AI-powered marketing, run by BuildHive’s Swarm engine
Swarm is our proprietary AI ad optimization engine. It runs thousands of ad variants at once across Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, email and SMS, then kills the losers and scales the winners minute by minute, around the clock. Senior strategists set the goals and the guardrails.
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A typical agency tests two ads, waits two weeks for significance, picks a winner, and starts again. Meanwhile the loser spends all weekend. Swarm runs automated A/B testing at a scale no team of people can: A through Z, then A through Z again, a thousand times over.
Typical agency
2 tests, 1 winner
Swarm
43,000+ decisions
budget on a known loserone Swarm decision: kill, scale, breed or shift
| Measure | Typical agency | BuildHive Swarm |
|---|---|---|
| Ads being tested at once | 2 to 4 | 1,000+ |
| Time to a proven winner | 2–3 weeks | 48–72 hours |
| How long a losing ad keeps spending | Until someone checks | Minutes |
| Budget reviews per campaign | Weekly | Every minute |
| Who is watching at 2 a.m. Sunday | Nobody | Swarm |
This is what performance marketing AI looks like on the job. Each line below is a call a media buyer would make a few times a week. Swarm makes one every few seconds, across every channel, and writes down why.
V-0401 bred from winner V-0418: kept the lifestyle still, tested a new hook, “Real results, no filter”.
Moved 3.3% of today’s budget from Email to Google. Conversions there are 21% cheaper this hour.
V-0319 on Meta Feed: cost per lead 2.9× target after 2,150 impressions. Its budget went to V-0336.
V-1259 bred from winner V-1276: kept the screen recording, tested a new hook, “Your skin, 30 days from now”.
V-1860 (static carousel) is 29% under target CPA for 4 hours straight. Raised its daily cap 16%.
V-2239 bred from winner V-2256: kept the lifestyle still, tested a new hook, “Built for 40-person teams”.
V-1272 on LinkedIn Feed: cost per lead 2.1× target after 1,946 impressions. Its budget went to V-1289.
No channel gets a fixed budget. Money follows the cheapest conversion, inside the caps you approve.
Live simulation of a multi-channel account, for illustration.
Proprietary software, built and run by BuildHive. Each part does one job relentlessly well, and they feed each other in a loop that never stops learning.
Variant generator
Breaks your offer into hooks, visuals, audiences, offers and placements, then assembles every combination worth testing. Hundreds go live on day one, all inside your brand rules.
12 hooks×9 visuals×9 audiences×16 placements
= 15,552 possible ads
Live scoring and budget allocation
Named for the dance honeybees use to send foragers to the richest flowers. Every minute it scores each variant on real conversions and moves money toward what is working.
Creative engine
Winners don’t just get more budget, they become parents. Pollen crosses the strongest hook with the strongest visual, mutates one trait, and sends the offspring back into the arena.
Reporting you can see through
A live dashboard of every test, kill, scale and budget move, each with the reason in plain English. You always know where the money went and why.
AI ad optimization without judgment is just a faster way to waste money. Every Swarm account has a named senior strategist who sets the guardrails with you, and the engine can’t cross them.
goal: booked_demos target_cpa: set_in_audit max_daily_spend: google: approved_cap meta: approved_cap tiktok: approved_cap brand_voice: approved_guide_v3 banned_claims: ["guaranteed", "cure"] new_creative: needs_your_approval exclude: - existing_customers - competitor_brand_terms report: weekly_call + glasshive_live
You and your strategist decide
Swarm handles, 24/7
Client snapshots, anonymized. Names withheld under NDA.
Results vary with market, offer and budget. Your audit includes a realistic projection for your account.
Medians across anonymized client accounts.
Day 0 · free
A senior strategist reviews your accounts and shows you where budget is leaking, which tests Swarm would run first, and what it could realistically move.
Week 1
Read and write access to your ad accounts through the platforms’ own APIs. Together we set goals, caps, brand rules and the approval flow.
Week 2
It starts from your current best ads, then breeds outward. You watch every decision in Glasshive from the first hour.
Every week after
Your strategist reviews what Swarm learned, retires what’s tired, and feeds in new offers. Costs keep falling while your team spends zero hours in ads managers.
It depends on your channels and how much you spend, so we don’t publish a rate card. The free audit ends with a clear, fixed proposal: what we’d run, what it costs, and what we expect it to move. No percentage-of-spend surprises.
Those tools optimize inside one platform, toward that platform’s goals, and don’t show you why. Swarm works across Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, email and SMS at once, optimizes for your real outcome (including CRM pipeline), and logs every decision with a reason. We often run Swarm alongside them.
No. Your strategist sets brand voice, banned claims and approved assets, and new creative can be routed to you for approval before it ever spends a cent. Swarm is fast at testing, not at going rogue.
Always. Swarm connects to the accounts you already own through the platforms’ official APIs, and you can revoke access any time. Your data never trains anyone else’s models.
Swarm needs enough conversions to learn from. The audit tells you honestly whether your account has them. If it doesn’t yet, we’ll say so and tell you what would get you there.
The first decisions happen within hours of launch. Most accounts see cost per acquisition move inside two to four weeks, and we review the full picture with you at 90 days.
Most agencies rent the ad platforms’ built-in automation and call it AI. We built our own engine, and it’s run by senior US strategists with a direct line to you. You get the scale of software and the judgment of people who have done this for a decade.
Free, no obligation
Tell us where you advertise and what a good month looks like. Within 24 hours a senior strategist, not a sales rep, replies with your free audit: where spend is leaking, the first tests Swarm would run, and a realistic projection.
