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Do the Marketing Work of a Full Team Without Hiring One

Your communications team is two people - sometimes one - carrying Google Ads, Mailchimp, Meta, the website, and every board report on their backs. Mad Fish Elements, the governed gateway we built at Mad Fish Digital, connects the AI assistant you already use (Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Gemini) to 33 marketing, analytics, and ops platforms, so the work of nine logins happens in one conversation. Behind it: permissions, audit trails, and documented security controls your board can stand behind.

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What Mad Fish Elements Changes

One conversation instead of nine logins

Google Ads, Meta, Mailchimp, GA4, Google Search Console, WordPress, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides all sit behind one governed gateway. You ask your AI assistant for what you need - in plain language, in one place - and it does the platform work through roughly 1,470 governed operations. Connecting is a Connect button with your own OAuth sign-in; no API keys, no developer, no IT department. The context-switching tax disappears, and the hours go back to the mission.

Ads management in minutes, not afternoons

Weekly Google Ads hygiene becomes a ten-minute conversation: which ads are disapproved, which keywords spent without converting, which campaigns are budget-limited - then fix them, right there, with every change logged. Batch operations handle repetitive cleanup across campaigns in one pass. The budget you fought to get finally performs like it’s being managed, because it is - just without the agency retainer or the lost afternoons.

Donor segmentation you’ll actually do

Because Mailchimp is connected, segmentation stops being an afternoon project. Ask for lapsed donors who gave last year but not this year, sustainers whose engagement is dropping, or event attendees who never got a follow-up - then build the segment and the campaign in the same conversation. GA4 sits behind the same gateway, so you can see what those audiences did after they clicked. Better targeting stops being something you’ll get to someday.

Read-only board seats and always-current dashboards

Starter seats are read-only by design - a good fit for a board member or executive director who should see everything and change nothing. Pair them with the Data Visualization add-on and the board gets a governed donor-impact dashboard that refreshes on schedule, updating the same report idempotently - run it twice, get one clean result, no duplicates. Board prep shrinks from two days to a review pass, and follow-up questions get answered live instead of “I’ll get back to you.”

Pricing a finance committee can approve

Starter is $99 per seat per month - read-only access to up to 3 platforms - and for many nonprofits that’s the whole board package. The one person doing hands-on work takes a Growth seat, and that’s the entire stack. No enterprise minimums, no annual contract math built for a ten-person marketing department. The line item is small, and the staff-hours math finally points the right direction.

The Problems Nonprofit Teams Live With

One person, nine platforms

The job description said “communications manager.” The reality is Google Ads on Monday, Mailchimp on Tuesday, Meta on Wednesday, the WordPress site on Thursday, and GA4 whenever someone asks how the campaign went. Each platform has its own login, its own interface, and its own learning curve, and the switching between them eats hours every week. Mission work - the writing, the storytelling, the donor relationships - gets whatever time is left, which is never enough. And there’s no ops team coming to help. The budget went to programs, as it should.

Ad Grants-scale budgets with no time to manage them

If you run a Google Ad Grants-scale budget, you know the trap: the money is there, but keeping campaigns healthy - pausing dead keywords, fixing disapproved ads, maintaining structure - takes hours a week nobody has. So campaigns quietly decay, spend goes unused or wasted, and the traffic that should find your cause finds someone else’s. Hiring an agency to manage it can cost more than the media is worth. You end up with the worst of both worlds: real budget, minimal return, and a nagging sense you’re leaving mission impact on the table.

Donor comms running on autopilot

Your Mailchimp account holds years of donor history - lapsed givers, monthly sustainers, event attendees, volunteers - and almost none of it decides who gets which email. Segmentation takes time, so everyone gets the same appeal, and the response rates show it. The spring campaign recycles last year’s list because rebuilding it means an afternoon in list-management screens. Meanwhile the donors most likely to upgrade, and the ones about to lapse, get exactly the same message as everyone else.

The board wants numbers you don’t have hours to produce

Every board meeting starts with a scramble: export from Google Ads, screenshot GA4, pull Mailchimp open rates, paste it all into a deck, and hope nobody asks a follow-up you’d need another export to answer. Board members with real questions get stale answers, and the staffer who could be writing the year-end appeal spends two days playing analyst instead. Between meetings, the board sees nothing at all - which makes every budget conversation harder than it needs to be.

Every software line item gets questioned

Nonprofit finance committees scrutinize overhead, and they should. A tool that costs more per month than a program stipend is a hard sell no matter how much time it saves, and enterprise marketing platforms are priced for enterprises. So lean teams cobble together free tiers and manual work, spending staff hours - the most expensive resource they have - to avoid software that costs a fraction as much. The math is backwards, but the sticker shock is real.

