META ADS PERFORMANCE SPECIALIST

    Your Ads Aren't Broken.Your Tracking Is Lying to You.

    By Marjohn Robillo·Meta Ads Specialist·LinkedIn

    I engineer full-funnel Meta ad architectures, CAPI-integrated conversion tracking, audience seed libraries, creative-testing systems, and automated scaling logic for brands that refuse to babysit broken campaigns. 300+ ad systems architected. Zero media buyers between us. Server-side attribution. Creative-testing frameworks. Profitable scaling that compounds.

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    Trusted by High-Growth Brands & Agencies
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    Cleany.ca Franchise Ops

    Architected multi-location automated dispatch, real-time booking, Stripe checkout flow, and two-way SMS crew notification systems.

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    Spectacular Academy

    Engineered high-converting curriculum enrollment funnels, automated onboarding workflows, and student retention follow-up sequences.

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    Preclose.ai Inbound CRO

    Architected post-click inbound conversion funnels, pre-call sales nurture workflows, and automated pipeline leak audits.

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    AI Ad Machine & CRM

    Engineered automated ad testing pipelines, dynamic budget optimization, real estate CRM routing, and listing follow-up workflows.

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    MultiplyME Training & SOPs

    Architected automated video onboarding workflows, QR-triggered SOP delivery systems, team training vaults, and client portal access pipelines.

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    Franchise RoutingLive BookingStripe Sync

    Cleany.ca Franchise Ops

    Architected multi-location automated dispatch, real-time booking, Stripe checkout flow, and two-way SMS crew notification systems.

    Spectacular Academy — live platform screenshot
    LMS IntegrationCourse CheckoutStudent Recall

    Spectacular Academy

    Engineered high-converting curriculum enrollment funnels, automated onboarding workflows, and student retention follow-up sequences.

    Preclose.ai Inbound CRO — live platform screenshot
    Sales Call AnalysisFunnel CROPre-Call Nurture

    Preclose.ai Inbound CRO

    Architected post-click inbound conversion funnels, pre-call sales nurture workflows, and automated pipeline leak audits.

    AI Ad Machine & CRM — live platform screenshot
    Multi-Ad GenerationLead CRMListing Engine

    AI Ad Machine & CRM

    Engineered automated ad testing pipelines, dynamic budget optimization, real estate CRM routing, and listing follow-up workflows.

    MultiplyME Training & SOPs — live platform screenshot
    Video OnboardingSOP AutomationStaff Portals

    MultiplyME Training & SOPs

    Architected automated video onboarding workflows, QR-triggered SOP delivery systems, team training vaults, and client portal access pipelines.

    IS THIS YOUR META ADS?

    The Symptoms of aCampaign Built Wrong.

    If two or more of these feel familiar, the issue usually isn't another ad creative. It's the architecture underneath it.

    SYMPTOM 01

    Attribution is broken since iOS 14

    Your platform-reported ROAS looks great, but your profit doesn't reconcile. You can't tell which ads actually drive revenue.

    SYMPTOM 02

    Reporting never reconciles with revenue

    No matter how many custom columns you add, the ad spend numbers never match what finance actually books.

    SYMPTOM 03

    Audiences are a manual guessing game

    Every launch means hand-building lookalikes and saved audiences from scratch, and someone always uses the stale one.

    SYMPTOM 04

    Scaling breaks profitability

    The moment you raise the budget, CPA spikes and CTR collapses. Half a scaling system, patched with manual pauses.

    SYMPTOM 05

    Three 'media buyers' who were task-takers

    You've hired people who toggled campaigns one at a time instead of architecting a testing and scaling system.

    SYMPTOM 06

    Growth outpaces your ad architecture

    Your brand is scaling, but your Meta Ads architecture can't keep up with the volume and creative velocity.

    Get an Ads Audit

    If 2+ symptoms hit, let's audit the architecture underneath.

    WHAT I BUILD

    Production-GradeMeta Ads Architecture.

    Not buying. Engineering the conversion-tracking and scaling infrastructure that grows profitably across hundreds of campaigns without breaking.

