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Study competitor ads and draft on-brand ad ideas in one run

Idea + starter prompt, not run by us yet

For: Small brands that want fresh ad ideas based on what rivals are already running

Someone used the Claude Agent SDK to make an ad agent and gave it one brief: spot rivals, study what their ads do, make new creatives in the brand's style and bundle everything into a report. It worked through every stage by itself, with no drag-and-drop workflow builder.

Steps

1. Write down your brand basics: what you sell, who buys, tone and colours.
2. List the competitors you already know, or ask Claude to suggest some for you to confirm.
3. Paste the starter prompt and let it gather and study the ads first.
4. Read the competitor notes before looking at any new ad ideas, and remove anything copied too closely.
5. Keep the final report as a file you can share with your team.

Starter prompt

Help me plan new ads for [my business], which sells [product] to [type of customer]. My brand tone is [tone].

Step 1: Suggest up to [number] competitors and wait for me to confirm the list.
Step 2: For each one, describe the ads they run, the offer, the hook and the format.
Step 3: Draft [number] ad ideas that fit my brand. Do not copy their wording.
Step 4: Put it all in one short report I can share.

Show me the plan before you start. Do not post, buy or publish anything.

Original post: X · @boringmarketer · found via agentusecases.ai. Written up in our own words. We haven't run it, so test it on made-up data first.