Ads Manager launches a campaign. Lapis teaches the next one.
OpenAI's Ads Manager operates ChatGPT ad inventory. Lapis operates the advertiser intelligence around it: brand and buyer-context experiments, confidence-adjusted reporting, and the next run, through your managed plan.
Lapis turns brand and buyer context into structured experiments, reports with confidence adjustment, and prepares the next run, then carries what works across other channels.
Turns brand and buyer context into structured experiments
Confidence-adjusted reporting and next-run recommendations
Carries ChatGPT learning across Reddit, Meta, and more
OpenAI Ads Manager
The platform that runs the inventory
Ads Manager buys and delivers ChatGPT ads and controls eligibility, review, pricing, and delivery. It launches a campaign, and the intelligence to learn from it is up to you.
Buys and delivers ChatGPT ad inventory
Controls eligibility, review, pricing, and delivery
Launches a campaign, then the learning is on you
Trusted by 1,500+ marketing teams including
The advertiser layer around Ads Manager
Ads Manager operates the inventory. Lapis operates the brand context, experiments, and reporting that make every ChatGPT campaign teach the next one.
Structured experiments, not one-off campaigns
Lapis maps the questions and needs around your product into distinct context-hint experiments designed for ChatGPT Ads, then compares them cleanly.
Angle, title, copy, product anchor, message style, use case, buyer trigger, audience, and proof, every ad is labeled and scored so you learn at the level of ideas.
Confidence-adjusted scoring discounts thin, low-impression results, so a lucky ad never outranks a proven one and every winner is one you can reproduce.
With one click, Lapis turns a run's learnings into the next batch: a recommended distribution of angles, audiences, and styles, plus the budget shifts to back them.
Preview the sponsored card with its brand, headline, copy, image, and destination alongside the buyer question it was built to answer, before submission.
Ads Manager operates the platform; Lapis operates the intelligence around it. A lighter check on Lapis means OpenAI owns that job; a lighter check on Ads Manager means it is native to the platform.
Lapis
OpenAI Ads Manager
Not included: Buys and delivers ChatGPT ad inventory
Included: Buys and delivers ChatGPT ad inventory
Not included: Controls eligibility, review, pricing, and delivery
Included: Controls eligibility, review, pricing, and delivery
Not included: Direct campaign launch on OpenAI inventory
Included: Direct campaign launch on OpenAI inventory
Included: Aggregate performance metrics
Included: Aggregate performance metrics
Included: In-context ad preview before submission
Included: In-context ad preview before submission
Included: Brand and buyer-context experiment design
Not included: Brand and buyer-context experiment design
Included: Creative tagged and scored across nine dimensions
Not included: Creative tagged and scored across nine dimensions
Included: Confidence-adjusted winner ranking
Not included: Confidence-adjusted winner ranking
Included: Message and theme analysis
Not included: Message and theme analysis
Included: Next-run recommendations with budget shifts
Not included: Next-run recommendations with budget shifts
Included: Original creative generated from brand context
Not included: Original creative generated from brand context
Included: Cross-channel learning (Reddit, Meta, and more)
Not included: Cross-channel learning (Reddit, Meta, and more)
Included: Advertiser controls offer, claims, and guardrails
Included: Advertiser controls offer, claims, and guardrails
Lapis
How Lapis runs on top
01Set the objective, brand, and offer
02Build tagged, buyer-context experiments
03Operate the run through your managed plan
04Turn confidence-adjusted results into the next run
OpenAI Ads Manager
How Ads Manager runs
01Get an eligible Ads Manager account
02Build a campaign in the platform
03The platform delivers your ads
04Read the aggregate metrics it reports
Why teams run Lapis on top of Ads Manager
01
Intelligence the platform doesn't give.
Ads Manager launches and delivers. Lapis adds the brand context, structured experiments, and confidence-adjusted reporting that turn a campaign into a system.
02
Every run teaches the next.
Instead of a report that explains the last run, Lapis generates the next one: a recommended mix of angles, audiences, and budget.
03
One loop across channels.
What works in ChatGPT informs Reddit, Meta, and more, so ChatGPT is part of one program rather than a silo.
Turn ChatGPT campaigns into structured experiments
Get confidence-adjusted reporting and next-run recommendations
Generate on-brand creative for buyer-context clusters
Carry ChatGPT learning to other channels
Choose Ads Manager alone
if you need to...
Simply launch a campaign on OpenAI inventory
Work directly in the platform without an added layer
Handle strategy and reporting entirely yourself
Access the native platform controls firsthand
Lapis works on top of OpenAI's Ads Manager, not instead of it. You need an eligible Ads Manager account, ChatGPT advertising runs through Lapis managed plans, and OpenAI controls eligibility, review, pricing, and delivery. Advertisers never receive users' chats, and context hints are not exact-match keywords.
Frequently asked questions
No. Ads Manager operates the ChatGPT ad inventory. Lapis operates the advertiser intelligence around it: brand context, structured experiments, confidence-adjusted reporting, and next-run recommendations. You still need Ads Manager to run campaigns.
Yes. Your business needs an eligible Ads Manager account or another approved access path. OpenAI controls business verification, account eligibility, ad review, placement, pricing, and delivery.
No. ChatGPT and LLM advertising runs through Lapis managed plans, where agents and a dedicated strategist operate the campaigns with you. Self-serve plans cover Meta and Google creative workflows.
No. OpenAI does not give advertisers users' chats, chat history, memories, or personal details. Advertisers receive aggregate, non-identifying performance information such as views, clicks, and spend.
No. Context hints describe relevant topics, needs, and situations. They are not exact-match keywords and do not guarantee delivery for a particular prompt or conversation.
No. OpenAI states that ads are separate from answers and clearly labeled. Advertisers cannot shape, rank, or alter ChatGPT's response through an ad campaign.
ChatGPT Ads supports CPC and CPM buying. OpenAI recommends starting with a maximum CPC bid of $3 to $5, and the current minimum daily campaign budget is $25. Lapis managed pricing is custom and separate from OpenAI media spend.
Yes. Lapis carries brand context, creative hypotheses, experiment history, and reporting across supported channels, so what works in ChatGPT can inform Reddit, Meta, and more.