SapientiaASIN Ads Audit
B0XXXXXX01 · Amazon.com (US)Client brandMay 1 – 30, 2026↑ Top
Client brand — seller entity redacted · Prepared by Sapientia · Report date July 5, 2026 · Period May 1 – 30, 2026 (30 days) · Amazon.com (US) · Parent ASIN B0XXXXXX01 (women's cardigan, 20 colors × ~5 sizes) · Data as of May 30, 11:59 PM PT
1Conclusions & ActionsA 60-second read — every conclusion links to its evidence below
READ ME · 60 SEC
Bottom Line Up Front

Don't cut. Reallocate.

Ads are carrying orders your organic rank can't hold — ACOS 19.26% is healthy, but top-converting head terms all rank organically beyond #110. Cutting ads loses those orders and slides BSR.

C+68/100
NEEDS ATTENTION
Strongest Ad Efficiency 90 · Weakest Organic Rank 35
The engine is tuned well — growth is capped by organic rank
▸ 9 dimension scores
Ad Efficiency (ACOS)
90
ROAS & CVR
85
Keyword Coverage
80
Review Equity
78
Campaign Structure
75
Negative-Keyword Hygiene
68
Placement Attribution
55
Organic Activation (TACoS)
50
Organic Rank — Core Terms
35
Ad ACOS
19.26%
Strong · health line <35%
TACoS
8.30%
Target ≤6%
Ad Order Share
40.5%
vs. perceived 64%
Category BSR
19,979
Competitor median 4,766
The only three things you need to remember
ROOT CAUSE

Your money terms ride entirely on ads

pink cardigan ranks #127 organically, yellow cardigan for women #143, red #130 — every top-converting head term sits beyond #110, so organic placement barely gets impressions. High ad share is the symptom, not the disease; lift organic rank first and the share falls on its own.

Evidence → 02 Campaigns & Keywords
BLEED

≈$1,012/month burning with no return

Off-Amazon placement at ACOS 179% ($306 for 7 orders in 30 days, CVR 0.8%) plus 237 zero-conversion terms burning $706 (Spanish cross-category terms, generic head terms). Both are one-click cuts in the console — minimal risk, fully reversible.

Evidence → 01 Placements / 02 Negations
OPPORTUNITY

The rank is winnable — and long-tail is unclaimed

Your #1 threat Brand A sells at the same $24.99 with half your reviews (951 vs 2,389), yet holds BSR 231 vs your 19,979 — the gap is sales velocity, not a review moat. Meanwhile your 20-color long-tail terms already rank organic #1 (peach 3/4 sleeve) with almost no ad support.

Evidence → 05 Competition / 02 Owned terms
Action Register · prioritized — check off as you go
☐#PriActionExpected impactEv.
This Week · one-click in Ads Console · ~55 min total · fully reversible
1P0Cut the Off-Amazon placement — set Off-Amazon bid adjustment to −100% (or exclude) on all campaigns. Top bleeders: CMP-02 $78.41 / CMP-06 $57.94 / CMP-01 $43.07
PPC · Fri, Jul 10 · 10 min · $0
Saves ≈$306/mo (≈$3.7K/yr)01
2P0Shift budget to the cash cow — raise CMP-081 from $10→$20/day (ACOS 12.9%, 73 orders); cut CMP-05 from $20→$10/day (ACOS 42.4%). Net-zero spend; review after 7 days
PPC · Fri, Jul 10 · 10 min · $0
ACOS −1–2 pts02
3P0Negate dead terms — phrase-negate sacos de mujer… / bolero for women / bolero sweater; exact-negate cardigan sweater women (67 clicks, $20.45, 0 orders). Keep rose / gold / peach as watch terms — do not negate
PPC · Fri, Jul 10 · 20 min · $0
Recovers a few hundred $/mo02
4P1Verify suspected mis-scoped campaign — the CMP-12 naming doesn't match the account's other 24 campaigns; confirm ownership and remove from this ASIN's basis if mis-scoped
PPC · Fri, Jul 10 · 15 min · $0
Clean reporting basis02
This Month · requires people / supply chain
5P1Restock the red variant — 18 units left while "red cardigan for women" is a live, proven converter; also audit 6 variants at zero stock and 23 at ≤5 units
Supply chain · per PO cycle · PO cost
Prevents stockout on a proven converter03
6StrategicFix the root cause: top-of-search on core color terms — run top-of-search targeting on pink / yellow / white cardigan for 60–90 days to push organic rank into top-30, then taper. ACOS will rise before it falls during cultivation — expected; don't abort
PPC · start Jul 10 · TOS premium
Structural TACoS reduction07
7LeverA/B the main image — CTR 0.197% is under half the industry floor (0.4%) while CVR sits at the top of band: clicks are the #1 lever. Lead with color + silhouette; consider Vine for fresh customer photos
Creative + PPC · by Jul 19 · Photo / Vine
CTR has room to double03
1 Campaign names are replaced by CMP-nn placeholders; each campaign’s role is shown alongside it.
Expected if executed as listed