Use Cases

The Monday morning ads check

“Check our Google Ads account for disapproved ads, keywords with zero conversions in the last 30 days, and campaigns that are budget-limited - then pause the dead keywords.”

Platforms Google Ads

The weekly hygiene that kept slipping becomes a standing ten-minute ritual. Campaigns stay healthy, budget stops leaking, and nobody loses an afternoon to it.

Reactivate lapsed donors before year-end

“Build a Mailchimp segment of donors who gave last December but haven’t given this year, and draft a re-engagement campaign for review.”

Platforms Mailchimp

The segment that used to cost an afternoon of list management gets built in one exchange. Your best reactivation audience gets its own message, and the draft waits for a human edit before anything sends.

Know what the awareness campaign actually did

“Compare our Meta campaign traffic against organic in GA4 for the last 60 days - sessions, engagement, and donation-page conversions by source.”

Platforms Meta, GA4

Instead of reporting reach and hoping, you report what the campaign drove people to do. The next budget conversation starts from evidence.

Board packet without the scramble

“Refresh the board dashboard with this quarter’s Google Ads, Mailchimp, and GA4 numbers and add an annotation about the fall campaign timing.”

Platforms Data Visualization, Google Ads, Mailchimp, GA4

The same governed report updates in place on a schedule. Board members review current numbers with your notes attached, and prep collapses to a review pass.

Stand up the event page and watch it

“Publish the gala landing page draft to WordPress, and check GA4 tomorrow for traffic sources and registrations.”

Platforms WordPress, GA4

The page ships without waiting on a volunteer webmaster, and the next-day check tells you which promotion channel is filling seats - while there’s still time to adjust.

Find the content that earns search traffic

“Show me our top 20 pages by clicks in Google Search Console this quarter, and flag pages whose clicks dropped more than 25% versus last quarter.”

Platforms Google Search Console

You learn which program pages and stories pull search traffic - and which declining pages need a refresh - without anyone becoming an SEO analyst.

Five Prompts To Steal

Steal any of these, paste them into your assistant, and get the answer without opening a single platform.

“Show me our Google Ads spend by month for this year against our monthly budget cap, and list the campaigns that left the most budget unspent.”

A utilization read for grant-scale budgets - where the money you fought for is actually going, and where it’s sitting idle.

“Compare our last six Mailchimp appeals side by side - open rate, click rate, and donation-page conversions in GA4 - and tell me which subject-line style performed best.”

Appeal-by-appeal evidence for the next campaign, so the year-end email starts from what worked instead of a guess.

“Run a Giving Tuesday readiness check: confirm the donation page is live on WordPress, this week’s Mailchimp sends are scheduled, and pull last year’s giving-day traffic from GA4 as a baseline.”

A pre-flight checklist across three platforms in one pass, with last year’s numbers to measure the big day against.

“Draft a win-back email for monthly sustainers who haven’t opened anything in 90 days, with three subject-line options, and save it in Mailchimp as a draft for my review.”

A reactivation campaign staged and waiting - the segment logic done, the copy drafted, nothing sent until you approve it.

“Publish a giving-day dashboard with a goal gauge, hourly donation conversions from GA4, and appeal performance from Mailchimp, refreshing every hour through December 1st.”

A live Data Visualization thermometer your whole team - and your board - can watch during the day that matters most.

Data Visualization for Nonprofits

Donor Impact Dashboard. Giving-related conversions from GA4, appeal performance from Mailchimp, and campaign results from Google Ads and Meta, trended by quarter with annotations from staff. Audience: the board and major donors

shared as a governed, always-current report instead of a stale deck.

Channel & Campaign Overview. Traffic, engagement, and donation-page conversions by channel across GA4, Google Ads, Meta, and Google Search Console. Audience: the ED and communications lead, reviewed monthly to decide where the limited hours go.

Appeal Performance Tracker. Every email appeal from Mailchimp

sends, opens, clicks, and downstream GA4 conversions - side by side across the campaign calendar. Audience: the development team, used to plan the next appeal from what worked.

The chart types that tell your story

Donors and board members give you minutes, not hours, so the chart has to carry the point on its own. Here’s what works for nonprofit data:

Funnel

Awareness to engagement to donation, with the drop-off visible at each step. It shows exactly where supporters fall out of the journey and where one fix does the most good.

Line with campaign markers

Giving over time with each appeal and campaign launch marked on the line. You see which pushes actually moved giving and which ones the line ignored.

Donut

Fund allocation where every dollar goes. It’s the transparency chart donors trust most, and it answers the overhead question before anyone asks it.

Gauge

Progress toward a campaign goal at a glance. It’s the digital thermometer for giving days and capital campaigns, and it reads instantly from the back of a boardroom.

Calendar heatmap

Giving-day and appeal activity across the whole year in one grid. Crowded weeks and quiet stretches show up immediately, which makes next year’s calendar an easier conversation.

