I Got Paid $25,000 To Build an AI Ad Duplication System

This is my fifth post in this subreddit and I hope to give even more value than my last one in this.

I like to talk about my journey as an AI business owner who builds AI solutions for medium sized companies. I strongly believe sharing my challenges, wins, and failures will motivate others to take action.

So this is my most recent project that I am in the middle of: an AI Ad Duplication System for an ecom gigachad.

My client, who runs a major ecommerce brand in which he spends 5 figures EVERY month running ads, approached me to build an AI ad system that could essentially help him build better ad campaigns.

His current ads were burning money, and had negative ROAS (return on ad spend). It was like throwing money into a sinking ship.

Side note: Most startups fail because they overspend on ad dollars so this is a problem that not only ecom companies have.

With his pain in mind, I used an API (won't share name because there's always the one comment who says "he's trying to subtly plug his service"… I don't even own the API) to scrape competitor ads in the same niche.

The flow looks like this:

1. Understand the brand and product of my client

2. use API to find other ecom brands selling the same product

3. Copy their ads that are running for more than 60 days

Why 60 days? Well most ads kind of lose steam at the 30 day mark so if they are running for 60 days, well, that means that ad must be performing really well if the brand is putting money into it for 60 days straight.

Once the API finds these ads, I use Nanobanana 2 (again, not my service this is owned by Google lol) to duplicate these winning ads and add my client's branding in place of the competitor's branding.

Essentially, we have a winning ad now that's proven to convert for 60+ days. This saves us ad dollars, helps us launch better campaigns, and increases ROAS tremendously.

I have already built the MVP for my client and it's increased his ROAS by 1.8x which is pretty solid considering the AI ad system is not even done yet!

To close, why would someone pay $25k for this? Let's do some simple math.

You spend $10k on an ad campaign that brings in $25k in revenue -> $15k profit

You spend $10k on a proven ad campaign and it generates $50k in revenue -> $40k profit – $25k for the ad system = $15k profit

Same thing? But on the second ad campaign you run, you no longer have that $25k cost since you already paid $25k for the ad system.

Updated:

You spend $10k on 2ND ad campaign that brings in $25k in revenue -> $15k profit

You spend $10k on 2ND proven ad campaign and it generates $50k in revenue -> $40k profit

Big difference.

I love building AI systems that have direct value for my clients and even pose a challenge to myself. I'd love to hear your all opinion on this system and what systems you are cooking!