Why this exists

Every agency needs Google Ads audits — for pitches, onboarding and quarterly reviews — but the tools that automate them come bundled in $100–250/month management suites built for teams running heavy ad spend. Small agencies end up paying for a suite they use one feature of, or spending senior hours building audit decks by hand. Businesses running their own ads get a choice between free “graders” designed to book a sales call and agencies that start at $200/month.

Advestigate is the deliberately small answer: the audit engine and the branded report, sold on their own and priced for the people who were being skipped — $39–79/month for agencies and $25/month for self-managed accounts.

Who runs it

Advestigate is an independent software product, built and operated from India. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google — it uses the public Google Ads API, the same way other third-party tools do.

Questions before or after connecting anything go to advestigatehq@gmail.com, and a person reads every message. More ways to reach us are on the contact page.

How your Google data is handled, in plain English

Advestigate's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Here is what that commits us to:

• Your data is used for your audits, and nothing else. We read Google Ads reporting data only to generate the audits you ask for. Not for advertising, not for resale, not to train AI models, and not to benchmark you against other customers.
• No humans read your account data. Audits are automated. The only exceptions are the narrow ones Google's policy allows: you ask us to look at something with you, a security investigation, or a legal requirement.
• It isn't passed on. Your Google data is never sold or given to third parties. It is stored only with the providers that host Advestigate on our behalf, listed in the privacy policy.
• Read-only, and revocable at any time. Advestigate never creates, pauses or changes anything in your account. Disconnecting revokes our access at Google and deletes the stored token; you can also revoke access from your Google Account directly.

The formal version is in the privacy policy.

Security, honestly stated

We're a small product, and we'd rather describe our security accurately than impressively: OAuth tokens are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM), all traffic uses TLS, passwords are hashed with scrypt, and session cookies are HTTP-only and signed. The most important property is something the product lacks: any code that can write to your ad account. We don't claim certifications we don't hold.