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Scored before you spend a dollar.

Upload a draft, the image and the copy, and Pre-flight runs it through the same pipeline as your live ads. It comes back with a Win Score from 0 to 100, judged against your own account's DNA, plus the cohort evidence behind the number and a fix-first read.

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Three drafts, scored before spend

Same pipeline as your live ads, run on an ad that has never run.

Upload the image and the copy and it comes back with a number, the band it falls in, the evidence behind it, and the one change that would move it. Here are three drafts: a green light, a coin flip, and one to fix before it ever spends.

Illustrative scores on demo drafts. On your account, the score is built from your own winners and losers.

Grove adScore 81

Grove · Supplements

Clears your bar. The hook and proof match your cheapest-CPA cohort. Ship it.

Hookproblem-first, matches your top cohort
Proofreal-customer testimonial, matches
Offerfree shipping, neutral for you

Fix-first: nothing material. This is a green light.

Pace adScore 63

Pace · Fitness app

Borderline. Strong hook, but the offer is your anti-pattern. Fix it and this clears 75.

Hookbold-claim, matches your winners
Proofscreenshot proof, thin for you
Offerdiscount-led, your anti-pattern

Fix-first: swap the discount for a transformation proof. Predicted 63 to 78.

Mira adScore 38

Mira · Skincare

Below your bar. It looks nothing like what wins for this account.

Hookfeature-led open, loses for you
Personaaspirational model, your winners use real customers
Structurefeature-first, proof-first wins for you

Fix-first: three changes to reach your winning DNA, listed before you spend a dollar.

How the score is built

Graded against your account, not a global checklist.

A generic preflight grades every brand against the same rules. Will It Win? runs your draft through the exact pipeline that reads your live ads, and scores it against what actually wins for you.

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Same pipeline as your live ads

Your draft, the image and the copy, is read into the same 140+ element genome as everything you have ever run, and scored on the same axes, not a separate preflight rubric.

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Judged against your own DNA

The score comes from your account's own winners and losers, funnel-aware. A hook that wins for a supplement brand is not scored the same for a B2B SaaS, because it is not the same bet.

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The evidence and the weak leg

Every score shows the cohort behind it and names the one element holding it back, so you know the single change that moves the number, before any money goes out.

You find out if it looks like a winner while you can still change it.

The difference

Preflight tools

grade a draft against a generic best-practice checklist, the same Google ABCD rules for every brand on earth.

WhyItWon

scores it against what actually wins for your account, funnel-aware and banded L1 to L5, so the number means something for your customers, not for a global average.

What it actually does

Your account, not a global average

The score is built from your own winners and losers, the same element attribution that runs on your live ads. A hook that wins for a supplement brand is not scored the same for a B2B SaaS.

The evidence, not just a verdict

Every score shows the cohort behind it and which element is the weak leg, so you know what to fix before you spend, not after the money is gone.

Fix-first, in your advisor's voice

It does not just grade. It tells you the one change most likely to move the score, so a 74 becomes an 82 before it ever runs.

The honest difference

Most tools grade an ad after it runs. This one grades it before.

Pre-spend scoring is rare, and account-specific pre-spend scoring is rarer still. The point is not 'is this a good ad' by generic rules, it is 'does this look like what wins for you,' answered before you spend.

WhyItWonScores your unlaunched draft 0-100 against your own account's winning DNA, funnel-aware, with the cohort evidence and the weak leg to fix first.
MotionGrades ads only after they run. Reviews find no pre-launch scoring; its forward-looking output is untested tag combinations, not a graded draft.
Parker AIDeliberately a strategy-and-briefs tool. No pre-launch score anywhere; you take the brief on faith and learn after spend.
ForeplayNo pre-launch scoring. Its only success signal is retrospective, how long an ad has already been running.
AtriaMarkets a 'viability' score, but reviews call Radar retrospective, and even as pitched it is model-vs-benchmark, not vs your own winners.
UpspringHas a real pre-spend scoring layer, but it is benchmarked to general intent-match patterns, not calibrated to what wins for your account.

Assessed from each tool's public product and positioning. We keep this honest, they are good at what they do; this is the one job we do differently.

In the product

Pre-flight, under Create.

Alison's Preflight checks a draft against platform frameworks. Win Score checks it against your account. Personal beats generic every time.

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Creative DNA

The element-level combos that win for your account, and the anti-patterns, injected into every brief.

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Ingredients

Every ad broken into 140+ elements across 21 families, then compared like a controlled test.

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Ready to Shoot

One click from any winner to a full brief: persona, angle, hook bank, storyboard, copy and specs.

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Book a 30-minute teardown. I will run your ads through this and give you five to eight specific reasons they are winning or losing right now. The findings are yours either way.

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