Optimize
"optimize this account" · "find savings" · "what should I change this week"
Finds wasted spend everywhere it usually hides: search terms, bids, budgets, audiences, placements, and stale creative.
Small findings don't make the list just because they're real. A $15 fix riding along on a report about thousands of dollars gets cut, not padded in for volume.
Investigate
"why did my CPA spike" · "why did conversions stop" · "why did traffic drop" · "why is CTR collapsing"
Confirms the symptom actually happened, at the right grain, before doing anything else, then branches by what the account's own goal is.
A CPA spike is often the account running fewer days that week, not a real cost increase. Divide by active days before blaming the campaign.
Account Audit
"audit this account" · "new client, what am I working with" · "is my SEO healthy"
Covers structure, tracking, historical trajectory across all available history, current waste, governance risk, and SEO health when Search Console is connected.
It leads with the account's full trajectory, not this week's snapshot — the view a one-off audit can give that a recurring report never has time for.
Creative Refresh
"is my creative fatigued" · "why is my CTR dropping"
Looks for a real trend, not a single snapshot, sustained over one to two weeks rather than one bad day.
Rising frequency alone isn't fatigue. CTR has to be falling at the same time, or it calls that something else, usually more competition in the auction, and says so instead.
Competitor Teardown
Name a competitor and ask how their page stacks up.
Pulls the client's own real ad copy and landing page first, then the competitor's, compared in both directions rather than described alone.
The client's own page usually turns up the bigger problem, not the competitor's.