Buy ads without an agency

You can buy ads without an agency by opening an account online, adding prepaid budget, and launching from a dashboard or an agent. There is no insertion order and no sales call.

Adprime Zero is built for that first test. Early access has a $0 monthly platform fee and a $100/day starter spend cap. You spend what you prepay. Agents can request a hosted payment link. Card and bank details are entered only on the payment provider page.

The path

1. Create an account with a six-digit email code. Signup does not require a password.
2. Complete the company profile and advertising intent in the dashboard. Funding and campaign work wait on that profile.
3. Add prepaid budget on the hosted payment page.
4. Submit the ad and the landing page. Review has to finish before the campaign can run.
5. Create targeting and a campaign, then activate when the account has balance and the ad is ready.
6. Read delivery and iterate. Add another approved creative, pause a weak one, or copy the campaign instead of rebuilding it.

The same account is available from the dashboard, the ztdsp CLI, MCP tools, and the public API. Pick the surface that matches how you already work. A founder can stay in the browser. A builder can paste a prompt into Cursor. An agent can run the loop after you complete payment in the browser.

What you do not need first

You do not need a retainer, a media plan deck, or a week of onboarding calls. You do not need to learn a full buying console before the first test. You need a page that matches the ad, a daily cap you can live with, and a way to read the result without treating click-through rate as proof. No insertion order, no sales call is the shorter version of that list.

A first test still needs a real offer. Send the click to a page that keeps the same promise as the ad. A homepage with five CTAs will teach you less than one page with one next step. The isolated funnel checklist is the artifact for that choice.

Who this is for

Founders who want one paid message in front of strangers. Small teams that do not want a buyer on retainer for a $20/day cell. Operators who already live in Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex and want the campaign objects to exist outside the chat.

It is not a replacement for a trader who is booking deals, shaping contracted QPS, or running a custom bidding agent. If that is the job, say so up front. When you still want a trader is honest about the split.

After the first live hour

Prepaid balance and the daily cap are the spend ceiling. Auto-reload is optional and lives in billing. If you want the test to continue after the wallet runs down, set it before you walk away. Auto-reload so tests do not die describes the feature without treating a top-up as a strategy.

Read impressions, spend, and provider sync time before you decide the campaign did nothing. Snapshot rows used for wallet checks are not click proof. Read performance without fooling yourself is the reporting guide.

If you want the account open today, start at signup. If you want the agent to do the setup work, copy the brief on Get started and keep payment in the browser.