We manage your media and build your dashboard

Your ad account has money trapped.

Ascensa manages your paid media investment (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Microsoft) and builds you the proprietary software that makes it transparent: dashboards, tracking and reports you can verify yourself, not screenshots you have to take on faith. We work with business owners in the Gulf (Dubai and the UAE), Spain, LATAM and the US. Start with a diagnostic of your current account; if it makes sense, we move on to full management.

Talk to us about your account

Diagnostic results in 48h · if it's not useful to you, we refund 100%

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3.4/5.0

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2 banderas rojas
Estructura de cuenta82%
Segmentación34%
Medición / tracking58%
Creatividades74%
Resultado por semana↑ tras reasignar
8 / 16 secciones evaluadas · checklist de 32 puntos
8+
years in paid media
10+
countries
$2M+
USD managed

Real work

The same method we apply to accounts that move real money.

We don't teach course theory. We apply the system we use to audit real campaigns, across multiple countries and sectors, for owners who demand measurable results.

Sectors we've audited and managed

Fashion ecommerce
Clinics and aesthetics
Professional services
Multi-country retail
B2B lead generation
DTC brands
Fashion ecommerce
Clinics and aesthetics
Professional services
Multi-country retail
B2B lead generation
DTC brands

more year-over-year revenue

Fashion ecommerce · same investment, after fixing measurement.

more qualified leads

Professional services · same budget, in 45 days.

USD/year managed

Across 10+ countries: Spain, Colombia, Mexico, the US and the Gulf.

The problem

You've spent weeks funding campaigns you can't read.

It's not ignorance. No one trained you for this, and most reports aren't built for you to verify. Your job is your business, not advertising.

"The campaigns are in the learning phase"

They've told you that for three weeks. You don't know if that's normal, how long it should last, or whether you should be asking something else by now.

They report: "we cut cost per lead by 40%"

You look at your bank account and nothing changed. That disconnect has a name and an explanation. And it's almost never the algorithm.

"We need more budget to scale"

They ask you to double your investment. It might be the right call. Or it might be too soon. You have no way to know which, and that's the real discomfort.

You know what CTR and ROAS are. You don't know what they do together.

You understand the words separately. What no one explains is what happens when CTR is high and ROAS is dead. Or why a low CPM can mean you're reaching the wrong audience.

The result: you make investment decisions with information you can't validate. That's not strategy. That's faith.

How many of these apply to you?

  • You don't know how much it costs you to get a new customer from your campaigns.
  • When they ask for more budget, you have no data-backed criteria to say yes or no.
  • The last report you got had metrics you didn't know were good or bad.
  • You've had the same campaigns for more than 3 months without reviewing objectives together.
  • If you switched who manages your ads tomorrow, you wouldn't know what to ask the next one.

If 3 or more sound like you, this system was built for you.

Real case (anonymized)This happened. It could be happening to you.

"A professional services company had been investing $2,000/month in Meta campaigns for 4 months. The monthly report showed a low CPL and growing reach. Applying the audit framework, we found that 65% of the budget was going to an audience segment with 0 conversions in the last 90 days. It had been set up in month 1 and no one had reviewed it since."

Result after reallocation: same budget, 2.3x more qualified leads in 45 days.

The method in motion

We don't just tell you. We show you.

Real accounts, anonymized. The invisible work behind your investment, finally visible.

Video: walkthrough of a real audit

Drop a screen recording (MP4) or an account image here

Before / after of an account

A comparative screenshot or photo

The team, explaining a finding

Photo or short video talking to camera

Calculate your leak

How much budget are you burning every month?

Move your investment and tell us if you track your metrics. We'll give you an estimate of how much is leaking, the starting point of any audit.

Estimated waste
$600
At risk every month
3-month total
$1,800
Still leaking
Annual projection
$7,200
If nothing changes
% of budget at risk
30%
High

Without tracking your CPA you can't tell which campaigns are bleeding you dry. This is usually where the biggest leak is.

Estimate based on what we find on average auditing SMB accounts. It's not a promise: it's the number the conversation starts with.

The Ascensa model

Two arms. One standard for your money.

Ascensa isn't another agency or a generic software vendor. It's both, under one roof, with the same standard applied to each.

Ascensa Global

We manage your media

Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Microsoft managed with the same audit method we apply in the Radar, from day one, not discovered six months later.

  • The channel that actually works for you, not the one that suits the agency: we pick where to invest based on your business
  • Account structure, segmentation, creative and budget reviewed every week
  • The same 16-dimension framework we use in every Radar
  • Reports that explain the number, not just show it

Ascensa Labs

We build your software

The dashboard, tracking and integrations that make that investment verifiable. We don't assemble a generic SaaS: we build yours, on the same engine we use to audit real accounts.

