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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
Three principles, baked into the architecture.
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.
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.
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.
Eli runs SEO and paid-media programs across Google, Meta and the rising channels. Dozens of verticals, the same patterns repeating account after account.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whole-store growth consulting today — and a broader e-commerce platform tomorrow.
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
Deeper creative AI: AI-generated video and image creatives tailored per network, plus Snapchat and LinkedIn Ads as additional paid channels
WordPress, WooCommerce & Magento support — whole-store growth consulting beyond Shopify
Senior growth-consultant thinking for every e-commerce merchant, no agency required
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