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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Meta bid cap adjustment planner",
 "summary": "Check your Meta bid caps against real results and your cost limits. You get small bid changes to test, a review date and clear rules for when to stop.",
 "headline": "Meta bid cap adjustment planner",
 "subhead": "Paste your Meta campaign settings, recent results and cost target. Your AI checks if the bid cap is really the problem. You get small changes to test, with a review date and stop rules.",
 "job": {
  "id": "launch-and-scale-ads",
  "name": "Launch and scale Meta and TikTok ads"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "performance_sheet",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Performance sheet",
   "what": "ad or store performance export for a closed date window, with definitions"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Your campaign and ad set settings, including bid caps and budgets",
  "Your dated results by ad set: spend, purchases and cost per purchase",
  "Your target cost per purchase, set by the owner",
  "Your budget limits and how much extra spend you accept",
  "Your profit margin per sale (optional)"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A proposed bid cap for each ad set, with the size of the change",
  "The most extra spend the plan allows",
  "A test window and the date to review it",
  "Stop rules for when to hold or revert",
  "The old settings, saved so you can roll back",
  "A list of missing inputs"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your ad set spends well under its budget and you think the bid cap is too low.",
  "Your cost per purchase is above target and you want to know if the cap should change.",
  "You want to raise a cap in small steps without losing control of spend.",
  "You made a bid change last week and need to decide whether to keep it."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "Your campaign has no purchase tracking or no purchase objective. Fix your tracking first, with a person who manages your pixel or Conversions API setup.",
  "Your ads get few clicks or your page does not sell. Review the ad creative or the landing page with a teammate, because a bid change will not fix that.",
  "You want the AI to change live settings for you. This plan only proposes changes. You make them in Meta Ads Manager."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your campaign and ad set settings, including current bid caps and budgets",
   "Your dated results by ad set: spend, purchases and cost per purchase",
   "Your target cost per purchase and your budget limits",
   "The change you want and which actions you approve"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Campaign plan",
    "contains": "Each ad set with its current bid cap, the proposed cap and the change, kept within your budget and risk limits."
   },
   {
    "name": "Extra spend and test window",
    "contains": "The most extra spend the plan allows and how many days to wait before judging the result."
   },
   {
    "name": "Stop criteria",
    "contains": "The signs that mean you should hold, revert or try a different test."
   },
   {
    "name": "Prior settings",
    "contains": "The old values to restore if you need to roll the change back."
   },
   {
    "name": "Missing inputs and verification plan",
    "contains": "What the AI could not confirm, and the checks to run after the change."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and paste in this skill. No code or paid tool is needed.",
  "Paste your campaign settings, dated results, cost target and budget limits.",
  "Say which change you want and which actions you approve. The AI only plans. It cannot change Meta for you.",
  "Check the plan against your own numbers. Make sure the dates and currency match.",
  "Make the change in Meta Ads Manager, and write down the old settings first.",
  "After the test window, paste in the new results and ask the AI whether to hold, revert or test again."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Meta delivery troubleshooter",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-delivery-troubleshooter",
   "why": "Read your ad results"
  }
 ],
 "source": null,
 "credits": [],
 "files": [
  "references/worked-example.md"
 ],
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  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner",
  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner.md",
  "json": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner.json",
  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner/SKILL.md",
  "download": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner.zip",
  "api_item": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/items/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner",
  "api_document": "https://useaiblocks.com/api/v1/documents/skill/meta-adjusting-and-scaling-bid-caps-in-meta-ads-planner",
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 }
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