Amazon Ads intelligence and automation

Your Amazon Ads data already knows the next move.

One system reads the account, writes the decision, and repeats it inside your limits.

Built by sellers running their own Amazon business for eight years.

  • 30 days free
  • 2 Automated ASINs
  • from $79 a month

Decision Brief

Sample content

Pause this keyword on this ASIN

Spend keeps building against your window while orders stay in the low band.

Evidence window
180 days
Decision scope
Individual ASIN
Action type
Pause
  • Growth you could not seeDemand that appears only across related products and longer windows.
  • Spend that stops earlierTargets that keep costing without returning are caught sooner.
  • Decisions that repeatThe judgement you trust becomes a rule with its own limits.

AI Analyst

Products first. Then the Ads context around them.

AI Analyst reads what your account already contains and writes the decision down: what to do, why it holds up, the evidence behind it, and the scope it applies to. You read it, and you apply it.

It reads

  • Product Listings
  • Advertising keywords
  • Search terms
  • Search query reports
  • Ads performance
  • Multiple data windows
  • Product relationships
  1. Remove negativeExact

    Unblock “chamomile tea bags” on this ASIN

    It was blocked here on 4 clicks and no orders. Since then the same ASIN has taken orders on that query, and its variations have taken far more.

    This ad group, before the block
    4 clicks · 0 orders
    The same ASIN, since
    26 orders · 29–47% ACOS
    Its variations
    49 orders · 42% ACOS

    365-day windowProduct Group scope

  2. Harvest keywordExact

    Create the keyword “organic soursop leaf tea”

    It converts in two independent records: the auto target that surfaced it, and the search query report for the destination ASIN.

    Auto targeting, 90 days
    37 clicks · 7 orders · 44% ACOS
    Search query report, 84 days
    5 clicks · 1 order
    Opening bid
    $1.46, inside your $4.50 limit

    90-day windowIndividual ASIN scope

  3. Negative product target

    Block this product target

    The target is a turmeric root powder and the ad is for loose-leaf tea. The spend it has taken with no orders supports blocking it.

    Relevance
    A different product category
    This target, 91–120 days
    84 impressions · 2 clicks · 0 orders
    Variations on the same target
    Nothing to compare against

    120-day windowIndividual ASIN scope

  4. Bid change

    Trim this bid from $1.13 to $0.95

    ACOS has stayed above your ceiling across the long window and has not improved in the recent one, so the trim is sized to the gap rather than applied flat.

    60 days
    23 clicks · 3 orders · 82% ACOS
    Most recent spend
    $41.23 at 78% ACOS
    Trim
    15.9%, inside your bid limits

    60-day windowIndividual ASIN scope

Four examples, drawn to show what a brief contains. Products and figures are illustrative, and no account data is shown. Every brief names its own evidence window and the scope it applies to, so you can disagree with it before you apply it.

Automation

Rules that read like a sentence.

A rule states what has to be true, what it will change, and the boundary it may not cross. You can read it back a month later and still know why it fired.

  1. Standard Criteria

    When

    • A search term has run for 90 days
    • Orders stay in the band you set
    • ACOS is past your ceiling

    Add a negative

    Every threshold has to pass inside the Data Window.

  2. Loss Budget Guard

    When

    • Spend passes what the sale could justify
    • The excess reaches the loss budget you allow

    Pause the target

    Not a fixed ACOS rule. It measures the money, not the ratio.

  3. Momentum Guard

    When

    • A long baseline says this target sells
    • Recent order pace has dropped under your floor

    Act inside your bid limits

    Reads 60, 30 and 14 day pace against a 90 to 180 day baseline.

The part a one-line rule cannot say.

Two of those modes are doing arithmetic on your behalf. Both are drawn here with example figures, because the calculation is the product.

