How it works

From audit to results. Here's how you take control of your ad spend.

No more guessing whether your agency is doing enough. No more wasting budget on campaigns you don't have time to manage. Ad Optima gives you the technology of a software company and the expertise of an agency - with full visibility into everything.


Four phases from sign-up to seeing exactly where your money goes

1

Phase 1 · Week 1

We audit everything

Before we change a single bid, we show you exactly where your money is going - and where it's being wasted. Whether you've been running ads yourself or paying an agency, we find the leaks.

  • Campaign structure, keyword health, and wasted spend analysis
  • Ad copy quality and relevance scoring
  • Landing page speed, mobile UX, message match, and trust signals
  • Conversion tracking and attribution audit
  • Quality Score breakdown across all three factors
Deliverable: plain-English audit report with prioritised actions
2

Phase 2 · Weeks 1-2

Setup & strategy

We restructure what needs fixing and build a plan for what comes next. No generic playbooks, no agency hand-waving - your strategy is built around your account, your goals, and your market.

  • Campaign restructuring and keyword regrouping
  • Negative keyword lists built from search term data
  • Landing page design and rebuild (Landing Pages plan & above) or actionable LP recommendations + script-tag fixes (Essentials)
  • CPA and ROAS target alignment
  • Conversion tracking setup or fixes
Deliverable: strategy document and restructured campaigns
3

Phase 3 · Ongoing

AI optimises, we consult

This is where the daily work happens - and where you see the difference from an agency. Our AI manages your campaigns around the clock. You see every change in your dashboard. No waiting for a monthly report to find out what happened.

  • Bid adjustments and budget reallocation based on real-time performance
  • Keyword expansion and negative mining
  • Ad copy A/B testing and refresh cycles
  • Landing page A/B tests and CRO iterations
  • Page speed and mobile UX improvements
  • All three Quality Score factors monitored and improved in tandem
Deliverable: daily optimisations + ongoing LP improvements
4

Phase 4 · The flywheel

Compounding results

This is why you switched from your agency or stopped trying to do it yourself. Better campaigns and better landing pages mean lower costs, more traffic, and more customers - and you can see every penny working.

  • Lower cost-per-click from improved Quality Score
  • More traffic from freed-up budget
  • Higher conversion rates from optimised landing pages
  • Better ROI that compounds month over month
Result: ongoing iteration, not a one-time fix

What your agency does once a month, our AI does every day

Thousands of micro-decisions, made around the clock, based on real performance data. Not a junior account manager checking in once a week.

Bid & budget management

Real-time bid adjustments based on device, location, time of day, and conversion probability. Budget shifts to the campaigns delivering the best returns.

Keyword expansion

New opportunities surfaced from search term reports, competitor analysis, and query matching. Your keyword set grows smarter, not just bigger.

Negative mining

Irrelevant search terms identified and blocked daily so your budget doesn't leak to clicks that will never convert.

Ad copy testing

Headlines and descriptions generated, tested, and rotated. Winning variants promoted, underperformers retired. Continuous creative improvement.

Campaign structure

Tightly themed ad groups with precise keyword-to-ad alignment. Restructured for relevance, not just convenience.

Multi-platform

Google Ads and Microsoft Ads on every paid plan. Additional platforms and bespoke integrations on Enterprise. One system managing your presence across the platforms that matter.


Get better results from your current site. Without rebuilding it.

At Essentials, we don’t ask you to rebuild anything. We put a small script tag on your existing site and the agentic engine ships bounded fixes autonomously - message-match between your ads and pages, CTA tweaks, tracking patches, simple A/B tests - without touching your CMS or needing your developer. The script tag is honest about what it can’t do, and findings it can’t fix stay visible in your ledger with a clear upgrade path.

What the script tag fixes

Bounded, client-side improvements shipped autonomously.

  • Message-match - ad headline swapped into the page hero
  • CTA tweaks - copy, position, colour
  • Tracking patches - missed events, duplicate fires, bad triggers
  • Simple A/B tests on headlines and hero copy
  • Scroll-depth and click tracking
  • Form friction removal - autofill, field order

What it cannot touch

Things that sit below the client-side layer.

  • Server-rendered HTML or your CMS
  • Schema markup and deep SEO structure
  • Core Web Vitals fundamentals (your build pipeline)
  • Information architecture and URL structure
  • Any change your dev team would have to write and deploy

An upsell funnel that’s honest

Findings the script tag can’t fix don’t disappear. They stay in your ledger, tagged with the tier that would fix them - “we’d fix this automatically at Landing Pages” or “this needs Full Site.” You see the gap, you see the cost of closing it. No pressure, no hidden capability.


The lever nobody else touches

Your landing page is one-third of your Quality Score. We build, test, and improve it.

Page speed optimisation

Slow pages kill conversions and Quality Score. We optimise load times, compress assets, and eliminate render-blocking resources for sub-second performance.

Mobile-first design

Most paid traffic is mobile. We design for thumb-friendly navigation, readable text, fast-loading images, and forms that don't frustrate.

Message match

When someone clicks an ad about "affordable business insurance," they should land on a page about affordable business insurance - not your homepage. We align ad copy to page content.

Trust signals

Reviews, testimonials, security badges, case studies, and social proof placed where they reduce buying friction and build confidence at the decision point.

CRO & A/B testing

Headlines, CTAs, form layouts, hero images - we test variations and let the data decide. Conversion rate optimisation is continuous, not a one-off project.

Form optimisation

Fewer fields, smarter layouts, progress indicators, and autofill-friendly markup. We remove every unnecessary step between click and conversion.

