Getting started

Create your account, add your business, review your ads, fund your wallet, and launch your first Adwave campaign.

Your path to a live campaign

01Goal & budget
Choose the result and daily limit.
02Your plan
Review buyers and locations.
03Your ads
Preview and edit your creative.
04Launch
Review funding and start.

On this page

Create an account

Adwave is passwordless. Go to the sign-in page, enter your email, and we send a one-time code. The same step creates your account on first use. You can turn on two-factor authentication later in Settings.

Every account starts with an Individual workspace. Businesses, campaigns, the wallet, and API keys belong to the workspace you have open. Switch workspaces from the sidebar and invite teammates from Settings.

Agencies create their own workspace from /start-agency or, once signed in, Settings → Workspaces. Agency clients do not sign up on a branded host: the agency creates the client workspace and sends an invite. See Agencies.

Add your business

On /start or Home, answer What would you like to advertise? with a link or description, then press Continue. You can use a product listing, business page, or service description. You can start without a website.

Review the Business and What the ads will promote. Correct the business details, the specific product or service, and the ad link before choosing Continue to campaign. If a link cannot be read, fill in the details yourself. Your confirmed offering and ad link carry into the campaign plan.

You can save a draft without a destination. In the plan, choose a working link or a campaign page for inquiries, calls, appointment requests, or directions. Online purchases need a working shop or checkout link. You review any creation price before creating ads or a page.

Set up your first campaign

After confirming your details, you continue to the campaign plan. For an existing business, choose New campaign. Setup runs in three moments. Revisit any completed one from the step list.

Plan: Pick one goal, set a daily budget (at least $30) and dates, and check the suggested buyer profiles and where the ads run: the whole US, states, a radius around your locations, zips, cities, or DMAs. The daily budget is the most a day can cost. Each buyer profile brings its own Reach plan into the campaign. When the suggestions fit, one Continue saves the plan and opens your ads.
Your ads: Review the creation option and any price shown, then create or upload your ads and preview them before launch.
Review & launch: Review everything on one page and press Launch. If the wallet cannot cover the first day yet, this step shows Add funds instead.

Saving your plan does not start advertising. Review your ads and funding before Launch. Details for every step are in Campaigns and Creating ads.

Fund the wallet

Campaigns charge their daily budget from a prepaid wallet, once per active day. Direct business signups start with $60 of starter credit, enough to run the first day at the minimum budget. Unused starter credit expires 14 days after signup if you have not deposited by then; once you deposit, it stays.

Launch needs a wallet that covers one day of your daily budget. When it does not, the Launch step shows Add funds: top up from $30 to $50,000 by card, then return to launch. Turn on auto-refill, or keep about 10 days of daily budget prepaid, so live campaigns do not pause unexpectedly. See Wallet & billing.

Joining a team

If a teammate invites you, open the link in the email, sign in with the invited address, and accept. You land in their workspace and keep your Individual workspace for work outside that team. Decline the invite anytime and continue in your Individual workspace from Home.

What's next

Set up tracking so one script tag ties conversions and revenue back to campaigns. Results are measured on your site, not on platform dashboards.
What we stand behind explains how Autopilot tunes a live campaign and logs every change.
Connect an agent with the MCP server or script the same operations on the REST API.