PRFKT ADS / Questions
Questions and answers
The usual worries first, then the details. Straight answers, in plain words.
The usual worries
It’s too expensive.
There is a free version: $0 a month, in your browser, with Solo’s limits. Connect a free AI or buy AI credits only when you want them. A free workspace nobody signs in to for 30 days takes a nap and wakes up, everything intact, the next time you sign in. Paid plans start at $29 a month (Solo), and the first 50 customers on any paid plan keep 40% off for as long as they stay. Work out your price.
Will I be locked in?
No contract. Monthly plans cancel any time: change plan, card or cancel from the link in any billing email. Every paid plan starts with 3 days free; your card is taken at checkout and charged after the 3 days unless you cancel, and cancelling within the 3 days costs nothing. Done for you is the exception: its one-time $499 setup fee is charged at checkout, and cancelling inside the 3 days stops the $997 monthly plan from being charged. Annual plans cost ten months and are refundable in full within 14 days. Ad spend is paid by you or your clients to the ad platforms, so we cannot refund that.
Will it actually get me clients?
Nobody can promise that, and we don’t. PRFKT ADS is a software tool, not a guarantee of income, clients or ad performance. What you earn depends on your market, demand, your offer and pricing, your effort and approach, and things outside anyone’s control. Examples and numbers on this site are illustrations or sample data, not typical results. The full disclaimer. Try the demo and judge the tool for yourself.
I don’t have time to set it up.
Setup is three short screens: your business (type your website and the rest is filled in), who to look for, then the first businesses it found. After that a Go live checklist on Today ticks itself off as each item starts working, and Do it for me sets up what Byte can. On Done for you we set it up and run it with you. Try the demo.
I’m not technical.
Nothing to install: every plan, the free one included, runs in your browser on our servers. Sign up and your workspace is ready at app.prfktads.com. You do not have to know anything about AI to start: connect a free one in about a minute, or buy credits as you go. Pro and above include a monthly AI allowance. Short video lessons with captions cover every task, and Byte, the built-in guide, answers in plain words and opens the right screen for you. The iPhone and Android apps are a free extra for alerts and quick approvals.
Will it email people without asking me?
Only if you choose Auto. It starts in a mode that finds and writes but never sends. In Approve mode every first email waits for you, and follow-ups stop the moment someone replies.
Is cold email even legal?
Business-to-business cold email is allowed in the US under CAN-SPAM with an accurate sender, a postal address and a working unsubscribe, all added automatically. Rules are stricter in the EU, UK and Canada; read the acceptable-use terms under Legal and ask a lawyer if unsure.
Who owns my data?
You do. It lives in your own workspace: shared, secure hosting on Free, Solo and Pro; your own private server with a dedicated IP on Hosted Pro and up. Keys and passwords are encrypted, workspaces are kept apart, and we never sell your data, read it for advertising, use it to train AI or use your leads and emails for anything but running your account. Two-factor sign-in (a code from an authenticator app) means someone who learns your password still cannot get in. Backups run every night, locked with a passphrase only you hold, and once a week the newest one is opened to prove it really works. When you cancel, your workspace is deleted within 30 days, so export first (Settings → Backups).
The details
Who is PRFKT ADS for?
Freelancers, small ad studios and agencies who make ad creative for small businesses (restaurants, shops, clinics, trades) and would rather spend the day making ads than hunting for clients.
What is the difference with Hosted Pro?
Free, Solo and Pro run on shared, secure hosting. Hosted Pro and up get their own private server and a dedicated IP address, plus the client portal and more included AI.
Can it market my own business too?
It would be rude not to. Marketing Autopilot writes your own social posts and an email newsletter in your voice and sends them on a schedule. Press Connect Instagram (or Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Google Business) and sign in: nothing to copy, no developer account. Where a Connect button is still waiting on that network's approval, Postiz covers it, and X goes through Postiz or OpenTweet; your Studio pictures and videos ride along, and every post can wait for your OK. The newsletter goes from your own mailbox only to people who asked for it, with a one-click unsubscribe and your address. It is included from Pro, a $19 a month add-on on Solo, and the free version gets one channel in review mode. Postiz, if you use it, is a separate service with its own price.
What are Growth tools?
The everyday extras that bring the work in and get it paid. Two-way texting from a business number, with a text back when you miss a call. Review requests after a job, by email or text, sent to everyone alike (no cherry-picking, as Google asks). Appointment reminders. Tracking numbers that show which ad made the phone ring. A chat bubble for your website that answers visitors and takes their details. Landing pages and lead forms the AI writes from one sentence. Numbered estimates and invoices with a pay button and polite reminders. Competitor ad watch, budget rules on live ads that always ask before touching money on lower plans, Google and Maps rank tracking, a Chrome button that adds any business as a lead, and Zapier and Make. All included from Pro; a $19 a month add-on on Solo. The free version gets review requests by email, one landing page and five invoices a month. Texts, numbers and call minutes come out of your AI credits at cost plus 30%, and US texting needs a one-time carrier registration we file for you.
Do I need a Twilio or phone account for texting?
No. We set up the business number for you and file the US carrier registration from your business details; you press approve. You can bring your own Twilio account if you already have one.
What is the weekly check-up?
Once a week the app looks over your whole account: new leads and the searches that find them, emails, bounces and replies, mailbox health, Studio, live ads against the playbook, reviews and setup. You get a short report in plain words. On Pro every fix it suggests is one tap; on Hosted Pro and Agency it fixes the safe things itself (resting a struggling mailbox, re-running a stalled search, better sending hours) and you can undo them; anything that touches money or live ads always waits for your yes. On Done for you a person reads and signs off every report. Free and Solo get the report.
Which AI does it use? Do I need an account?
The AI writes the emails, sorts the replies, grades the ads and drafts the proposals. Pro and up include a monthly AI allowance ($15 to $60): nothing to set up. On Free and Solo you connect your own (Claude, ChatGPT or OpenRouter, paid directly to them) or one of twelve free options such as Google Gemini, Groq, Mistral, Cloudflare or GitHub Models; the free version can also buy AI credits. Switch any time in Automate → Integrations. Website text the app reads is treated as data, never as instructions, and the AI is told to make nothing up: no invented results, clients or prices.
Do I need my own ad accounts?
Your clients' ads run in their ad accounts; you connect them with “Connect with Meta / Google / TikTok…”. You only need your own accounts if you advertise yourself.
Can it make the videos?
Studio writes scripts and prompts for every job and renders images and video through connected services; talking-creator videos run through Creatify, HeyGen or Arcads from your credits. AI video (Seedance) makes short clips from a prompt (and, if you like, a start image) right in Studio: paid plans include clips every month, and more come from credits.
Prefer your own server?
For technical folk who want it: PRFKT ADS can also run on a Linux server you own, with a one-line install and your licence key. Same plans, same prices. Write to us and we will send the details.
Something else? A person answers support@prfktads.com within the day, and Byte, the ◆ in the corner of the app, answers any hour. See also pricing, safety and the video lessons.