The verdict system

Eight verdicts, colour-coded by urgency.

Every campaign in a run gets a verdict - the recommended action class - shown as a colour-coded chip.

The verdicts

  • Review (red, critical) - spending materially above its target CPA. A person should look at it.

  • Pause (red, critical) - spent money with zero conversions; a one-click pause is offered.

  • Scale (green, high) - hitting targets and constrained by budget; more budget would genuinely help.

  • Change (yellow, high) - ready to switch bidding strategy (typically onto tCPA/tROAS after the threshold is met).

  • Adjust (yellow, medium) - tighten or loosen an existing target.

  • Reduce (orange, medium) - budget should come down.

  • Consider (purple, low) - a soft recommendation; the data supports it but isn't definitive.

  • Hold (grey, none) - performing as expected; no action needed. Hold is a positive verdict - it means the engine looked and found nothing to fix.

How to triage a run:

  1. Reds first - Pause and Review are money actively leaking.

  2. Then greens - Scale is money being left on the table.

  3. Then yellows - Change and Adjust are improvements, not emergencies.

  4. Skim Considers; skip Holds.

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Good to know. A run full of Holds isn't the system being lazy - it's the healthiest possible result.

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