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Cuttable raises A$20M to answer which ad to run next 🎯
TL;DR
Cuttable, an Australian-founded AI creative production platform, closes a $20 million Series A led by Airtree Ventures. The round backs a platform update that focuses on deciding which ad to make next, not just how to make one.
Key Takeaways
Cuttable reads a brand's website, social channels, and guidelines, then builds an editable brand strategy and asset kit.
Marketers write a plain-language brief and get finished, editable ads built from existing brand assets or from Shoots, Cuttable's AI studio that creates and extends photo and video content.
Finished ads are published directly to Meta Ads Manager, and Ad Insights pulls back the top-of-funnel rate, click-through rate, and return on ad spend to inform the next brief.
The platform has processed 280,000 ads and over $320 million in Meta spend.
Cuttable's own data show that one in eleven ads returns 10x its spend or more.
Why It Matters
Most AI ad generators solve production, and production is no longer the bottleneck for a small team. The harder question is which creative to test next, and that question usually eats a founder's evening inside Ads Manager. Cuttable closes that loop by feeding real performance data back into every new brief.
For solopreneurs and early-stage founders who rely on paid social for growth, this signals a shift from "generate more ads" to "generate better-informed ads." The one-in-eleven figure comes from Cuttable itself, so it deserves healthy skepticism until independent results appear.
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📰 In the News
Headlines & Launches 📣
Blacksmith closes a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1 billion valuation, less than two years after founding. The company runs faster GitHub Actions runners and claims jobs finish twice as fast at up to 60% lower cost. CI job volume grows from 5 million per week in January to more than 90 million per week by October, while ARR grows 17x in the same period. The valuation doubles from the $550 million Series B just two months earlier, a clear sign that AI agents are pushing CI costs onto every engineering budget.
1Password reaches $500 million in ARR, up from $400 million in November 2025, and reports double-digit free cash flow margins. Enterprise teams that deploy AI coding assistants and agents at scale drive the growth. The company also launches 1Password for Agents, a product for managing the API keys, OAuth tokens, and credentials that agents need. Small teams that run agents should watch what this product offers at lower price tiers.
Hot New Tools 🧰
Fingerprint launches Agentic Installation, a setup flow that takes developers from zero to production-ready device intelligence with a single prompt. The flow runs in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and handles configuration work that otherwise takes days or weeks. SaaS and e-commerce founders who fight account fraud or bot traffic get protection without a dedicated integration sprint. The announcement includes no pricing details.
Impact Factory ships Version 1.9 of its AI marketing platform with Model Context Protocol access. Subscribers now request campaign strategy, ad scripts, video and audio assets, social content, competitor research, and brand management from ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Windsurf. Access in each tool depends on that platform's own MCP support. Solo marketers skip one more dashboard login and work where they already spend their day.
Five coding agents now offer genuine free model access across terminal, IDE, and cloud workflows. OpenCode ranks best overall, Gemini CLI offers the best free allowance, Kilo Code covers the widest model variety, Cline suits IDE users, and Crush delivers the best terminal experience. Bootstrapped founders test real workflows before they hand over a credit card for API usage.
Research & Innovation 🧪
A new arXiv paper finds that 32% of surveyed organizations skip at least one software purchase because coding agents let them build the functionality instead. The authors introduce the "software substitution frontier," the set of functions an organization builds and maintains for less than buying them. The researchers note these are self-reports, and they don't verify displaced spending or tool reliability. SaaS founders selling simple point solutions now compete with their customers' own coding agents.
⚡ Quick Hits
OpenCode breach exposes API keys: The incident reminds solo operators to audit which secrets their AI coding agents can actually see.
ChatGPT drives less than 1% of Google's organic traffic: Across 100 sites, ChatGPT sends just 0.62% as many sessions as Google organic, and Google drives 27x more conversions than all LLMs combined.
Epic Games pays up to $50,000 for AI-built games: The 2026 AI MegaJam runs November 12 to 15 and allows unlimited AI agents for games built in Unreal Engine or UEFN.
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