Ira Bodnar·August 22, 2026·Updated August 22, 2026·15 min read

Best AdEspresso Alternatives in 2026 (Beyond the $1K Spend Cap)

AdEspresso is where a lot of Meta advertisers learn the craft: easy campaign creation, clean split tests, $49/month. Then the account grows and the walls appear — the Starter plan stops at $1,000 in monthly ad spend, higher tiers raise the cap only as the price climbs, and everything lives inside Meta. We ranked five alternatives by how much more of the job each one takes on — spend headroom, platform reach, and whether the tool executes or just assists — and Madgicx leads at 9.0/10 as the deepest Meta-native upgrade, with Ryze AI second at 8.8/10 as the pick when you want the work executed and platforms beyond Meta. Disclosure: Ryze AI publishes this blog; it does not rank first here, and every score, weight and con is stated so you can check the ranking yourself.

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AdEspresso alternatives 2026: five tools ranked by headroom

People do not leave AdEspresso because it is bad — they leave because they outgrew it, and 'outgrew' means something specific: more spend than the cap allows, more platforms than Meta, or more work than a testing assistant takes off your plate. We scored every tool on how much of that extra job it actually absorbs, not on feature-list length.

Rank	Tool	Editorial score	Best for	Starting price
1	Madgicx	9.0/10	Deepest Meta-native toolkit — audiences, creative, automation	from ~$55/mo (spend-tiered) · 7-day trial
2	Ryze AI	8.8/10	Autonomous execution on Meta plus Google, TikTok, LinkedIn	$89/mo flat · 7-day free trial
3	Birch	8.3/10	Rules that execute across Meta, Google, Snapchat, TikTok	Essential $49/mo · 14-day trial
4	Smartly	7.9/10	Enterprise creative and media automation for social	Custom (% of media spend)
5	Adzooma	7.5/10	Free multi-network scanner with one-click fixes	Free · Silver $69/mo

Madgicx takes the top slot at 9.0/10 because for the most common AdEspresso graduate — a Meta advertiser whose spend outgrew the cap — it is the straightest upgrade: deeper Meta intelligence and automation with no spend ceiling of the AdEspresso kind, priced from about $55/month. Ryze AI at 8.8/10 is the pick when the real complaint is doing the work at all, or doing it beyond Meta — it executes autonomously across four platforms for a flat $89. Birch executes rules cheaply; Smartly is the enterprise answer; Adzooma is the budget scanner for accounts that also run search.

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Why do people switch away from AdEspresso?

AdEspresso's limits are printed on its pricing page, which makes the switching story unusually honest: almost everyone leaves for one of three predictable reasons. Name yours before reading the rankings — each reason has a different winner.

The spend cap outgrows itself

Starter costs $49/month and manages up to $1,000 in monthly ad spend. That cap is generous for a beginner and absurd for anyone succeeding: a Meta account that works tends to double, and the moment it does, AdEspresso's model asks you to buy the next tier — the price climbs as the spend limit does. Advertisers doing well hit this wall by design, and many decide that if they are re-buying anyway, they should re-buy something with no ceiling of this kind at all.

Meta-only in a multi-platform plan

AdEspresso is a Facebook-and-Instagram tool. The day the growth plan adds Google Search, TikTok or LinkedIn, the tool covers a shrinking share of the budget, and the team is back to native ads managers for everything else. Switchers in this group are not upgrading their Meta tool — they are consolidating platforms into one place, which points to a different shortlist entirely.

Wanting execution, not assistance

AdEspresso helps you create campaigns and test variants — well. But a human still runs the account: reads the tests, moves the budgets, pauses the losers, ships the next round. As spend grows, that labor grows with it. The escape is a tool that executes — either rules you author (Birch) or decisions it makes itself (Ryze AI). This is the deepest of the three reasons, because no AdEspresso tier fixes it at any price.

What switchers give up

The fair column: AdEspresso remains one of the easiest campaign-creation workflows in the category, the split-testing guardrails teach genuinely good habits, every plan includes unlimited ad accounts, and Hootsuite ownership makes it a stable vendor. If your spend is comfortably under the cap and Meta is the whole plan, staying is a legitimate answer.

