AI changed the game for LinkedIn Ads. We’re making it play by the rules.

A standard for making ads work with AI, without taking its word for it.

Why we wrote it

Why we built the Standard. In the words of the people who run the accounts

The problem

AI always has an answer. The answer needs context.

How’s the new ad set doing? Who should sales call first?

An answerThe answerNowWith the Standard

This ad set is performing wellonly half as strong as it looks. It drove 1,200 clicks last month at a cost per click well under benchmark. Your most engaged account is Stealth AI Startup“Stealth AI Startup”, a placeholder employer, with 600 of them, so I’d prioritise them for outreach this weekdrop it and rank the real accounts against your CRM first.

What it didn’t catch

  1. You’ve reported a win that isn’t one. Half those clicks came from one placeholder employer. Take them out and the ad set looks very different.
  2. Your best account doesn’t exist. “Stealth AI Startup” is what people list when they won’t name their employer. No buyers, no budget.
  3. Sales loses a week to it. An SDR chases a company that can’t answer, while three accounts that were warming up wait.

Why it exists

What the Standard adds to your AI

  1. The data

    A clean signal before anything gets read

    Campaign Manager exports, CRM reports and website data each sit at a different level (campaigns, people, companies) and over a different date range. The rules say which source answers which question and what to clean out first, so a placeholder employer never ends up as your best account.

  2. The judgement

    The calls practitioners make every week

    When a low CPL is enough to move budget. When a drop in CTR means fatigue. When an audience is big enough to count as warm. Each call written down by someone who makes it every week on a real budget, so your AI makes it the same way.

  3. The context

    Your campaign’s own history as the benchmark

    A frequency of 20 over 90 days is too much on a cold list and fine on retargeting. The rules carry that context, so your AI compares a campaign with its own past instead of an industry average.

  4. The Standard

    All of it comes from the people who run the accounts

    Every rule, skill and scenario carries the name of the person who runs their accounts that way, and it is open for anyone to use.

Collection

How the Standard is built. Each part builds on the one before it, and it all starts with the rules

Every name here runs accounts. Every rule has a name on it.

You run an account a way that works. Send it

Who’s sending it? We publish it under your name
What are you bringing? A rule, a skill or a whole scenario
Tell us about it What it checks and how often you run it