Founding clients: $3,000 a month, first 6 only. All 6 spots open Secure your start date
Live in 9 markets. Europe launches this week.

Be the ad inside ChatGPT's answer.

Your buyers ask ChatGPT what to buy and who to hire. Since February, a quiet sponsored card sits under that answer. We put your brand in it, done for you, inside your own ad account.

$5,000 setup + $3,000 a month founding rate, first 6 clients, live in 14 days or the fee is credited back
Or take the 60-second readiness check. No card, no call.
ChatGPTTODAY
What running shoes are good for flat feet?
For flat feet you generally want stability shoes with firm midsole support. A few things to look for:
SStride Running Co.Sponsored
Stability shoes fitted to your stride
S
Free gait analysis with every first order.
striderunning.com
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The unit as OpenAI ships it: a labeled card below the answer, one per conversation, never inside the answer. Illustration to the published spec, not a screenshot.
Feb 9, 2026Ads went live in ChatGPT, per OpenAI
May 5, 2026Self-serve opened, no minimum spend, per OpenAI
Aug 20269 markets open: US, UK, CA, AU, NZ, JP, KR, BR, MX
Aug 24, 202631 European countries launch this week, per OpenAI
Jun 2026One advertiser published $1.72 actual CPC, per Opascope
Aug 2026The cheapest named specialist lists $5,000/mo, on their own site
The demonstration

Your brand, in the slot, right now.

Type your business. This is the exact unit OpenAI renders: name, headline to the 50-character spec, description to the 100, square image, quiet card.

The preview updates as you type. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent.
ChatGPTPREVIEW
Who is a good dentist near me for implants?
Here are a few well-reviewed options to consider:
RRiverside DentalSponsored
Implant consults with same-week fittings
R
Book a free consult with our lead implant dentist.
riversidedental.com
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Rendered to the published ad anatomy. Your live campaign is built to the same spec, in your own account.
The window

Every ad platform had an early era. You are standing in this one.

How auctions work

Auctions price by competition. The competition has not arrived.

Self-serve opened May 5 with no minimum spend, and by April pilot advertisers told eMarketer ads were still too scarce in the feed to measure. One advertiser who published numbers paid $1.72 a click against OpenAI's own $3 to $5 guidance.

That gap is what early looks like. Auctions fill, and the click you inherit later costs whatever the crowd bids. This is the mechanism, not a promise.

Google had this era. Meta had this era. Nobody got either one back.

Founding clients, live count
6 of 6 spots open
Counted from real signed clients, nothing else moves it. An empty ledger is what a new channel looks like. It does not stay that way.
Founding rate ends
Sep 30, 2026
On October 1 the monthly becomes $4,000 and this page swaps itself. The rise is written into the code, not into a promise.
Day 0 to Day 90

The same question, twice. Only the answer changes.

Your ad runs from day one. Behind it, the earned recommendation compounds. This is the board we build toward.

Day 0 · Absent
best estate agent in Austin for a relocation
1Competitor one, named with reasons
2Competitor two, named with citations
3Competitor three, also considered
×You, nowhere in the answer
Day 90 · Recommended
best estate agent in Austin for a relocation
1You, named first, with reasons and citations
2Competitor one, demoted to also considered
3Competitor two, also considered
AdYour sponsored card under the answer, from day one
Mention rate0%41%
Query coverage0/2011/20
Lead recommendation0%22%

This board is the illustrative pattern we build toward, not client data, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is real today: your free Day 0 capture, the actual answer ChatGPT gives your buyers, captured by a person and delivered within one working day of your readiness check.

The mechanism

Concrete, because we do this on the real platform

Every noun below is a real control in OpenAI's Ads Manager, August 2026.

1

Setup, week one

Your account, verified and compliant.

  • Account at ads.openai.com, opened by you on a screen-share
  • Business and identity verification walked through together
  • Category policy pass before anything spends
  • Site made crawlable for OpenAI's ad compliance bots
  • OAIQ pixel and Conversions API wired and validated
2

Launch, inside 14 days

Campaigns built to the platform's actual spec.

  • Context-hint targeting written from your buyers' real questions
  • Creative to the 50-character headline and 100-character description spec
  • Square creative built to the image guidelines
  • Geo to country, state, DMA or ZIP where available
  • Small daily budgets first, then conversion-optimized bidding as data flows
3

Operate, weekly

A receipt in plain English, every week.

  • Spend, clicks, conversions, cost per result
  • What we changed and why
  • First-party audience matching once your list clears the platform floor
  • Kill or scale calls, made in the open
  • If the channel is not working, we say so
Your account, your keys

You own the ad account. OpenAI requires it. We would insist anyway.

There are no agency master accounts on this platform. Your business opens its own account, your card pays OpenAI directly, and you invite us in to operate. Zero lock-in is not a promise, it is the architecture.

1
You open the account on a screen-share with us, about twenty minutes.
2
You invite us in as operators. We build the pixel, targeting, campaigns and creative inside it.
3
You see every dollar. Media spend goes on your card, straight to OpenAI, never through us.
4
If you ever leave, you keep the account, the pixel, the data and everything we built.
Pricing

$5,000 setup. $3,000 a month. Priced like the channel it is.

The cheapest named ChatGPT-ads specialist starts at $5,000 a month with a $10,000 media minimum. Several start at $8,500 to $15,000. Same first-mover channel, below every named specialist, and your business owns the account.

