- Campaigns losing money (ROAS
<1.0 = actual loss) - Campaigns underperforming (ROAS below target = opportunity cost)
- Severity classification (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM)
- Wasted spend calculation per campaign
- Seniority levels with poor ROAS
- Industries not converting
- Company sizes wasting budget
- Job functions underperforming
- Fatigued creatives (14-day threshold)
- Low engagement creatives
- High spend but low lead creatives
- Total wasted spend and percentage
- Campaigns to pause/reduce
- Segments to exclude
- Quick actions with monthly savings estimates
- lookback_days: Number of days to analyze (7-120). Default: 30
- start_date: Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides lookback_days when used with end_date.
- end_date: Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides lookback_days when used with start_date. ⚠️ DATE CLARIFICATION: If the user’s date request is vague or ambiguous (e.g., “March to June” without a year, “last quarter”, “recently”, “a few months ago”), ask the user to specify exact dates before calling this tool. Do not assume or guess dates.
- target_roas: Override target ROAS threshold
- include_demographic_breakdown: Include B2B segment waste. Default: true
- include_creative_analysis: Include creative-level waste. Default: true
- ad_account_id: Required for multi-account users. Get from list_connected_accounts
- “Where am I wasting money on LinkedIn?”
- “Which LinkedIn campaigns are losing money?”
- “Show me LinkedIn wasted spend”
- “Which B2B segments should I stop targeting?”
- “How can I reduce LinkedIn ad waste?”
- ⏳ LEARNING campaigns → Do NOT pause. Monitor for 14+ days before judging.
- ❓ INSUFFICIENT_DATA campaigns → Need more spend before analysis is meaningful.
- 🚨 CRITICAL campaigns (established, 14+ days, ZERO conversions) → Consider pausing
- 🚨 CRITICAL campaigns (established, 14+ days, HAS conversions) → Review performance, verify revenue in ad platform before reducing budget
- 🔴 HIGH severity (established, 14+ days) → Consider reducing budget by 50-70%
- 🟡 MEDIUM → Optimize targeting, ad copy, landing pages
OpenAPI
/api-reference/openapi.json post /api/v1/tools/analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend/execute
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
contact:
email: [email protected]
name: ADSMCP Support
description: >-
REST endpoints for every ADSMCP tool. Same surface as the MCP server, over
plain HTTP for consumers that can't speak SSE (n8n, Zapier, Make, curl, any
language's HTTP client).
## Envelope
Every request wraps tool-specific input in an `arguments` object:
```json
{ "arguments": { <tool-specific fields> } }
```
Every response wraps the result in either a success envelope (`success:
true`, `data: {...}`) or an error envelope (`success: false`, `error:
"..."`, `is_error: true`).
## Authentication
Pass your API key as `Authorization: Bearer sk_live_...` on every request.
Generate keys at https://adsmcp.si/dashboard/api-tokens.
## Quota & billing
Every successful billable call decrements your monthly tool-call allowance.
The current counter is attached to every 200 response under `data.quota`:
```json
"quota": { "used": 42, "limit": 150, "tier": "plus", "period_end":
"2026-05-01" }
```
When the limit is hit, the API returns HTTP 402 with a full `quota` block
including `upgrade_url`. Read-only diagnostic tools (`get_usage_status`,
`list_connected_accounts`, `get_connections_status`) are exempt and never
consume quota.
## Idempotency
Write operations accept an `Idempotency-Key: <uuid>` header. A repeated call
with the same key returns the cached result rather than executing twice.
**Strongly recommended for n8n, Zapier, and any retry-prone client** — it
prevents duplicate campaigns when networks misbehave. Generate a fresh UUID
per logical operation (not per retry).
## Multi-account users
Customers with multiple connected accounts on the same platform (e.g. an
agency with 10 Meta ad accounts) must specify which account to use via
`ad_account_id`, `customer_id`, `advertiser_id`, or `account_id` depending
on the platform. Omitting it returns HTTP 400 with a list of valid account
IDs. See `list_connected_accounts` to discover available IDs.