Loss Budget GuardA sale of $33 at the 50% ACOS ceiling you set justifies $16.50 of spend. This target spent $49. The $32.50 beyond the line is the loss, and it passed the $20 budget you allowed.
Momentum GuardA proven target: 203 orders across the 180-day baseline. Then the pace falls away at every checkpoint. The rule sees the slide while the long record still says this product sells, and acts inside the bid limits you set.

Negation looks at the whole variation family.

One ASIN often does not run a query enough times to settle it. A rule here can read the term across that ASIN and its variations as a single body of evidence, and still create the negative only in the ad group it is assigned to. Unnegation works the same way in reverse.

One search-term record, read together

Product Group scope gives denser evidence when variations differ mainly by pack size.

It can create or remove

  • Create Negative Exact
  • Create Negative Phrase
  • Remove Negative Exact
  • Remove Negative Phrase

Evidence is read at

  • Individual ASINEvery campaign and ad group where that ASIN runs
  • Product GroupThe ASIN and its variations, read as one body of evidence

Standing safeguards

365 days. A term that produced an order anywhere in the last year, at the scope you chose, is protected from negation. It is on by default, and turning it off is a deliberate act.

Your judgement outranks the rule. A term a person has marked relevant is never negated automatically, and that protection cannot be switched off.

How far back a rule may look.

The Data Window is yours to set, and a rule can be told to ignore the most recent days while Amazon is still settling attribution.

120 and 180 day windows come with the higher plans, or as an add-on to any plan.

Rule families

Every kind of decision has its own rule.

Nothing hides behind one optimisation switch. A family names the decision it makes, and the criteria you attach decide which targets it is allowed to read.

  • BiddingTarget ACOS, fixed and percentage moves, loss-budget and momentum guards, plus bid boundaries.
  • ImportPromote converting search terms into keyword targeting with deduplication and controlled initial bids.
  • Negation + unnegateBuild two-way rules that create or remove exact and phrase negatives inside the scope you define.
  • Negation wordFind repeated losing words across queries and protect terms held in product memory.
  • DaypartingSchedule both bid changes and enable or pause states by hour, with criteria and assignments kept separate.
  • StatusEnable or pause targets only when the configured criteria and safeguards pass.
  • Placement + budgetControl campaign placement adjustments and budget decisions inside their own limits.

What a run is allowed to change.

Every run can be previewed first: each affected target listed, the current value beside the proposed one, and nothing applied until it reads right.

  • Bid change
  • Import keyword
  • Import product target
  • Negative keyword
  • Remove negative
  • Enable
  • Pause
  • Placement adjustment
  • Budget change

From decision to execution

Then act on it, in the same place.

A Decision Brief or an Automation run ends where the work happens: the same Ads workspace, and the builder that creates the structures around it.

Ads Manager

Every campaign type and every entity underneath it, image and video creatives included, managed in one workspace instead of separate screens.

  • Sponsored Products
  • Sponsored Brands
  • Sponsored Display
  • Campaigns
  • Ad groups
  • Targets
  • Search terms
  • Placements
  • Audiences

One workspace

Campaign Builder

One reusable setup produces the coordinated structures you would otherwise build by hand, one campaign at a time.

Reusable setup

  • Sponsored ProductsAutomatic, keyword, product, and category patterns
  • Sponsored BrandsImage and video creative formats
  • Sponsored DisplayContextual and remarketing, image and video

Profit Intelligence

Every fee Amazon charges, on its own line.

Amazon does not bill you one fee. It bills freight, duty, storage, fulfilment, transfers, clawbacks and reimbursements, under dozens of names. Collapsing them into one number is how a product looks profitable right up until it is not.

30 daysIllustration, not a real account
Sales
$142,800
Ordered product sales
$140,100
Subscribe & Save sales
$2,700
Advertising cost
−$28,400
Amazon fees
−$41,900
FBA per-unit fulfilment fee
−$21,600
Referral fee
−$14,300
Storage fee
−$1,180
MCF fulfilment / shipping
−$940
Long term storage fee
−$260
and every other fee line, separately
Inbound logistics
−$8,900
Amazon SEND · freight, duty
−$4,600
Amazon Global Logistics · freight, duty
−$4,300
AWD
−$1,750
Storage, processing, transfer, MCD
Cost of goods sold
−$31,200
Net profit
$30,650
  • 21.5%Margin
  • 98.2%ROI
  • 19.9%TACOS

Charges that arrive separately, and stay separate.

