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.

See how Lapis works
Lapis generating on-brand ads for the OpenAI Ads Manager comparison

Lapis

The intelligence around the platform

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 feature illustration

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.

See experiments
Tag every ad across nine dimensions feature illustration

Tag every ad across nine dimensions

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.

See how learning works
Rank winners with confidence feature illustration

Rank winners with confidence

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.

See reporting
Generate the next run from what won feature illustration

Generate the next run from what won

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.

See next-run recommendations
See the ad inside the conversation feature illustration

See the ad inside the conversation

Preview the sponsored card with its brand, headline, copy, image, and destination alongside the buyer question it was built to answer, before submission.

See the preview
One view across ChatGPT, Reddit, and Meta feature illustration

One view across ChatGPT, Reddit, and Meta

The same engine reports across channels, so the message that works in ChatGPT can inform what you test on Reddit, Meta, and more.

See cross-channel reporting

Feature comparison

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.

LapisOpenAI 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

  1. Set the objective, brand, and offer
  2. Build tagged, buyer-context experiments
  3. Operate the run through your managed plan
  4. Turn confidence-adjusted results into the next run

OpenAI Ads Manager

How Ads Manager runs

  1. Get an eligible Ads Manager account
  2. Build a campaign in the platform
  3. The platform delivers your ads
  4. Read 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.

Choose Lapis

if you need to...

  • 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