Built to replace $3,000/month media buyers
Pix-Vu is for Shopify and DTC founders doing under $500k a year who can't justify an agency retainer but still need a proper Facebook ads operation. We run the stack a top media buyer would use — automated, 24/7, for less than the cost of a single Shopify app.
The story
I watched three Shopify friends burn more than $10k each on Meta ads they couldn't diagnose. One was selling candles, one was selling supplements, one was selling leather bags. Same story every time: they'd launch a campaign, watch the spend tick up, and have no idea whether the creative was broken, the audience was wrong, or the landing page was leaking. By the time they figured it out, the money was gone.
The obvious answer was to hire a media buyer. So they got quotes. The cheapest serious operator wanted $2,500 a month on a three-month minimum. The good ones were $4,000 to $5,000. None of them would touch an account spending less than $10k/month on ads, which excluded basically every founder I knew.
So I built Pix-Vu because I wanted the stack a top media buyer would actually use, running on its own. GPT-5 for ad copy that doesn't read like it was generated in 2022. Google Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) for creative that doesn't look like stock photography. Automated budget reallocation so losing ad sets get cut before they drain the card. All of it running 24/7 for $99 a month — less than most Shopify apps, less than a single hour with a freelance buyer.
Pix-Vu is built and maintained by the founder as a solo operation, deliberately. No enterprise sales team. No seat-based pricing. No 400-person org chart that needs feeding. Just a tool that does the job, at a price that works when you're the one writing the cheque.
What makes Pix-Vu different
- We write the creative.Most "AI ads tools" hand you files. Pix-Vu launches campaigns.
- Real models, not wrappers.GPT-5 writes copy. Google Nano Banana Pro generates creative. We're not dressing up a cheaper model and hoping you don't notice.
- Human-in-the-loop by default. Nothing launches on your ad account without your approval. You review, you sign off, then it ships.
- Built for solo founders.Not a 400-person SaaS with an enterprise sales team. One price, one product, no "talk to sales" upsell.
What we'll never do
- Post to your Facebook or Instagram profile
- Spend more than your daily cap
- Launch a single campaign without your explicit sign-off
See it for yourself
If any of this sounds like the tool you wish existed when you were burning cash on your first Meta campaign, have a look at the pricing page.