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How to Connect Claude to Google Ads and Meta Ads Accounts

August 12, 2026 Agency AI Team 7 min read

To connect Claude to Google Ads and Meta, you do not paste a URL or touch an API key. Agency AI sits in Claude's connectors directory, so you search for it, sign in, and approve access. ChatGPT takes the manual route: a custom connector at https://s.agencyai.app/mcp, available on Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces.

Once connected, you ask about spend, ROAS, and pacing in chat, and the answers come from your live campaign data. Below: both setups with exact menu paths, plan requirements as each company documents them, and the one thing it will not do, which is change your campaigns.

What You Need Before You Start

You need an Agency AI account with your ad accounts connected inside it, plus a Claude plan or a qualifying ChatGPT workspace.

The Claude plan question is simple. **Anthropic's docs** say custom connectors using remote MCP work on free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with free users limited to one custom connector.

Agency AI confirmed on September 3, 2026 that its connector is available on every Claude plan, free included.

On Claude Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must first enable the connector at Organization settings > Connectors before members can connect to it themselves.

Platform & Plan	What You Need	Source	Agency AI Setup
Claude Free, Pro & Max	Anthropic's docs: free allows 1 custom connector, paid plans have no stated cap. Agency AI: available on every Claude plan	Anthropic Help Center; Agency AI knowledge base	Find Agency AI in the connector directory and sign in
Claude Team & Enterprise	An Owner must first enable connectors under Organization Settings > Connectors	Anthropic Help Center	Add Agency AI from the directory after your admin enables connectors
ChatGPT Business, Enterprise & Edu	A workspace admin must enable Developer Mode	OpenAI Help Center; Agency AI knowledge base	Add Agency AI as a custom connector using https://s.agencyai.app/mcp
ChatGPT Free & Plus	Custom connectors are not currently supported	OpenAI Help Center; Agency AI knowledge base	Agency AI cannot currently be added as a custom connector

How to Connect Claude to Google Ads and Meta Through Agency AI

Most Claude MCP setups start with a config file, a server URL, or an API key. This one starts with a search box. Agency AI's guide describes the integration as "an approved connector in Claude's directory" with "nothing to configure."

1. Open Claude and click the "+" button in the message box, then click Connectors. In settings, the same screen is Customize > Connectors; its "+" button also offers "Add custom connector" for manual remote MCP URLs, which you will not need here.

2. Click "Browse connectors" and search for Agency AI.

3. Click Connect.

4. Sign in with your Agency AI account and approve access.

5. Back in the Connectors menu, check that the Agency AI toggle is on.

6. Ask a question about your ads.

In the founder's product demos, the Agency AI MCP connector answers through named tools like Get campaigns, Get ads, Get ad creative, and Get recommendations, returning analysis with recommended actions attached.

Meta and Google flow through this single connection: the connector reads whatever ad accounts you linked inside Agency AI, so there is no separate path per platform.

How to Add the Connector in ChatGPT

ChatGPT has no directory listing for Agency AI. Here you paste the URL yourself.

1. Open ChatGPT Settings > Connectors.

2. Click "Add custom connector."

3. Enter the name Agency AI and the URL https://s.agencyai.app/mcp.

4. Authorize through OAuth by signing in to your Agency AI account and approving access.

5. Enable the connector for the conversation you are working in.

Watch out: If "Add custom connector" is missing, that is permissions, not a bug. Agency AI's guide says to ask your workspace admin, or enable Developer Mode under Settings if your plan requires it. Per OpenAI's docs, Business admins manage it at Workspace Settings > Permissions & Roles > Connected Data; Enterprise and Edu admins can grant developer mode to specific members.

Campaign actions from ChatGPT are live, not roadmap. The same tools Claude gets, creating and editing ads, launching, pausing, shifting budgets and scheduling actions, are available in ChatGPT once the connector is enabled.

What the Connector Can Do

The connector reads and writes. Claude can analyze your data and recommend moves, and it can carry them out: create and edit ads, launch and pause campaigns, shift budgets, schedule actions, and pull reports, all from the chat.

