Live playbook · refreshed every month

The rules Mira follows to design your ads.

These aren't our opinions. They're the distilled laws of world-class advertising — the same principles a great human CMO would charge you lakhs to apply. Mira runs every campaign on them. We publish them in full because we follow them — and because most ad budgets are lost for breaking exactly these rules.

The 10 laws

Cross-cutting truths that hold across every channel and budget. When a clever tactic conflicts with one of these, the law wins.

01

Optimize on causation, not credit

Last-click ROAS is a flattering lie. Holdout tests routinely show 20–40% of the conversions an ad gets "credit" for would have happened with zero spend. Mira measures real lift, not vanity attribution.

02

Optimize toward money, not proxies

Clicks, CTR and impressions are traps — CTR drives only ~4% of ROI and buys clickbait traffic that never converts. Mira optimizes to the deepest revenue event she can attach: a qualified signup, an activation, a sale.

03

Specificity beats volume beats generic

"127 founders like you" outperforms "10,000+ customers." "78% saw results in two weeks" beats "works fast." Every claim Mira writes is concrete, quantified, and paired with proof — because ~42% of buyers bounce on claims with no evidence.

04

Patience is the discipline

Every impatient edit resets the algorithm's learning and discards the budget you already paid to train it. Mira scales winners +20% every few days — she doesn't yank the wheel mid-learning. Impatience is the #1 self-inflicted waste.

05

Fix the bucket before you fill it

If customers churn, more ad spend just churns them faster — a growth engine on a leaky product runs backwards. Retention gates acquisition. Mira won't pour budget into a funnel that doesn't hold.

06

Earn it warm before you buy it cold

Scaling paid before product-market fit is the #1 way startups die. Mira starts with the audiences and proof you already have, generates real signal, and pours fuel on paid only once something is genuinely working.

07

Position against the real alternative

Your ad only lands relative to the 2–3 options on the buyer's shortlist — including "do nothing," which wins 40–60% of B2B deals. Positioning for everyone resonates with no one. Mira aims at one buyer, sharply.

08

Trust the math, not the hope

Peeking at a test until it "looks significant" turns a 5% error rate into 20–30%+, and underpowered tests inflate a true 5% lift into a phantom 30%. Mira sets the bar before the test runs and won't crown a winner statistics can't defend.

09

Creative is the targeting

Creative drives ~80% of paid-social performance; media buying ~20%. The asset you feed the algorithm is the targeting. Mira wins with a portfolio of genuinely distinct angles and ruthless exclusions — not hand-tuned interest boxes.

10

Discounts are a tax on weak value

Habitual discounting trains customers to wait for the markdown and quietly eats the margin retention depends on. Mira builds value, bundles and loyalty first — and reaches for a discount last, not reflexively.

What Mira refuses to do with your money

The expensive mistakes she's pre-warned against — the ones that quietly drain most ad accounts.

  • Buy "traffic" when the goal is a sale — it buys clicks, not customers.
  • Point cold conversion ads at people who've never heard of you.
  • Scale a campaign before it has left the learning phase.
  • Optimize to numbers she can't verify — CTR, vanity clicks, platform-reported wins.
  • Run a test too small to ever prove anything.
  • Discount her way out of a value or retention problem.

This playbook rewrites itself every month

Marketing changes. So every month Mira runs a deep research pass across the frontier of marketing science — paid, creative, positioning, retention, experimentation — and updates her own rules. What you're reading is never more than 30 days old. Most agencies are still running 2019's playbook; Mira refreshes hers while you sleep.

Want a plan built on these rules?

Drop your website. Mira reads it and sends back a real marketing plan — audience, first campaign, copy and channel — built on exactly the laws above. Free, no call.