Smartly Delivers Your Ads.
Heista Builds Them From What's Winning.
Smartly is the enterprise standard for creative automation — it manages and optimizes delivery across every platform. But Smartly and Heista operate at different layers of the stack. Heista generates the creative that goes INTO platforms like Smartly. It starts with what's already winning, performing, scaling, crushing the feed — decodes the formula — then generates your brand's version. Heista's Ad Decoder maps the 7-beat psychological architecture and 12 buyer tensions behind any winning ad — the intelligence that should drive every template.
Decode Your First Winning Ad FreeWhat Smartly Does Well
Smartly has built the enterprise standard for creative automation:
Multi-platform automation
Manage creative production and distribution across Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Google from one platform.
Dynamic Creative Optimisation
Automatically generate personalised ad variations from templates. Dynamic text, images, and offers based on audience segments.
Enterprise scale
Built for large advertisers with $50K+ monthly ad spend. Handles massive creative volume across markets and campaigns.
Creative production suite
Template-based creative tools with brand-safe design controls. Produce thousands of variations from master templates.
Performance optimisation
Predictive budget allocation and automated creative rotation. AI-driven campaign management at scale.
Deep integrations
Native integrations with major ad platforms, DAMs, and enterprise tools. Fits into existing enterprise workflows.
Smartly is the strongest tool for enterprise-scale creative automation and distribution.
Where Smartly Stops — And Heista Starts
| Layer | Smartly | Heista |
|---|---|---|
| Creative automation | ✓Template-based, DCO, multi-market | ✗Not an automation platform |
| Multi-platform | ✓Meta, TikTok, Snap, Pinterest, Google | ✗Platform-agnostic intelligence |
| Why it works | ✗Automates production. Doesn't decode why. | ✓PatternMap decodes every beat and trigger |
| Brand intelligence | ✗Uses existing brand guidelines | ✓Full strategy from URL in 2 minutes |
| Dynamic templates | ✓DCO with audience-based personalisation | ✗Formula-based, not template-based |
| Formula scripts | ✗Template fill, no decoded formulas | ✓Scripts from decoded formulas, brand-loaded |
| Decode competitor ads | ✗No ad decoding capability | ✓Decode any ad in 30 seconds |
| Playbooks | ✗No creative frameworks | ✓Legendary agency playbooks built in |
| Enterprise pricing | ✓% of ad spend, enterprise-only | ✓Flat-rate SaaS, any size brand |
Automation vs Intelligence
Smartly automates
The production line. Templates with dynamic text, images, and offers. Multi-market localisation. Audience-based personalisation. The creative is produced at scale and distributed across platforms. But the formula inside the template? That's still on your creative team.
Heista decodes and generates
The formula that should go into the template — decoded from what's already winning. Your brand intelligence auto-extracted in under 2 minutes — 12 buyer tensions, strategic angles, and voice DNA. Your ads, built from what's already winning. The formula is structurally proven before it reaches any automation platform. Built to scale creative volume based on proven formulas for agencies and D2C brands of all sizes.
Smartly is the best production line. Heista's Creative Director generates what goes on it — decoded from winners, loaded with your brand. Stop guessing. Start with winners.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Smartly | Heista |
|---|---|---|
| Decode winning ads (extract formula) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Psychological beat analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Brand intelligence auto-loading | ✗ | ✓ |
| Script generation from formulas | ✗ | ✓ |
| Static ad generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visual style decoding | ✗ | ✓ |
| Gap analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Formula protection (iterate without breaking) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Creative volume at scale | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic Creative Optimisation (DCO) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-platform ad management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Enterprise-scale automation | ✓ | ✗ |
| Flat-rate pricing (any brand size) | ✗ | ✓ |
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