How I Built a Solo Ad Factory With AI Automation

It's 8:47 on a Monday morning. I open my laptop, trigger one pipeline, and by 9:00 I have a ranked list of competitor ads from the past seven days, three new scripts written to counter the top performers, and a set of campaign adjustments queued in my ad account. No agency invoice. No creative brief sent to a freelancer who'll respond Thursday. No media buyer asking for two weeks to "run the numbers." That's not a hypothetical. That's what my Monday looks like in 2026, running a bootstrapped DTC