## HTTP status codes
- `200` — success (parse `data`)
- `400` — tool-level error (surface `error` to users)
- `401` — bad/missing API key
- `402` — ADSMCP quota exhausted
- `404` — unknown tool name
- `429` — upstream ad platform rate-limited us (Meta/Google/etc.) — retry
with backoff
- `500` — server error, report to support
## Streaming
This endpoint is plain request-response JSON. There is **no SSE, no chunked
streaming**. Safe to use from n8n Cloud's HTTP Request node, Zapier
Webhooks, Make HTTP module, curl, and every mainstream HTTP library.
title: ADSMCP REST API
version: 1.0.0
servers:
- description: Production
url: https://api.adsmcp.si
security: []
tags:
- description: Audit tools
name: audit
- description: General (Account Management) tools
name: general
- description: Google Ads tools
name: google-ads
- description: LinkedIn Ads tools
name: linkedin-ads
- description: Meta Ads tools
name: meta-ads
- description: Monitoring & Reporting tools
name: monitoring
- description: TikTok Ads tools
name: tiktok-ads
paths:
/api/v1/tools/analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend/execute:
post:
tags:
- linkedin-ads
summary: Analyze LinkedIn Wasted Spend
description: >-
User asks about wasted ad spend, unprofitable campaigns,
where their LinkedIn budget is being wasted, or wants to identify
underperformers.
Identifies LinkedIn campaigns and B2B segments wasting money:
Campaign Analysis:
- Campaigns losing money (ROAS `<` 1.0 = actual loss)
- Campaigns underperforming (ROAS below target = opportunity cost)
- Severity classification (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM)
- Wasted spend calculation per campaign
B2B Demographic Waste:
- Seniority levels with poor ROAS
- Industries not converting
- Company sizes wasting budget
- Job functions underperforming
Creative Waste:
- Fatigued creatives (14-day threshold)
- Low engagement creatives
- High spend but low lead creatives
Returns:
- Total wasted spend and percentage
- Campaigns to pause/reduce
- Segments to exclude
- Quick actions with monthly savings estimates
Parameters:
- lookback_days: Number of days to analyze (7-120). Default: 30
- start_date: Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides lookback_days
when used with end_date.
- end_date: Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides lookback_days when
used with start_date.
⚠️ DATE CLARIFICATION: If the user's date request is vague or ambiguous
(e.g., "March to June" without a year, "last quarter", "recently", "a
few months ago"), ask the user to specify exact dates before calling
this tool. Do not assume or guess dates.
- target_roas: Override target ROAS threshold
- include_demographic_breakdown: Include B2B segment waste. Default:
true
- include_creative_analysis: Include creative-level waste. Default: true
- ad_account_id: Required for multi-account users. Get from
list_connected_accounts
Example Prompts:
- "Where am I wasting money on LinkedIn?"
- "Which LinkedIn campaigns are losing money?"
- "Show me LinkedIn wasted spend"
- "Which B2B segments should I stop targeting?"
- "How can I reduce LinkedIn ad waste?"
Execution time: 4-6 seconds
**Quick Actions (IMPORTANT — read severity context first):**
- ⏳ LEARNING campaigns → Do NOT pause. Monitor for 14+ days before
judging.
- ❓ INSUFFICIENT_DATA campaigns → Need more spend before analysis is
meaningful.
- 🚨 CRITICAL campaigns (established, 14+ days, ZERO conversions) →
Consider pausing
- 🚨 CRITICAL campaigns (established, 14+ days, HAS conversions) →
Review performance, verify revenue in ad platform before reducing budget
- 🔴 HIGH severity (established, 14+ days) → Consider reducing budget by
50-70%
- 🟡 MEDIUM → Optimize targeting, ad copy, landing pages
⚠️ **NEVER say "pause" for a campaign that has conversions.** Say
"review" or "reduce budget" instead.
