Founded by Eli Carmel · CEO

A growth consultant for your whole store — not just your ad account.

Bamzal was built by Eli Carmel — fifteen years running performance agencies taught him that ads rarely fix a leaking store. Bamzal studies the whole business, finds where money is slipping away, and fixes it. Ads run only when they're the right lever.

Where it started

Eli Carmel spent fifteen years inside performance marketing — running SEO programs, managing Google and Meta budgets, building and optimizing campaigns across every major paid channel. Most of that career was spent on the agency and consultancy side, watching the same playbook get re-applied to client after client.

Two things became clear. First, most stores that spent money on ads had bigger problems upstream — thin margins, weak product pages, poor retention — that ads couldn't fix and often made worse. Second, the merchants who needed a real growth consultant most couldn't afford one. Senior agency retainers start at $5K a month.

"Every agency I worked at would run ads on a leaking store. The client burned budget, blamed the ads, and moved on. The real problem was never the ads. It was everything the ads were pointing at."
— Eli Carmel, Founder & CEO

What we built

Bamzal growth advisor — store analysis, pricing, retention, catalog and ad channels in one view
Bamzal's growth advisor — store analysis, pricing, retention, catalog and ad channels in one view.

Bamzal is an autonomous growth consultant that studies the whole store — product pages, pricing, customer retention, catalog merchandising, and paid ads — and works across all five levers. Before spending a penny on ads, it checks whether the store is ready: if margin is thin, pages are weak, or retention is broken, it fixes those first.

When ads are the right lever, Bamzal runs them across Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and X, optimized to net profit per order. Every move comes with a plain-English explanation, the money at stake, and a cheap proving experiment. The merchant approves. Everything is reversible. The accounts stay yours.

You set how much autonomy it has — shadow, observe, or co-pilot, per area. Every decision lands in an audit log you can review or roll back. One click removes access entirely.

Eli Carmel, Founder & CEO of Bamzal
Meet the Founder

Eli Carmel

Founder & CEO
“The merchants who need a real growth consultant most can’t afford one. That’s what I’m fixing.”

Before Bamzal, Eli spent fifteen years inside performance marketing — running SEO programs, managing Google and Meta budgets, and building campaigns across every major paid channel. Mostly on the agency side, watching stores spend on ads while the real problems — weak pages, thin margins, no retention — went unfixed.

He founded Bamzal to give small and mid-sized Shopify stores the kind of whole-store growth thinking that used to cost $5K a month in agency retainers — autonomous, honest, and with every move reversible.

Leadership

Lea Carmel

Chief Operating Officer
“The playbooks only matter if they actually get run — on every shop, every day, without losing what made them senior in the first place.”

Lea leads operations and customer success at Bamzal. She turns Eli’s fifteen years of agency playbooks into the structured workflows the AI agents follow — the store audits, the fix sequences, the escalation paths — and owns the day-to-day rhythm that keeps every merchant on Bamzal getting senior-level attention as the platform scales.

She partners closely with Eli on product direction and is the operational backbone behind the autonomy tiers, the kill switch, and the merchant-side trust signals that make merchants comfortable putting real store decisions in the hands of a system rather than a person.

Lea Carmel, COO of Bamzal

How we built it

Three principles, baked into the architecture.

Fix the store before running ads

Every move passes through a "don't advertise yet" gate. If margin is thin, pages are weak, or retention is broken, Bamzal fixes those first. Ads run only when the store is ready for them to pay.

The merchant holds the keys

Every action is proposed, not imposed. You approve before anything changes. OAuth scopes are minimal and revocable in one click. Every AI decision lands in an immutable log you can audit, override or roll back at any time.

Trust is earned, not granted

Three autonomy tiers — shadow, observe, co-pilot — per lever and per platform. New shops start cautious. Agents earn more authority by proving their predictions track real results. If they drift, they step back automatically.

Our Journey

2010 – 2024

Fifteen years on the agency side

Eli runs SEO and paid-media programs across Google, Meta and the rising channels. Dozens of verticals, the same patterns repeating account after account.

2024

The thesis

The repeatable parts of media buying — audit, mapping, copy, bid, rebalance, refresh, report — outnumber the genuinely judgment-heavy ones by an order of magnitude. The repeatable parts can run themselves.

2025

Bamzal is built

Specialist AI agents — each modeling a role Eli had hired (or been) over the years — wired into a single governance layer. Native Shopify embedded app covering all five growth levers: product pages, pricing, retention, catalog, and paid ads across Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and X.

2026

First merchants

Live shops onboarded onto the autonomous growth-consultant model. Store analysis, fix proposals, pricing adjustments, retention campaigns, catalog improvements and paid ads — all running in production with full decision-log audit trails.

Technology & Security

Built with enterprise-grade standards from day one.

Our platform combines Anthropic's Claude AI for intelligent ad generation with direct integrations into the Google Ads API, Meta Marketing API (Facebook & Instagram), TikTok Marketing API and Pinterest API v5 for campaign management across every major paid channel — plus real-time search intelligence data for competitor analysis. All secured with OAuth 2.0 (including Facebook Login for Business), TLS 1.2+ encryption, and full compliance with each platform's API & data-use policies.

Anthropic Claude AI Google Ads API Meta Marketing API TikTok Marketing API Pinterest Ads API OAuth 2.0 ️ Shopify App Bridge ️ PostgreSQL (Supabase) Redis (Upstash) Sentry Monitoring GitHub Actions CI/CD TLS 1.2+ Encryption

Where We're Headed

Whole-store growth consulting today — and a broader e-commerce platform tomorrow.

Now

Autonomous growth consulting for Shopify across five levers: product pages, pricing, retention, catalog, and paid ads on Google, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and X — with every move under your control

Next

Deeper creative AI: AI-generated video and image creatives tailored per network, plus Snapchat and LinkedIn Ads as additional paid channels

Future

WordPress, WooCommerce & Magento support — whole-store growth consulting beyond Shopify

Vision

Senior growth-consultant thinking for every e-commerce merchant, no agency required

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