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#3 on Product Hunt September 11 with 310 votes, pitching "clone the ads already winning in your market, at scale": agents reverse-engineer currently-performing ads in a category, rebuild them as static and video creative in the buyer's brand, and launch optimized for ROAS, with the company's own framing being that it "decides, builds, and ships" (Product Hunt). That removes the creative agency and the human media buyer from the ecommerce ad loop. It also means competing brands can run each other's creative through the same pipeline, compressing the shelf life of any winning ad to however long a rival's agent takes to notice.
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