30 days: ~$1,012/mo of waste (≈$12.1K/yr) → near zero; ACOS 19.26% → ~17.5%. 90 days: TACoS 8.30% → ~6.5% (approaching the 6% target); organic order share 59.5% → ~65%; several core terms into top-30. This cycle stops the bleeding first — volume gains land in days 60–90.

Full projection → 07
2Full AnalysisCollapsed by default — scan the seven one-line findings, expand any for evidence
▸Show full analysis · 7 evidence modules01 Traffic · 02 Campaigns · 03 Conversion · 04 Operations · 05 Competition · 06 Profitability · 07 Projection
01Traffic & Placements▸Off-Amazon bleeds at 179% ACOS; the highest-CVR top-of-search slot gets the least budget.
30-Day Sales Summary (deduped basis1)
MetricValueRead
Peak normal day105 unitsMay 24
Normal-day average (27 valid days)≈70 unitsAfter excluding May 3–5
Daily range50–105 unitsNo cliff, no downtrend
Month shape—Slight lift from May 19 · mature, stable pattern → supports "don't panic-cut"
1 May 3–5 are SKU-identical duplicate ETL rows (383 units each), excluded from the primary basis; both bases in Appendix 1.
Source: Amazon Business Reports · 5/1–5/30/2026
▸ Expand · 30-day daily log
DateUnits soldFlag
05/0135—
05/0237—
05/03383ETL DUP · EXCLUDED
05/04383ETL DUP · EXCLUDED
05/05383ETL DUP · EXCLUDED
05/0698STRONG
05/0757—
05/0858—
05/0953—
05/1059—
05/1171—
05/1263—
05/1395STRONG
05/1463—
05/1563—
05/1653—
05/1748—
05/1867—
05/1994STRONG
05/2080STRONG
05/2175STRONG
05/2280STRONG
05/2369—
05/24105STRONG peak normal day
05/2581STRONG
05/2677STRONG
05/2762—
05/2884STRONG
05/2982STRONG
05/3073—
Placement Efficiency (30 days)
PlacementSpendShareCVRACOSStatus
Product pages$2,28148.0%9.4%19.1%Hold
Rest of search$1,48031.1%10.6%17.3%Hold
Top of search$69014.5%12.7%22.9%FEED
Off-Amazon$3066.4%0.8%179.1%CUT
Top of search has the highest CVR yet only 14.5% of spend — and it's the only slot that builds organic rank; product-page slots don't. Off-Amazon is a confirmed bleed → Action 1.
Source: Amazon Ads Console · placement report · 5/1–5/30/2026
Ad-Type Mix (ASIN-level basis)
TypeSpendSalesACOS
Sponsored Products (SP)$4,152.61$22,06618.8%
Sponsored Display (SD)$472.16$1,94824.2%
SP+SD subtotal (primary basis)$4,624.77$24,01419.26%
Sponsored Brands video (SB)1$607.62$1,63937.1%
1 SB can't be attributed to a single ASIN; shown separately and excluded from the primary basis (Appendix 2). Blended ACOS incl. SB: 20.40%. SP is 90% of SP+SD spend and highly efficient.
Source: Amazon Ads Console · campaign-type rollup · 5/1–5/30/2026
02Campaigns & Keywords▸Allocation is inverted: the lowest-ACOS campaign (12.9%) is starved while the highest (42.4%) is fed.
Top Campaigns by Spend (30 days · 11 of 25 active shown)1
CampaignRoleDaily budgetSpendOrdersSalesACOSStatus
CMP-01Manual · core prospecting$30$1,005.10209$5,152.8219.5%Hold
CMP-02Auto · efficient harvesting$20$529.45145$3,582.0914.8%Hold
CMP-03Cash cow · pink$21$469.63107$2,692.1417.4%Hold
CMP-04ASIN targeting$15$342.4076$1,868.8418.3%Hold
CMP-05Exact · worst efficiency$20$303.4829$716.1642.4%CUT
CMP-06Exact · hot colors$20$286.3849$1,207.7923.7%Hold
CMP-07Manual · expansion$10$285.7656$1,337.5721.4%Hold
CMP-08Cash cow · product targeting$10$232.6973$1,796.9712.9%FEED
CMP-09Category targeting$7$193.3731$784.6124.6%WATCH
CMP-10Auto · similar products$7$173.3751$1,229.1414.1%Hold
CMP-11Manual · red-brown$10$140.6326$641.6121.9%Hold
1 Campaign names replaced by CMP-nn placeholders. Status column = where Actions 2 and 4 land.
Source: Amazon Ads Console · campaign report · 5/1–5/30/2026
Inverted allocation: the campaign that most deserves budget has the least

