What is an AI-native agency?
An AI-native agency is built around AI from day one. Software agents do the repetitive work: reading every account, checking tracking, watching spend, drafting findings. People do what software cannot: judge what matters for your business, talk to you, and answer for the advice. King St Ads Co. is an AI-native paid media agency for owner-led businesses in Sydney's Inner West. The Audit costs $449 AUD and takes 7 business days.
- What the agents do
- Read your Google Ads, Meta Ads and GA4 end to end, check tracking, match your public listings, and draft ranked findings.
- What the strategist does
- Decides which findings matter for your business, removes what does not apply, writes the plan and signs the report.
- Where
- Sydney's Inner West, NSW: Newtown, Enmore, Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Erskineville, Alexandria, Leichhardt, Balmain, Ashfield and surrounds.
- Who it is for
- Dental and medical, trades and construction, architecture and interiors, homewares and furniture, hospitality and retail, skin and beauty, real estate.
- Price
- $449 AUD (7 business days) or $549 AUD with a 30-minute session (14 business days). One-off, no contract.
- Independence
- Independent. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Inner West Council, the City of Sydney, Google or Meta.
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Agents do the reading. A strategist makes the call. You hold the pen.
Most of what makes an agency slow and expensive is reading: exporting reports, scanning search terms, cross-checking tracking. We give that to software and keep the people for judgement.
Read everything, every time
- Read every campaign, ad group, search term and conversion action, not a sample.
- Test whether your tracking records real enquiries or counts page loads.
- Match your website, Google Business Profile and ads for suburb, phone and hours.
- Compare you with similar Inner West businesses using public ad libraries.
- Draft findings with the evidence attached.
Decide what matters
- Check each finding against how your business really runs.
- Remove false alarms, such as a pause that was deliberate.
- Rank the fixes by dollars saved and effort needed.
- Write the 90-day plan in plain English.
- Sign the report, and answer your questions.
Approve every change
- Give read-only access. Revoke it the day we deliver.
- Keep full ownership of every account, login and dollar.
- Choose which recommendations to act on, and when.
- Decide whether to continue after the audit. There is no contract.
What AI never does here
- Changes your campaigns, budgets or ads on its own.
- Writes testimonials, reviews or case studies.
- Decides what is compliant for your profession.
- Makes a promise about results.
Three ways to get a second opinion on your ads.
Each option suits some businesses. Here is how they differ on the things owners tell us matter.
| A traditional agency | A freelancer, or DIY with AI tools | King St Ads Co. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it starts | Briefing meetings, then a proposal built around a monthly retainer. | A conversation, or a prompt you write yourself. | A four-field form. Read-only access instructions arrive by email. |
| Who reads the account | A person, within the hours scoped to your fee. | One person, or a general-purpose chatbot that has never seen your account. | AI agents read all of it. A strategist reviews what they find. |
| Local knowledge | Usually a city-wide or national view. | Depends on the person. A chatbot has no local context. | Inner West only: suburbs, strips, Census data and local rules built into the checks. |
| Control of your accounts | Often manages the accounts directly. | You stay in control, but make every call yourself. | Read-only. You own every account, and approve every change. |
| Commitment | Typically a retainer and a notice period. | None. | One-off audit. No contract. The retainer is optional. |
| Accountability | A named account team. | You. | A named strategist signs every report. Findings are marked observed or modelled. |
An agency that knows which street you trade on.
Generic advice fails on the Inner West because the place is not generic. Our checks are built around the local conditions that change how ads should run.
Renters
Households that rent. Renters move more often, so a catchment keeps refreshing. Source: ABS Census 2021.Another language at home
Households speaking a language other than English at home. Ads and listings need to work in plain English first. Source: ABS Census 2021.Active businesses
GST-registered businesses across the area, most of them small and independent. Source: economy.id, April 2025.Entertainment precincts
Special Entertainment Precincts, from Enmore Road to Marrickville and Dulwich Hill, changing evening trade. Source: Inner West Council.A Marrickville Road dentist, an Enmore Road café and a Leichhardt renovator all buy ads. They should not buy them the same way. Our audit checks distance bands from your front door, trading hours against when people search, the suburbs you actually serve, and what Sydney Metro's Sydenham to Bankstown conversion may mean for your catchment. Read the Metro guide →
Three steps. Nothing changes in your accounts.