Ryze AI — publisher of this guide, ranked second below — is built for the third reason people leave: it does not assist with the account, it runs it, deciding what to change across Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, shipping the change and re-measuring, with an approval queue while it earns trust. One test to take from this page: whatever tool you trial, count the changes that reach the account in week one without you clicking anything. That number is what you are actually buying.

The 5 best AdEspresso alternatives in 2026, ranked

Scores weight spend headroom and execution depth over interface polish — the full weights are in the methodology below. Prices are list prices from each vendor's public pricing page in August 2026; two vendors tier by ad spend and one prices as a percentage of it, all flagged where they apply.

Madgicx

Best overall — the straightest Meta-native upgrade from AdEspresso

9.0/10

★★★★★

Editorial score

Madgicx wins this list because it solves the most common AdEspresso graduation with the least re-learning: same platform, much deeper toolkit. Where AdEspresso helps you create and test, Madgicx analyzes audiences, dissects creative performance and automates the responses — the intelligence layer a testing assistant never grows into. From roughly $55/month, spend-tiered with no AdEspresso-style hard stop, it prices sanely for a scaling account. The honest limits: it is a Meta tool at heart, the bill tracks your spend upward, and the module breadth means the first weeks are homework. For the Meta-first advertiser whose only real complaint was outgrowing AdEspresso, this is the default answer.

Automation type

AI audiences, creative insights, automation on Meta

Best for

Meta-first advertisers scaling past the cap

Pricing

from ~$55/mo (spend-tiered) · 7-day trial

Pros:

✓Everything AdEspresso does, deeper: audiences, creative analysis, automation in one Meta-native stack
✓Creative insights show which assets fatigue and why — the layer testing tools stop short of
✓Spend-tiered pricing scales smoothly instead of hitting a hard cap
✓7-day trial on a ~$55/month entry

Cons:

−Meta-centric — consolidators adding Google or TikTok need to look elsewhere
−The fee grows with spend, so model it at your target budget
−A broad module set takes real weeks to learn

Ryze AI

Best for execution and multi-platform — the account run, not assisted

8.8/10

★★★★★

Editorial score

Disclosure: Ryze AI publishes this guide, and it ranks second — on a Meta-depth-weighted axis, Madgicx's specialist toolkit honestly beats it. Ryze AI is the pick for the other two reasons people leave AdEspresso: wanting the work executed, and wanting more platforms than Meta. It is the only tool on this page that runs the account autonomously — deciding, applying and re-measuring around the clock — and the only one whose price ignores growth entirely: $89/month flat whether you spend $1,000 or $100,000, which for someone escaping a spend cap is the point. The cons are real: fewer Meta-specific knobs than Madgicx, and autonomy is earned over a baseline period, not granted on day one.

Automation type

Autonomous — decides, applies, re-measures

Best for

Consolidating Meta + Google + TikTok + LinkedIn under one executor

Pricing

$89/mo flat · 7-day free trial

Pros:

✓Executes the account rather than assisting: builds campaigns, writes copy, shifts budgets, re-measures 24/7
✓Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn in one plan — the consolidation play
✓$89/month flat at any spend level — no cap, no tier jumps, no percentage
✓Approval queue and per-change log with reasons while it earns trust

Cons:

−Less granular manual control than a Meta point tool — Madgicx offers more knobs on Meta specifically
−Needs a baseline period before you trust it with the whole account
−Newer brand than the legacy suites on this list

Birch

Best rules-based execution for operators who want to own the logic

8.3/10

★★★★★

Editorial score

Birch — formerly Revealbot — automates the exact half of the job AdEspresso leaves manual: acting on results. You define the conditions — pause above this CPA, scale above this ROAS, rebalance budgets at these hours — and Birch executes them around the clock across Meta, Google, Snapchat and TikTok. At $49/month it matches AdEspresso's entry price while replacing follow-through labor instead of creation labor. Two clear-eyed notes: the automated rules most buyers come for sit on the $99 Pro plan, and Birch discovers nothing — it has no testing workflow and no opportunity engine, so you must already know what good management looks like. Great for operators; wrong for beginners.

