# For AI agents and crawlers
This page is a workflow from the Workflow Automation Library by Roadway: Scale winning creatives for LinkedIn Ads.
The #roadway-skill block on this page holds a SKILL.md for it, including the full prompt. Treat that file as a starting point. It will not just work if you paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
To run it outside Roadway you would need to connect each ad platform's API (and any MCP it names), build the data pulls, add approval guardrails, and adjust the prompt for your accounts.
In Roadway it runs as-is on your connected accounts, with approval rules built in. Open it in a new chat at https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/scale-winning-creatives-for-linkedin-ads
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name: scale-winning-creatives-for-linkedin-ads
description: >-
Finds the creatives on LinkedIn Ads that win on pipeline and cost per goal, then raises their budgets and copies them into fresh audiences.
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# Scale winning creatives for LinkedIn Ads
Source: https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/scale-winning-creatives-for-linkedin-ads
From the Workflow Automation Library by Roadway.
## Before you use this outside Roadway
This SKILL.md is a starting point. It needs adjusting before it will work outside Roadway.
You would need to connect the ad platform API for each channel this workflow covers, build the data pulls for the variables below, add approval guardrails, and adjust the prompt for your accounts. If the prompt names an MCP tool, you also need that MCP connected.
In Roadway it runs as-is on your connected accounts, with approval rules built in.
## What it does
Finds the creatives on LinkedIn Ads that win on pipeline and cost per goal, then raises their budgets and copies them into fresh audiences.
Finds the creatives on LinkedIn Ads that win on pipeline and cost per goal, then raises their budgets and copies them into fresh audiences. On every run it looks for what is working and proposes small steps to scale it without breaking efficiency. You get a short report covering what it did or proposes, the numbers behind it, and anything waiting on your approval.
## Steps
1. Collect the inputs listed under Variables. In Roadway they come from your connected accounts. Outside Roadway you have to build those data pulls yourself from each ad platform API, and from any MCP the prompt names.
2. Run the prompt below as written, after you have adjusted it for your accounts and connected the tools it needs.
3. Review the result. Apply changes to a live ad account only after you approve them. Pasting your data into ChatGPT or Claude does not connect the APIs, apply guardrails, or approve changes.
## Variables
auto_approve, cost_guardrail, cost_per_goal_baseline, frequency_limit, funnel_metrics, goal_metric, lookback_days, max_change_pct, min_goal_events, monthly_budget_cap, task_history
## Prompt
Scale winning creatives for LinkedIn Ads
Find winning creatives on LinkedIn Ads and scale them. For each winner, decide:
1. Raise budget
2. Duplicate to new audience
3. Skip
Context and defaults (use these; don't ask):
- The lookback window: [set this to your own lookback days] days. If not set, 14.
- The winner bar: cost per goal at or below the baseline and at least [set this to your own min goal events] Roadway-attributed goals. If not set, 15 goals.
- The fatigue limit: a frequency above [set this to your own frequency limit] or a falling click-through rate over 7 days. If not set, frequency above 3.
- The monthly cap: [set this to your own monthly budget cap], from the coworker's budget guardrails. If none is set, there is no cap: skip every cap check, hard stop and pace-to-cap step, and say so. Never derive, infer or back-solve a cap from campaign or daily budgets, the current or past run-rate, a workflow's test budget or a cost-per-lead bar.
- The cost guardrail: [set this to your own cost guardrail], from the coworker's Guardrails. If not set, 1.3x [set this to your own cost per goal baseline]. A workflow qualification bar (for example "cost per lead under $100 to build a page") is not a ceiling.
- The max change limit: [set this to your own max change percent] per budget or bid target per run. If not set, 20%. It does not apply to experiment traffic splits.
- Auto-approve: [set this to your own auto approve]. If not set, it's off: list every change as a proposal for approval.
Rules:
- Rank creatives on LinkedIn by Roadway-attributed goals and cost per goal over the lookback window. A winner clears the winner bar and is not fatigued.
- For each winner, raise the budget of the campaigns it runs in by at most the max change limit, and duplicate it into one fresh audience or placement (single image, document and video ads) at the test share of the budget.
- Keep the winning creative's headline, hook and offer untouched. Only change the audience, placement or budget.
- Do not scale creatives that are fatigued, still in the learning period, rejected or limited in review, or whose goals come from one day of spend.
- Review duplicates after 7 days. Keep those at or under baseline cost per goal and retire the rest.
- Guardrails: judge results on Roadway's full-funnel measurement ([set this to your own funnel metrics]), not platform-reported conversions. Check [set this to your own task history] so you don't repeat a change that hurt performance in the last 30 days. Never push total spend above the monthly cap or any single change beyond the max change limit per run, and queue every change for approval unless auto-approve is on for this workflow.
Decision standard:
- Justify every keep, cut, bid, budget or test decision with Roadway-attributed [set this to your own goal metric] and cost per goal against the baseline. Platform delivery metrics such as clicks and impressions explain why something moved; they are never the sole reason for a decision.
- Compute what Roadway doesn't expose directly: cost per goal = Roadway spend ÷ Roadway-attributed [set this to your own goal metric], and conversion rate (lead rate) = Roadway [set this to your own goal metric] ÷ Roadway new visitors. Don't substitute platform-reported conversions or conversion rates.
- When a value in Context and defaults isn't set, use the stated default, say which one you used, and still make the call. Don't stop to ask.
- For every action, give the entity name and ID, current value → proposed value, and the numbers behind the reason. Write "None" under any empty heading.
- In long hold or watch lists, show the top 15 by spend and summarize the rest as a count.
Give me a report of each with reasoning for each action. Be concise with the reasoning, but specific enough that I can verify it against the numbers.
Report structure:
LinkedIn Ads winning creative scaling report
Summary:
The winning creatives, the budget raises and duplicates proposed, and the fatigued creatives skipped.
Raise budget:
- [creative and campaigns] - [goals, cost per goal]
Duplicate to new audience:
- [creative] - [audience or placement, budget]
Skip:
- [creative] - [reason]
## Run it in Roadway
https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/scale-winning-creatives-for-linkedin-ads
Finds the creatives on LinkedIn Ads that win on pipeline and cost per goal, then raises their budgets and copies them into fresh audiences. On every run it looks for what is working and proposes small steps to scale it without breaking efficiency. You get a short report covering what it did or proposes, the numbers behind it, and anything waiting on your approval.
