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How the Performance Marketing Agent works

The Performance Marketing Agent doesn't hand you ads at the push of a button. It works through a multi-stage process in which a main system coordinates specialised AI agents — from competitor research through strategy to the finished creatives. Here you can see every step, described honestly: what the agent really does, where its limits lie, and where you decide.

1. Foundations & briefing

It all starts with your briefing: audiences, your brand style (colours, tone of voice, dos and don'ts), your offers and the ad channels that matter to you — Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok. These foundations are the frame that every step that follows sticks to.

2. Competitor research

First, the agent finds your real advertising competitors — not from a pre-baked list, but from the actual search-result rankings in your sector and your country.

Then it looks at the ads they're running. As a rule it analyses up to 50 currently active ads per competitor — in full detail: reach signals, video transcripts and an analysis of their image and design patterns. Only when a competitor doesn't disclose its ads, or the in-depth research is blocked, does a fallback mode kick in with 8 to 15 ads per competitor.

3. Customer-voice research

Before any messaging is written, the agent listens to real customers. It searches publicly available reviews and discussions — Trustpilot, forums and communities, app-store reviews — for your brand and for the competitors. From this it draws two things:

  • What customers genuinely value and what they complain about, for you as much as for the competition.
  • The real language of your customers — the words they use to talk about their problem.

Honest and important: these customer voices are purely an internal source of insight. Other people's reviews never end up as verbatim testimonials in your ads. If the agent finds too little solid material, it cleanly skips this step and carries on with the remaining sources.

4. Landing-page check

The best ad achieves little if the landing page doesn't convince. So the agent reviews the relevant landing pages — your own and the strongest ones from your competitors. It looks at:

  • Clarity above the fold (what can you see without scrolling?), prominence of the call to action, friction in the form, trust elements and mobile readiness.
  • Loading performance based on real user measurements of load time and stability.
  • Whether the ad's message matches the landing page's message.

If a website analytics tool is connected, it feeds in; if not, the agent works with what's publicly measurable. Every finding is evidenced — the agent doesn't guess, it observes.

5. Your own data

In parallel, the agent evaluates your previous top performers — the ad data you supply. What has already worked for you? Which formats, messages and audiences carry?

6. Gap analysis

Now — and deliberately only now, after analysing your own data — the agent overlays both pictures: what the market is doing, what you're doing, and where the gaps open up. It quantifies these differences, for example "70 per cent of competitors run topic X, and you haven't touched it so far".

Where it suspects your cost per conversion could be lowered, it frames that as a hypothesis with a rationale — not a promise. Competitors' actual ad spend isn't publicly visible; the only credible thing at this point is a reasoned assumption, not a numbers guarantee.

7. Strategy & messaging

From the gaps, the agent builds the strategy. It sorts the campaigns into three areas: a scaling core (what reliably delivers), a test area (targeted variations) and an exploration area (bolder hypotheses). What gets tested first is the message, then the offer, audience and format — in that order, because the message has the biggest lever.

How many concepts emerge is data-driven — there's no fixed number, no minimum and no maximum. Depending on the data, it's typically around 5 to 14. If the analysis gives more, there are more; if it gives less, the agent doesn't pad anything out artificially.

8. Ad copy & concepts

For every concept, the agent writes the full briefing including ad copy. If a Google account is active as a channel, it also generates ready-made Google ad text sets:

  • Responsive Search Ads: 15 headlines and 4 descriptions, each within the character limits Google prescribes.
  • Performance Max: 5 short and 5 long headlines plus 5 descriptions.

Without an active Google channel, this part is dropped — the agent only produces what fits your actual channels.

9. Quality and compliance check

Before production, two checks run: a critical "pre-mortem" round that asks up front where the strategy could fail, and a compliance check of the ad copy — for instance, no inadmissible promises in regulated sectors.

10. Production — a pool of variants, not a single pick

Now the creatives take shape: mockups, AI images in your brand style, and finished videos. Important to understand: the agent deliberately delivers a pool of variants per concept — several formats (square, portrait and story/reel), several headline, copy and call-to-action variants. It does not pick "the one best".

Which variant ultimately shows to which user is decided live by the platform's delivery algorithm — on Meta, for example, its ad ranking. The mockups each show one of these variants as a preview, not the only one that was produced.

11. Quality ranking of the creatives

To finish, the agent rates the finished creatives and suggests an order for running them — along three angles: does it stop the thumb? Is it understandable without context? Does it match proven winning patterns?

Honestly framed: this is a prioritisation aid, not a performance prediction. The rating is continuously calibrated against your real results — it's a reasoned starting signal, not an oracle.

12. Ongoing quality oversight

Across the entire run, a separate oversight instance keeps watch. It reviews the interim results against fixed criteria, steps in when there are quality problems and passes only genuine strategic decisions back to you. It checks and corrects — it doesn't invent its own ads and doesn't replace your approval.

13. Approval & handover

At the end stands your package: concepts, copy, images and videos, cleanly named and documented as a briefing. You review, approve and hand it to your team or your media agency to go live.

The agent takes a large share of the concept and production work off your plate. Going live, ongoing budget management and strategic control stay with you. That's exactly how it's meant to be: more finished material, faster — without you handing over the reins.