Most wasted ad money is spent before the basics are ready. These six checks take days, not weeks, and each one can end with the honest answer that now is not the time.
What are the six checks?
- Eligibility: confirm that your business, category, and market can advertise today. This changes, so we verify it for each client
- Profile: claim your business profile so the information behind the ad is yours
- Landing page: a page that answers the question the person was asking
- Tracking: calls, forms, and tagged links working before the first dollar is spent
- Definition: what counts as a qualified enquiry, agreed with whoever answers the phone
- Pilot budget: a small amount with success criteria written down in advance
Who owns the account?
You do. The advertiser account is yours, the platform bills the media spend to you directly, and our management fee is separate and shown on its own line.
What if you are not eligible yet?
Then the money is better spent on the things that do not depend on eligibility: your profile, your website, and being a source worth citing. OpenAI states that advertising does not influence ChatGPT's independent answers, so that work is not replaced by ads anyway.
How does Hi Dev start?
With the eligibility check and a look at your website. You get a short written answer on whether a pilot makes sense for your business now, and what it would need.
Where these facts come from. Platform details were checked against OpenAI's help article, Setting up your business on ChatGPT, on November 11, 2026. The product is in beta and the rules change.
Hi Dev is an independent software studio. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or part of OpenAI. Eligibility, verification, and approval are decided by OpenAI.