Bar

Channel returns side by side email, paid, organic, social. When your hours are limited, this is the chart that decides where they go.

Governed Access Your Board Will Sign Off On

Every seat has read, write, and delete permissions set per platform and enforced server-side on every call - a read-only board seat can’t change a campaign no matter what it asks. Each person signs in with their own OAuth credentials through a simple Connect flow, so there are no shared logins and no API keys taped to a wiki, and every action in the full audit trail carries a real name. Automated error monitoring catches failures before they become surprises. The whole platform is built around documented security controls - the same bar your bank and payroll vendors are held to, and an easy answer when a diligent board member asks about data security.

Per-user OAuthRead / write / delete per seatFull audit trailDocumented security controls

Ad ops pricing

Ad Ops Pricing

A higher base buys a lower rate. Pay more up front and keep more of your spend. Every Ad Ops tier includes governed platform access, per-user grants, and administrator controls.

Ad Ops Reporting

Diagnose

$499/mo

No managed-spend fee

See what's wrong across every account.

Unlimited platforms & connections
Read-only access
Basic support

Included playbooks

Cross-Platform Account Health Check

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Ad Ops StandardMost popular

Diagnose + Fix

$799/mo

+ 1.25% of managed spend per month

Find issues and fix them — full read/write automation.

Unlimited platforms & connections
Read + Write + Delete
Full audit trail
Email support (48hr SLA)

Included playbooks

Everything in Reporting, plus:

Google Ads Account Audit
Meta Ads Health Check
Microsoft Advertising Health Check
Budget Pacing Review
Negative Keyword Mining
Tracking Hygiene Check
Google Tag Manager Audit

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Ad Ops Premium

Optimize

$1,499/mo

+ 1% of managed spend per month

Proactive optimization across every brand you own.

Unlimited platforms & connections
Everything in Standard
Multiple workspaces
BYO OAuth included
Priority Slack support
365-day audit retention

Included playbooks

Everything in Standard, plus:

Creative-Testing Methodology
Budget Reallocation & Spend Forecasting
Competitive Intelligence Scan
Automated Anomaly Watch — scheduled monitoring with alerting
Search Intent & Query Mapping

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Ad Ops Enterprise

Orchestrate

Starting at ,500/mo

Negotiated (typically 0.30–0.50%)

Your playbooks, your rules, at scale.

Unlimited platforms & connections
Everything in Premium
Custom playbooks built for your workflows
Volume + commitment pricing
SSO / SAML
Direct line to the founding team · Custom SLA

Included playbooks

Everything in Premium, plus:

All playbooks + custom playbooks

Talk to Sales

Interactive estimate

Monthly managed ad spend calculator

Plan notes:Reporting stays base-onlyStandard and Premium prices update as you adjust spend

How managed spend is measured: total spend on connected ad accounts during the billing month, measured from the platforms' own metrics APIs at billing time, regardless of where changes originated. Exact accounts and queries are visible in the audit trail. Disconnected accounts are excluded.

Data Visualization is tenant-wide: Viz Starter /mo for up to 50 saved reports, Viz Team 9/mo for up to 100 reports (included with Ad Ops Premium), or Viz Scale 9/mo for unlimited reports.

Talk to us about your Ad Ops plan

Frequently Asked Questions

Our whole marketing team is one person. Is this overkill?

The short answer: it’s built for exactly that. One Growth seat gives a single staffer governed access to up to 7 platforms through the AI assistant they already use, replacing the daily login rotation. The governance features aren’t overhead - they’re what makes it safe for one person to move fast.

Can board members see results without being able to change anything?

Yes. Starter seats are read-only by design and enforced server-side, so a board seat can explore Google Ads, GA4, or Mailchimp data conversationally but can’t modify a thing. Pair one with a Data Visualization dashboard for a standing board view.

We run our ads through a Google Ad Grants account. Does this work for us?

Mad Fish Elements connects to Google Ads through your own Google OAuth sign-in - whatever campaigns your login can manage in Google Ads, you can manage through the gateway, with every change permission-checked and logged.

What stops the AI from deleting a donor list or a campaign?

Permissions are enforced server-side on every call, per platform, per seat. If a seat doesn’t have delete rights on Mailchimp, no prompt can delete a list. Every action lands in the audit trail either way, and automated error monitoring flags anything unexpected.

How much does Data Visualization cost?

It’s available as an add-on to any plan - including Starter. Ask on your onboarding call and we’ll scope it to the reports your board and donors actually need.

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You didn’t join a nonprofit to babysit ad platforms and rebuild board decks. Put the platform work behind one governed gateway, give your board a window instead of a scramble, and get the hours back for the mission. Bring your messiest weekly task to a walkthrough and watch it become a conversation. Join the waitlist to get started.