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As of 13 August 2026, AI can explain your Google Ads report.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA purpose-built alternative is Polymer, which provides AI dashboards and insights from spreadsheets without setup.

If this goes wrong: you misunderstand a campaign trend and make a poor optimisation decision, but you can return to the account data and change course.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open Google Ads and export the relevant campaign report with the comparison period, spend, impressions, clicks, click-through rate, conversions, conversion rate, cost per conversion and conversion value where those columns exist.
    2. Remove customer names, email addresses, telephone numbers and search terms that could identify individuals before copying the report.
    3. Write down the business goal, the conversion definition, the date range, the comparison period and any promotions, landing-page changes or tracking changes that happened during it.
    4. Paste the prompt and the report into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, replacing each bracketed slot with your information.
    5. Compare the response's totals and percentage changes with the figures in the exported report and check metric definitions in the Google Ads help documentation.
    6. Mark every explanation presented as a hypothesis, then compare the proposed checks with your conversion setup, landing-page records and campaign change history before making a decision.
    7. Send the checked summary to the colleague who controls the advertising budget and agree which account changes, if any, will be made and how their effect will be measured.

    Prompt

    Explain the Google Ads report below for a UK business owner who understands the business but is not a paid-search specialist.

Use only the figures and definitions in the report and the context I provide. Do not invent causes, benchmarks, conversions or recommendations. Separate observations from possible explanations. State when the data is insufficient to support a conclusion.

Return:
1. A five-sentence plain-English summary.
2. A table showing the important metrics by campaign, including spend, impressions, clicks, click-through rate, conversions, conversion rate, cost per conversion and conversion value where available.
3. The three biggest positive and negative changes, with the figures and comparison period.
4. Possible explanations for each change, labelled as hypotheses rather than facts.
5. Data-quality issues, missing columns, tracking limitations or comparisons that are not like for like.
6. Five specific questions I should answer before changing budgets or targeting.
7. A short list of low-risk next checks, without making changes to my account.

Business goal: [for example, generate qualified enquiries]
Conversion definition: [what counts as a conversion]
Comparison period: [for example, previous period or same period last year]
Important business context: [seasonality, promotions, landing-page changes or other known events]

Google Ads report:
[PASTE THE EXPORTED REPORT HERE]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know whether a conversion is genuinely valuable unless your conversion definition and business outcomes are supplied.
  • AI cannot prove why performance changed from aggregate report data alone; it can only list plausible explanations.
  • AI cannot see unexported account settings, auction conditions, competitor activity or changes made by another user.
  • AI cannot decide whether a cheaper conversion is worth more than a higher-volume campaign without your commercial judgement.
  • AI can misread renamed campaigns, incomplete comparison periods or tracking breaks unless you identify them.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: judgement under ambiguity, real time truth and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total9 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT analyse my Google Ads report?
Yes. Paste an export with the date range, comparison period, metric definitions and business goal, and it can summarise the figures and highlight campaign differences. Check its arithmetic and treat explanations about cause as hypotheses.
What should I include in a Google Ads report for AI to explain it?
Include campaign names, spend, impressions, clicks, click-through rate, conversions, conversion rate, cost per conversion and conversion value where available. Also include what counts as a conversion, the comparison period and any promotions, landing-page changes or tracking changes.
Can AI tell me why my Google Ads performance changed?
Not reliably from the report alone. It can identify changes and suggest possible causes, but you need to check your account history, conversion tracking, landing pages, seasonality and other business events before accepting one.
Can AI recommend changes to my Google Ads budget?
It can organise the evidence and suggest questions or low-risk checks, but it cannot decide your budget safely without knowing the value of each lead or sale and your commercial constraints. Do not apply a recommendation until you have checked the underlying figures and agreed the decision with the person responsible for the budget.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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