CMP-08 runs the floor ACOS of 12.9% with 73 solid orders on just $10/day — chronically budget-capped — while CMP-05 burns $20/day at 42.4%, double the health line. The question isn't whether to spend; it's where the same dollars sit → Action 2. Separately, the CMP-12 naming anomaly is likely a mis-scoped campaign → Action 4.

Keyword Portfolio · contested vs. owned
QuadrantExample termsOur positionBudget weightPlay
Contested · winningpink cardigan (48 orders / 21.5%) · yellow cardigan for women (39 / 20.8%) · pink cardigan for women (25)Organic #110–14338%DEFEND · order base
Owned long-tail · winningpeach 3/4 sleeve cardigan (#1) · lemon yellow cardigan (#9) · dark green cropped cardigan (#10)Organic #1–#1030%SCALE · free goldmine
Long-tail · candidatesrose / gold cardigan · peach sweater · womens shrugSmall sample — watch20%TEST · don't negate
Contested · losingcardigan sweater women (0 orders / $20.45) · white cardigan sweaters (13 / 13.5%)Mostly #100+12%CUT · dead head terms
Top-converting head terms all ranking beyond #110 = the direct evidence behind the "Root Cause" card. Budget weights are recommended targets.
Source: keyword rank tracking + Amazon Ads search-term report · 5/1–5/30/2026
▸ Expand · negation and budget moves, line by line (basis for Actions 1–3)
Exact negatives (NEG_EXACT): cardigan sweater women — 67 clicks, $20.45, 0 orders over 30 days, the top wasted keyword; a hyper-contested generic that doesn't match the color-and-silhouette positioning. Also sweep auto campaigns for close variants.

Phrase negatives (NEG_PHRASE): sacos de mujer para vestir elegantes ($7.54 / 0 orders), bolero for women ($10.70), bolero sweater ($10.34) — all point to shawl / blazer cross-category intent. Account-wide, 237 terms at ≥$1.50 with zero conversions total $706.16 of bleed.

Keep as watch terms: rose / gold / peach and other high-click, small-sample terms — let the data thicken before deciding. Do not negate.

