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Any openclaw users here running ads through their agents?
Posted by on March 11, 2026 at 5:08 pmI'm an entrepreneur with decent but not super-advanced experience with running Google ads and basically no direct experience with other platforms like meta/tiktok. That said, I own an ecommerce business as a side project and am planning to hook up its ad accounts to my openclaw agent and let the agent run the ads. Now obviously I will be careful and scale this very slowly, but I'm very curious if anyone has done that before, and if so, what your experience was and if there any tips to optimize this and reduce risk.
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Hahahahahahaha
You’re gona lose all your money. AI is great 95% of the time. The other 5% it just makes stuff up, gets it wrong, or makes one decision on the first prompt run and the opposite decision on the second.
Plus connecting openclaw to the google ads API and ultimately your credit card? I hope you’re a cybersecurity and prompt injection expert otherwise you’re going to get some expensive lessons.
AI is smarter and better at google ads than the guy on fiver who will build your account for $100, but if you don’t have an experienced marketer steering the ship who can discern good from bad in strategy and tactics you’re going to end up with bad outcomes.
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Cool concept but you’re essentially building a machine to throw money into a pit slightly more efficiently than doing it manually…agent has no real intuition for why performance is moving… it just reacts to signals after the damage is done. For someone self-described as “decent but not super-advanced,” the risk isn’t the AI making bad decisions, it’s you not knowing which bad decisions to catch before they compound.
Start read-only mode for 2-3 weeks minimum before touching live spend.
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