  • Custom tracking dashboard, not a shared template
  • Tracking and attribution set up for your business, not generic
  • The same engine behind Ascensa Audit, live in production today

No agency combines both arms under one roof. That's why you don't have to take anyone's word for it: you see the data, on your own dashboard.

The door in: the Account Radar

It's not that you're a bad business owner. No one taught you to read this, and for years it was genuinely hard to show: behind an ad account there's a lot of work that almost never gets seen. Until now you had two options: trust without being able to verify, or hire someone in-house who costs more than the advertising itself. The Radar is the third option.

A diagnostic that translates your account into owner language, not trafficker language.

In 48 hours you'll know where to recover money.

We audit your ad account —Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn or wherever you invest— against 16 critical points, benchmarked against normal figures for your sector. You get a score, a layer-by-layer map, and the three highest-impact levers prioritized by the money at stake. No jargon: every point translated into what it means for your business.

This is what your Radar looks like when you get it.

How it works

01

You share your account

You give us read-only access to your ad account (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn…) and answer 4 one-click questions: sector, objective, who manages it, margin. Five minutes.

02

The engine and our judgment

Ascensa Labs' engine generates the draft against the 16 audit dimensions. We review it by hand, adjust the three levers and record the expert read. That judgment is what no tool copies.

03

You get the Radar and we talk

A branded PDF with your score and your three levers, plus a 45-minute session where you leave with a plan, not questions.

Who it's for

  • Business owners or ecommerce operators with active digital ad investment
  • Those with an agency, freelancer or in-house team running their campaigns
  • Businesses investing at least $500/month in paid media (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn…)
  • People who want clarity and judgment, not to become advertisers themselves

Who it's NOT for

  • If you invest less than $500/month (the course gives you more value, see below)
  • If you want to learn to run campaigns yourself from scratch
  • If you don't have any active digital advertising investment yet

If you're on this list, the Radar was built for you.

Proof that we build

Ascensa Labs already has software in production. It's not a promise.

Before we build your dashboard, we built our own. These are real products, in use, today.

Audit dashboard

Ascensa Audit

The engine behind every Account Radar: 16 audited dimensions, benchmarked against the sector, with a score and prioritized findings.

AI product

Sawalif

An app to learn Emirati Arabic, with an AI voice tutor and progress memory. Available as a web app (PWA).

Client product

Anchor

A landing page and lead-capture system for mental wellness coaching, built end to end for a direct client.

This site

Ascensa Academy

The site you're looking at right now: the same content and capture engine we build for our clients.

This is what Ascensa Labs builds when the project is our own. We do the same with yours.

Luis Zárate — lidera Ascensa, 8+ años en paid media gestionando más de $2M anuales en Meta Ads y Google Ads

Luis Zárate

Ascensa Global · Ascensa Labs

Who's behind it

Ascensa is led by someone who spent 8 years inside the operation.

Ascensa is led by Luis Zárate, with more than 8 years inside paid media operations in Spain, LATAM and the United States. He has managed and audited more than $2M USD in real ad spend, across ecommerce, lead generation and B2B, in more than 10 countries.

That time inside the operation is the foundation of the method: behind an ad account there's a lot of work that almost never gets seen, and translating it into business decisions was never simple.

Today that judgment doesn't live only in one person's head. It lives in the engine Ascensa Labs builds and in the team Ascensa Global runs. That's how the company can sustain the same level of detail across more accounts, without depending on a single consultant.

Ascensa wasn't built to sell a course. It came out of the real need to audit accounts, one at a time, and to build the software that was missing to make that scalable. The Radar is the fastest way to put it to work on yours.

8+years in paid media

Ecommerce, lead generation and B2B. At agencies, as an independent consultant and auditing from the outside.

10+countries

Spain, Colombia, Mexico, the US and more. The underlying problems are the same in every market.

$2M+USD managed

In real ad spend, for clients who demand measurable results.

The 4 layers of the audit framework

01
Technical structure, Pixel, attribution, campaign setup
02
Segmentation, Audiences, exclusions, overlap
03
Creative, Rotation, fatigue, format coverage
04
Budget logic, Distribution, scalability, cutoff ROAS
Serving the Gulf

Paid media management for Dubai and the UAE, with proof you can check.

Ascensa manages paid media for business owners in Dubai and the UAE with the same audit-first method behind more than 50 accounts audited since 2023, plus a dashboard you verify yourself. Accounts are run remotely, with reporting in USD or AED. The Gulf is where that method meets larger budgets, not a market we started from zero.

The Gulf

Dubai and the UAE. Larger budgets and sectors like longevity, wellness and off-plan real estate, where wasted spend is bigger and harder to spot without an audit. Same audit standard, reported in USD or AED.

Our base

Spain, LATAM and the US: more than 50 documented direct audits (2023-2025) across ecommerce, services and lead generation. The track record the Gulf work is built on.

Same method, same standard: we run the account and hand you the panel that proves it.