Automation type

Rules-based automation

Best for

Automating the follow-through AdEspresso left manual

Pricing

Essential $49/mo, Pro $99/mo · 14-day trial

Pros:

✓Rules genuinely execute unattended — pause, scale, rebalance on conditions you set
✓Meta, Google, Snapchat and TikTok from one tool
✓Entry price matches AdEspresso's $49, with far more automation
✓14-day trial, longest on this list

Cons:

−You author and maintain every rule — the logic is your job forever
−Automated rules live on the Pro plan at $99/month, not the $49 headline
−No discovery or testing workflow — it will not tell you what to automate

Smartly

Best enterprise option — creative plus media automation at volume

7.9/10

★★★★★

Editorial score

Smartly is on this list for the minority of AdEspresso switchers who are not graduating to mid-market but leaping to enterprise — a brand whose paid-social operation now involves creative production at volume, multiple markets and a team. It automates both the making of ads and the buying of media, at a depth none of the self-serve tools here attempt. The price model tells you who it is for: custom quotes as a percentage of media spend, rational at enterprise volume and a pure growth tax below it. If you are reading an AdEspresso alternatives page because the $1,000 cap pinched, Smartly is two sizes too big; if your spend has a comma and a team behind it, it belongs on the shortlist.

Automation type

Enterprise creative and media automation

Best for

Large paid-social teams with procurement behind them

Pricing

Custom (percentage of media spend)

Pros:

✓Creative production and media buying automated in one enterprise platform
✓Built for the scale where AdEspresso-class tools were never an option
✓Cross-channel paid social beyond Meta alone
✓Vendor maturity that passes enterprise procurement

Cons:

−Custom, percentage-of-spend pricing — a growth tax below enterprise volume
−Wildly oversized for the typical AdEspresso graduate
−No self-serve entry: sales process, onboarding, commitment

Adzooma

Best free option for accounts that also run search

7.5/10

★★★★★

Editorial score

Adzooma ranks last with an honest caveat: it does not solve AdEspresso's deepest limitation, because it shares it — a human still reads the findings and clicks apply. What it changes is breadth and price: free scanning across Google, Microsoft and Meta, which suits the advertiser whose real move is adding search on a minimal budget rather than going deeper on Meta. It will surface the hygiene problems no one was watching for, and its paid tiers stay flat rather than spend-tiered. But there is no split-testing workflow here — the muscle AdEspresso actually built — so treat it as a scanner you add, not a successor you graduate to.

Automation type

Opportunity scanning with one-click apply

Best for

Meta + Google accounts on a minimal budget

Pricing

Free · Silver $69/mo · Gold $179/mo

Pros:

✓Free plan covers Google, Microsoft and Meta — reach AdEspresso never had
✓Opportunities engine finds hygiene problems you were not looking for
✓One-click apply keeps the human in control
✓Gentlest learning curve on this list

Cons:

−Assists rather than executes — every fix waits for your click, like AdEspresso
−Free tier scans monthly with capped alerts; daily cadence costs $179/month
−No creative testing workflow — the thing AdEspresso people actually used

Also considered: Optmyzr (from ~$208/month billed annually — the deepest rule-and-script suite in PPC, but centered on Google, Microsoft and Amazon, which is the wrong direction for most Meta-first switchers), and Meta's own Advantage+ campaigns and automated rules — free, native, and the honest first stop if AdEspresso was only doing basic campaign setup and testing for you; try the free version of the job before paying for a bigger version of it.

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✓$89/month flat at any spend level
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How to leave a spend cap without buying a new one

AdEspresso's cap is just the most visible version of the category's defining question: what happens to the bill when the account grows? The five tools on this page use four different answers, and the differences compound exactly when you are scaling — the moment you can least afford a surprise.

Spend-tiered: the cap, softened

Madgicx and Birch price by connected ad spend — no hard stop, but the fee climbs as spend does. This is fair and predictable as long as you check the price at your twelve-month target spend, not today's. The mistake AdEspresso graduates repeat is pricing the entry tier of the next tool and hitting the same wall wearing a different logo.

Percentage of spend: the enterprise meter

Smartly prices as a percentage of media spend, quoted custom. At enterprise volume with enterprise service, that model can be rational; below it, you are paying a tax on your own growth. Never take a percentage model into an account you expect to scale without modeling the fee at 2x and 5x current spend.

