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title: Start here for brands and solo advertisers
description: Set up your brand, connect an ad account, and draft your first AI-powered campaign in minutes. Everything you need to get started as a brand or solo advertiser.
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# Start here for brands and solo advertisers

## Welcome! Whether you're running ads for your own business or managing a single brand, you can have your workspace set up and a campaign draft ready in minutes.

### **Who this is for**

**Brand owners, solo advertisers, and small businesses who want to launch ads on Meta, Google, TikTok, or other platforms without the complexity of native ad managers. Available on all plans.**

### **What you can do right now**

**During your free trial, you can set up everything and preview your first campaign before committing:**

- **Your brand, scanned in seconds.** Enter your website URL and watch your logo, colors, products, and industry populate automatically.
- **Your existing campaigns, imported instantly.** Connect an ad account and any campaigns already running there appear in your workspace.
- **A full campaign draft, generated from a prompt.** Describe what you're advertising in a sentence or two and the AI builds a complete campaign draft with creative.

Publishing a campaign unlocks once you activate your plan. Everything you set up during the trial carries over — nothing is lost.

### **Get set up (days 0–7)**

**Follow the checklist below to be launch-ready by the end of your trial.**

- **Your first 7 days: brand setup checklist**

You'll need to connect at least one ad account and set up your brand context so the AI knows your business:

- What to prepare before connecting accounts
- Connect Meta (Facebook & Instagram)
- Connect Google
- Connect TikTok
- Set up brand context to supercharge AI results

### **Draft your first campaign**

**Once your brand is scanned and an ad account is connected, you're ready to create a campaign draft. Pick a goal, describe what you're advertising, and let the AI generate your creative.**

- Launch your first campaign
- Choose the right campaign goal
- Generate ad images with AI
- Create AI ad creative from a prompt
- How much should I spend on ads?

### **Common blockers**

**If you get stuck during setup, these articles cover the most frequent issues:**

- Fix common permission and access errors
- [Why your page or account doesn't appear](https://help.plai.io/article/fb-page-not-showing?hsLang=en)
- Why your ad has no data or metrics

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    - [Reference](https://help.plai.io/agency-operations?hsLang=en#reference)

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