Who You Hire
Ahmet Dogan — your consultant for advertising on ChatGPT, and an official OpenAI partner for it.
The Person
Meet Ahmet Dogan, the Consultant Behind the Playbook
Before the title, the receipts. Four facts that decide whether a consultant is worth your budget.
Official OpenAI Partner for ChatGPT Ads
Citatix holds worldwide official OpenAI Partner status. The partner badge is issued and verified by OpenAI itself — a distinction reserved for a select number of agencies worldwide.
Founder of Citatix ChatGPT Ads Agency
Citatix does one thing: advertising inside ChatGPT. Search Ads, Shopping Ads, Lead Generation, and Sponsored Listings, all day, every day.
Trainer of Other Agencies
Ahmet trains other digital marketing agencies in advanced ChatGPT ads management — the same frameworks that run in the accounts he handles.
Host, Author, Practitioner
Host of the Market Like a Genius podcast and author of published research on AI advertising. The account work stays hands-on.
Do clients work with Ahmet directly?
Yes. Consultations and strategy calls are with him, not a rotating bench of juniors. The people doing the thinking are the people on the call.
The Role
What a ChatGPT Ads Consultant Does With Your Budget
A ChatGPT ads consultant plans, structures, and tunes paid campaigns inside ChatGPT — and tells you plainly when the platform will not carry your numbers.
The work spans three shapes of engagement. Most clients start with one and grow into the others.
Consulting and Strategy
Account audits, market selection, budget pacing, creative direction, and honest feasibility reads before a dollar moves. Billed at $350 USD per hour.
Done-For-You Management
The full monthly program: account setup, context hints, creative, tracking, bids, and reporting. Landing pages included.
Training for Agencies and Teams
Private sessions that transfer the platform to your people — so the knowledge stays in-house after the engagement.
How is a consultant different from an agency?
An agency sells you a package. A consultant starts from your numbers and builds the engagement around them — including the moments when the honest answer is to wait.
For Agencies
We Train Other Agencies. On Purpose.
Consulting scales by transfer. Your team learns the platform the way a partner-level practitioner runs it — not the way a slide deck describes it.
Every module comes from live accounts: the same context-hint craft, creative systems, event tracking, and reporting that survive a client’s scrutiny. Private training is billed at $350 USD per hour.
- Platform mechanics and formats — Search Ads, Shopping Ads, Lead Generation, and Sponsored Listings
- Context hints — writing guidance that steers when your client’s ads appear
- Measurement — events, the Conversions API, and honest attribution
- Creative testing — rotation design and reading results without fooling yourself
- Client reporting — the monthly page that keeps accounts retained
Does training replace the management offer?
No, and the two work well together. Many agencies keep us on the accounts that matter most while their team learns on the rest.
The Platform
Four Formats, One Platform, One Job
Advertising inside ChatGPT comes in four formats. The consultant’s job is choosing the right mix and making every one of them earn its budget.
Search Ads
Sponsored placements beneath the answer, matched to the conversation that is happening.
Shopping Ads
Product-led placements for catalogs that want to be compared and picked inside the chat.
Lead Generation
Campaigns built around the inquiry itself — calls, forms, and booked conversations.
Sponsored Listings
Structured visibility where the platform presents options side by side.
The rules underneath are constant: OpenAI keeps advertising out of the answer itself, campaigns open at $25 CAD per day, and bidding runs on CPC (cost per click) or CPM (cost per thousand impressions). Adults on the Free and Go plans see the placements.
The Sequence
Sixty Days From First Call to Scaled Account
| When | What Happens | What You See |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Consultation, account audit, market and format selection | A written plan and a straight go or no-go |
| Weeks 2–3 | Campaign build, creative, landing pages, tracking | Previews, test URLs, and a launch checklist |
| Weeks 4–6 | Campaigns live; Ahmet tunes weekly | First real signals and a forming cost per inquiry |
| Weeks 7–8 | Winning formats scaled; training sessions if booked | Stable reporting and the next budget decision |
Management clients get tuning every week and a one-page report in the first week of each month.
The Investment
What Working Together Costs
$350 USD / hour
The hourly rate for consulting, account audits, and private agency training with Ahmet — billed in one-hour increments, the same rate for every client.