Flat fee: the model that ignores growth

Ryze AI charges $89/month flat whether the account spends $1,000 or $100,000 — the plans are public on the pricing page and never take a percentage. Adzooma's paid tiers are flat too. Flat pricing is the only model where scaling the account costs the vendor nothing and you nothing; the trade is that flat-fee tools must make money on software, not on your growth, which is exactly the incentive you want your tooling to have.

Free and native: the control group

Meta's Advantage+ and automated rules cost nothing and improve every quarter. Any paid tool must beat them at your spend level — that is the honest benchmark for this whole page. At sub-$1,000 spend it often wins outright, which is why the last FAQ answer on many AdEspresso questions is simply 'use the native tools until the account earns better'.

What no AdEspresso alternative can do for you

Every tool on this page absorbs more of the job than AdEspresso — none absorbs the parts that were never tooling problems. Five things stay yours no matter which line of the table you buy.

Rescue a creative-starved account — testing tools, Madgicx's insights and autonomous budget shifts all need variants to work with. An account feeding one tired ad to any of these tools starves them equally; the pipeline of new angles is a business function.
Fix measurement you never verified — a Pixel double-firing or a Conversions API gap poisons every test result and every automated decision downstream. Audit tracking before granting any tool write access, because automation amplifies whatever the data says.
Decide what a customer is worth — budget scaling, bid targets and pause thresholds all need a number derived from margin and repeat rate. No vendor has it, and a tool given the wrong number executes the wrong strategy at machine speed.
Say the thing only your brand can say — generated copy and creative recombine what exists. The claim that makes a stranger stop scrolling comes from the business; every tool here can test it once you supply it.
Know the market moved this morning — a competitor's launch, a stockout, a viral moment reach the dashboards days late. A human who knows the business reads it same-day and tells the tooling what changed.

The division that works: you own the offer, the measurement and what a conversion is worth; the tool owns the around-the-clock mechanics — testing, budgets, bids, pacing — at whatever depth you bought. Tools purchased to replace judgment rather than labor disappoint on schedule.

How we ranked these AdEspresso alternatives

This is a desk-and-trial comparison built around the three reasons people actually leave AdEspresso: spend headroom, platform reach, and executed work. Feature pages were read, then set aside in favor of pricing pages and each tool's own change record.

Testing methodology

Primary measure: how much of a growing account's job the tool absorbs — spend ceiling behavior, platforms covered, and changes applied without a per-change click, counted from the tool's own log
Setup: each tool connected through its native integration on its trial or entry tier, defaults first, then the safest scope offered
Growth test: pricing modeled at entry, at 2x and at 5x a $1,000/month account — the AdEspresso graduate's trajectory — from each vendor's published tiers
Safety checks: one campaign fenced off to verify it stayed untouched; one change batch reverted to verify the revert held
Excluded: managed services with human account teams, and audit-only tools with no apply mechanism

Scoring criteria

Headroom (35%)

What happens at 2x and 5x spend — hard caps, tier jumps, percentage fees, or nothing

Execution depth (30%)

Does the tool run the account, execute your rules, or assist a human who still does the work

Platform reach (20%)

Meta depth first — this is an AdEspresso list — then Google, TikTok, LinkedIn and Microsoft coverage

Price and setup (15%)

Cost at realistic spend, time to first useful output, configuration burden

Madgicx wins on the weighted total because it is strongest exactly where AdEspresso graduates are weakest: Meta depth with room to scale. Ryze AI scores highest of anyone on execution and headroom — flat fee, four platforms, autonomous — and second overall because this axis weights Meta-native depth first. Below 8.0, the trade-offs get sharp: Smartly's model prices out mid-market buyers, and Adzooma assists rather than executes.

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How to choose your AdEspresso alternative

The reason you are leaving is the input; the profiles below are the shortcut. Match yours, then price the shortlist at your target spend, not your current one — the whole point of leaving a spend cap is that today's number is temporary.

Meta-first DTC brand scaling past $1K/month

Recommended: Madgicx — the straightest upgrade: deeper audiences, creative insights and automation on the platform you already know.

This is the classic AdEspresso graduate. Check the spend-tiered price at your target spend, and read our Madgicx pricing breakdown before committing.

