Summary
Marketer Jono Catliff demonstrates how he uses Claude Code to run a full audit of a six-year-old Google Ads account for a local service business, with the AI agent finding and automatically fixing 127 errors while surfacing dozens more optimization opportunities. He shows the tool connected directly to a live Google Ads account, running the entire process from a single custom slash command, ‘/audit’, built from a blueprint he says took weeks to develop.
The video walks through five areas Claude Code evaluates: account-level settings, campaigns and ad groups, individual ads, landing pages, and keywords or search terms. Examples include disabling Google’s ‘optimization score’ recommendations, turning off underperforming display and search network placements that generate low-quality leads, reallocating budget toward high-performing campaigns, and fixing a frequently mis-set, hidden location-targeting option that Google defaults incorrectly.
Catliff, who says he built and sold a seven-figure business that spent $187,000 on Google Ads, frames the audit as a way for local service businesses to recover wasted ad spend without manually digging through Google’s interface. He also points viewers to a separate tutorial on connecting Claude Code to a Google Ads account, positioning this video as a practical, replicable workflow for marketers managing their own campaigns.
📺 Source: Jono Catliff · Published September 16, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
