Most of our San Francisco engagements start the same way: a 20-minute call where the owner describes a workflow we've heard before in shape but never in detail. AI ads is then designed against the detail, not the shape.
Built and supported here - the way a San Francisco business would actually use it.
Our goal is to give San Francisco businesses a three-day weekend, so people can spend more time with their families and the people they love :)
What AI ads actually does
AI-generated ad creative, auto-tested headlines, and bid management that actually watches CPL - not just CPC. Built for NZ businesses tired of agencies that hide behind dashboards.
- 01 Auto-generated headlines, descriptions, and image creative
- 02 Daily creative rotation - kills losers, scales winners
- 03 Honest CPL reporting, not vanity click metrics
- 04 Works across Google, Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn
Built on: Google Ads API Meta Marketing API Claude Replicate Vercel
What you actually get
Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. This is what is in the box.
- A working pilot, in productionNot a prototype on someone's laptop. The first slice of AI ads runs against real work within weeks.
- Your data stays yoursIt runs on your accounts and your tools. If we part ways you keep the system and everything in it.
- The workflow mapped before codeWe write down what good looks like for San Francisco businesses first, so nobody is guessing at handover.
- Support after it landsThe people who built it stay reachable when the business changes shape around it.
How AI ads compares
The two things most businesses do instead, and where each one runs out.
| Hiring for it | An off-the-shelf tool | Kiwi Dynamics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to how you work | Fits perfectly, costs a salary | You bend your process to suit the tool | Built around the workflow you already run |
| Time to something useful | Immediate, and permanent | Quick to switch on, slow to make fit | A working slice in weeks, then hardened |
| Who owns the data | You do | The vendor, on the vendor's terms | You do, in your own accounts |
| When it breaks | That person sorts it, if they are in | A support queue and a ticket number | The people who built it |
| What it costs | A salary, every year, forever | Per seat, forever, used or not | Scoped and quoted up front |
What's different about doing this work in San Francisco.
- San Francisco is where the AI industry itself is headquartered - any AI pitched here is judged against the frontier labs a few blocks away, not against a competitor's landing page.
- The highest concentration of AI research labs and startups anywhere in the world, sitting alongside legacy finance and professional services firms adopting AI for the first time. San Francisco is the least forgiving market for a weak AI product, and the best one for a genuinely strong one.
We work with teams across San Francisco: Financial District · SoMa · Mission District · Marina · Nob Hill · Hayes Valley.
Talk to us about this →How we build AI ads for a San Francisco team.
We scope narrow, ship a working pilot, then harden it into production. The first slice is the highest-leverage workflow for your San Francisco business, so value lands before the build is finished. AI-managed paid ads.
Talk to usHow the work runs
- Find the one workflowWe look for the job costing San Francisco businesses the most hours or the most leads, and deliberately ignore the rest for now.
- Ship a working sliceA narrow version goes into production in weeks, against real work, so the value shows up before the build is finished.
- Prove it, then widenWe measure it against what the work cost before. If it does not pay for itself, we say so rather than scaling it.
- Harden and hand overLogging, fallbacks and a real handover, so it keeps running when we are not in the room.
The outcome for San Francisco teams
We'd call the engagement a success when San Francisco teams are using the system without thinking about us. Average 38% lower cost-per-lead vs. agency-managed accounts.
Not your typical AI agency.
Honest about what AI can and cannot do
Ships the one workflow that pays for itself
Hours given back, never the size of the invoice
*Every engagement is scoped and quoted up front. Results vary by workflow and business.
FAQ
When does AI ads actually pay back?
Inside the first quarter, in our experience. We pick the first slice specifically because it's the highest-leverage workflow for a San Francisco - so the savings start landing before the rest of the build is finished.
Do you do hourly billing or fixed price?
Fixed price for the pilot, every time. After that it's your call - fixed price per milestone or a small monthly retainer for ongoing iteration. We don't run open-ended T&M because it disincentivises us from finishing.
Anyone else in this space using AI ads?
Plenty. Average 38% lower cost-per-lead vs. agency-managed accounts. The interesting question is rarely "does it work" - it's "is your team ready to use the output." That's what we'd scope on the call.
Will this run on our own infrastructure?
Yes, where it makes sense. AI ads can sit entirely in your cloud account, with model calls routed through endpoints you control. We default to Google Ads API, Meta Marketing API, Claude, Replicate, Vercel but the architecture supports your existing platform choices.
Talk to us about this
Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll reply with how we'd build it - no obligation.