The sprint

Launch

$5,000 one-off
The full setup, first campaign live, then handed over working.
  • Account, verification and policy pass, done with you
  • OAIQ pixel and Conversions API wired and validated
  • Context targeting from your buyers' real questions
  • Three ad variants to the platform spec
  • Live within 14 days of account access, then a recorded handover
  • 30 days of email support
Not included: ongoing management. This is the sprint. If you want it operated, that is Managed.
The offer
Done for you, both lanes

Managed

$3,000/mo
+ $5,000 setup, one-off
Founding rate, first 6 clients, locked 12 months. 6 spots open
From October 1: $4,000/mo
Annual: $30,000 a year + setup, 2 months free
Everything in Launch, then we operate the channel week to week.
  • Full management up to $30,000 per month in media
  • Weekly receipt: spend, results, what changed, why
  • Monthly creative refresh, conversion-optimized bidding
  • The earned-recommendation lane worked alongside the ads
  • 90-day initial term, then monthly, cancel any time
Not included: your media budget. Your card, your account, your money, visible at all times.
Bigger books

Enterprise

Scoped on the call
Multi-market, multi-product, media above $30,000 a month.
  • Everything in Managed at enterprise scale
  • Multi-market structure as OpenAI opens regions
  • Product-feed and carousel formats for catalogs
  • A weekly strategy call, not just a report
  • Priority build queue for new formats
For reference: the named specialists price this tier at $8,500 to $15,000 a month. We will quote below it.
Book the scoping call
Published comparisons, August 2026: the pure-play specialist lists $5,000 a month (scale tier $9,500) with a $10,000 media minimum. Strategy shops run $8,500 to $30,000 a month. Generalist PPC at this spend runs 15 to 20 percent of media. All rates from their own published pages.
Worked example: $10,000 media + $3,000 fee, at OpenAI's $3 to $5 CPC guidance2,600 to 4,300 clicks
At a conservative 2 percent conversion rate$162 all-in per lead
At 5 percent, plausible for recommendation-context intent$65 all-in per lead
Google Ads all-industry average cost per lead, published 2026$66.69, media only

Illustrative arithmetic from published sources (OpenAI bid guidance; WebFX 2026 benchmarks; Opascope's published $1.72 CPC ran below the guidance). Not a projection or a promise; the platform is months old and honest operators say so.

The 14-day rule: if the first campaign is not live within 14 days of account access, the setup fee is credited back. On Managed, that month's fee is credited back too. That is the guarantee, and it is one we control.

Six founding Managed spots, counted from real signed clients on the ledger above. Setups are built by hand, one at a time. No results guarantees on a channel this young; anyone offering one is guessing with your money.

Not for you if: you need guaranteed results this quarter, because nobody can honestly sell you that here yet your category cannot run: crypto, gambling and political ads are not allowed, and health or finance is case-by-case your media budget is under about $3,000 a month, where the fee outweighs the learning
FAQ

Straight answers

Are ads really live inside ChatGPT?+
Live since February 9, 2026 on ChatGPT's Free and Go tiers, with the self-serve Ads Manager open since May 5 with no minimum spend. Self-serve runs in nine markets today: the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico. Ads launch across 31 European countries this week through OpenAI's ads team and partners, with self-serve to follow. Paid tiers stay ad-free.
What does the ad actually look like?+
A quiet, clearly labeled card below the end of the answer, one per conversation: your verified business name, a headline up to 50 characters, a description up to 100, a square image, your link. No autoplay, no takeover, no CTA button. The previews on this page are drawn to that published spec.
Will my ad change what ChatGPT says?+
No. OpenAI states ads never influence the answer, and its team frames the model as grounded in answer independence, privacy and user control. The earned recommendation inside the answer is a separate lane, built from citations over about 90 days, and Managed clients get both lanes on one weekly receipt.
What can you target?+
Geography down to state, DMA and ZIP in the US and country-level elsewhere, context hints describing the conversations you belong in (there is no keyword bidding), device platform, and first-party audience matching once your customer list clears the platform's 25,000 match floor. There is no demographic targeting, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Why $5,000 setup and $3,000 a month?+
Because the setup is the hard part done properly: account and identity verification, policy pass, crawler compliance, pixel and Conversions API, targeting and creative to spec. The cheapest named specialist starts at $5,000 every month with a $10,000 media minimum; strategy shops run $8,500 to $30,000. We charge less than all of them, the founding rate is capped at six clients, and the price rise on October 1 is written into this page's code.
Can you guarantee results?+
No, and be suspicious of anyone who does. The only advertiser who has published numbers showed a 1.49x blended return with violent daily swings across 15 days. What we guarantee is what we control: live within 14 days of account access or the fee is credited back, a weekly receipt with real numbers, and an honest kill call if the channel is not paying.
Is the founding scarcity real?+
Auditable. The spot counter moves only when a client actually signs, the October 1 rise executes automatically in the page code, both price sets already exist at Stripe, and we keep the records. Fake countdowns are a regulator problem and a trust problem, and we want neither.
What happens after I pay?+
Within one working day a person replies to book your setup call. On the call: your account opened on a screen-share, the policy check for your category, first budget agreed. Your first campaign is live within 14 days of account access or the fee comes back. The 14-day clock and the weekly receipts are in writing.
The window

Six founding spots. October 1 the price rises. The page will do it itself.

Start now and be live inside 14 days, or take the 60-second check and get your free Day 0 capture either way.

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The founding maths

$3,000 a month now. $4,000 from October 1.

That is $12,000 a year, and the founding rate locks for 12 months.