01The Creative Engine

Your ads. Not AI's ads.

Fifty ads on this page. Six brands. One system. Not one of them was generated as an image, and not one of them shares a template with another.

Ad produced for Shelsky's of Brooklyn Ad produced for Cobi Ad produced for Auburn Jewelry Ad produced for KEYPER
What changed People started commenting on our clients' ads asking who their agency was. In twenty years of doing this, that had never happened once.
02Output

Every ad below came out of the engine.

Six live client accounts, roughly twenty distinct ad formats, all produced in the last few months. Nothing here was laid out by hand in Figma, and nothing here was handed to an image model and asked for an ad.

Shelsky's high holidays checklist ad Cobi comparison ad 4Topps AIRdirondack ad Auburn Jewelry permanent jewelry explainer ad KEYPER Friday night checklist ad The Miracle Studios podcast studio ad Shelsky's high holidays ad Cobi statistic ad 4Topps outdoor chair ad Auburn Jewelry message thread ad KEYPER teacher car line ad The Miracle Studios stage rental ad Shelsky's Yom Kippur order deadline ad Cobi customer review ad 4Topps customer review ad Auburn Jewelry customer review ad KEYPER customer review ad
Brands6
Ads on this page50
Distinct formats20
Generated ads0
03No house style

Six brands. Six design languages.

This is the part people do not believe until they scroll it. An appetizing counter in Brooklyn, a laundry brand, an outdoor furniture company, a permanent jewelry studio, a stadium accessory brand, and a 1937 movie house in Inglewood. Nothing shares a template. Each account looks like itself, because the engine runs on that brand's system rather than on ours.

Shelsky's of Brooklyn Appetizing and smoked fish, shipping nationwide. High holidays flight.
Shelsky's ad reading forgiveness takes ten days, the platter takes one click Shelsky's holiday menu checklist ad Shelsky's Rosh Hashanah order deadline ad Shelsky's ad reading the new year starts at the table
Cobi Plant-based laundry. Problem-aware formats built off category swipe.
Cobi pods versus buds comparison ad Cobi search bar ad about musty towels Cobi message thread ad Cobi statistic ad about washer mold
4Topps Stadium-grade outdoor furniture. Seasonal flights and a welcome offer.
4Topps ad reading just float 4Topps ad, built like a stadium seat, feels like a hammock 4Topps fire pit season ad 4Topps first cold morning ad
Auburn Jewelry Permanent jewelry, Westchester and Fairfield. Review-led static system.
Auburn Jewelry pick, fit, zap explainer ad Auburn Jewelry message thread ad Auburn Jewelry ad, the necklace you never take off Auburn Jewelry customer review ad
KEYPER Patented clear wristlet sets. Back to school and game day season.
KEYPER back to hands free ad KEYPER Friday night checklist ad KEYPER ad for teachers KEYPER drop off to Friday night grid ad
The Miracle Studios Stage, podcast and production rental, Inglewood. Retargeting statics.
The Miracle Studios podcast studio ad The Miracle Studios ad, built for shows not rent by the hour The Miracle Studios ad, book it Monday shoot it Thursday The Miracle Studios ad, shoot this week no permits
04How it actually works

We stopped asking AI to design the ad.

About two years ago it became clear that generating a finished ad was never going to work. Not because the images were bad. Because they were never quite your product, your palette, or your logo, and the client could always tell. Every review turned into a hunt for the thing that was slightly wrong.

So we inverted it. The model does the thinking. The ad gets typeset locally, in code, from your real photography, your real fonts, and your real palette. What comes out is dimensionally exact and on-brand by construction, not by luck.

What the model does

  • Reads the brief off the actual client call, the Slack thread, and the ad account
  • Picks the format from what is winning in your category right now
  • Writes and edits the copy, then argues with itself about it
  • Decides whether a needed asset is missing from your library
  • Builds that one asset when it is missing, an SVG, a texture, a background, a product shot, and only where your brand's AI rules allow it

What it never does

  • Generate the ad
  • Invent your logo, your typeface, or your product
  • Override your brand rules to get an asset it wants
  • Ship anything a person has not looked at first

Every brand carries its own rule file for what may be generated and what may not. Some allow synthetic backgrounds and set dressing. Some allow nothing but their own photography. The engine reads that file before it does anything, which is why the output stays inside the lines even when it is producing thirty variations in an afternoon.

05The pipeline

Four moving parts.

01

Your design system, approved once

We take the brand book, the style guide, the asset library, and a scrape of your site, and we put a system in front of you. Here is what we think your brand is. You correct it, you sign off, and after that nothing drifts. This is the step that solves the problem every agency has, where the work is good but the client keeps finding the one detail that is off.

02

What is actually working, continuously

A live swipe file of top-performing direct response ads, filtered to your category and refreshed continuously. Review spotlight, before and after, comparison table, search bar, message thread, comment wall, poll, founder on camera. We clone the format because the format is what earns the scroll. We never clone the brand.

03

The brief writes itself

This is the piece nobody expects. The brief comes off your actual call. Find what Rudy said about the high holidays creative, and it goes and gets it, out of the transcript, out of Slack, out of last month's performance. No one sits down to write a creative brief, and no context gets lost between the call and the work.

04

Rendered locally, every size

Real typesetting, your assets, pixel-crisp at 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16, named and organized, ready to push to the platform. Twenty or thirty variants is an afternoon rather than a sprint, which is what makes real testing possible instead of theoretical.

06The other half

And the page the ad points at.

Most creative work stops at the ad. An ad that wins the scroll and then hands that attention to a generic collection page is half a funnel, and it is the most common reason good creative shows bad numbers.

The landers come out of the same brief, the same design system, and the same brand DNA as the ads that feed them. Message match is structural rather than something we remember to check. Built and live, not a mockup.

Shelsky's ad

The ad

Shelsky's landing page

The page it lands on. Scroll it.

Apparel landing page

Apparel, product-led

Specialty food landing page

Specialty food, story-led

B2B landing page

B2B, lead capture

07The honest part

A person still makes the call.

This is not set and forget, and anyone selling you that is selling you something else. Someone who knows what they are doing still looks at the output, kills two thirds of it, and decides what runs.

What the engine removes is the four hours before that decision: pulling the data, compiling it, chasing assets, writing the brief, building the files, resizing everything. It does not remove the judgment, and we would not want it to. We are performance marketers first. The system exists because it makes the media buying better, not because it is interesting technology.

08Working together

Three ways in.

01 / Install

We build your design system, wire the swipe intelligence to your category, and hand over the engine as scripts your team runs. You own it. We train whoever is going to drive it.

02 / Install plus landers

The same build, plus the landing page system running off the same brief, so the ad and the page it points at are produced together instead of by two different teams a month apart.

03 / We run it

Build plus ongoing. We operate the engine against your account, ship the creative, run the media, and you get the output and the results rather than the tooling.

Scope depends entirely on how much you want to run internally. We have built single-brand installs, agency-wide installs, and one for an operator running a portfolio. If Q4 is the target, the build wants to be underway well before the creative calendar locks.

09Scope a build

Tell me what you are producing now.

How many ads a month, who makes them today, and where it breaks. I will tell you honestly whether this is worth building for you, and roughly what it takes. You will hear back from me, not an account manager.

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