You stay in the loop. A write is proposed in the conversation and runs only once you confirm it, and every change it makes shows up in your Agency AI dashboard alongside the ones you made there yourself.

What it sees, per Agency AI's MCP page: campaigns, ad sets, ads, creatives, spend, and results from the connected ad accounts, plus your store's sales data. The company states it never sees your customer list, and it reads nothing until you approve access.

Inside the dashboard, the separate AI Strategist chat can propose Meta changes. They wait as pending actions for your approve or decline. Meta recommendation cards carry an Apply button, the same as Google's. The connector goes further: it executes as well as analyzes. A recommendation and the change that acts on it can land in the same exchange. Nothing runs until you confirm it.

Other ads MCPs draw the write line differently, some limited to draft campaigns, some allowing direct edits. Our AdKit alternatives comparison maps that field if you want to compare execution surfaces.

Seven Prompts Worth Asking First

These come straight from Agency AI's knowledge base, published for exactly this use:

"How did my ads perform over the last 30 days? Break it down by platform."
"Which ads are my top performers this month? Rank them by ROAS."
"What is my average CTR by campaign? Flag anything below my account average."
"Audit my ad account. Where am I wasting spend and what should I fix first?"
"Act as my media buyer. Based on my last 90 days, where should my next $1,000 in ad spend go?"
"Am I on track against my monthly ad budget?"
"Write a weekly performance summary I can send to my team."

If this is your first run at Claude for marketing analysis, start with the audit prompt. For Google Ads specifically, our four analysis prompts go deeper. Its output only means something against context, so keep our 2026 Shopify ad benchmarks open to judge whether a flagged CPA is bad or seasonal. The waste findings pair naturally with our guide to lowering Shopify CAC, since every dollar of surfaced waste is a CAC lever.

What It Costs

Nothing extra on the Agency AI side: the product's MCP page states the connector is included with an Agency AI account at no added cost, and your Claude or ChatGPT subscription is the other half of the bill.

That pricing shape tells you what this is, not a standalone product but a chat interface to the ad management app underneath it. The vendor's own walkthrough lives at agencyai.app/mcp.

Final Thoughts

To connect Claude to Google Ads and Meta through Agency AI takes a search box and a sign-in, ChatGPT a URL paste and the right workspace, and what you get is an analyst that can also act, with live access to your campaigns and store data and the ability to create, edit, launch, and pause campaigns from the chat. If you want your numbers explained and your changes made where you already chat, it is the shortest route there is.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a paid Claude plan to use the Agency AI connector?

No. Agency AI's connector is available on every Claude plan, free included, from the connectors directory.

Can Claude make changes to my ad campaigns through the connector?

Yes. Agency AI's connector reads and writes: it analyzes and recommends, and it can create, edit, launch, and pause campaigns from the chat. Budget shifts, scheduled actions, and reports run the same way, and you confirm each write in the chat before it runs.

Does the Agency AI connector work with ChatGPT Plus?

No. Both OpenAI's docs and Agency AI's guide put custom MCP connectors on Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces only, with a workspace admin enabling developer mode. Free and Plus plans cannot add them today.

Can I connect Claude to Google Ads without a tool like Agency AI?

Yes, but it is the harder route. Meta and Google publish their own official MCP servers, which the tutorial field describes as self-hosted setups involving developer tokens and OAuth, with no vendor interface. A managed MCP connector trades that setup work for a sign-in screen.

Sources

All facts were re-checked on September 1, 2026 against the primary pages: Anthropic's Claude Help Center connector articles, OpenAI's Help Center article on developer mode and MCP apps in ChatGPT, and Agency AI's knowledge base and live site including its MCP page. Agency AI's statements about its own product, read and write scope, visible data, included pricing, live ChatGPT actions, are vendor claims, labeled as such. The Meta and Google official-server note reflects third-party tutorial descriptions, not independent re-verification.

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