Find, test and run the ad platforms that bring real customers
Owners on Google and Meta keep asking whether ChatGPT ads, Local Services Ads, Microsoft, Reddit or AppLovin would work for them. theStacc answers per business: it ranks every platform, runs small capped tests only where a test can give an answer, counts each lead once, and moves money toward what books jobs. A person approves every step that spends.
The method
- Know the money. Goal, what a customer is worth, monthly cap. Break-even is worked out per service line.
- Rank every platform through four gates: allowed for this business here, reachable through an API, affordable as a readable test, and ready with ads we can make.
- Test only where a test can answer. On the service line with the most room under break-even, sized at about 15 times the line it must beat, paid from the gap under the cap.
- One Test page for every platform. Connect, the owner's steps on that platform, the ads, four lines of settings. Created paused; turned on with its own tap.
- Count each lead once. One tag, a tracked number per platform, click IDs saved. Booked jobs go back to every platform that touched the lead.
- Decide with one number: the chance the platform beats its line. Stop, keep, extend once, or grow.
- Move money slowly. Within a platform automatically, up to 20% a week. Between platforms, ask first.
Platform priority
| Tier | Platforms |
|---|---|
| Core | Google Search, Meta |
| v1, in 8 to 10 weeks | ChatGPT ads, Microsoft Ads, Local Services Ads management (US) |
| Next, apply for access now | Google Performance Max and Demand Gen, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok (US) |
| Partner-gated | Nextdoor, Yelp, AppLovin's campaign API, LinkedIn |
| India tier 2 and 3, assisted | ShareChat + Moj (the owner's account, run by our team), Dailyhunt, newspapers through releaseMyAd |
| Track only, no API | Thumbtack, Angi, Practo, Justdial, Sulekha, IndiaMART, Quora, auto-rickshaw panels and other offline channels |
| Skip for now | Perplexity (ads paused), X |
What the research changed
Kept
- Google Search first for most businesses
- Ads only from approved facts
- Published paused, every spend approved
- Autopilot tiers: alone with undo, ask first, never
Changed
- Tests come from the gap under the cap, not from Google
- New platforms are tested on the service line with most headroom
- Moves between platforms ask first
- One Test page with states replaces per-platform wizards
- Menu: Overview, To do, Plan, Campaigns, Leads, History, Settings
- ChatGPT ads connect with a pasted key until OpenAI makes us a partner
- Indian clinics: National Dental Commission rules; never billed per lead
- ChatGPT ads, Microsoft and new Google accounts test on theStacc's own ad accounts, with test money paid upfront at cost
- Tests turn on by themselves, tracked live against what we expected
- The video editor opens to customers; video ships in v1
Cost to run
| What | Cost |
|---|---|
| Ad platform APIs | Free |
| Monthly plan, ad kit, weekly suggestions, report | about $0.55 a month |
| Image draws for 4 ideas in 3 shapes | about 12 a month |
Estimates on Sonnet 5.5. Ad spend is the owner's own money, paid to each platform.
How this was researched
- Grok 4.7 researched 30 platforms from official docs, one report per group.
- Codex (GPT-5.6) and Antigravity (Gemini 3.8) checked the fastest-moving facts independently.
- Opus 5.5 settled every disagreement against official pages, and wrote the strategy and UX reviews.
Still to check
- OpenAI's ad review time and India region targeting
- Whether theStacc's Google API access covers campaign management
- Each platform's sign-up, walked through to measure owner effort