Budget shift: … $10→$20/day, funded by CMP-05 $20→$10/day; hold if ACOS stays <18% after 7 days — fully reversible. A rebalance, not net new spend.
03Conversion & Inventory▸CVR 9.67% is top of band; CTR 0.197% is under half the floor — clicks are the #1 lever.
Conversion Efficiency · four checks vs. benchmark
MetricCurrentApparel benchmarkAssessmentStatus
Conversion rate (CVR)9.67%5%–10%Top of band; traffic that arrives converts✓ STRONG
Click-through rate (CTR)0.197%0.4%–0.8%Under half the floor; main-image appeal is the constraint → Action 7✗ BOTTLENECK
Cost per click (CPC)$0.46Category-typical rangeDisciplined bidding; no bid-war premium✓
Average order value (AOV)$24.73List-price center $24.99On target; no abnormal discount dilution✓
Source: Amazon Ads Console · 5/1–5/30/2026
Five-Week Efficiency Trend (all ad types)
WeekRangeACOSCVRRead
Week 15/01–5/0322.0%8.4%Baseline
Week 25/04–5/1016.9%11.4%Sweet spot · best of month
Week 35/11–5/1720.2%9.3%Back to baseline
Week 45/18–5/2419.7%9.0%Impressions +2.37M · CTR fell to 0.122%
Week 55/25–5/3025.4%7.3%Softening · single-day ACOS 40.6% on 5/30
Source: Amazon Ads Console · weekly rollup · 5/1–5/30/2026
▸ Expand · why the month-end softened: three hypotheses, tested
Hypothesis 1 · Month-end volume push widened reach → primary cause, confirmed. Week-4 impressions jumped ~2.37M while CTR fell to 0.122% and CVR slid from 11.4% to 9.0% — volume spread into less-precise placements and audiences, raising unit costs.

Hypothesis 2 · Rising SD/auto mix diluted efficiency → partially confirmed. SD runs at 24.2% ACOS overall and Off-Amazon at 179.1%; their share rises during pushes and lifts blended ACOS. Structural dilution — corrected by tightening the low-efficiency slots.

Hypothesis 3 · Hot-color stockouts dragged conversion → insufficient evidence. Red at 18 units is indeed low, but light pink 136 / purple 149 / white 287 are healthy and total sellable is 2,308 — not enough to explain a portfolio-wide CVR dip.

Conclusion: the dip is dilution from low-quality reach, not conversion decay — tighten low-efficiency exposure (Off-Amazon, generic head terms, weak SD) rather than blanket-cutting budget.
Inventory alert · coupled to advertising

Red variant at 18 sellable units while it's a live converting color ("red cardigan for women" active); 6 variants at zero stock, 23 at ≤5 units. Lead colors are healthy — light pink 136 / purple 149 / white 287; total sellable 2,308. → Action 5.

04Operations Audit▸312 operations in 30 days — actively managed, but quick to tune, slow to prune.
Operations Log · by type (5/04–5/29)
Operation typeCountShare1
Budget changes7825.0%
Placement bid adjustments4715.1%
Bid changes4113.1%
Products added3912.5%
Products paused3410.9%
Negative keywords added319.9%
Targeting terms added185.8%
Negative products added82.6%
Total (30 days)312100%
1 Shares computed on the 312 total; the 8 listed types sum to 296 — the remainder are miscellaneous logged types. By ad type: SP 273 · SB 30 · SD 9.
Source: Amazon Ads change history · 5/4–5/29/2026
What these numbers calibrate

Budget and bid changes (78+47+41 = 166) are over half the log — resources are constantly being shuffled. Negation actions (31+8 = 39) are comparatively restrained, which matches Section 02's "237 zero-conversion terms still burning": quick to tune, slow to prune.

High-frequency management — plus 31 negatives already added and 34 pauses — also explains why true waste is only ~$470, about a tenth of spend. This is the profile of a well-managed account; it corroborates the healthy ACOS 19.26% read and supports the "Root Cause" card's claim that high ad share is a symptom, not mismanagement.