    SELECTED ARCHITECTURE BUILDS
    LIVE SYSTEM
    TRACKING
    01 • TRACKING

    CAPI & Server-Side Tracking Engine

    Meta Conversions API, deduplication, and first-party event routing for attribution that actually reconciles with revenue.

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    LIVE SYSTEM
    AUDIENCES
    02 • AUDIENCES

    Audience Seed Library

    Version-controlled lookalike and interest stacks deployed across every account, never rebuilt from scratch.

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    LIVE SYSTEM
    CREATIVE
    03 • CREATIVE

    Creative-Testing Framework

    Structured hypothesis testing with automated winners and scaling rules, not guess-and-pray creative rotation.

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    LIVE SYSTEM
    ANALYTICS
    04 • ANALYTICS

    Profitability Dashboard

    Real-time MER, spend pace, and creative performance dashboards for decision-ready insight.

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    THE ARCHITECTURE UNDERNEATH

    Six systems that make the whole account scale.

    DEPLOYED AT SCALE

    CAPI & Server-Side Tracking

    Meta Conversions API integration, event deduplication, and first-party data routing so attribution reconciles with real revenue.

    Audience Seed Architecture

    Version-controlled lookalike stacks and saved audiences deployed across every account, never rebuilt from scratch.

    Creative-Testing Frameworks

    Structured hypothesis testing with automated winners, scaling rules, and creative velocity that compounds.

    Profitable Scaling Logic

    Budget-pacing automation, MER-based scaling thresholds, and guardrails that protect CPA as spend grows.

    Creative Performance Intelligence

    Per-asset hook, hold, and drop metrics surfaced into dashboards so you double down on what actually converts.

    Multi-Account Roll-Up Reporting

    Per-brand spend, MER, and creative leaderboards rolled up across every account for portfolio-level decisions.

    Tracked. Testable. Built for production.

    Scope My Build

    Want this built for your system? Let's scope it.

    ATTRIBUTION TRUTH & FINANCIAL RECONCILIATION

    Your Ads Aren't Broken. Your Tracking Is Lying to You.

    Pixel-only reporting inflates ROAS and hides wasted spend. I architect server-side CAPI tracking so attribution reconciles with real revenue and you stop scaling the ads that lose money.

    Attribution Accuracy
    +15-20%

    CAPI server-side tracking recovers the iOS 14 data loss and reconciles platform ROAS with real booked revenue.

    Wasted Spend Recovered
    30-50%

    Untracked and misattributed conversions exposed and reallocated to the ads that actually drive revenue.

    MER Reconciliation
    100%

    Platform-reported ROAS reconciled against real revenue so finance and marketing finally agree on the numbers.

    Pixel-Only Reporting vs CAPI-Architected Stack
    Event ReportingPixel-only, inflated ROASServer-side CAPI truth
    iOS 14 Data LossUp to 40% of events missingRecovered via first-party routing
    Event DeduplicationDuplicate or dropped eventsDeduped, deterministic event ID
    Revenue ReconciliationROAS never matches financeMER reconciled with booked revenue
    Architect My Tracking

    Want attribution that reconciles with revenue? Let's architect your CAPI stack.

    PROFITABLE SCALING GOVERNANCE

    Scale Without Breaking Profitability.

    Manual budget bumps spike CPA the moment spend grows. I engineer four layers of testing and scaling guardrails so creative velocity compounds and CPA holds from 5x to 50x spend.

    01

    Hypothesis-Led Creative Testing

    Structured tests with a declared hypothesis, control, and success metric, not guess-and-pray creative rotation that burns budget on hunches.

    02

    Automated Winner Promotion

    Scaling rules fire only when MER holds. Winners are promoted into scaling campaigns automatically once statistical significance is reached.

    03

    Budget-Pacing Guardrails

    CPA is protected as spend grows from 5x to 50x. Automated pacing prevents the profitability collapse that hits manual budget bumps.

    04

    Per-Asset Hook/Hold/Drop Intelligence

    Every asset scored on hook, hold, and drop. You double down on what converts and kill what leaks before it scales.