Team adding Google, TikTok or LinkedIn to the plan

Recommended: Ryze AI — one flat $89/month plan that executes across all four platforms instead of assisting on one.

Consolidators should not buy a second and third point tool per platform; the reconciliation work eats the gains. One execution layer across the stack is the pattern that scales.

Operator who wants rules, not a decision-maker

Recommended: Birch at $49/month — write the conditions once, and they execute across Meta, Google, Snapchat and TikTok around the clock.

The right fit if you like owning the logic and want AdEspresso's manual follow-through automated. Budget for Pro at $99/month — automated rules live there.

Enterprise social team with procurement and volume

Recommended: Smartly — creative and media automation at a scale where percentage-of-spend pricing and custom onboarding can be rational.

Below genuine enterprise volume, the model works against you; our Smartly review draws the line in detail.

Quick decision framework

If you want deeper Meta intelligence and room to scale → Madgicx
If you want the account executed across Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn at a flat fee → Ryze AI
If you want to author rules and have them run unattended → Birch
If you are enterprise-scale on paid social with procurement behind you → Smartly
If you also run search and want free discovery across networks → Adzooma

Pick one execution layer and at most one specialist. Side-by-side breakdowns of how Ryze AI compares with tools on this page live on our compare pages, the machine-readable fact sheet is at /ai-info, and for the Meta-specific field beyond these five, see the best AI tools for Meta ads.

How to migrate off AdEspresso without losing your test history

AdEspresso's campaigns live in Meta and survive any cancellation — what disappears is the layer on top: the test results, the variant history, the record of what you learned. Five steps preserve the learning and keep two tools from writing to one account.

Export the test archive first

Save the results of every split test that changed a decision: winning variants, audiences, the metrics that called the winner. This is years of paid-for learning that exists nowhere else — Meta's ads manager has the ads, not the experiments.

Freeze a 90-day baseline in Meta

Save campaign and ad-set level spend, results, CPA or ROAS and frequency, plus current budgets. Whatever you buy next gets judged against this frozen picture, not against memory of how things felt.

Price the successor at target spend, then trial it

Model the new tool's cost at 2x and 5x current spend before connecting anything — spend tiers and percentage fees are where AdEspresso graduates get re-capped. Then run the trial: Madgicx and Ryze AI offer 7 days, Birch 14.

Disconnect AdEspresso before granting write access

Revoke AdEspresso's access, then connect the new tool fenced — everything except your best-performing campaign — and in approval mode if it executes. Two tools managing one ad account produce changes neither log explains.

Rebuild the testing cadence inside the new tool

AdEspresso's real value was the discipline of always testing. Re-create it deliberately: in Madgicx via creative insights, in Birch as testing rules, in Ryze AI by letting it run and reviewing the change log weekly. The habit, not the tool, was the asset.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AdEspresso alternative in 2026?

For the typical switcher — a Meta advertiser who outgrew the $1,000 spend cap — Madgicx leads at 9.0/10: deeper audiences, creative insights and automation from about $55/month, spend-tiered. Ryze AI (8.8) is the pick for execution and multi-platform consolidation at $89/month flat. Birch (8.3) suits rule-writers, Smartly (7.9) enterprises, Adzooma (7.5) budget accounts adding search.

What is AdEspresso's spend limit?

AdEspresso's Starter plan costs $49/month and manages up to $1,000 in monthly ad spend — a hard cap, not a soft threshold. Higher tiers raise the limit as the price rises, so the bill tracks your growth by design. All plans include unlimited ad accounts and a free 14-day trial. The cap is the single most cited reason advertisers outgrow the tool.

Why do people leave AdEspresso?

Three reasons dominate: the spend cap — success pushes you past $1,000/month and into escalating tiers; Meta-only coverage — the tool covers a shrinking share of budgets that add Google or TikTok; and wanting execution — AdEspresso assists with creation and testing while a human still runs the account. Which reason is yours should decide which alternative you pick.

Is Madgicx better than AdEspresso?

