Paid Media Automation Handover (10-20 days)
A productized engagement that moves a client's paid search and paid social campaigns onto an AI-assisted management layer, then hands the agency a documented operating model it can bill against. The offer covers account audit, automation configuration, creative testing cadence, and a 30-day performance baseline the client signs off on. Time: 10-20 days.
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Paid Media Automation Handover (10-20 days)
A productized engagement that moves a client's paid search and paid social campaigns onto an AI-assisted management layer, then hands the agency a documented operating model it can bill against. The offer covers account audit, automation configuration, creative testing cadence, and a 30-day performance baseline the client signs off on.
- Written access to every ad account in scope (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn) with at least 90 days of historical spend data A named client-side approver who can authorize budget shifts above 10% without a committee review Agreed conversion definitions and a tracking audit completed before any automation touches bids Baseline metrics locked in writing: cost per acquisition, return on ad spend, and monthly spend ceiling Agency staff member assigned as the automation owner for the first 30 days post-handover
- 1.Pull 90 days of spend, conversion, and creative performance data from each connected ad account
- 2.Map every campaign to a business objective and flag campaigns with no owner
- 3.Document current manual hours spent per week on bidding, reporting, and creative rotation
- 1.Audit conversion tracking for duplicate events, missing parameters, and attribution windows
- 2.Reconcile platform-reported conversions against the client's own analytics
- 3.List tracking defects that would corrupt any automated bidding decision
- 1.Rank campaigns by wasted spend and by headroom for scaling
- 2.Identify which campaigns are safe to automate and which need human review
- 3.Set the guardrails: maximum daily budget change, minimum conversion volume before automation engages
- 1.Configure the chosen platform's account connections and permission scopes
- 2.Import historical data so optimization models have a training window
- 3.Verify that no automation rule can exceed the client's monthly spend ceiling
- 1.Build the first automation ruleset for budget reallocation across channels
- 2.Configure bid rules by campaign tier rather than account-wide
- 3.Test each rule against the prior 30 days of data before enabling it live
- 1.Set up creative testing structure: naming conventions, variant counts, and rotation thresholds
- 2.Define the minimum impressions or clicks before a creative is judged
- 3.Schedule the first automated creative refresh cycle
- 1.Enable automation on the lowest-risk campaign tier only
- 2.Monitor the first 24 hours for runaway spend or collapsed delivery
- 3.Log every automated decision for the client's audit trail
- 1.Review day-one automation decisions against the manual baseline
- 2.Roll back any rule that moved spend more than the agreed guardrail
- 3.Expand automation to the second campaign tier if day one held
- 1.Build the reporting view the client will actually read weekly
- 2.Connect spend, cost per acquisition, and return on ad spend into one dashboard
- 3.Remove metrics that no one on the client side has ever acted on
- 1.Run a full week-over-week comparison against the locked baseline
- 2.Document which gains came from automation and which came from the tracking fixes
- 3.Draft the operating model: who checks what, on which day, and what triggers a human override
- 1.Train the client's in-house marketer or the agency's junior operator on the override process
- 2.Walk through three failure scenarios and the correct response to each
- 3.Record the session so the process survives staff turnover
- 1.Present the 30-day performance baseline and the automation decision log
- 2.Confirm the retainer scope for ongoing management versus client self-service
- 3.Hand over credentials, rule documentation, and the escalation contact list
Agencies can charge setup fees here because the work replaces a manual process the client either cannot staff or staffs badly, and the tracking audit alone often recovers spend that was being wasted before any automation ran. The recurring management fee is defensible because the automation still needs a human owner to catch platform changes, creative fatigue, and brand-context misses that rules cannot see. Margin comes from managing more accounts per operator: one person can hold several accounts once the rules and reporting are standardized.
- A written account audit covering tracking defects, wasted spend, and automation readiness by campaign A configured automation ruleset with documented guardrails, override triggers, and rollback steps A creative testing framework with naming conventions, rotation thresholds, and a refresh schedule A weekly client-facing dashboard tied to cost per acquisition and return on spend A 30-day performance baseline report plus a one-page operating model naming who owns each task
The client's campaigns run under the documented automation ruleset for 30 consecutive days with no guardrail breach, and the client signs off on the baseline report and operating model.