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AI ad account audit

Paste a Meta or Google Ads export and get a graded audit back: wasted spend, fatigue, structure issues and a summary you can send to your client. No signup, and your data is never stored.

What the audit looks like

Here is the shape of a real result, excerpted from an audit of a sample Meta export.

Grade: C+. The account converts, but two leaks are dragging the average.

Wasted spend. "Prospecting | Broad | Q1" and "Retargeting 30d | Static" spent $4,310 combined over the period for 2 conversions between them. That's 18% of total spend producing under 1% of results.

Creative fatigue. "UGC | Sarah unboxing v3" is at frequency 6.4 and its CTR has slid from 1.8% to 0.7%, yet it still takes 31% of the retargeting budget. Rotate it out before CPA climbs further.

How the audit works

An ad account audit is a structured review of a Meta or Google Ads account that finds where spend, creative and structure are leaking money. This one reads your export like a senior media buyer would on day one of taking over an account. It runs seven checks: wasted spend (spend with zero or near-zero conversions), bleeders vs winners (CPA and ROAS outliers against the account average), creative fatigue (high frequency, sliding CTR), budget concentration (one campaign quietly eating the account), structure (too many tiny ad sets, overlapping setups), naming hygiene, and tracking (whether conversion data exists at all). Every finding cites the actual numbers from your file, and anything your columns can't answer gets listed as not evaluable instead of guessed at.

Getting the export takes a minute. In Meta, open Ads Manager, go to Reports, and export the table as CSV. In Google Ads, open the Campaigns page and use the download icon to grab a CSV. Campaign, ad set or ad level all work; ad level gives the fatigue check the most to work with. If your export shows rising frequency and falling CTR, our guide to ad fatigue signs and fixes covers what to do next.

On privacy: your file is parsed in your browser, a capped slice is processed in memory on our server, and nothing is stored. If you'd rather have this view permanently instead of once, that's what Adside's reports and dashboards do across every account, every day.

Ad account audit questions, answered

Any CSV with a header row and one row per campaign, ad set or ad. From Meta, export your Ads Manager reporting table as CSV. From Google Ads, use the download icon on the Campaigns (or Ad groups) page. LinkedIn and other platforms work too, as long as the export has named columns. The more performance columns you include (spend, results, CPA, CTR, frequency), the more checks the audit can run.

No. Your export is parsed in your browser, a capped slice of it is sent to the audit API, processed in memory and returned. Nothing is written to a database, nothing is kept after the response, and your data isn't used to train any model.

It's a model reading your numbers, so treat it like a sharp second pair of eyes, not gospel. It's instructed to only cite figures that actually appear in your export and to say when a check can't be evaluated from the columns you provided. Sanity-check anything surprising against the platform before acting on it.

Yes, plus LinkedIn and anything else that exports a CSV with named columns. The checks adapt to whatever columns are present: a Meta export with frequency unlocks the fatigue check, a Google export with conversion data unlocks wasted-spend and CPA outlier checks, and so on.

They're where accounts actually leak money: spend with no conversions, CPA outliers dragging the average, fatigued creative still getting budget, one campaign eating the account, fragmented structure, messy naming, and missing tracking. They mirror the checks in Adside's open-source ad-ops skills, the same ones experienced media buyers run by hand every week.

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Adside watches every account continuously for wasted spend, fatigue, pacing and structure issues, and flags the leaks before your client sees them, not after.