About ADSTRO
Built by operators who got tired of catching up
ADSTRO started as the Facebook Ad Library monitor we wished existed when we were running our own stores. It’s now the every-signal competitor intelligence platform we wished existed once customers started searching inside ChatGPT. Same principle either way — set it up once, get pinged the moment something matters, never miss a competitor’s move again.
Our Journey
From frustration to product
Manual Ad Library grind
We were running dropshipping stores and refreshing the Facebook Ad Library every morning — page by page, competitor by competitor. Miss a trending creative by 48 hours and you were already late to the product.
One scraper, a Chrome tab, and an email
Existing tools were enterprise-priced and bloated. So we built the smallest possible system: a scraper that visits each page once a day, diffs the Ad Library, screenshots anything new, and emails it over. Hundreds of operators ran it in the background; nobody missed a competitor launch again.
The AI search shift
In 2026 we started getting the same question on Reddit, on Twitter, on customer calls: ‘Why isn’t my store showing up in ChatGPT?’ Customers had quietly moved their product search inside the LLMs and operators had no visibility into whether they were named or not. So we built the AI Search Visibility monitor — daily probes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity. The wedge was obvious; nobody else had built it for ecom.
Every signal in one workspace
Today ADSTRO tracks Facebook ads, AI search visibility, brand mentions in news, landing-page changes, email subjects, and the influencers your competitors are paying — all in one workspace, with Slack / Discord / Telegram alerts firing the moment something material happens. The job-to-be-done is no longer ‘watch Facebook ads’. It’s ‘know the moment a competitor moves anywhere’.
What we believe
Tools should ping you, not invite you to log in.
Most monitoring tools are built around a dashboard you’re expected to visit. We disagree. The dashboard is a fallback — the alert is the product. ADSTRO runs in the background, the signal lands in your Slack or your inbox, and the only reason to log in is when you want to dig.
That principle drove every feature we shipped this year. AI Search Visibility doesn’t need a dashboard for you to know when a competitor jumps to position #1 — it pings you. The landing-page tracker doesn’t need a dashboard for you to know a competitor swapped their hero — one-line diff, in your channel. The Email Subject library doesn’t need you to subscribe to 30 brands — paste what you see, get it auto-classified, search the swipe file when you brief.
We’re a small team — bootstrapped, profitable, and building for operators who want their attention back. The whole product is shaped around that.
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Competitor signals tracked, in one workspace
100+
LLMs reachable via one Vercel AI Gateway key
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From a competitor’s ad launch to your inbox
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Pro plan — the AI-era headline tier