⚠️ **NEVER recommend pausing a campaign in LEARNING phase.**
⚠️ **If ALL campaigns are LEARNING or INSUFFICIENT_DATA, tell the user
their account is too new for waste analysis and recommend checking back
in 2 weeks.**
⚠️ **Consider campaign objective: brand awareness campaigns will not
have ROAS data. This is normal.**
⚠️ **When data confidence is MEDIUM or LOW, soften all recommendations
and add verification prompts.**
operationId: execute_analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
parameters:
- description: >-
Client-generated UUID to make writes idempotent. Strongly
recommended for write tools. A repeat call with the same key returns
the cached result instead of re-executing. Example:
550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
in: header
name: Idempotency-Key
required: false
schema:
format: uuid
type: string
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
example:
arguments:
date_range: string
end_date: string
lookback_days: 30
raw_data: false
start_date: string
target_roas: 0.1
schema:
properties:
arguments:
description: Input schema for analyzing LinkedIn wasted spend
properties:
ad_account_id:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
default: null
description: >-
LinkedIn Ad Account ID. Required for multi-account
users. Get from list_connected_accounts.
title: Ad Account Id
date_range:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
default: null
description: >-
Date range preset: 'last_7_days', 'last_14_days',
'last_30_days', 'last_60_days', 'last_90_days'.
Overrides lookback_days. Ignored if start_date/end_date
are provided.
title: Date Range
end_date:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
default: null
description: >-
End date (YYYY-MM-DD). If provided with start_date,
overrides lookback_days for custom date range queries.
title: End Date
include_creative_analysis:
default: true
description: >-
Include creative-level waste analysis (fatigue, low
engagement). Default: true
title: Include Creative Analysis
type: boolean
include_demographic_breakdown:
default: true
description: >-
Include B2B demographic waste analysis (seniority,
industry, company size). Default: true
title: Include Demographic Breakdown
type: boolean
lookback_days:
default: 30
description: 'Number of days to analyze (7-120). Default: 30.'
maximum: 120
minimum: 7
title: Lookback Days
type: integer
raw_data:
default: false
description: >-
If true, return ONLY raw metrics as a JSON code block
(spend, clicks, impressions, conversions, CPA, CPC, CTR,
CVR, ROAS by campaign/ad/date). Strips severity labels,
suggested bids/budgets, industry benchmarks, and
optimization recommendations. Use when you run your own
attribution model or want to minimize token usage.
title: Raw Data
type: boolean
start_date:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: 'null'
default: null
description: >-
Start date (YYYY-MM-DD). If provided with end_date,
overrides lookback_days for custom date range queries.
title: Start Date
target_roas:
anyOf:
- minimum: 0.1
type: number
- type: 'null'
default: null
description: >-
Override target ROAS threshold. Campaigns below this
ROAS are flagged as underperforming.
title: Target Roas
type: object
required:
- arguments
type: object
description: >-
All tool arguments are wrapped in an `arguments` object. The fields
accepted inside `arguments` are listed below — required fields are
marked with a red asterisk.
required: true
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
example:
data:
quota:
limit: 150
period_end: '2026-05-01'
tier: plus
used: 42
text: >-
(tool-specific textual output for
analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend)
success: true
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponse'
description: >-
Tool executed successfully. `data.text` carries the human-readable
result (markdown-friendly). `data.quota` shows your current usage
against the plan limit. `data.structured` appears when the tool
emits machine-parseable structured content. `data.content` appears
for tools that return non-text blocks (images, resources).
'400':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: >-
You have 25 meta_ads accounts connected. Please specify which
account to use by passing the ad_account_id parameter:
- Acme Holdings (ad_account_id="act_123456789")
- Acme EU (ad_account_id="act_987654321")
is_error: true
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
description: >-
Tool-level error. The `error` string is safe to surface to end
users. Common causes: missing required argument, multi-account user
didn't specify which account, upstream platform validation failure.
'401':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: >-
Not authenticated. Please connect your ADSMCP account first
at https://adsmcp.si
is_error: true
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
description: Invalid, expired, or revoked API key.
'402':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: |-
🚨 Monthly limit reached (150/150 tool calls on Plus tier).