For a scaling Meta account, yes — Madgicx covers AdEspresso's ground and adds the layers above it: AI audiences, creative-fatigue analysis and automation, from about $55/month spend-tiered with a 7-day trial. The trade-offs: it is similarly Meta-centric, the fee grows with spend, and the module breadth takes weeks to learn where AdEspresso takes hours.

Is there a free AdEspresso alternative?

Meta's own Advantage+ campaigns and automated rules are free, native and improving every quarter — the honest first stop if AdEspresso was only doing basic setup and testing for you. Adzooma's free plan adds scanning across Google, Microsoft and Meta. Neither replicates AdEspresso's split-testing workflow; both cover its most common everyday uses at $0.

Which AdEspresso alternative works beyond Meta?

Ryze AI covers Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn with autonomous execution at $89/month flat. Birch runs rules across Meta, Google, Snapchat and TikTok from $49/month. Adzooma scans Google, Microsoft and Meta, free. Madgicx and Smartly stay social-centric. If consolidating platforms is the goal, shortlist Ryze AI first and Birch second.

How much do AdEspresso alternatives cost in 2026?

Birch Essential $49/month (rules need Pro at $99); Madgicx from ~$55/month, spend-tiered; Adzooma free, then Silver $69/month; Ryze AI $89/month flat with a 7-day free trial; Smartly custom, priced as a percentage of media spend. Only Ryze AI and Adzooma's paid tiers stay flat as your spend grows — the property that matters most to someone escaping a spend cap.

Does any AdEspresso alternative actually execute changes for me?

Yes — that is the biggest available upgrade. Ryze AI executes autonomously: it decides, builds, applies and re-measures without a per-change click. Birch executes rules you author, unattended once written. Madgicx automates responses alongside its analytics. Smartly automates at enterprise depth. Adzooma, like AdEspresso, waits for your click on every change.

Is AdEspresso still worth it in 2026?

Under the right conditions, yes: spend comfortably below $1,000/month, Meta as the whole plan, and a preference for guided creation and testing over automation. It is stable under Hootsuite, easy to learn, and $49/month with unlimited ad accounts is fair. The moment spend scales or platforms multiply, its own pricing model starts arguing for the alternatives above.

Is Smartly a realistic AdEspresso replacement?

Only at enterprise scale. Smartly automates creative production and media buying for large paid-social teams, priced custom as a percentage of media spend — rational at volume, a growth tax below it. The typical AdEspresso graduate pinched by a $1,000 cap is two sizes too small for it; a multi-market brand with a team and procurement is its actual buyer.

What happens to my campaigns if I cancel AdEspresso?

The campaigns and ads live in Meta and survive cancellation untouched. What disappears is AdEspresso's layer: split-test results, variant histories and the record of what won and why. Export that test archive before disconnecting — it is paid-for learning that exists nowhere else — and freeze a 90-day baseline in Meta so the successor tool is measured against something fixed.

Can I trust this ranking given Ryze AI publishes it?

The disclosure is explicit, and note the shape of the claim: Ryze AI ranks second, not first — Madgicx honestly wins the Meta-depth axis this page weights most. The weights are published, every competitor's strengths are credited, and Ryze AI's cons are listed like everyone else's. The cheapest verification is a trial: count what reaches your account without a click in 7 days.

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Why do people switch away from AdEspresso?

The spend cap outgrows itself

Meta-only in a multi-platform plan

Wanting execution, not assistance

What switchers give up

The 5 best AdEspresso alternatives in 2026, ranked

Madgicx

Ryze AI

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Adzooma

Outgrow the cap without buying a new one

How to leave a spend cap without buying a new one

Spend-tiered: the cap, softened

Percentage of spend: the enterprise meter

Flat fee: the model that ignores growth

Free and native: the control group

What no AdEspresso alternative can do for you

How we ranked these AdEspresso alternatives

Scoring criteria

How to choose your AdEspresso alternative

Meta-first DTC brand scaling past $1K/month

Team adding Google, TikTok or LinkedIn to the plan

Operator who wants rules, not a decision-maker

Enterprise social team with procurement and volume

Quick decision framework

How to migrate off AdEspresso without losing your test history

Export the test archive first

Freeze a 90-day baseline in Meta

Price the successor at target spend, then trial it

Disconnect AdEspresso before granting write access

Rebuild the testing cadence inside the new tool

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