    Engineer My Scaling Stack

    Scaling soon? I'll build the guardrails that protect your CPA.

    The Real Cost

    What Broken Meta Ads Actually Costs You.

    30-50% of spend

    wasted on untracked or misattributed conversions, often $2,000-10,000/month burned on ads you can't prove worked.

    8+ hours/week

    spent manually pulling ad reports and toggling budgets, over $25K/year of your time gone.

    Zero audit trail

    when an account tanks, no one knows which creative, audience, or tracking gap caused it or how to prevent it again.

    Every month you wait, the wasted spend compounds. An architect fixes the root, not the symptom.

    The Build Process

    How I Architect Your Ads System.

    A 4-phase process from audit to scale. No black boxes, you approve before I touch production.

    01

    Account Audit

    3–5 days

    I map your current tracking, audiences, creative testing, and scaling logic to identify wasted spend and attribution leaks. Delivered as a written report.

    02

    Architecture Design

    5–10 days

    CAPI event schema, audience seed library, creative-testing framework, and scaling thresholds, designed before any build. You approve before I touch production.

    03

    Build & Deploy

    10–20 days

    Server-side tracking, audience deployment, testing frameworks, and reporting dashboards. Version-controlled and tested against your real data.

    04

    Scale & Maintain

    Ongoing

    Ongoing optimization, creative refreshes, audience expansion, and new campaign builds as you scale. A documented learning loop, not a black box.

    Start the Audit

    Stop the bleed. Start with a free ads audit.

    Account Rescue & Migration

    Inherit a Broken Account?I Audit Before I Touch It.

    Most of my engagements start with a half-structured ad account another freelancer or agency left behind. Here's how I take it over without anything breaking.

    01

    Map

    I document every campaign, audience, creative, and tracking event in your current account before touching anything. No surprises, no silent deletions.

    02

    Document

    A written architecture report of what exists, what's broken, and what must be preserved, so you own the map of your own ad system.

    03

    Rebuild

    I engineer the corrected architecture in a controlled environment, version-controlled and tested against your real revenue data.

    04

    Verify

    Migration completes only after an event-by-event verification pass. Zero tracking loss is the standard, not a hope.

    Zero tracking loss isn't a promise. It's a 4-step process that starts with documentation, not deletion.

    Audit My Account

    Inheriting a broken ad account? I audit before I touch anything.

    Client Results

    What Happens After the Architecture.

    “Attribution finally reconciles with revenue. We cut wasted spend 38% in the first month because we could finally see which ads actually converted. Highest ROI hire this year.”

    38%WASTED SPEND CUT
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    “CPA dropped 23% after the creative-testing framework went live. Scaling no longer breaks profitability, the guardrails hold. We doubled spend at the same efficiency.”

    23%CPA REDUCTION
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    Kevin P.
    Sales Director, Insurance Brokerage

    “MER visibility changed everything. He is the architect behind our scaling from $200K to $600K monthly ad-spend-attributable revenue. The systems he built still run without him.”

    $200K → $600KMONTHLY REVENUE SCALED
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    What I Build Inside Meta Ads

    Every Layer of the Ads System.

    From conversion tracking to scaling logic, the full build surface I architect and own end-to-end.

    CAPI & Server-Side Tracking
    Event Deduplication
    Audience Seed Libraries
    Creative-Testing Frameworks
    Profitable Scaling Logic
    Landing Page CRO Wiring
    MER & Profitability Dashboards
    Creative Brief Automation
    Spend-Pace Automation
    Multi-Account Roll-Ups
    AI Creative Insights
    Portfolio Reporting
    Platforms I Wire Into Meta Ads
    Meta Ads ManagerMeta Conversions APIGoogle Tag ManagerStripeShopifyGoogle Analyticsn8nMake.comZapierHubSpotGoHighLevelChatGPT / OpenAIClaudeGoogle SheetsSlackLooker Studio
    Architecture Library

    Ready-to-Deploy Ads Blueprints.

    A preview of the version-controlled ad architectures I engineer and deploy, not templates copied from a course.

