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19 guides across 5 topics

The playbooks behind the platform

The methodology Cresva runs on. Read once. Reference for years.

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Agent Commerce

Agent Commerce 101: How AI Agents Buy Products

What agent commerce is, how AI agents evaluate and recommend products, and what brands have to change to be picked in a channel with no second page.

12 min6 chapters
Agent Commerce

Agent Visibility Playbook: Get Recommended by AI

How to measure and improve your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, from tracking agent mentions to earning the pick.

9 min5 chapters
Agent Commerce

Optimizing Your Product Feed for AI Agents

How to structure product titles, descriptions, attributes and schema markup so AI agents can parse your catalogue and recommend you over a competitor.

10 min7 chapters
Agent Commerce

Tracking the Dark Funnel: The Revenue GA4 Misses

How to measure revenue that AI recommendations drive but GA4 files as direct traffic or branded search, using a survey protocol you can run yourself.

11 min6 chapters
Attribution

Marketing Attribution for Ecommerce Brands

Why platform-reported ROAS is wrong, how holdout testing works, and how to find true incremental value per channel.

18 min8 chapters
Attribution

Incrementality Testing for DTC Brands

Geo-lift tests, holdout groups, and conversion lift studies. When to use each and how to interpret results.

16 min6 chapters
Forecasting

Forecasting Ad Performance

How AI forecasting models learn from cross-brand patterns to predict CPA, ROAS, and revenue before you spend a dollar.

14 min6 chapters
Creative

Creative Testing at Scale: Beyond A/B

How to structure creative testing programs that find winners faster and detect fatigue before it kills performance.

15 min7 chapters
Forecasting

Compound Learning: Why AI Gets Smarter Over Time

How every marketing decision feeds back into the model, and how month 6 outperforms month 1.

9 min6 chapters
Strategy

Budget Allocation Across Meta, Google, and TikTok

A framework for distributing spend based on incremental ROAS, creative fatigue, and audience overlap.

12 min5 chapters
Strategy

Scaling Ad Spend Without Killing ROAS

The S-curve of ad efficiency, diminishing returns by channel, and how to find your optimal spend level.

11 min5 chapters
Strategy

The First 90 Days of OpenAI Ads: A DTC Playbook

A week-by-week plan for the first 90 days on OpenAI Ads: what to do in each phase, when to switch to conversion bidding, and how to measure early.

13 min6 chapters
Forecasting

The Real Cost of ChatGPT Ads: DTC Unit Economics

The three-input math that decides whether OpenAI Ads pays for your brand: CPC, landing-page conversion rate and contribution margin, with a calculator.

12 min6 chapters
Agent Commerce

Measuring AI Visibility Without Fooling Yourself

How to measure whether AI assistants name your brand, what a score of zero really means, and the five ways a visibility measurement goes wrong.

9 min5 chapters
Agent Commerce

OpenAI Crawlers: Four Bots and What Each Does

OpenAI runs four crawlers with different jobs and different robots.txt rules. What each one does, how to verify one is genuine, and what to allow.

8 min5 chapters
Agent Commerce

AdCP and AAMP: Reading a Standards Contest

Two rival agentic ad standards, who actually governs each, and why a DTC brand can track neither closely without missing anything that matters.

8 min5 chapters
Agent Commerce

Selling Into ChatGPT After Instant Checkout

OpenAI discontinued Instant Checkout in March 2026. What it cost, why it failed, and what to build now that discovery and checkout have split.

8 min5 chapters
Agent Commerce

The Agent Commerce Protocol Map

ACP, UCP, AP2, x402 and TAP solve different layers of one transaction. Who governs each, which are live, and what a merchant should actually do.

9 min5 chapters

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