Done-for-you management is separate and flat: $1,500 CAD per month for the full monthly program, landing pages included. Media stays yours either way — the platform bills its own spend, opening at $25 CAD per campaign per day.
How are the hours counted?
In one-hour increments against the scope agreed before work starts. Calls, audits, and training sessions are booked and paid up front, and each one ends with a written summary of what was covered and what happens next.
Are we locked into a contract?
No. Hourly work is booked session by session, and management runs month to month. Training and consulting are fixed engagements with the scope written down before they start.
What if the numbers say we should wait?
Then you will hear that first. A consultant who only sells engagements is a salesperson with a nicer title.
The Proof of Work
Listen Before You Hire Anyone, Including Me
Three episodes from the show — judge the thinking for yourself before the first call.
ChatGPT Ads: Inference-Time Intent Embedding Alignment & Probabilistic Product Retrieval Optimization for LLM-Mediated E-Commerce
Market Like a Genius with Ahmet Dogan
Inference-time intent embedding alignment meets probabilistic product retrieval — how LLM-mediated e-commerce ads surface the right products inside the chat.
Hyper-Technical ChatGPT Ads Product Discovery Playbook: Conversational Commerce, Intent Resolution & AI-Powered Recommendations
Market Like a Genius with Ahmet Dogan
A hyper-technical playbook for product discovery inside ChatGPT Ads: conversational commerce, intent resolution, and AI-powered recommendations.
ChatGPT Ads Hyper-Advanced Geo Targeting: Turn Location Into a Competitive Advantage in ChatGPT Ads
Market Like a Genius with Ahmet Dogan
Turn location into a competitive advantage with hyper-advanced geo targeting for ChatGPT Ads.
The full archive is on Spotify, and the written research sits in the articles archive.
Plain English
The Words, Said Simply
The vocabulary of the channel, defined once so the first call can skip the glossary.
PPC (pay per click)
You pay for visits, not for displays.
CPC (cost per click)
The current price of one visit, set by bidding.
CPM (cost per thousand impressions)
The price of presenting the ad a thousand times.
Context hints
Advertiser-written guidance that decides which conversations trigger the ad.
Conversions API
A server-side channel that delivers outcome signals browsers fail to carry.
Sponsored placement
The clearly marked advertising slot sitting beneath ChatGPT’s answer.
Questions
Worth Asking Before the First Call
Who is Ahmet Dogan?
A consultant and agency founder who lives inside ChatGPT advertising. He runs Citatix, a ChatGPT-only advertising agency holding official OpenAI Partner status, founded LeadGulls, and trains other digital marketing agencies in advanced ChatGPT ads management.
What does the official OpenAI partner status mean?
It means OpenAI verified the agency and issued its official partner badge, a distinction held by a select number of agencies worldwide. For you, it signals that the people planning your media work inside the platform every day.
Do you really train other agencies?
Yes. Agencies book private sessions on ChatGPT ads strategy, context hints, creative testing, event tracking, and account architecture. Client work keeps the training honest, and the training keeps the client work sharp.
What does hiring a ChatGPT ads consultant cost?
Ahmet’s hourly rate is $350 USD per hour for consulting calls, account audits, and private agency training. Done-for-you management is a flat $1,500 CAD a month, with media billed separately by the platform.
How is the hourly rate billed?
Time is billed in one-hour increments at $350 USD per hour, tracked against the scope agreed before work starts. Sessions are booked and paid up front, and every engagement gets a written summary of what was covered and what happens next.
Can you manage our campaigns and train our team at the same time?
Yes. Hybrid engagements are common: we run the accounts while your team shadows the work, then take on more of it as confidence grows. Nothing about the setup changes when the training starts.
Which ad formats do you run inside ChatGPT?
Search Ads, Shopping Ads, Lead Generation campaigns, and Sponsored Listings, the full set of formats the platform offers advertisers today. Which mix fits you is decided in the consultation, not on this page.
Is this only about ChatGPT?
This practice is advertising on one platform, plus the landing pages that carry the clicks. That focus is deliberate: depth on a new channel beats breadth every time.
How do we start?
Book a consultation. You talk to Ahmet directly, and the first call ends with a straight answer about whether the platform can carry your numbers.