AI platform ads are arriving one assistant at a time. We run them with the tracking-first discipline of our Google and Meta accounts, and say plainly which surfaces sell ads today.
PixelCrayons manages paid advertising inside AI assistants and answer engines, on whichever platforms currently sell ad space to advertisers. We build and run campaigns on the AI surfaces with a live, open ad product, on the same tracking-first foundation as our Google Ads and Meta Ads work. No claimed partnership, no certified access, no guaranteed placement with any AI platform, ever. Where a platform you want has no ad product yet, our AEO and GEO services earn the organic answer instead, and the account is ready to convert the day that changes.
No claimed partnership with any AI platform, ever✦
Campaigns live only where a platform sells ads✦
Tracking verified before spend scales✦
AEO/GEO covers the gap where ads aren't live yet✦
Reply within four business hours (typical)✦
Delivering since 2004✦
No claimed partnership with any AI platform, ever✦
Campaigns live only where a platform sells ads✦
Tracking verified before spend scales✦
AEO/GEO covers the gap where ads aren't live yet✦
Reply within four business hours (typical)✦
Delivering since 2004✦
Every month, in writing
What the engagement actually ships.
01
Campaigns built as AI ad surfaces open
The AI assistants and answer engines are opening ad products in stages, and which of them sells to your category changes fast enough that we check it live at the audit call rather than print a list here. Account setup, targeting, creative and tracking are prepared platform by platform, so the account is ready the day a surface opens to you. Never sold as a bundle you can't yet buy into: if a platform you want isn't selling ads yet, we say so instead of billing for access that doesn't exist.
Per platform, as it opens
02
LLM advertising accounts, built right
LLM (large language model) advertising is paid placement inside AI assistants. This is the unglamorous setup work most pitches for it skip: conversion tracking wired to whatever signal each platform exposes, feeds and structured data prepared so your listings are eligible the day an auction opens, and account structure that survives the platform's first policy change rather than needing a rebuild.
First 30 days
03
Tracking verified before spend scales
The same rule as our Google Ads and Meta Ads work: consent-aware measurement confirmed accurate before a single dollar of AI-surface budget scales past a test. New platforms mean new conversion signals, and we verify each one rather than assuming it behaves like the last.
Before spend
04
AEO and GEO, where there's no auction yet
On platforms with no live ad product, the budget doesn't sit idle: our AEO and GEO services earn the organic mention instead, using the same entity and structured-data foundation the ad campaigns will eventually run alongside. One team covers both lanes, so nothing has to wait for a second vendor to catch up.
Where ads aren't live
05
Platform-status reporting, monthly
We maintain a running account of which AI surfaces you're paying on, which are organic-only this month, and what changed since the last report, so nobody on your side has to guess whether a platform has quietly opened its ad product. No invented reach or impression figures for surfaces we can't measure.
Monthly
AI
First 30 days
Audit to campaigns live where they can be.
01
Days 1 to 2
Surface audit
We check current advertiser access across the AI platforms your buyers use, alongside your existing Google Ads and Meta Ads accounts. We record, platform by platform, what's genuinely open today versus organic-only.
02
Week 1
The media plan, priced
A prioritised plan: live-ad platforms first, AEO/GEO coverage for the rest, itemised and priced. You approve the plan before any spend moves.
03
Weeks 2 to 4
First campaigns live
Accounts built, tracking verified, and the first campaigns running wherever a platform is open. Entity and structured-data work is handed to the AEO/GEO side for whatever isn't. Verifiable input work, not a slide deck.
04
Month 2+
Rebalance monthly
Budget moves monthly to what earns, exactly like our Google Ads and Meta Ads practice. We re-check advertiser access on every platform at each monthly report, so a new surface joins the paid lane the month it opens, not a quarter later.
Inside Prism
Your engagement, week to week, in one workspace.
Where the engagement includes it, your search programme runs in a Prism workspace you log into: the fix queue, the content queue, approvals and the weekly review, with each decision written down as it is made.
The measurement plan, before the first unit of spend.
What you receive in month one
Paid media is reported from a plan you sign off before a campaign goes live. You receive the conversion definitions we will track, the tracking verification showing each one firing on a test order, and the account structure with every campaign named by its job. The weekly review in Prism carries the same line items every week, so a trend is visible without a meeting.
