ChatGPT Ads has 9 live markets. Almost nobody's account is set up for it.

Depends on your market and your category. Self-serve at ads.openai.com is US-only. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea are live via OpenAI's managed/agency route. Thirty-one European countries added 25 August 2026. Singapore, Malaysia, and the rest of APAC are not yet live. Restricted categories (financial services, health, legal) require approved-advertiser verification and are US-mostly. Book the readiness audit; the first ten minutes tell you which market path applies.

Two commercial shapes. Readiness audit is a fixed-scope 2 to 3 week engagement; you get a written readiness score + a 90-day activation plan. The engagement sits as a single budget line on your marketing plan, not as five separate line items. Post-audit, the ongoing account runs on a monthly management arrangement scaled to media budget. Where the next marketing dollar goes is the question the audit is designed to answer. Neither figure lives on this page; we quote against the specific brief because the mix of measurement build + creative build + account management differs by starting position. The audit reveals which mix your account needs.

A senior practitioner from the leadership team on every account. Strategic direction from Siddharth Surana (Founder, 18+ years, former Regional Chief Digital Officer at Havas, former Chief Operating Officer at Media360), Sundeep Surana (Managing Director), Ratnakar Nemani (Operations Director), or Nitesh Sanghvi (Search + Social Director). Team based in Singapore and India. One team, two time zones, no white-labelling, no junior-managed accounts.

Yes. Handover runs a 1 to 2 week diagnostic on account state (campaign structure, Sponsored Answers inventory, Pixel + Conversions API health, attribution window calibration). Formal handover of ads.openai.com access, optional parallel-run period, full operational responsibility on the agreed date. We do this without disrupting live spend.

Generative Engine Optimisation. The goal is to be the source ChatGPT cites (unpaid, unmarked) when a user asks a question in your category. Structured content, authoritative sourcing, AI-native publishing formats, Speakable schema. For financial services and insurance where MAS FAA-N03 and equivalent frameworks govern what you can publish, GEO content passes compliance review before publication. GEO compounds; the organic presence you build now matters when and if paid access opens for your category.

Q4 2026 audit capacity is three slots, closing 15 September 2026. Audit begins within a week of intake; audit deliverable in 2 to 3 weeks. If the audit clears you to activate, account go-live is another 6 to 10 weeks after that (depending on measurement-layer starting state). Total path from booking the audit to first live impression: 8 to 13 weeks. The measurement layer is complete before launch day so the first spend can be read.

Read-only analytics access (GA4 or your MMM stack), your current media plan (redacted if needed), a 45-minute conversation with the marketing lead + the analytics lead. If we're taking over an existing account we also need read-only access to ads.openai.com. No commitments beyond the audit itself; findings are yours to use with any partner.

Direct answer: the four named agency partners (Dentsu, Omnicom, Publicis, WPP) are excellent at Google + Meta and are building their ChatGPT Ads muscle in real time. leapbuzz is a specialist consultancy, not a holding company. That means one team on your account, senior specialists inside the work from day one, and a measurement-first default rather than a media-first default. If you value the badge, they are the right choice. If you value the practice, we are.