Tell us about the business
Four fields, about 30 seconds. We reply by email with read-only access instructions for Google Ads, Meta Business Manager and GA4.
Agents read, a strategist decides
Our AI agents scan your accounts and public records. A strategist reviews every finding. Wasted spend, broken tracking and quick wins are named specifically.
You get a written plan
A PDF with ranked findings, an Inner West benchmark and a 90-day plan: this week, this month, this quarter. Then you decide. There is no contract.
Benchmarked against businesses like yours, not a national average.
Our September 2026 review of 108 Inner West and Alexandria businesses, split into the categories we see most. Pick yours to read the findings.
Dental & Medical
Ahpra-aware ads, emergency searches and a renter-heavy catchment.
See the findings →21 businessesTrades & Construction
High-value, urgent jobs that people search for.
See the findings →14 studiosArchitecture & Interior
Few searches, high value, trust built on Instagram.
See the findings →33 showroomsFurniture & Homewares
The largest group, and the widest range of results.
See the findings →15 businessesHospitality & Retail
Visual, local and event-driven, with 73% carrying a live issue.
See the findings →9 clinicsSkin, Beauty & Wellness
Relationship-driven, visual, and health-advertising aware.
See the findings →Three promises that shape everything else.
Read-only first
The audit never touches your accounts. Viewer access only, revocable the day we deliver. Nothing is paused, changed or published without your say-so.
Numbers we can stand behind
We separate what we observed from what we modelled, and we say which is which. No invented testimonials, no fake urgency, and no guarantee of results.
Local and independent
We work only in Sydney's Inner West, so benchmarks reflect your street. We are not affiliated with the Council, Google or Meta, and we do not take referral fees.
Free answers to the questions owners actually ask.
What $10,000 of advertising buys, why Meta clicks do not become customers, what a good ROAS hides. Written for the Inner West, with sources.
What does $10,000 in advertising actually buy an Inner West business?
Where does the budget go?Spend buys access to attention; it does not guarantee memory, demand or sales.
11 min readRead the guide →Meta AdsWhy do my Meta ads get clicks but no customers? A break-point test for Inner West businesses
Where does performance break?The ad can be doing its job while the offer or landing page fails.
12 min readRead the guide →MeasurementWhy a good ROAS can still mean bad growth: a check for Inner West businesses
Can a campaign look successful and still hurt the business?Platform reporting is a partial account of value, not the whole business result, and a high ROAS can sit on top of a loss.
13 min readRead the guide →Start with a read-only audit. Go ongoing only if it's worth it.
The Audit and Audit + Session never touch your accounts — read-only, revocable the moment we're done. The Retainer is the only tier that manages anything, and even then nothing goes live without sign-off. See "what you provide" below.
01 — Connect
You grant access. Read-only for The Audit — manager-level only if you go ahead with The Retainer.
02 — Monitor
AI agents watch Google Ads, Meta Ads & GA4 around the clock — not once a month at a review meeting.
03 — Recommend
Every change is drafted with a before/after and the reasoning — reviewed against 15+ years of agency-level judgement.
04 — You approve
Routine fixes move fast. Anything structural or budget-level comes to you directly — nothing executes unsupervised.
- Full read of your Google Ads, Meta Ads and GA4 accounts
- Website & conversion tracking health check
- Wasted-spend and broken-tracking flags, named specifically
- Category benchmark against comparable Inner West businesses
- Written 90-day plan of attack: this week, this month, this quarter
- Delivered as a PDF report — no call required
- Everything in The Audit
- A 30-minute working session walking through the findings live
- Priorities re-ordered against your actual capacity and budget, not a template
- Straight answers to "what would you actually do first"
- Recording of the session included
- AI agents monitor your Google Ads, Meta Ads & GA4 continuously — not once a month
- Every recommendation reviewed before anything changes; routine fixes move fast, anything structural or budget-level comes to you for a yes
- 30-minute strategy session in month one, then one every quarter
- Reviewed against the standards of a strategist with 15+ years running paid media at agency level
- Cancel anytime — no contract
Not sure which one? Start with The Audit — that's what most people do, and nothing about it commits you to anything further.