Amazon reports these under their own names. ZonOne keeps them that way, so you can see which one moved. Reimbursements and credits are separated too, instead of quietly netting off a cost you never saw.

  • Fulfilment

    • FBA per-unit fulfilment fee
    • FBA inbound convenience fee
    • FBA disposal fee
  • Storage

    • Storage fee
    • Long term storage fee
    • AWD storage fee
  • Referral and services

    • Referral fee
    • Paid services fee
    • Subscription
  • Multi-channel

    • MCF fulfilment / shipping
    • MCF supply chain credit
    • AWD MCD
  • Inbound freight and duty

    • Amazon SEND freight
    • SEND duty
    • AGL freight
    • AGL duty
  • Loss, clawback and recovery

    • Compensated clawback
    • Missing from inbound clawback
    • Warehouse lost
    • Warehouse damage
    • Customer return reimbursement
    • Free replacement refund items

Enter your cost once. The system keeps it current.

Set the average cost of the inventory you hold today. After that ZonOne detects each inbound shipment, prefills the unit cost from the last confirmed one, and recalculates the weighted average itself. You only touch a SKU whose supplier price actually changed.

Once, at onboardingOpening average cost
Inventory at snapshot
18,000 units
Your average cost
$2.40 / unit
Inventory value
$43,200

FBA and AWD counted separately. Inbound stock excluded.

Every shipment after thatDetected, prefilled, averaged
Shipment received
1,080 units
Unit cost, prefilled from your last shipment
$2.40
New weighted average
$2.44 / unit

Costs apply to inventory and COGS only once Amazon receives the shipment.

And it knows the differenceA transfer is not an inbound

Stock moving from AWD into FBA is a transfer. It does not enter cost a second time, and it is not reported as new inbound.

Figures on this page are invented for the illustration. The category names are the ones the product separates.

Before you connect an account

The four questions operators ask first.

Advertising spend is not a safe place for a black box. These are the answers we would want before handing a tool the keys to an account we run ourselves.

  • Does it change my account on its own?

    Only inside what you configured: the criteria a target must meet, the limits a rule may not cross, the Data Window it judges against, and the schedule it runs on. Preview Changes lists every affected target with its current value beside the proposed one, and Runs and Change Logs record what each run did.

  • Do I have to restructure my catalog first?

    No. ZonOne builds the Product Line from what your advertising account already contains, and reads related ASINs as one Product Group. You can add business context when it helps, but nothing has to be modelled before the product is useful.

  • Is this an agency service?

    No. It is the tooling built to run our own Amazon business, and you operate it yourself on your own account.

    Running several accounts or an agency? Talk to us
  • What if my catalog is bigger than my plan?

    Capacity is assigned to the specific ASINs you want automated, so a catalog can be larger than the plan you buy. Move up the ladder when your automated coverage grows.

Start on the account you already run. 30-day free trial with 2 Automated ASINs.

Who builds ZonOne

Built by operators, on their own account.

Eight years operating an Amazon seller business, managing multimillion-dollar annual Amazon Ads spend on our own products. ZonOne is the tooling that work required, not an agency product built for managing client accounts.

8 years
operating our own Amazon seller business
5–100
Automated ASINs on the published plans, then Growth Flex
30 days
free trial with 2 Automated ASINs, cancel any time

Start with the account you already run.

Connect the Amazon Ads account you operate today, read the first Decision Brief, and apply it to the live account when you agree with it.

30-day free trial with 2 Automated ASINs. Plans from $79 per month. Cancel any time.

Running several seller accounts or an agency? Talk to us about Growth Flex.