05Competitive Landscape▸The gap is sales velocity, not reviews — Brand A's position is winnable.
Competitive Coordinates (9 of 16 tracked competitors)
Brand / ASINPositioningPriceCategory BSRReviews
This ASIN · Client brand B0XXXXXX01US$24.9919,9792,389 · 4.5★
Brand A B0XXXXXX07#1 THREAT · ATTACK$24.99231951 · 4.5★
Brand B B0XXXXXX04PRICE WALL · AVOID$12.5441824,427
Brand B B0XXXXXX03REVIEW WALL · AVOID$17.6047618,032
Brand C B0XXXXXX02MID-PRICE VOLUME$19.901,6298,717
Brand D B0XXXXXX05SAME TIER · DEFEND$24.994,4203,054
Brand C B0XXXXXX06SAME TIER · DEFEND$24.994,5163,289
Brand E B0XXXXXX09SAME TIER · DEFEND$25.734,1901,049
Brand F B0XXXXXX08TAIL$17.9917,936359
Median competitor BSR ≈4,766; median reviews ≈3,171. Your reviews (2,389) aren't weak and the listing is complete (A+ on 100/101 variations, video, 4.5★). The deficit is BSR — sales velocity and core-term organic rank account for the ~4× gap to the median.
Source: Brand Analytics + competitor monitoring · as of 5/30/2026
Competitive Playbook · four directions
DirectionTargetRationalePlay
AVOIDBrand B ×2From $12.54 with 18–24K reviews; neither a price war nor a review war is winnable economicsDifferentiate around them
ATTACKBrand ASame $24.99, 951 reviews (under half of yours), BSR 231 — the position is takeableOut-run on velocity
DEFENDBrand D / Brand C / Brand EBSR 4,190–4,516, reviews 1,049–3,289 — adjacent same-tier packSuppress on efficiency
EXPANDOwned long-tail colorspeach / lemon yellow / dark green at organic #1–#10, uncovered by rivalsScale the long tail
06Profitability (Proxy Basis)▸Advertising link only (no COGS): TACoS 8.30% and ROAS 5.19 are healthy; ad order share ≈40.5%, far below the perceived 64%.
Proxy Metrics · advertising link only1
MetricValueBasisvs. target
TACoS8.30%Ad spend $4,624.77 ÷ deduped sales $55,699Target ≤6% · +2.3 pts
Ad ROAS5.19×ASIN-level · $24,014 ÷ $4,624.77Equiv. ACOS 19.26%, inside 35% line
1 Incl.-SB TACoS ≈9.4%; raw un-deduped basis ≈6.23%. The way TACoS comes down is not cutting ads — it's converting ad-cultivated traffic into organic orders (Action 6).
Order Mix (Business Reports · deduped basis)
SourceOrder shareSales shareRead
Ad-attributed≈40.5%≈43.1%Current growth driver
Organic≈59.5%≈56.9%Already the majority
Source: Amazon Business Reports · deduped basis · 5/1–5/30/2026

Basis clarification: the working assumption was "64% ad order share"; the deduped actual is ≈40.5% (raw basis ≈30–32%). On either basis, dependence is far below perception — the priority is converting color-term traffic into organic rank, not slashing ads.

0730 / 60 / 90-Day Projection▸Days 0–30 stop the bleed; gains land in days 60–90. Assumptions in Appendix 7.
MetricNow30 days60 days90 daysDriver
Ad ACOS19.26%~17.5%~17.0%~16.5%Cut Off-Amazon + negations → fed cash cows + CTR lift
TACoS8.30%~7.8%~7.0%~6.5%Organic share rising · core-term rank climbing toward the 6% target
Organic order share~59.5%~60%~63%~65%Top-of-search cultivation taking hold
Monthly wasted spend~$1,012Largely recoveredHeld lowHeld lowOff-Amazon $306 + zero-conversion terms $706 · negation list maintained
Monthly orders~2,265Roughly flat+5–8%+10–15%Incremental clicks × stable CVR → organic + long-tail twin engines
Core-term organic rank#100+ObservationPartial climbSeveral into top-30Sustained top-of-search + rising velocity
Projection basis: assumptions in Appendix 7 · directional estimates — verify monthly
Three execution preconditions

