PETER’S LAB · DISPATCH 2026

Field notes from
building AI Ad Generator.

Engineering, model picks, and product decisions — written in the same vocabulary as the analysis reports the product itself ships. New dispatch most weeks.

  1. 002
    STRATEGY

    Why your AI video ads underperform — and how analyzing winners changes the math

    AI video ads aren't failing because the model is bad. They're failing because the brief is wrong. Here's what to feed the model instead — and where to find it.

    2026-05-12~8 minpeter
  2. 001
    PIPELINE

    How we analyze winning Meta & TikTok ads in 90 seconds

    Why we threw out the 5-step frame-extraction pipeline and now feed the raw video to a multimodal model — and what the analysis report actually tells you.

    2026-05-10~9 minpeter
  3. 003
    PRODUCT TEARDOWN[ COMING ]

    Why Seedance 2.0 beat Veo 3 for our use case

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