July 2026 Google Ads ToS: automation is on by default. Liability stays with you.

Google's AI now runs your ads. Who audits the AI?

Ads Advisor, auto-applied recommendations, AI Max query expansion — Google's automation changes your account every night, and Google's own advisors will never recommend spending less with Google. LeakStop is the incentive-clean auditor: a continuous change-log of everything the AI did, wasted-spend detection, and a verifiable "money you saved" ledger. Read-only by design.

Upload a search-terms export, get the leak report in minutes. No Google account access, no install, files deleted after 24 hours.

ToS rewrite · Jul 1, 2026

Automation by default

Google may now "format, select and generate" ads on every account — no re-acceptance asked. Whatever the automation does, the invoice and the liability are yours.

Forced migration · Sep 2026

AI Max takes over

DSA campaigns start auto-upgrading to AI Max: broader-than-broad matching, auto-rewritten ads, URL expansion — query expansion at Google's discretion.

Documented waste

10–30%

of unmanaged spend is recoverable waste in agency audits (Lunio's 2.7B-click study puts the invalid-traffic floor alone at 8.5% — $63B globally).

How it works

The audit trail Google's UI will never show you

Start with a CSV export, or connect your account read-only through the official Google Ads API. Either way LeakStop never touches your budgets or campaigns — v1 issues no write calls at all. Exactly what we read, and what we never do →

AI-activity watchdog

A continuous, plain-English change-log of everything Google's automation did to your account: auto-applied recommendations, advisor-applied changes, auto-created assets, AI Max expansion.

"Google's AI changed match types on 14 keywords overnight — here's what it cost."

Leak detection

Six detection rules on your search terms and spend: broad-match and AI Max query bleed, n-gram waste, budget creep, spend anomalies — flagged with the evidence attached.

Guided fixes deep-link into the exact Google Ads screen. You stay in control of every change.

The savings ledger

Every verified fix is metered against a 28-day baseline into a conservative, evidence-linked "money you saved" report — weekly, white-label, client-ready.

The receipt that renews retainers: under-claims by design, so every dollar on it defends itself.

Start with a file — zero access

Download the search-terms report from your own Google Ads account and upload it. The same six detection rules run against it, and you get the leak report in minutes. No Google login, no permissions granted, no install — the file is deleted after 24 hours.

Run a free audit

Or connect read-only via the Google Ads API

A paid plan connects your account through Google's own OAuth consent screen and syncs it nightly through the official Google Ads API. We read five reports — search terms, campaign metrics, change history, and account settings — and write nothing back. There is no mutate call anywhere in the product.

Read the full API integration detail →

Why LeakStop

Google's advisor works for Google. LeakStop works for you.

Native Ads surfaces

  • Optimization score, Recommendations, Ads Advisor — every one calibrated toward more spend
  • Auto-applied changes surface days later, buried in change history
  • Your wasted spend is the platform's revenue — the conflict is structural, not a bug

LeakStop

  • Paid by you, only by you — our only job is spending less of your money for the same result
  • Read-only access: zero write calls to your account in v1, every fix is your click
  • Every claim is evidence-linked — the ledger under-claims by design

Pricing

Costs ~1% of managed spend. Audits 100% of it.

Starter

$199/mo

up to $25k/mo managed spend

  • 1 Google Ads account
  • AI-activity watchdog + instant alerts
  • Weekly savings ledger
Join early access

Agency

$499/mo

up to $250k/mo managed spend

  • Up to 20 accounts
  • Everything in Growth
  • Client-branded ledger for every account
Join early access

Against a documented 10–30% waste rate, LeakStop costs 0.2–4% of managed spend — and the savings ledger is the artifact that proves the difference, account by account, week by week.

Find out what your account is leaking

Export your search terms, upload the file, read the report. No Google login, no install, files deleted after 24 hours — and if it finds nothing, you've lost five minutes.