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Connect your ad account and your creative studio inside Claude

Hey, it's Cindy ๐ŸŒฑ This is the full setup from the reel. Two connectors, about ten minutes, and by the end Claude can read your ad performance and generate new creative from the same conversation. I have also written down the part the reel could not fit, which is what these connectors genuinely can and cannot see.
The thing to understand before you start. Your ad connector reads your own ad account: reporting, campaigns, catalogues, A/B tests, activity logs. It does not search other companies' ads. Competitor research is a separate, public thing called the Meta Ads Library, and it works differently. Plenty of content online blurs these two together and then people wonder why the workflow does not do what they were promised. The two sections below treat them separately, because they are separate.
setup

Connect the two servers ๐Ÿ”Œ

  1. ๐Ÿงฉ Open your connector settings. In Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector. This is the same place you add any MCP server, so if you have done this once before you already know the flow.
  2. ๐Ÿ“Š Add your ad account. Paste in Meta's hosted ads server: https://mcp.facebook.com/ads. It is remote-hosted by Meta and works with any MCP-compatible client, so there is nothing to install locally. You will be asked to authorise access to the ad account you want it to read.
  3. ๐ŸŽจ Add the creative studio. Add a second custom connector and paste in https://mcp.higgsfield.ai/mcp. This is the piece that actually generates the video and image output, and the quality of what comes out of it is the whole point of the workflow.
  4. โœ… Test before you trust it. Ask Claude something small and verifiable first, like which campaigns are currently active. If it answers correctly, the connection is live. If it hedges or guesses, reconnect rather than carrying on and finding out later.
๐ŸŒฑ On other platforms: TikTok announced an official ads MCP server at TikTok World in May 2026, so that is coming, but at the time of writing there is no publicly documented endpoint to paste in the way there is for the two above. Google has moved in the same direction. If you want more than one platform today, Meta plus a creative studio is the pair that actually works end to end.

workflow one

Find your own winner ๐Ÿ“ˆ

The point of this step is to stop choosing creative by taste. Almost everyone running ads has a favourite that the data does not agree with, and the connector settles the argument in about ten seconds.

๐Ÿ“Š the winner-finding prompt
Look at my ad account and tell me which creatives are actually carrying performance over the last 90 days, not which ones I have spent the most on.

Rank them by the metric that matters for my objective, and for each of the top three tell me: what the creative actually is, how long it has been running, what its cost per result is against the account average, and whether it is still improving or has started to fatigue.

Then tell me plainly which single creative you would build variations from, and why that one rather than the others. If two are close, say so instead of picking arbitrarily.

workflow two

Find the winner in your niche ๐Ÿ”

This is the competitor half, and it does not run through your ad connector. The Meta Ads Library is a public transparency tool. Anyone can browse it, no account and no login, and it shows you every ad a page is currently running.

Here is the part worth understanding properly, because it changes how you read it. The library does not show spend or performance for ordinary commercial ads. Only political and social-issue advertising carries public spend and impression data. So you cannot look up a competitor's best ad directly.

What the library does show you is how long an ad has been running, and that is the proxy. Advertisers switch off what is not working, quickly, because it costs them money every day it stays live. An ad that has been running for eight months is an ad that is paying for itself. That inference is the whole technique, and it is reliable enough to build from.

๐Ÿ” the niche research prompt
I am researching what already works in my niche before I make new creative. Here are the advertisers I want to look at: [paste 3 to 5 brand names or their Ads Library page links].

For each one, go through what they are currently running and identify the ads that have been live the longest, because longevity is the closest public signal we have to performance. Meta does not publish spend for commercial ads, so do not guess at budget or results, just tell me what has persisted.

Then break down the pattern across all of them: what the first three seconds do, what the offer is, how the ad is structured, and what they have in common that I should borrow. Tell me what is consistent across several advertisers rather than what one of them happens to do.

multiply

Turn one winner into many ๐ŸŽฌ

Now the creative studio does the work. You are not asking it to invent something, you are asking it to rebuild a structure you already know performs, which is a far easier job to get right.

๐ŸŽจ the multiply prompt
Take this winning ad structure: [paste the breakdown from the previous step, or describe the creative you want to build from].

Generate a set of variations that keep what is actually doing the work, which is the hook timing, the pacing and the offer, while changing the surface: the setting, the talent, the product angle and the visual treatment. Keep every output at commercial quality, because a rough variation tells me nothing about whether the idea travels.

Then give me each variation with a one-line note on what specifically I am testing with it, so I am running a real test rather than just making more videos. Finally, translate the strongest two into [list your target languages] keeping the same pacing, so I can run the same winner in other markets.

know the edges

What this does and does not do โš–๏ธ

It does: settle creative arguments Reading your own account and ranking by outcome rather than preference is genuinely the fastest value here, and it takes seconds.
It does: kill the blank page Starting from a structure that has already survived months of live spend is a completely different job from inventing an ad from nothing.
It does not: show competitor performance The library shows what is running and for how long. Anyone claiming to show you a competitor's spend or results on normal commercial ads is inferring it, same as you are.
It does not: replace judgment Variations still need someone to decide which ones are worth putting money behind. The tool multiplies your taste; it does not supply it.

One practical note on cost. Generating a batch of commercial-quality variations consumes credits, so decide how many you actually need before you start rather than generating fifty and picking two. The point of finding the winner first is that you need fewer swings, not more.

๐Ÿ” The loop, once it is set up: find what is already working, rebuild it at quality, test the variations, translate the survivors. You stop guessing what to make and start multiplying what has already proven itself.
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