This SOP explains how to create and configure a Meta developer app, generate the required API token, and securely connect a Meta Ads account to Claude Code using an ENV file. The goal is to enable Claude to read account data and manage ads while keeping credentials out of chat. Key Steps 1. Create a new Meta developer app 0:13 - Go to developers.facebook.com and sign in with the same Facebook account used for Business Manager / Ads Manager. - Navigate to My Apps and select Create App. - Enter an app name and continue. - Choose the use case Create and manage ads with the Marketing API. - Select the correct Business Manager / business portfolio linked to the ad account. - Review the app details and click Create App. - Complete any login verification prompts if requested. 2. Add required app settings and publish the app 1:30 - Open App Settings in the Meta app dashboard. - Add a valid Privacy Policy URL from your website. - Add a valid Terms of Service URL from your website. - Ensure both fields are filled in; they cannot be blank. - Click Save Changes. - Click Publish to make the app live. 3. Generate the Meta Ads API token and permissions 2:46 - Go to Use Cases and open the Create and manage ads API section. - Click Tools. - Locate the API token area and select all required permission checkboxes. - Confirm that the selected permissions allow Claude to manage ads. - Copy the generated API token and store it securely for later use. 4. Open Claude Code and request an ENV file 3:34 - Open Claude Code and start the workflow for connecting your Meta Ads account. - Ask Claude to create an ENV file for credentials. - Use the ENV file instead of pasting API keys directly into chat. - Confirm that the file is created and open it when prompted.

🚨 Welcome to AI-First Business Builder. Read this first. You didn't join another AI community. You joined a build site. 🏗️ Quick context on me: I run 7 brands with AI departments instead of headcount. Ads that generate and upload themselves. A support desk that drafts every reply before I've had my coffee ☕. Competitor research that runs itself for 6 cents. $25M+ in ad spend taught me how businesses grow. AI taught me how they run without me. Now we build yours. Here's what to expect inside 👇 ⚡ Every week: ONE live build Q&A session. Not theory. Not "10 ChatGPT hacks". We take one department of a real business (marketing, sales, support, finance) and hand it to AI, start to finish, on camera. You copy the exact system the same day. 📋 Your scoreboard: the Department Autonomy Checklist. Every department gets 5 marks: Documented → Executed → Scheduled → Gated → Measured. Hit 5/5, and that department runs itself. Your whole business is a score out of 40. Most of you are sitting at 0 right now. Good. That's the point. 📈 📦 The Starter Kit. Every template, prompt and control file is already written for you. You copy, you don't author. 🎥 The module library. Every session is recorded and documented. Each week builds on the last. Miss one? Catch up in an hour. 🔒 The rules of the game: 1️⃣ AI drafts, YOU approve. Nothing irreversible happens without a human. Ever. 2️⃣ We prove it live before we teach it. If it didn't work on a real business, it's not in here. 3️⃣ Builders over lurkers. Levels unlock by shipping, not by commenting. 🚀 🎯 Your first 14 days: your first AI department goes live. Real work, done by AI, reviewed by you. That's not a promise, that's literally the curriculum. 👊 Your move, right now (takes 2 minutes): Drop a comment with: 1. Who you are and what your business does 2. The department eating most of your week (that's the one we automate first) 3. Your Autonomy Score: 0/40. Yes, actually write it. In 90 days you'll scroll back to this comment and laugh. 😤