01Conversion definitions: which events count, and which are excluded
02Tracking verification: each conversion fired and recorded on a test order
03Account structure: campaigns named by job, budgets by stage
04Weekly review in Prism: spend, conversions, cost per result, what changed and why
05Kill list: the terms, placements and audiences excluded this week
AI platform ads is the paid lane of AI search, run on the tracking-first discipline of our PPC service. Where no auction exists, AEO earns the answer engines quote instead. Start with the free review.
Before you sign
Our commitments
Each one says where it applies and links to its full terms.
Response and start times
We typically respond within four business hours. Eligible engagements can typically start within two to three business days after scope, payment and required access are confirmed.
Business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm IST, excluding published company holidays. Typical expectations, not guaranteed service levels.
No. Search engines decide rankings, and we do not guarantee rankings, AI-search citations, leads or revenue. We agree the work, how progress will be measured and how often we report it, and we explain what the measures show and what we will change next.
How will we know what you are doing?
Before work starts we agree how often you get updates, what the reports cover and who sends them. You know who coordinates your engagement, who owns the work and how to escalate an issue. For hourly and retainer work, time is recorded in Workstatus, so you can see the time records behind your invoice.
Who owns the ad accounts, the data and the work?
Your materials, data and accounts remain yours, and we prefer to work in advertising and analytics accounts you own, with access delegated to our team. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute.
What if we want to stop?
Cancellation, notice and any renewal terms are written into your proposal or statement of work before you accept it. If an engagement ends early, we hand over completed, paid-for work and list any unfinished work separately. For an eligible specialist trial, you can stop within the trial window and pay nothing for eligible trial hours.
No, and treat any agency that claims otherwise as a red flag. Neither OpenAI, Perplexity nor any AI platform currently runs the kind of certification programme Google and Meta do, so "certified ChatGPT ads partner" isn't a real credential to hold in 2026. What we have instead is standing readiness: the same tracking-first paid-media discipline behind our Google Ads and Meta Ads work (see our PPC service), applied the moment a given platform opens its ad product to ordinary advertisers. That's self-serve or via API, the same way anyone else gets in. No special access, no guaranteed account, no insider queue.
It depends on the platform and your category, and that changes fast enough that printing a fixed list on this page would be wrong within weeks. That's exactly the kind of stale claim we'd rather not make. What we do instead is check current advertiser access live, at the audit call: which AI surfaces your buyers use, which of them are genuinely open to ad spend today, and which are still organic-only. You get a straight answer scoped to your category, not a table frozen at whenever this page was last edited.
LLM advertising is the name the market is settling on for paid placements inside large-language-model assistants, the ChatGPT and Perplexity layer, as distinct from ads on classic search results pages. It's an extension of paid media, not a separate discipline. The targeting logic, creative testing and budget accountability are the same skills behind our Google Ads and Meta Ads work, aimed at a newer set of surfaces with immature tooling and, on most of them, no ad auction at all yet. Anyone selling it as a wholly new specialism with its own playbook is overstating how much has changed.
Nothing sits idle. Where there's no auction to bid into, the budget conversation shifts to our AEO and GEO services: entity consistency, structured data and answer-first content that earn the organic mention instead of buying it. That work is built on the same foundation the eventual ad campaigns will need anyway (clean entity data, structured feeds), so the moment a platform opens to advertisers, the paid layer switches on without starting from zero. You are never paying us for ad management on a platform that has no ads to manage.
No, for the same reason we never guarantee a search ranking. Launch timing, eligibility criteria and account approval for AI-platform ad products are decided by the platforms themselves, on their own schedules, and nobody outside those companies controls them. What we commit to contractually is the work that puts you in position: tracking built correctly, feeds and structured data ready, campaigns live the day access opens, and monthly reporting on what's paid, what's organic, and what changed.
Engagements are scoped to which platforms are open to your category and how much of your tracking foundation already exists, itemised and priced rather than sold as a fixed package. The initial audit is free, with no retainer required. Agencies can resell the whole practice under their own brand, NDA-backed, on the same terms as every white-label service here: we do not approach the clients you introduce to us for direct business, through the work and for twelve months after the last assignment for that client ends, and it is written into the agreement.
We run it, on the same tracking-first discipline as our Google Ads and Meta Ads work: setup, targeting, creative, tracking and monthly reporting. If advertising on ChatGPT is not yet open to your category, we say so at the audit call. Our AEO and GEO services then earn the organic answer until it is.
Find out which AI platforms will take your ad spend.
A free review: current advertiser access across the AI platforms your buyers use, what's genuinely live, what's still organic-only, and the fix list either way. Keep it whether or not we ever work together.
