPC management cost with Ad Systems Lab?
Ad Systems Lab is part of the managed service, a flat plan scoped after a short audit call, compared with 15% of spend at a typical media agency. The plan covers the nightly audit, proposals, attribution, budget pacing and the morning brief, with fraud filtering included. Agencies and franchises get it for every client or location under their own name. Managed paid media through AdLab™ adds a strategist who executes, for a flat fee rather than a percentage.
Is my ad spend included in the Ad Systems Lab price?
No. Your ad spend is billed directly by the ad platforms, such as Google and Meta, based on the budget you set, and it is separate from the software fee. Your ad accounts stay in your name, always, so the budget, the history and the data remain yours. Ad Systems Lab reads that spend every night and proposes where each dollar should go next.
What is the minimum ad spend for Ad Systems Lab?
There is no minimum ad spend for the software, so a single location with a small budget gets the same nightly audit as a large account. The owner paying an agency $500 to manage $1,500 is exactly who we built it for. If you want the campaigns run by a person, AdLab™ starts at a budget where the math works for your cost per lead.
Can Ad Systems Lab change my Google and Meta campaigns on its own?
Only through rules you turn on, such as adding negative keywords. Everything else is a proposal: the crew drafts the move with the numbers behind it, checks the math and queues it for your yes. You tap Approve in the morning brief and the change ships. In weeks 2 to 4, negatives, schedules and exclusions are proposed nightly, and you approve each one before any auto rule goes on.
How does Ad Systems Lab catch click fraud and wasted ad spend?
It reads every click against every lead each night and flags what never converts. In one real evening the crew found 40 clicks from two IP ranges that never converted, excluded them and filed the refund. Invalid clicks are refunded where the platform allows, and negatives such as free, jobs and DIY are added the night they show up. TrafficShield Engineered™ adds deeper click fraud forensics.
Can Ad Systems Lab move PPC budget between my locations?
Yes. Ad Systems Lab sorts every location by cost per lead and proposes the budget move each morning. In one example, Arlington cost per lead rose 38% in ten days, mostly from after-hours clicks, so the crew proposed tightening the Arlington schedule and moving part of its budget to Frisco. Same dollar, cheaper lead. A month-end forecast also runs every night, so no location surprises you with overspend.
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