    Tracking

    CAPI-First Tracking Blueprint

    Server-side event routing, deduplication, and first-party data enrichment so every conversion is attributed correctly.

    Testing

    Creative-Testing Blueprint

    Structured hypothesis framework with automated winners, scaling thresholds, and creative velocity baked in.

    Scaling

    Profitable Scaling Blueprint

    Budget-pacing automation and MER-based guardrails that protect CPA as spend grows from 5x to 50x.

    Enterprise

    Portfolio Roll-Up Blueprint

    Per-brand spend, MER, and creative leaderboards rolled up across every account for leadership decisions.

    Engineer My Account

    Get an ad architecture engineered for scale.

    Industries I Build For

    Architecture Tuned to Your Business Model.

    The same engineering principles, adapted to the way each business model actually converts ad spend into revenue.

    E-commerce Brands

    • CAPI + pixel tracking stack
    • Creative-testing at catalog scale
    • MER-based scaling guardrails

    Lead-Gen Agencies

    • Server-side lead-event tracking
    • Audience seed from CRM data
    • Cost-per-qualified-lead reporting

    Local & Multi-Location

    • Per-location campaign architecture
    • Store-visit & call tracking
    • Regional budget pacing

    Coaching & Info Products

    • High-ticket funnel tracking
    • Webinar registration attribution
    • ROAS-to-MER migration
    Map My Funnel

    See your industry's ad funnel mapped end-to-end.

    How to Vet a Meta Ads Specialist

    The 6 Criteria That Actually Matter.

    Most brands hire on managed-spend promises and regret on performance. Use this scorecard before you pay anyone to touch your ad account.

    01

    Tracking Implementation

    Can they architect server-side CAPI, not just check that the pixel fires?

    Full CAPI + deduplication + first-party routing
    02

    Testing Strategy

    Do they run structured creative tests, or just launch and hope?

    Hypothesis-led frameworks with automated winners
    03

    Scaling Discipline

    Can they scale profitably, or does CPA spike the moment spend grows?

    MER-based guardrails and budget-pacing automation
    04

    Specialist Expertise

    Are they a media-buying architect or a generalist wearing many hats?

    Meta Ads specialist, not a task-taker
    05

    Scope Transparency

    Do they tell you exactly what they will and won't build, before you pay?

    Written audit + approved architecture before any production touch
    06

    Post-Launch Support

    Who maintains the account after launch, and is it documented?

    Retained optimization with a documented learning loop
    CapabilityGeneral VAMeta Ads Architect
    Conversion Tracking
    Pixel only, platform-reported ROAS
    CAPI + deduplication reconciled with real revenue
    Creative Testing
    Launch-and-pray creative rotation
    Hypothesis frameworks with automated winners
    Scaling Logic
    Manual budget bumps that spike CPA
    MER-based guardrails and budget-pacing automation
    Multi-Account Deployment
    One account at a time, by hand
    Seed libraries + portfolio roll-up reporting
    Engagement Model
    Task-taker waiting for instructions
    Direct engineer who owns outcomes, no middlemen
    Documentation
    None, the account lives in their head
    Documented, structured, transferable from day one
    Vet Me on a Call

    Vet me against this checklist on a call.

    Pricing & Value

    Meta Ads Architect vs. General Media Buyer vs. US Agency.

    A US ad agency charges a percentage of spend. A general media buyer charges less but can't architect tracking and scaling. A senior ads architect delivers the full architecture at a fraction, scoped per project or retainer. Book a free call for a custom quote.

    CapabilityMeta Ads ArchitectGeneral VAUS Agency
    Server-side tracking (CAPI)Custom, version-controlledPixel onlyYes, at premium rate
    Creative-testing frameworkHypothesis-led, automatedManual rotationYes, at premium
    Profitable scaling logicMER guardrails + pacingManual budget bumpsYes, at premium
    Multi-account architectureSeed libraries + roll-upsOne account, by handYes, at high cost
    Engagement modelDirect engineer, no middlemenTask-taker, reactiveAccount-managed team
    Ongoing optimizationDocumented learning loopAd hoc, reactiveRetainer required
    ZERO-RISK DISCOVERY SESSION

    Before You Pay Anyone, Let Me Audit Your Ads.