Upgrade to Pro at https://adsmcp.si to keep building.
is_error: true
quota:
limit: 150
period_end: '2026-05-01'
tier: plus
upgrade_url: https://adsmcp.si
used: 150
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/QuotaErrorResponse'
description: >-
Quota exhausted for the current billing period. The response
includes a `quota` block with the current used/limit/tier values and
an `upgrade_url` to move up a tier.
'404':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: 'Tool not found: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend'
is_error: true
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
description: Unknown tool_name. Check /openapi.json for the full catalog.
'429':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: >-
Upstream platform rate limit hit (Meta Business Use Case
throttle at 95%). Retry after 60 seconds.
is_error: true
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
description: >-
Rate-limited by the upstream ad platform (Meta, Google, LinkedIn,
TikTok). Retry with exponential backoff. Not the same as ADSMCP's
own quota — that returns 402.
'500':
content:
application/json:
example:
error: 'Internal error: RuntimeError'
is_error: true
success: false
tool: analyze_linkedin_wasted_spend
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
description: >-
Unexpected server error. Report to [email protected] with
request_id.
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
components:
schemas:
SuccessResponse:
description: >-
Returned on HTTP 200. `data.text` is the primary human-readable output.
`data.quota` is always present for billable calls. `data.structured` is
set only when the tool emits machine-parseable structured content.
`data.content` is set only when the tool emits non-text content blocks.
properties:
data:
properties:
content:
description: Non-text content blocks (images, resources).
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentBlock'
type: array
quota:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/QuotaBlock'
structured:
additionalProperties: true
description: >-
Machine-parseable structured content when the tool provides it
(e.g. account selection prompts, widget payloads).
type: object
text:
description: >-
Human-readable output. Markdown-friendly for tools that emit
formatted lists, tables, or recommendations.
type: string
required:
- text
type: object
success:
const: true
type: boolean
tool:
description: Echoed tool_name from the request URL.
type: string
required:
- success
- data
- tool
type: object
ErrorResponse:
description: >-
Returned on HTTP 4xx / 5xx (except 402 which uses `QuotaErrorResponse`).
`error` is always a human-readable string safe to surface to end users.
properties:
error:
description: Human-readable error message.
type: string
is_error:
const: true
type: boolean
structured_content:
additionalProperties: true
description: >-
Present when the underlying tool attached structured metadata to the
error (e.g. account-selection lists).
type: object
success:
const: false
type: boolean
tool:
type: string
required:
- success
- error
- tool
type: object
QuotaErrorResponse:
description: >-
Returned on HTTP 402 when the monthly quota is exhausted. Identical to
`ErrorResponse` but with an additional `quota` block.
properties:
error:
type: string
is_error:
const: true
type: boolean
quota:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/QuotaBlock'
success:
const: false
type: boolean
tool:
type: string
required:
- success
- error
- tool
- quota
type: object
ContentBlock:
additionalProperties: true
description: >-
A non-text content block. Rare today; tools that attach images,
resources, or widget payloads populate `data.content` with blocks of
this shape.
properties:
type:
example: image
type: string
required:
- type
type: object
QuotaBlock:
description: >-
Current quota state for the API key owner. Attached to every successful
billable response under `data.quota`, and to 402 errors under `quota`
(plus `upgrade_url`).
properties:
limit:
description: Tool call allowance for the current tier.
example: 150
type: integer
period_end:
description: When the monthly counter resets (ISO date).
example: '2026-05-01'
format: date
type: string
tier:
description: Subscription tier of the account that owns the API key.
enum:
- free
- plus
- pro
- max
example: plus
type: string
upgrade_url:
description: Upgrade link (present only on 402 quota errors).
format: uri
type: string
used:
description: Tool calls consumed this billing period.
example: 42
type: integer
required:
- used
- limit
- tier
- period_end
type: object
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
bearerFormat: API Key (sk_live_...)
description: >-
API key from https://adsmcp.si/dashboard/api-tokens. Prefix `sk_live_`. Treat as a
secret — never commit.
scheme: bearer
type: http