Turn competitor Facebook ads into organized, searchable insights

Automatically pulls competitor ads, has AI break down their strategy, and logs it all to a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each ad.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Social Media ManagementSpreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
ApifyGoogle SheetsOpenAIGoogle GeminiDropbox

The problem it solves

Keeping tabs on what competitors are running in their ads means scrolling through ad libraries and taking screenshots by hand. By the time you've reviewed a handful of ads, you've lost the afternoon and still don't have a system to refer back to.

Who it fits

Marketing teams and agencies who want to learn from competitors' live ad creative without manual screenshotting.

How it works

  1. The system pulls live ads from the Facebook Ad Library pages you're tracking
  2. It filters out small, unproven advertisers and keeps the ones with real reach
  3. Each ad is sorted by type: video, image, or text
  4. AI reviews the creative and messaging and summarizes the strategy behind it
  5. Results, including rewritten ad copy ideas, are saved to Google Sheets
What you get

Competitor ad strategies you can browse anytime

You get organized breakdowns of competitors' live Facebook ads, complete with strategy notes and rewritten copy ideas, saved for you to browse.

What you get

A Google Sheet of competitor ads with AI-written strategy summaries and reusable copy ideas.

What you need

An Apify account, a Google account for Sheets, an OpenAI API key, a Google Gemini API key, and a Dropbox account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

Let's Talk Strategy

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