--- title: "How-to procedures: questions | AdBuyMCP" description: "These step-by-step procedures cover an AdBuyMCP plan, from sizing your market and setting a budget to connecting Claude and running a geo-lift test." url: "https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step" --- [Home](https://adbuymcp.com/) / [Questions](https://adbuymcp.com/faq) / Procedures Reference # These answers cover how-to procedures. The seven how-to procedures take you step by step through tasks such as sizing your market, running a geo-lift test and connecting Claude. Read on for whether you need an account to follow them, how much spend a geo-lift test needs, whether connecting analytics proves the media worked, what an agent can do that a person cannot undo, and why several procedures describe the product refusing to proceed. - **questions in this group**: 11 - **pages the answers come from**: 8 - **questions in the whole index**: 180 [Get my plan and price](https://adbuymcp.com/start) [Book a 30-minute call with the founder](https://adbuymcp.com/contact#book) Free, with no card. We read your homepage, draft who buys from you and show your monthly price before you join the waitlist. Nothing is bought until you've approved the plan and the ads. In this group [How-to procedures](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#how-to) [Set an awareness budget from your market size](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#set-an-awareness-budget-from-your-market-size) [Run a geo-lift test](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#run-a-geo-lift-test) [Connect your analytics](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#connect-your-analytics) [Approve creative for UK clearance](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#approve-creative-for-uk-clearance) [Connect Claude to your AdBuyMCP account](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#connect-claude-to-adbuymcp) [Grant and revoke an agent mandate](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#grant-and-revoke-an-agent-mandate) [Check a lawful-basis manifest](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#check-a-lawful-basis-manifest) [The rest of the questions](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#the-rest) Go deeper [See all 7 procedures](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to) 2 Questions ## How-to procedures [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to) ### Do I need an account to follow these? Reading them, no, and the onboarding at /start prices a plan for your own market before you join the waitlist. Joining the waitlist takes a short form and no card. James is setting the first customers up himself, so he reads every entry and comes back to you, and nothing is bought until the plan, the ads and the start date are confirmed with you. ### Why do several of these describe the product refusing to do something? Because the refusals are the steps most likely to happen and most likely to be misread as errors. An underpowered geo-lift test, a contaminated control, a market larger than the calculator prices, an ambiguous supplier outcome: each of those stops the sequence deliberately and returns the specific thing that would fix it. 1 Question ## Set an awareness budget from your market size [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/set-an-awareness-budget-from-your-market-size) ### How do I size my market if I sell to more than one kind of company? Count each kind separately, with its own number of people per buying team, and add the results. A plan is priced on the total. 2 Questions ## Run a geo-lift test [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/run-a-geo-lift-test) ### How much spend does a geo-lift test need? It depends on your baseline variance, your conversion volume, how many independent markets you have and how large an effect you would need to detect, so no single figure applies. The power analysis computes exactly that before the test runs, which is why it runs first. A multi-catchment retailer can often power a test that a single national campaign cannot at any budget. ### Has AdBuyMCP produced a causal result for a customer? No. Nothing has run live, and a geo-lift is graded causal only under conditions sandbox data cannot meet by construction. The engine, the power gate and both refusals run in the product today, and none of their output is yet evidence about a real campaign. 1 Question ## Connect your analytics [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/connect-your-analytics) ### Does connecting analytics prove the media worked? No. It produces observed response: something that genuinely happened on a property you own, correlated with the campaign by an immutable key. It carries the label observed and is explicitly not a causal claim, and the report says so in its own note. Establishing that the media caused the response requires a powered geo-lift test, which carries a separate label behind a separate gate. 1 Question ## Approve creative for UK clearance [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/approve-creative-for-uk-clearance) ### Can the pre-check guarantee clearance? No. It predicts what the clearance bodies and publishers will flag, using deterministic rules against the UK codes. It cannot read a substantiation document and says so explicitly: where you declare that you hold evidence, it records the declaration beside the claim and states that it has not assessed quality. Clearcast, the CAA and the publishers make the decision, and they will ask for the documents themselves. 2 Questions ## Connect Claude to your AdBuyMCP account [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/connect-claude-to-adbuymcp) ### Do I need to host or run anything? No. AdBuyMCP runs the hosted MCP server. You use a compatible client whose OAuth identity and exact callbacks have been approved, then sign in through Supabase, select your approved workspace and consent. Joining the waitlist takes a short form and no card. James is setting the first customers up himself, so he reads every entry and comes back to you, and nothing is bought until the plan, the ads and the start date are confirmed with you. MCP access follows that workspace's enabled capabilities and grants no spend authority. ### Can I add AdBuyMCP as a connector on claude.ai? The hosted server supports OAuth, but a claude.ai connection still needs a compatible, approved client registration with its exact callbacks. No external claude.ai connector is listed or accepted here yet. Confirm that the particular Claude product supports pre-registration before trying it; the dashboard buyer's client ID is not an external connector identity. 1 Question ## Grant and revoke an agent mandate [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/grant-and-revoke-an-agent-mandate) ### What can an agent do that a human cannot undo? Nothing that commits money. No agent tool exists for 11 consequential operations, which are human-only signed REST actions, among them approvals, provider-attempt resolution, mandate replacement and revocation, mission closure, workflow acknowledgement, asset-job resolution, dossier saving and verification, and issuing or revoking a live execution grant. What an agent can do is prepare, propose, draft and surface, all of it recorded. The design intent is that an agent removes work rather than removing accountability. 1 Question ## Check a lawful-basis manifest [Read the page these answers come from](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to/check-a-lawful-basis-manifest) ### Does a lawful-basis manifest make me compliant? No. It records which data was used, on what basis, and what conditions come with it. That is the raw material for a compliance argument rather than the argument itself. Turning these conditions into enforced launch gates is unfinished work, and AdBuyMCP makes no claim of UK GDPR compliance on your behalf. [See all 7 procedures](https://adbuymcp.com/how-to) If an answer here raises a question about your own market, bring your numbers and ask. [Book a 30-minute call with the founder](https://adbuymcp.com/contact#book) The rest of the questions ## Questions are grouped by subject Each question sits in one of 21 groups, and the index lists all 180. - [Using the guides 4](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/using-the-guides) - [Reaching B2B buyers early 4](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/reaching-b2b-buyers-early) - [Buying the awkward channels 20](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/buying-the-awkward-channels) - [Measurement and operations 21](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/measuring-and-operating) - [What the words mean 4](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/what-the-words-mean) [See all 180 questions in the index](https://adbuymcp.com/faq) [What the words mean](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/what-the-words-mean) Your plan and price ## See what your market costs at 3, 5 or 12 times a week Give us your company website or work email. We draft who buys from you, you confirm your market and pick 3, 5 or 12 times a week, and you see one all-in monthly price across out-of-home, streaming TV, podcasts and ChatGPT ads. Talk your market and your plan through with James Rooney, who built AdBuyMCP and wrote its code. [Get my plan and price](https://adbuymcp.com/start) [Book a 30-minute call with the founder](https://adbuymcp.com/faq/doing-it-step-by-step#book) Free to price, with no card. Media is bought only after your plan, ads and start date are confirmed with you. [See how the price is worked out](https://adbuymcp.com/pricing) Pick a slot ยท cal.com/adbuymcp/discovery Live calendar Calendar not loading? [Open it on cal.com](https://cal.com/adbuymcp/discovery) or email [hello@adbuymcp.com](mailto:hello@adbuymcp.com).