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# Pre-signup audit

The pre-signup audit at [smaq.io/audit](https://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

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#### 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.

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

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#### 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.

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#### 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]."

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#### 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.

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#### 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](/documentation/get-started/quick-start.md) — explore the project, add more connections, or chat with the AI.


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