Pre-signup audit

Get a free competitive audit of your Google Ads, Meta Ads, or GA4 account without creating a SMAQ account first. The findings stay attached to your email, ready to claim when you sign up.

The pre-signup audit at smaq.io/audit gives you a 5–10 minute look at what SMAQ surfaces in your ad accounts — wasted search-term spend, fatigued creatives, broken tracking, audience saturation — before you create an account.

When you sign up later (using the same email you provided), the audit is automatically claimed and waiting for you in your first project.

Who should use it

• Marketers evaluating SMAQ — see real findings on your own data without committing.

• Anyone unsure where to start — the audit picks the highest-leverage problem in your account first.

The flow

1. Pick a platform

On the landing page, choose what you want audited:

• Google Ads — wasted search-term spend, fatigued ads, spend anomalies (last 30 days).

• Meta Ads — creatives bleeding budget, audience saturation, overlap across top spenders.

• Google Analytics 4 — broken tracking, revenue leaks from mobile gaps, unattributed traffic.

For GA4, you'll also pick the branch that matches you: E-commerce, Lead-gen / B2B / services, or "I'm not sure."

2. Authorize the platform

Click the audit button (e.g. "Audit my Google Ads →") to start the OAuth flow. SMAQ only requests the minimum read scopes needed to run the audit — no spending authority, no changes to your account.

If you have multiple accounts visible to the OAuth session (multiple ad accounts, multiple GA4 properties), you'll see a picker.

3. Watch the audit run

The audit page streams live progress: "Checking account", "Pulling campaign data", "Analyzing keywords", "Completed." Each step takes seconds — the whole run is usually under 90 seconds.

Click Show steps to see the detailed step list, or just wait for the results.

[Screen video needed] Audit results page during a live run — showing the step list animating and the first finding revealing. ~30 seconds.

4. Top finding teaser

When the audit completes, you see the headline finding immediately — e.g. "Found 24 wasted search terms costing $1,840/month" — plus a preview of the first detailed insight.

If you've run the audit before with the same email, you'll see a banner: "You also have a prior unclaimed audit from [date]."

5. Email gate + full reveal

Enter your email and click Unlock findings. SMAQ stores the audit against that email and reveals all the findings in full.

6. Claim into a SMAQ account

Click Claim your report to start the signup flow. Your audit findings, the connected platform, and the first dashboard built from them are automatically attached to your new account.

If you already have a SMAQ account using that email, the audit attaches to your existing organization instead.

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Privacy & data

• SMAQ pulls read-only data from the platform you authorize. Nothing is written back.

• Your email isn't added to a marketing list unless you opt in during signup.

• You can revoke SMAQ's access at any time from the platform's app settings (e.g. Google Account → Security → Third-party apps).

After claiming

Your new project will have:

• The connection you authorized for the audit

• A pre-built dashboard summarizing the audit findings

• The Daily Brief automation already configured (if applicable to the platform)

From here, follow Step 4 of the Quick start — explore the project, add more connections, or chat with the AI.