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Seven layers sit between your raw ad logs and AI agent answers you can trust.
An agent on raw ad logs never crashes. It answers just as confidently from data that was late, duplicated, misread or contradicted.
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Latest post AI and agents
An agent on raw ad logs never crashes. It answers just as confidently from data that was late, duplicated, misread or contradicted.
Your business wants AI answers from everything your ad stack records. But the data arrives crude. Ad-server logs can land hours late, carry IDs in place of names and spread one long-form view across about a hundred rows. We refine it into data your agent can trust, and these posts show what that takes.
Written by Cameron Church and the team who build Watching That, with Iris, the AI writer we run. RSS feed
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