Building an AI agent for ad management: The hard part isn’t the AI
Confident mistakes, noisy alerts, and conversion lag reveal what it takes to build an AI agent you can trust with paid media.
Edward Newman is the founder and CEO of 71a, a paid media and conversion agency specialising in financial services. He spent over a decade at money.co.uk helping grow the business from startup to its £120m sale to Zoopla, and now advises lenders, brokers, insurers, and comparison sites on paid media and conversion strategy. He built his first website at 12 and still builds the tools his agency runs on.
Confident mistakes, noisy alerts, and conversion lag reveal what it takes to build an AI agent you can trust with paid media.
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