For e-commerce & DTC

Stop advertising what you can’t ship.

The DTC failure mode hasn’t changed in five years. Creatives burn out before the team notices. Out-of-stock SKUs keep collecting clicks. Margin slips while the dashboard insists ROAS is fine. Cleverloop’s Creative Analyst and Inventory & Feed Intelligence catch both failures the night they happen, and recommend the next variant before the brief.

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The DTC ad death spiral

Three failures that compound. Every quarter.

By the time CTR drops show up in the weekly report, the creative has been bleeding for ten days. By the time the OOS SKU is paused, you’ve spent four figures on clicks that go to a sold-out PDP. Each one is fixable. Together, they cost the margin you came in for.

01 · Creative

Fatigue, invisible until CTR craters.

Frequency climbs past four. Hook rate sags. Thumb-stop drops three percentage points. By the time the weekly review catches it, the asset has been losing money for ten days.

02 · Feed

OOS SKUs, still on the shelf.

The merchandising system marks the SKU sold out. The ad platform doesn’t pull it for hours. Spend keeps landing on a PDP that converts to nothing, and the negative review writes itself.

03 · Margin

ROAS is fine. Margin is not.

The bestseller you’re scaling has 22% margin. The SKU that’s starving has 56%. Platform ROAS doesn’t know the difference. Your gross profit does.

How Cleverloop helps

Two specialist agents on the failure mode that costs you most.

The Creative Analyst and Inventory & Feed Intelligence agent share one warehouse. Their findings reconcile in the same brief, so the asset call and the SKU call are made together.

  • Creative AnalystWatches every active asset for fatigue. Flags the moment CTR sags off baseline and writes the brief for the next variant, paired with the data behind it.
  • Inventory & Feed IntelligenceReads stock levels and the product feed every hour. Pauses spend on out-of-stock SKUs and shifts budget toward the high-margin lines that are actually shippable.
  • Margin-aware budgetAllocations weight by gross profit per SKU, not blended ROAS. The bestseller gets less. The 56% margin line gets more.
  • Reversible at every stepEvery pause, shift, and refresh writes to one audit log. Reverse any of it from the same screen it was approved on.

The signals these agents read.

Plain inputs. Account-relative thresholds. Two ways to look at the same problem.

Creative Analyst reads

  • Thumb-stop
  • Hook rate
  • Frequency
  • CTR decay
  • ROAS by asset

Inventory & Feed reads

  • Stock levels
  • Feed latency
  • Margin / SKU
  • OOS spend
  • PDP conversion

Caught early, the math is small. Caught late, the math is the quarter.

Fatigue trigger
4×

Frequency cap, plus a 15% CTR drop off baseline.

Feed refresh
Hourly

Stock and price sampled every hour; pauses inside the platform.

Approval threshold
15%

Budget moves above the threshold queue for human sign-off.

The DTC playbook stopped being “launch creatives, watch ROAS.” It became “launch creatives, watch the feed, watch margin, watch fatigue, watch overlap.” That work isn’t one-person work. It’s a team’s. Cleverloop is the team.The Cleverloop thesis

See the loop on your assets and your feed.

Thirty minutes. We connect a sandbox, run the Creative Analyst on your last quarter, and show you which SKUs were burning spend you didn’t need to spend.

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