Sectors we know

Your account is compared to your sector, not a generic average.

Every Radar measures your numbers against what's normal in your vertical — the sectors we audit and manage across the Gulf (Dubai/UAE), Spain and LATAM.

Longevity and wellness
Real estate (incl. off-plan)
Beauty and aesthetics
Health and clinics
Fashion and ecommerce
B2B / SaaS
Professional services
Education
Restaurants
Why this problem exists

You're not the only one investing without being able to fully read your own numbers.

+60%

of business owners who invest in digital advertising can't explain the main metrics of their active campaigns. (Source: digital advertising transparency studies, HubSpot and IAB)

The first 3 red flags on the checklist

(You get the other 29 when you enroll)
01

Your report highlights reach and impressions as the main metrics, without mentioning real cost per result.

Why it matters: Reach and impressions don't say whether anyone bought. They're visibility metrics, not business metrics.

02

You've been in the 'learning phase' for more than 4 weeks without anyone explaining when it ends and what signal shows it.

Why it matters: Meta's learning phase has defined technical criteria. If no one explained them to you, no one is managing your expectations correctly.

03

You don't have admin access to your own ad account (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn…).

Why it matters: Your money, your account. If you don't have access, you can't verify anything: you depend on whatever screen they share with you.

Client testimonials will be added after the course's first cohort.

Before you think it

The three doubts that come up right now.

"I already know it's not great."

The Radar isn't there to tell you it's going badly. It's there to tell you what to move first, by name, so the money stops leaking.

"I already have an agency."

Even better. You'll walk out knowing exactly what to ask them at the next meeting. A diagnostic in hand makes your provider perform better, not worse.

"What if you don't find anything?"

Then you don't pay. If by the end of the session you feel there was nothing you didn't already know, we refund 100%.

Guarantee · 100%

No risk, for real.

If by the end of the session you feel there was nothing you didn't already know, we refund 100%. Few people dare to put that guarantee on an audit. We do.

We review every Radar with expert judgment, not just the engine. That's why we open limited slots every week.

How we work with you

The Radar opens the door. Full management with your own dashboard is the destination.

You start with the Radar. Most of the accounts we audit end up here: we stop guessing and build you the dashboard that makes your investment transparent.

How much is not knowing costing you?

20% waste is the conservative figure documented across more than 50 direct audits performed by Ascensa Global (2023–2025) on SMB accounts running paid media (Meta, Google, TikTok and more).

One out of every five dollars you invest in advertising.

Your monthly investmentEstimated waste (20%)Loss over 3 monthsRecoverable with judgment
$500/mo$100/mo$300$300
$1,500/mo$300/mo$900$900
$3,000/mo$600/mo$1,800$1,800
$5,000/mo$1,000/mo$3,000$3,000

The Radar costs less than what you're probably losing this week.

01

Account Radar

$120 USD

one-time payment · results in 48h

16 points of your ad account (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn…) audited against normal figures for your sector, your score, and the 3 highest-impact levers prioritized by the money at stake. Includes a 45-minute session to turn it into a plan.

02

45-minute session

Included

with every Radar

We turn the diagnostic into a plan. You leave with three prioritized actions, not loose doubts.

03

Media management

$800 – $2,500 USD

per month

We manage your campaigns —Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, whatever channel moves your business— month to month with the same read from the Radar applied, on a tracking dashboard built for your account. For owners in Spain and LATAM who want to stop guessing.

Talk to us about your account

04

Your media director, without the payroll

$3,000 – $10,000 USD

per month

We direct your paid media with the judgment of an in-house director and hand you the proprietary dashboard Ascensa Labs builds, without you having to hire a team or integrate it yourself. For brands in Dubai, the US and teams operating across countries.

Talk to us about your account

Prefer to run it yourself? Learn the same judgment we apply in every audit.

Don't want to wait?

Request your Radar and let's start

Results in 48h

Account Radar

In 48 hours you'll know exactly where you're losing money. 16 points of your real account, benchmarked against normal figures for your sector, with the three highest-impact levers prioritized.

  • Your account's score across the method's 16 dimensions
  • Red flags detected with specific notes
  • The 3 highest-impact levers, prioritized by the money at stake
  • 45-minute session included to turn it into a plan
  • We review every Radar with expert judgment. Limited slots every week.
Results in 48 hours. Read-only access to your account.

$120 USD

one-time payment · if it's not useful to you, we refund 100%

Frequently asked questions

Direct answers, no runaround.

What state are you in today when deciding about your investment

No data to decide
Learning phase without judgment
Control with real data

Every week that goes by without this dashboard,
you decide about your money blind.

Your campaigns are already running. The question is whether you'll be able to read them with judgment, or keep approving reports you can't verify.

"The business owners who grow the most aren't the ones who know the most about advertising. They're the ones who learned to ask the right questions."

Results in 48h · If it's not useful to you, we refund 100%