    On a focused 30-minute working call, I'll map your current Meta Ads tracking, audiences, creative testing, and scaling logic, and show you exactly what needs to be architected for profitable scale. If I'm not the best fit, I'll point you directly to who is.

    DIAGNOSTIC

    Tracking & Attribution Leak Map

    Every event that's untracked, misattributed, or duplicated, the wasted spend hiding in your account.

    CODE REVIEW

    Account Health Check

    Review of tracking integrity, audience structure, creative-testing rigor, and scaling discipline.

    ACTION PLAN

    90-Day Scaling Roadmap

    Prioritized engineering plan: what to fix today, test next, and scale profitably.

    Book the Free Ads Audit
    ⏱30 minutes·💳100% Free·🎯Discovery only
    Who I Am

    A Systems Engineer,Not a Task-Taker.

    Marjohn Robillo, Meta Ads Architect

    Marjohn Robillo

    Meta Ads Architect

    I came from disciplined environments where documentation wasn't optional. I bring that same standard to every ad build, documented, structured, and transferable. 5+ years, 300+ revenue systems, four continents.

    MPA Graduate, Master of Public AdministrationLPT, Licensed Professional TeacherMUN-UNESCO Diplomat · Bali 2022Licensed Financial Advisor · PRULife UKFormer CO1 · Bureau of Corrections PHMeta Ads & Conversion Tracking Specialist
    Book a Call

    Book a call directly with me, no account manager in between.

    Frequently Asked

    Questions Before Hiring Me.

    01

    What does a Meta Ads performance architect do?

    A Meta Ads performance architect designs and scales the complete ad infrastructure: Meta Conversions API tracking, audience seed libraries, creative-testing frameworks, profitable scaling logic, and profitability dashboards. They engineer the system, not just buy media.

    02

    Why hire a Meta Ads architect from the Philippines?

    Hiring a Meta Ads architect from the Philippines gives you senior-grade ad engineering at a fraction of US rates, with timezone overlap for US, UK, and Australian brands and direct contractor engagement without agency markups.

    03

    Can you fix attribution broken since iOS 14?

    Yes. I implement Meta Conversions API with event deduplication and first-party data routing so attribution reconciles with your actual revenue, replacing unreliable pixel-only reporting with server-side truth.

    04

    How do you scale ads without breaking profitability?

    Every account I architect uses MER-based guardrails and budget-pacing automation. Scaling triggers only fire when marketing efficiency ratio holds, so CPA stays protected as spend grows from 5x to 50x.

    05

    Do you handle creative testing too?

    Yes. I architect structured creative-testing frameworks with hypothesis tracking, automated winners, and scaling rules, so creative velocity compounds rather than relying on guess-and-pray rotation.

    06

    Can you fix a Meta Ads account another agency built?

    Yes. I inherit and rebuild broken accounts with a documented audit first, mapping every campaign, audience, creative, and tracking event before any changes, so nothing breaks during the transition.

    07

    How do we get started without disrupting live campaigns?

    Every engagement begins with an audit and a controlled blueprint. We validate tracking, audiences, and scaling logic in a sandbox before rollout, ensuring your active campaigns run 100% uninterrupted.

    08

    How much does a Meta Ads architect cost?

    Engagements are scoped per project or retainer. A senior ads architect delivers the full tracking and scaling architecture at a fraction of a US agency rate. Book a free ads audit call to receive a custom scope and quote.

    Book a Free Call

    Still deciding? Let's talk it through on a free call.

    READY TO BUILD?

    Your System Is EitherBuilding Revenueor Losing It.Let’s Fix That.

    I work with a small number of companies at a time to ensure I can deliver the depth of architectural thinking that produces real results. If your revenue system needs an upgrade, or if you're building one from scratch, let's talk.

    📅
    CURRENT AVAILABILITY

    2 engagement slots remaining this quarter.

    Engagements typically begin within 2 weeks of first call.

    3 of 5 slots taken this quarter.
    ⏱30 min|💳No payment|🎯Discovery only