Connect Google Ads to ChatGPTand check it before you trust itand check it before you trust it

Where Did the Money Go? Guide to connecting Google Ads to Claude or ChatGPT to find wasted spend, with prompts and a 10-minute trust test.

What you get (+1 bonus)

Four routes, read or write.
Google's own server is strictly read-only, while several third-party connectors can change campaigns. The guide compares four routes on setup, cost model, access and what each leaves you to handle.
Setup, step by step.
Click-by-click steps for a connector in Claude or ChatGPT, plus a boxed section on Google's own server for whoever implements it. ChatGPT reaches that server only once it's hosted online or tunnelled.
15 prompts, labelled by trust.
Shop prompts on cost per purchase and search terms that burn money, lead-gen prompts on cost per lead and whether each lead is counted once, all marked SAFE, VERIFY or WON'T WORK WITHOUT JOINED DATA.
A 10-minute trust test.
Five questions you ask Claude or ChatGPT and check in Google Ads, from last full week's spend to a calculation, scored so you know whether its answers are ready for decisions.
Where Google Ads' numbers bend.
Conversions versus All conversions, a GA4 import made primary that counts each purchase or form fill twice, conversions dated to the click, and AI-written queries that drop a campaign paused mid-month.
+1 bonus
An AI skill for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot
that checks which conversion actions count, finds double-counted actions and wasted search-term spend, and changes nothing without a preview and your yes.

Free · about 15 seconds

Who it's for, and who it's not for

An online shop owner at a stockroom desk types a question about last month's Google Ads spend into an AI assistant on a laptop.

Who it's for

Online shop owners on Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart or Shopware who spend real money on Google Ads and want faster answers about what it buys them.
Lead-gen businesses that collect enquiries through forms, calls or bookings, run Google Ads, and want to know what each lead really costs.
Agencies and freelancers who run Google Ads for clients and want quick answers from Claude or ChatGPT that they can check.

Who it's not for

Specialists who already query the Google Ads API in GAQL with their own tools. Most of this will be familiar.
Anyone without at least read access to the Google Ads account. If someone else runs it for you, share the guide with whoever runs it.

What's inside

PDF · About 35 min read

Honest note

The guide can't see your account. It covers Google Ads' rules as of October 2026, and its setup times are our estimates. Google's own server is a developer job, and in ChatGPT it also needs hosting or a tunnel. The trust test checks the AI against Google Ads. Whether Google Ads' purchases match your store, or its leads match the ones you received, takes your own orders or lead list.

Free · about 15 seconds