Paid Media Automation Handover (10-15 days)
A fixed-scope engagement that moves a client's paid search and paid social campaigns onto an AI-assisted management layer, then hands the agency team a documented operating model for it. Built for agencies that want to scale retainer spend without adding media buyers one hire at a time. Time: 10-15 days.
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Paid Media Automation Handover (10-15 days)
A fixed-scope engagement that moves a client's paid search and paid social campaigns onto an AI-assisted management layer, then hands the agency team a documented operating model for it. Built for agencies that want to scale retainer spend without adding media buyers one hire at a time.
- Read-only or admin API access to every active ad account the client runs, including historical spend and conversion data for at least 90 days. A named client-side approver who can sign off on budget rules and creative changes. Baseline performance report covering the trailing quarter: spend, CPA or ROAS, and channel mix. Agreed guardrails on daily budget movement, bid ceilings, and which campaigns are off-limits to automation. A single owner inside the agency who will run the account after handover.
- 1.Pull account inventory across every platform and tag each campaign by objective, geography, and margin contribution
- 2.Document current manual workflow: who changes bids, how often, and what triggers a pause
- 3.Confirm the client's hard limits on spend shifts and creative approval
- 1.Map conversion events and verify tracking fires correctly on both the ad platform and the client's analytics
- 2.Flag campaigns with fewer than 30 conversions in the trailing 90 days as statistically thin
- 3.Record naming conventions and any structural debt that will confuse an automated rule set
- 1.Connect the chosen platform to the ad accounts and run a read-only sync
- 2.Reconcile platform-reported spend against the client's invoice for the last full month
- 3.Document any discrepancy above 3 percent before automation touches budgets
- 1.Draft the automation rule set: budget reallocation thresholds, bid floors and ceilings, dayparting windows, and negative keyword logic
- 2.Separate always-on rules from rules that only run during promotional periods
- 3.Get written client approval on the rule set before any live change
- 1.Run the rule set in shadow mode for one full day and log every action it would have taken
- 2.Compare shadow actions against what the human team actually did that day
- 3.Note every divergence and decide whether the rule or the human was right
- 1.Enable live optimization on the two highest-spend campaigns only
- 2.Set a daily spend-change cap so no single day moves more than 15 percent of budget
- 3.Schedule a same-day check on delivery pacing and conversion volume
- 1.Review the first 24 hours of live automated changes against the shadow log
- 2.Roll back any rule that produced a spend swing without a matching conversion signal
- 3.Expand live coverage to the remaining campaigns if pacing held
- 1.Build the creative testing queue and load the first three variants per top campaign
- 2.Set rotation rules so a losing variant exits after a defined spend threshold, not a fixed number of days
- 3.Confirm brand and legal review path for any auto-generated copy
- 1.Run a wasted-spend audit across search terms, placements, and audiences
- 2.Apply exclusions and negatives identified in the audit
- 3.Quantify the reclaimed budget and reassign it to the best-performing campaign
- 1.Draft the operating runbook: daily checks, weekly reviews, escalation triggers, and rollback steps
- 2.Record a walkthrough of the platform's reporting views for the agency owner who inherits the account
- 3.Write the client-facing summary of what changed and what it is expected to do
- 1.Hand the runbook to the assigned agency operator and have them execute one full daily cycle unaided
- 2.Correct any step in the runbook that required tribal knowledge
- 3.Agree the weekly reporting cadence and the metric that triggers a human review
- 1.Deliver the 30-day optimization plan with named owners for each workstream
- 2.Present baseline versus current performance to the client with the caveats stated plainly
- 3.Close the engagement with a signed handover checklist
The agency charges for a bounded setup because the alternative is unbounded: a media buyer spending 6 to 10 hours a week per client on bid and budget adjustments that a rule set handles in minutes. Once the runbook exists, the same operator can carry two to three times the account load, so the setup fee is really a capacity purchase. The retainer holds because the client sees spend efficiency improve against a documented baseline rather than a verbal claim.
- Automation rule set document with thresholds, guardrails, and rollback conditions
- Shadow-mode log comparing automated actions against the prior manual decisions
- Wasted-spend audit with reclaimed budget quantified and reassigned
- Operating runbook covering daily checks, weekly reviews, and escalation triggers
- Client-facing performance summary with baseline, current state, and the 30-day plan
The assigned agency operator completes one full daily optimization cycle using only the runbook, with no undocumented steps, and the client has signed the handover checklist.