# Connecting Manus and Claude to Run Meta Ads by Prompt

> By Friedrich Bremer (Fritz), Paid Social, AI and Automation Consultant. Published on business.mndst, https://business.mndst.co/p/manus-claude-ads

**Topic:** Automation

A breakdown of how Manus integrates with Claude to handle real media buying tasks inside Meta Ads Manager. Covers the actual setup, what it does well, and where you still need a human.

## The short version

- Manus connects to Meta Ads Manager through a connector, then Claude can read and act on your account.
- You can prompt for ad creation, audiences, and creative analysis in plain language.
- Pulling your top creatives to brief a designer is one of the most useful early use cases.
- This speeds up the busywork, but strategy and judgment still sit with you.
- Setup takes minutes once you authorize the right accounts.

## Resources from the reel

### Setup: Connect Manus to Meta Ads Manager

> In the reel: "The way that you do it is you go to Manus.im, then you access the connectors"

Gets Manus and Claude reading and acting on your ad account through a connector.

Setup takes a few minutes once you authorize the right accounts.

1. Go to Manus.im and open the connectors section.
2. Find the Meta Ads Manager connector and connect it.
3. Authorize the specific ad accounts you want Manus to access.
4. If you manage several clients, authorize only the correct account to avoid the model reaching into the wrong one.
5. Once authorized, start prompting against your ads manager.

How to use it: Follow the steps in order. Only authorize the accounts you actually want the tool to touch.

### Prompt: Find best creatives and brief your designer

> In the reel: "What are my best creatives in the ad account? Can you brief my designer based on these videos or images?"

Surfaces your top performing creatives and turns them into a ready brief for your designer.

~~~text
Look at my connected Meta Ads Manager account and identify my best performing creatives over [DATE RANGE], ranked by [KEY METRIC, e.g. ROAS / CPA / CTR].

For the top [NUMBER] creatives:
1. List each creative with its name, format (video or image), and its key performance numbers.
2. Explain what seems to be working about each one (hook, message, format, offer).
3. Write a creative brief my designer can use to produce more in the same direction. Include the common patterns across the winners, what to keep, and clear direction for the next round of variations.

Then point me to the actual video and image files for these top creatives so I can send them to my designer alongside the brief.
~~~

How to use it: Paste into Manus once your Meta Ads Manager connector is authorized. Set the date range and metric first.

### Prompt: Create ads by prompt

> In the reel: "You pretty much can prompt anything around your ads manager, get incredibly good results."

Spins up ads, audiences, and other ad account tasks through plain language instead of clicking through panels.

~~~text
Using my connected Meta Ads Manager account, help me set up the following in [AD ACCOUNT NAME]:

Objective: [e.g. leads / sales / traffic]
Campaign: [NAME]
Audience: [describe the audience you want built, or ask it to suggest one]
Budget: [DAILY/LIFETIME BUDGET]
Creative: [reference the creatives or assets to use]
Placements: [e.g. automatic / specific placements]

Build out the ad(s) and audience, then show me exactly what you are about to create before anything goes live so I can review and approve.
~~~

How to use it: Paste into Manus with the connector authorized. Fill in the brackets with your specifics before sending.

## What the integration actually does

Manus can now talk to your Meta Ads Manager through a connector, and Claude sits on top of it to do the work. You authorize your ad accounts once, then you prompt.

Read the account. Build audiences. Spin up ads. Pull performance on specific creatives. These are the things a media buyer clicks through a dozen panels to do, and now they happen through a conversation.

My read is that the real shift here is the interface. The ad account stops being a maze of tabs and becomes something you can just ask questions to.

## How to set it up

Go to Manus.im and open the connectors section. Find the Meta Ads Manager connector and connect it. Authorize the ad accounts you want it to touch.

That is the whole setup. Once the accounts are authorized, you can start prompting against your ads manager and get usable results back.

One practical note: be deliberate about which accounts you authorize. If you manage several clients, you do not want the model reaching into the wrong one by accident.

## The creative briefing use case

The sharpest early use I keep coming back to is creative analysis. You can ask Manus what your best performing creatives are, and it will surface them from the account.

From there you can ask it to write a brief based on those winning videos or images. Then you hand that brief, plus the actual assets, straight to your designer.

This is where the reel's point about designers lands for me. It is not that the designer disappears. It is that the fuzzy part, figuring out what is working and why, gets done before anyone touches Figma.

## Where the human still matters

The title of the reel is a hook, not a forecast. Nobody is getting killed off here.

What gets automated is the mechanical layer - the clicking, the exporting, the pulling of numbers. What does not get automated is deciding what to test next, reading between the lines of why a creative worked, and knowing when the data is lying to you.

I think the buyers who get the most out of this are the ones who already know what good looks like. The tool makes them faster. It does not make a beginner into a strategist.

Treat it like a very fast junior who never gets tired of the boring parts. You still have to point it in the right direction.

## Further reading

- [Connect (Facebook Ads) Meta Ads to Claude AI](https://www.databloo.com/connectors/claude/meta-ads/)
- [Claude + Meta Ads New MCP Connector Is SUPERCHARGED ...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8c_iJ9iixo&vl=en)
- [Facebook Lead Ads Anthropic (Claude) Integration](https://zapier.com/apps/facebook-lead-ads/integrations/anthropic-claude)
- [Automate Meta Ads with AI without using Ads Manager](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl1Mm2i9iE)

## About the author

Fritz has 8+ years in paid social and adtech and has managed $50M+ in annual ad spend. He builds the systems behind growth, and publishes the ones he builds for himself. He works across Europe and United Kingdom and sells one-to-one consulting and done-with-you build work.

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