① Basis: monitor on the deduped basis going forward; if the May 3–5 duplication isn't fixed upstream it will keep polluting reads. ② Profitability: every "healthy" call in this report covers the advertising link only; true profit requires COGS. ③ Patience: during top-of-search cultivation ACOS rises before it falls — that's the expected path; don't abort on short-term swings in days 60–90, and avoid ACOS-only judgment. Breaking into BSR <10,000 depends on sustained velocity gains — verify monthly.

3Basis & AssumptionsEvery assumption in one place, collapsed by default — expand for audit or reconciliation
▸ Expand all 8 basis notes & assumptions (every "see Appendix" in the body points here)
  1. ① ETL dedup: Business-report rows for May 3–5 are SKU-identical duplicates (383 units / $9,274.22 / 5,907 sessions per day — roughly 10× neighboring days). The primary basis counts that block once: sessions 43,702 · units sold 2,265 · sales $55,699.28 · Buy Box 98.6%. Raw basis (for console reconciliation): sessions 55,516 · units 3,031 · $74,247.72.
  2. ② Two-layer ad attribution: ASIN-level SP+SD is precisely attributed to this ASIN and is the primary basis (ACOS 19.26%). SB video cannot be attributed to a single ASIN and is listed separately ($607.62 / $1,639 / 37.1%); blended ACOS incl. SB is 20.40%. Campaign-level cuts are reported by campaign.
  3. ③ Unit of analysis: parent-ASIN rollup (101 variations; 20 colors × ~5 sizes). Reviews, sessions, and ad spend are shared across variations; all metrics aggregate to the parent.
  4. ④ Operating-model classification: boutique operator, high confidence (84/100). Six weighted signals: single color-by-size matrix; A+/video/coupon coverage on 100 of 101 variations; 25 systematically named campaigns (one shared naming scheme); 312 operations in 30 days (12.5/day); $24.99 pricing above the $22.49 competitor median. Store-wide SKU count was unavailable; classification made at 75% weight on the remaining signals → the boutique framework applies: the listing is an asset with a 30–90 day investment horizon — don't panic-cut.
  5. ⑤ Industry benchmarks (apparel): healthy ACOS <35% · CVR 5–10% · CTR 0.4–0.8%. Scoring uses the boutique framework with efficiency weighted high; composite 67.76 → 68. Nine sub-scores: ad efficiency 90 / ROAS & CVR 85 / keyword coverage 80 / review equity 78 / campaign structure 75 / negation hygiene 68 / placement attribution 55 / organic activation (TACoS) 50 / core-term organic rank 35.
  6. ⑥ Profitability downgrade: no product costs were provided (COGS, inbound, storage, returns), so gross margin and breakeven ACOS are not computed; the advertising link is assessed via three proxies only — TACoS, ROAS, and order mix.
  7. ⑦ Projection assumptions: the 30-day column counts only contraction moves (cut Off-Amazon, negations, budget shift) with no projected order growth; 60–90-day gains come from CTR lift × stable CVR, core-term rank climb, and scaled long-tail. ACOS rising before falling during top-of-search cultivation is the expected path. All projected values are directional — verify monthly.
  8. ⑧ Sources & units: Amazon Ads Console · Business Reports · Brand Analytics · keyword rank tracking (competitor monitoring). Period: May 1–30, 2026 (30 days). Marketplace: Amazon.com (US). All amounts USD.
SAPIENTIA · ASIN Ads Audit · Layout V5 (BLUF · US tables · accordion)Data as of May 30, 2026, 11:59 PM PT · Report date Jul 5, 2026 · AI-generated — verify each action in Ads Console before executing