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Prompt benchmarks

Which Google Ads prompts have we tested across AI setups?

We take the everyday questions you already ask about an account, the search terms report, negative keywords, wasted spend, ROAS on buried winners, and run each one four ways: through AdTAO, through Google's own Ads tool, through an AI given raw account access, and through an AI given only a screenshot. So far two jobs are tested. On both, AdTAO wins: it cleans up search terms without re-adding negative keywords your account already blocks, and it is the only setup that holds a "change it now" request for your approval instead of writing straight to the account. This page is a scoreboard, not a sales list; every result links to the run behind it.

Two jobs tested on a small test account so far; two more not yet run. Every measured cell links to the full run, with the real output shown and account names, IDs and spend redacted.

Shareable summary · what is tested so far

Two jobs tested, AdTAO wins both

The result that matters: on the negative-keyword job, running the prompt literally would add 41 negatives, but 19 are already blocked in the account, so AdTAO has you add 22 and skip the duplicates, and it confirmed none of the 22 earn money for accounts like yours before you block them. On the approve-before-change job, AdTAO is the only setup that stages the change for your sign-off rather than writing straight to the account. Two more jobs, the weekly review and the full audit, are not yet tested.

Author Rob Warner · Last updated 2026-07-30

What does each setup score, job by job?

At a glance, by Google Ads job. Open a job to see the method, or a pack for a single creator's prompts with the real output. Rows marked not yet tested have no run behind them; we never invent a result to fill a cell.

Google Ads job AdTAO Google's own Ads tool AI with raw account access Screenshot only Detail
Search-term cleanup Win Tie Tie Not tested Pack
Approve-before-change Win Miss (3/3) Miss Not tested Job
Weekly account review Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested
Account audit Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested Not yet tested

Every measured cell traces to the run on its linked page, where the real output is shown. Rows without a run stay marked "not yet tested" until one publishes; this scoreboard invents nothing.

Why is "tie" a good result, not a loss?

Some of this work is a straight read of your own account: sorting search terms into buckets, or reading conversions and ROAS off the search terms report. Any competent setup gets those right, so a tie there is the result we expect, and we say so plainly. AdTAO earns its keep on the checks a single-account tool cannot make: before it hands you a negative keyword, it reads the negatives your account already blocks so it will not have you re-add duplicates, and it checks the term against results from accounts like yours so it will not block one that earns money elsewhere. That is the difference you are paying for, and it is the difference the wins below measure.

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What should I do with this?

Start with the search-term pack: it turns "clean up my search terms" into a ready-to-paste negative keyword list that skips the duplicates your account already blocks, so you paste the final list straight into a shared negative keyword list in the Google Ads UI. If you let your AI agent make changes for you, read the approve-before-change job first, so a wrong instruction lands in your approvals queue instead of live in the account. Both are a few minutes to act on, and every negative keyword traces back to a row you can filter to in your own search terms report by setting conversions to 0.

Author: Rob Warner · Last updated 2026-07-30. Backed by results from 20,000+ connected advertiser accounts.