The result: a landing page that lowers what you pay

Google's Quality Score is calculated from ad relevance, expected CTR, and landing page experience. A faster, clearer, better-converting page raises the third factor - which directly reduces your cost-per-click and improves your ad rank. Every other tool ignores this. We build it.


We don’t redesign your site. We rebuild it.

At Full Site, the first thing we do is replicate your existing website on our stack. Same content. Same brand. Same information architecture. What changes is what sits under the hood: SEO markup, schema, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, enhanced tracking, internal linking. We rebuild it technically so the agentic engine can actually ship fixes rather than just flagging them.

What stays the same

Everything your visitors can see.

  • Every word of copy
  • Your brand identity - type, colour, logo
  • Information architecture - same pages, same URLs
  • Content strategy and tone of voice
  • Imagery and creative assets
  • The look and feel visitors experience

What we rebuild

The technical foundation underneath.

  • SEO markup and structured data (schema.org)
  • Core Web Vitals - load speed, CLS, LCP
  • Accessibility markup (WCAG 2.1 AA baseline)
  • Conversion tracking and enhanced conversions
  • Internal linking and crawlability
  • Mobile UX and responsive behaviour

Visual-parity QA before launch

Before your replicated site goes live, you see it side-by-side with the original to ensure nothing has drifted before it’s launched. Same pages, same layout, same content. What’s different is invisible to users: the technical foundation underneath.

What “replicate” does not include: redesign, copywriting, new brand work, new imagery, information architecture changes, content strategy. Those are bespoke scope and sit in an Enterprise conversation.

Self-driving by default. Hands-on when you want to be.

Ad Optima is built for business owners who want their marketing handled, not managed. At every decision point, the agentic engine recommends the best option and, per the approval grid you set once at onboarding, either ships it automatically or queues it for your sign-off. You don’t have to write a line of strategy or touch an interface unless you want to.

Self-driving

What most customers choose. After onboarding, you do nothing except read the weekly briefing.

  • Approval grid set once at onboarding
  • Agents recommend and execute at every decision point
  • Weekly natural-language briefing in your inbox
  • Five-minute ledger review if you want the detail
  • Nothing to learn, nothing to maintain

Hands-on

For when you want to direct a specific change. Type what you want, the agentic engine ships it.

  • Type what you want in plain English
  • Interpretation layer understands and checks your policy
  • Implementation produces the change on a staging branch
  • Validation runs tests, flags anything risky
  • You approve the diff, it ships

The editor is a power tool, not a chore

Most Full Site customers never use it, and that’s fine - the agentic engine is already doing the work. When you do want to direct something specific, a headline rewrite, a section add, a copy tweak, the language you already speak is the interface. 50 edits per month fair use; revisited once we have real usage data.


No more mystery. No more monthly PDFs.

Your dashboard shows every change, every result, and every penny - in real time. At the centre of it is the optimisation ledger: a living record of every fix the agentic engine has proposed, applied, or parked. It compounds month over month - last month’s wins feed into this month’s baseline - and replaces the stale monthly PDF every agency hands you. Five minutes a week is all it takes to see what’s shipped, what’s queued, and what it’s worth.

Ad Optima Dashboard

Ad spend

£4,218

↓ 12% CPC vs last month

Conversions

142

↑ 23% vs last month

Cost per acquisition

£29.70

↓ 18% vs last month

Quality Score (avg)

8.2

↑ from 6.4 at start

Optimisation ledger

Applied this month

+£1,847/mo

Open items

£542/mo est.

Applied lifetime

£14,320

  • Schema markup missing on 'Family Law Manchester' landing page - rewrite proposed

    Open · est. +£280/mo

    Awaiting approval

  • Reduced bids on 12 underperforming keywords in 'Business Insurance' campaign

    Applied +£420/mo

    2 hours ago

  • A/B test winner deployed: new hero headline increased CTR by 8%

    Applied +£680/mo

    Yesterday

  • Added 34 negative keywords from search term analysis

    Applied +£310/mo

    Yesterday

  • Page speed improved: load time reduced from 3.1s to 1.4s

    Applied +£240/mo

    3 days ago

  • Tracking event misfire on /contact form - fix drafted, awaiting approval

    Open · est. +£262/mo

    Drafted yesterday

Landing page health

Page speed
92
Mobile UX
88
Message match
95
Trust signals
72
Conversion rate
8.4%
Form completion
68%

Illustrative dashboard - your view updates in real time with live campaign and landing page data.


Your marketing. Your decisions. Your data.

Unlike an agency, you're never left wondering what's happening. You set the goals, approve the direction, and see every result. This is what taking marketing into your own hands actually looks like.

Goals

Set your targets

Define CPA, ROAS, or lead volume targets. Our AI optimises toward your goals, not generic benchmarks. Adjust any time as priorities change.

Approval

Approve or reject changes

Major campaign restructures, new landing page designs, and budget shifts are presented for your sign-off before going live. Nothing unexpected.

Context

Share business context

Launching a new product? Running a seasonal promotion? Flag it in your dashboard and we adjust campaigns and landing pages to match.

Priorities

Flag what matters

Mark campaigns as high-priority, pause underperformers, or request budget shifts. Your input shapes what the AI focuses on next.

Landing pages

Request page updates

Need a new offer on the page? Different testimonials? Updated pricing? Request changes through the dashboard and we build them.

Reporting

Review & comment

Performance reports arrive in plain English. Leave comments, ask questions, flag concerns - and get a response from a real person, not a chatbot.


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