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      <title>The LinkedIn Ads API, one refusal at a time</title>
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      <description>Our sixth ad platform. A campaign group that holds no money, a status you cannot create, one Page that may post, and the eleven other things a real account told us.</description>
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      <description>Our fifth ad platform. Here are the refusals a real ChatGPT Ads account sent back, why the documentation did not warn us, and what each one means for you.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Growomat now builds, runs and reports on ChatGPT Ads beside your Google, Microsoft, Reddit and Meta campaigns. What a chat card needs, and what stays in your hands.</description>
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      <title>Your ads, one click away in Claude</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Growomat is in the Claude connectors directory, so connecting takes one click. What you can ask for once it is connected, and what it will never do without you.</description>
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      <title>The ad platform says 100 sales. Your bank says 20.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ad platforms, analytics and your bank never agree on how many sales your ads made. Why each counts something different, and how we built a number you can check.</description>
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      <title>A Reddit campaign with a hero image, in one conversation</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>One prompt, six tool calls and a paused Reddit image ad — plus the promoted post we shipped that read like an ad, and the change that stopped the next one.</description>
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      <title>How to create beautiful user-centric products with AI</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The models are the easy part. What keeps a product user-centric is the harness around them, from principles and stories to prototypes, tests and gates.</description>
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      <title>Your ad budget is a hope, not a guarantee</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every ads tool alerts you when spending passes your budget. None of them act on it. How the Emergency Brake pauses campaigns, and what it deliberately never does.</description>
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      <title>Why the Reddit Ads API was harder than it looks</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We budgeted a day to integrate Reddit Ads and it took two weeks. Here are the refusals we hit, why our tests never caught them, and how it ends.</description>
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