Most Meta Ads agencies run your Facebook & Instagram campaigns, send a monthly report, and ghost. Ascendra built an AI-driven system that writes the creative, tests it, runs it, replies to every lead in under 60 seconds, books them into your calendar, and updates your CRM — autonomously. You just show up and close.
Meta Ads Automated is Ascendra Marketing's flagship paid acquisition service for UK local businesses. We run your Facebook and Instagram advertising as an end-to-end autonomous system: AI generates and tests the ad creative, an agent refines audiences and manages bids daily, every lead that submits a form is replied to in under 60 seconds, qualified, booked into your calendar, and pushed into your CRM with full attribution. UK clients average 3.8× ROAS with a £9 average cost per lead — measured across 2025.
Creative matters, but bad creative rarely kills a campaign. Slow follow-up, weak audiences, and missing pixel data kill campaigns — and that's where 95% of UK agencies drop the ball.
Reply to a Meta lead after 5 minutes and your conversion drops 80%. The average UK small business takes 47 minutes. By the time you call back, they've booked with three competitors.
Meta's algorithm rewards daily signals. Agencies that "check in weekly" are watching your budget burn. Every day matters — bids, audiences, creative all need daily attention.
Without Meta Pixel + Conversions API set up properly (server-side, GDPR-clean), Meta doesn't know who's converting and can't find more of them. Your CPL doubles. Most agencies set this up once and never touch it again.
We apply the same agentic automation frameworks that power modern AI coding agents to your paid acquisition. Eleven moving parts. All running. All the time.
Clean BM, ad accounts, pixel, CAPI, domain verification, iOS 14+ tracking — all configured correctly from day one.
Cold, warm, hot funnels. Lookalikes from your customer list. Interest + behavioural targeting. Local geo-radius for service businesses.
AI-generated + human-edited. Image, video, carousel, and lead-form creative. 20+ variants per month, tested systematically.
Friction-free in-Facebook/Instagram lead forms, pre-filled from user profile. Convert 3–5× better than off-platform landing pages for local services.
Built in n8n with OpenAI. Sub-60-second personalised reply to every lead. Books into calendar. Texts confirmation. Escalates when needed.
Video viewers, page engagers, website visitors, cart abandoners — each with the right message. Existing customers excluded automatically.
Daily bid, budget, creative, and audience adjustments. Not monthly check-ins. Not weekly. Every day.
Every Monday: spend, leads, CPL, ROAS, top creative, next-week plan. Readable in 2 minutes. No vanity charts.
If we don't deliver a positive ROAS within 90 days, we work free until we do.
"Went from £38 cost per lead to £6 in 6 weeks. The AI reply is the unlock — we used to lose leads because I couldn't reply fast enough."
"4.8× ROAS in month 2. £2k spend, £9.6k booked work. Ascendra runs the whole thing, I just show up to the jobs."
"Booked-in rate went from 18% to 64% in a month. Leads get replied to before I've even seen the notification. Unreal."
Meta Ads Automated is Ascendra's flagship paid acquisition service. We run your Facebook and Instagram advertising end-to-end with an AI-driven system: creative generation, daily optimisation, instant lead replies (<60 seconds), automatic calendar booking, and CRM sync — all autonomous. You just show up and close.
We recommend UK local businesses start with a minimum of £750/month in ad spend to give the Meta algorithm enough data to optimise. Most clients run £1,000–£5,000/month depending on goals, service area, and customer value.
A healthy ROAS (return on ad spend) for UK local business Meta Ads is typically 3× to 5×. Ascendra clients average 3.8× ROAS with a £9 average cost per lead across 2025.
Because replying to a lead after 5 minutes drops your conversion by 80%. The Ascendra AI lead-reply agent replies to every Meta Ads lead in under 60 seconds, qualifies them, and books them straight into your calendar — the difference between an 18% and 64% booked-in rate.
Management fees from £450/month, plus your ad spend (paid directly to Meta on your card — never through us). The AI lead-reply agent is £195/month extra and typically pays for itself in the first week. No lock-in, cancel any time, 90-day ROAS guarantee.
You do, always. We work inside your Meta Business Manager, your ad account, your pixel, your data. If you ever leave, you keep everything — every campaign, every audience, every pixel event. No hostage situations.
Yes — see our Google Ads page. Most UK local businesses run both: Meta for demand generation (catching people before they search), Google for demand capture (catching them when they search). The same AI lead-reply agent works across both channels.
Welcome to the club — most UK local businesses have. The two most common failure points are (1) slow lead reply, (2) broken pixel/CAPI. We fix both before spend ramps. Our 90-day ROAS guarantee means you're not paying us to repeat the same mistakes.
Book a free 30-minute ads audit with Sholese. We'll show you your current Meta performance (if you run ads), benchmark it against UK averages, and map out the automated system for your business.
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