Common questions.
An AI-native agency is built around AI from the start: software agents do the repetitive reading, checking, monitoring and drafting, and people do the judgement, the relationships and the accountability. At King St Ads Co. the agents read every campaign, search term and conversion action in your accounts; a strategist decides what matters; and you approve every change.
Both, with a clear split. AI agents do the first full read of your Google Ads, Meta Ads, GA4 and public records, and draft findings. A human strategist checks each finding against your business, removes anything that does not apply, and writes the plan. Nothing is changed in your accounts without your approval.
Because the work that usually makes agencies expensive, such as pulling reports, scanning search terms and checking tracking, is exactly what agents do well. That lets a small team spend its time on the judgement calls, and lets us price an audit at $449 instead of a monthly retainer. The Inner West is also dense with small, independent businesses, which is the size of account where that trade works best.
Yes, which is why a person reviews everything before you see it. Agents can misread context, such as a quiet week caused by renovations or a campaign paused on purpose. We label each finding as observed or modelled, show our working, and say where confidence is low. The final report is written and signed off by a human.
King St Ads Co. charges $449 AUD for The Audit and $549 AUD for The Audit + Session. The Audit is a written review of your Google Ads, Meta Ads and GA4 accounts with a 90-day plan, delivered in 7 business days. The Audit + Session adds a 30-minute walkthrough and takes 14 business days. Both are one-off fees with no minimum ad spend and no contract.
We work with owner-led businesses across Sydney's Inner West, including Newtown, Marrickville, Enmore, Erskineville, Alexandria, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt, Balmain and Ashfield. Industries covered are dental and medical, trades and construction, architecture and interior design, furniture and homewares, hospitality and specialty retail, skin and beauty, and real estate.
Google Ads, Meta Business Manager and GA4 all support inviting a second user at "viewer" or "read-only" level directly from their own settings — no password is shared, and you can remove the access the second the audit is delivered. Instructions for each platform are sent the moment you book.
No. On the Retainer, AI agents monitor your accounts continuously and draft every recommendation with a before/after and the reasoning behind it — the same format we'll show you as worked examples before you ever sign up. Small, reversible, routine fixes get reviewed and cleared quickly so you're not losing money while something obvious sits untouched; anything structural or budget-affecting goes to you directly for a yes before it's touched. Nothing executes unsupervised.
No, and it's worth being specific about why. Platforms like that are built to run the same creative template — a listing retargeting banner, a Facebook carousel, a "new patient" funnel — across every agent, practice or listing on their roster, often thousands at once. That's a reasonable way to get a basic campaign live fast, but nobody on the other end is looking at your account specifically: whether the copy is right, whether your Google Ads and Meta accounts actually agree with each other, or whether the lead you're paying for is a real one. Our audit reviews what your accounts are actually doing — across every platform you're running on, template or not — and tells you exactly what's generic, what's broken, and what's worth paying to fix.
Yes — several of the businesses in this audit had zero ad history on either platform. The plan of attack for a cold start looks different (where to spend the first dollar, what to track before you spend it) but it's exactly the same underlying process.
No — the audit and plan are a complete deliverable on their own, full stop. We do run an ongoing Retainer for businesses that want it actively managed afterward (see The Retainer above), but it's a separate, explicit decision you make once you've seen the findings — never a condition of getting value from the audit.
King St Ads Co. — built around AI systems that monitor your accounts around the clock, with every recommendation reviewed against the standards of a strategist with 15+ years running paid media at agency level before anything changes. You get the speed of continuous AI monitoring and the judgement of someone who's actually managed the budgets, not an account manager checking in once a month.
Tell us about the business. We'll send access instructions back.
Four fields, about 30 seconds. No card details are ever requested here.
You're in the queue.
We'll email you with read-only access instructions for Google Ads, Meta Business Manager and GA4. Nothing changes in your accounts, and you can remove access the moment the audit is delivered.