AI Agents are too good at marketing now
Greg Isenberg and Cody Schneider walk through using AI agents like Claude Code as marketing engineers, making static ads and AI avatar video ads cheaply by giving agents data, platform access and tools.
The gist
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Schneider says agents need data, access and tools; he pipes data into a warehouse and uses ad APIs only for writes to avoid bans.
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His static ads skill pulls brand styles, existing ad libraries and Reddit pain points, proposes five concepts, then generates and uploads them to Facebook.
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For AI avatar ads he sends a cloned voice track, script and reference image to Seedance, then adds motion graphics with Tessact for about $5.
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He also sends scripts to human creators through Tribe and SideShift via API, paying around $40 per video plus spend-based bonuses.
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Schneider argues Facebook's algorithm rewards creative volume, so teams should jump from 10 ads a month to 300, with vision-model review loops checking quality.
Cody Schneider uses it
"I'm only using this Facebook ads API to upload ad creative, to turn off ads, to move ads around. All of the data reads are only ever happening from the data warehouse."
▶ Play at 14:36
Cody Schneider uses it
"We have an agent that runs Google Ads... we can in real time audit the search terms that we're coming up for for paid search and we can have an LLM be like, is the search intent buyer ready for the landing page it's sending it to?"
▶ Play at 18:4412 creators recommend it, including GaryVee, Charlie Clark, and Helen Stephens.
See all on the Google Ads page
Cody Schneider uses it
"Just paste that into your Claude Code and out the other side will come out a Google Ads agent."
▶ Play at 22:11110 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Liam Ottley, and Claire Vo.
See all on the Claude Code page
Cody Schneider recommends it
"ChatGPT Image 2.5 is the best that we've seen. So I would suggest it... ChatGPT Image 2.5 is like an incredible graphic designer for specific modifications. We've just found that it's very good at keeping the original image rather than remixing it again."
▶ Play at 31:32163 creators recommend it, including John Coogan, Peter Yang, and Riley Brown.
See all on the ChatGPT page
Cody Schneider uses it
"You can literally use a software called Mirage Tessact, and it will go and one-shot edit a podcast that's an hour and 30 minutes long. It'll cut out the silence. It'll cut out the takes... Does the active speaker identification."
▶ Play at 6:11
Cody Schneider uses it
"Tribe, where you basically make a UGC creator network... you can use the API and your GrokBot and your Claude Code to basically be the social creator manager. This is literally how we are doing this. We use that."
▶ Play at 40:022 creators recommend it, including Hector Serrano.
See all on the Tribe page
Cody Schneider uses it
"We also use a company called Sideshift as well, just two examples of how do you run these campaigns."
▶ Play at 40:28What they recommend · 7 picks
Software & apps
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"I'm only using this Facebook ads API to upload ad creative, to turn off ads, to move ads around. All of the data reads are only ever happening from the data warehouse."
"We have an agent that runs Google Ads... we can in real time audit the search terms that we're coming up for for paid search and we can have an LLM be like, is the search intent..."
Greg, Cody, Riley and Chris agree on 36 things
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"You can literally use a software called Mirage Tessact, and it will go and one-shot edit a podcast that's an hour and 30 minutes long. It'll cut out the silence. It'll cut out t..."
"ChatGPT Image 2.5 is the best that we've seen. So I would suggest it... ChatGPT Image 2.5 is like an incredible graphic designer for specific modifications. We've just found tha..."
"Just paste that into your Claude Code and out the other side will come out a Google Ads agent."
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