groas vs ZenoX Media · the AI-vs-AI comparison
groas sells autonomous AI agents with one account manager attached - published pricing, honest scope, real engineering. We built our own engine, so you will find zero anti-AI arguments here. Just the one question the whole choice hangs on: does the software replace your senior marketer, or report to one?
Written by Christopher Krassnig, Founder & CEO of ZenoX Media. Every claim about groas on this page traces to a dated source, checked by hand.
Page updated 8 October 2026. Their facts last checked 8 October 2026. See the method.
groas fits buyers who want a flat fee at any spend: $7,500 up front for 90 days, then $2,000 a month for one channel (8 October 2026). A missed written target earns up to 90 more days of free work. ZenoX fits stores that want a senior operator making the calls, with AI underneath.
The longer version
groas calls itself "the world's first fully autonomous machine learning agents to outperform human Google Ads marketers". Its cited posts describe AI agents with one account manager. groas lists $7,500 for the first 90 days, paid up front, then $2,000 a month for one channel (its site, 8 October 2026). The fee is flat at any ad spend. You can cancel any time after the first quarter. If it misses the written target, it works for free until the target is met, for up to another 90 days. That free work is never billed later. If the target is still not met by day 180, you can leave with nothing more owed. Both channels, paid ads and organic, cost $12,500 for the first 90 days, paid up front, then $3,500 a month. ZenoX puts senior operators in charge of each account, with an in-house AI engine underneath. Our published fee runs from 10% down to 6% of spend, month to month. Our public Trustpilot profile shows 4.8 from 38 reviews. Choose based on the work you need, who makes the calls, and the terms you can fund.
What groas gets right
We write a lot of these pages. Most competitors hide their pricing, pad their claims, and blur their scope. groas does the opposite on all three, and that deserves the first word. Everything below comes from their own pages, checked 17 July 2026, pricing and terms checked 8 October 2026.
groas lists $7,500 for the first 90 days, paid up front, then $2,000 a month for one channel (its site, 8 October 2026). The fee is flat at any ad spend. You can cancel any time after the first quarter. If it misses the written target, it works for free until the target is met, for up to another 90 days. That free work is never billed later. If the target is still not met by day 180, you can leave with nothing more owed.
Their blog says it straight: Google Ads only - "If you need someone to run your Meta, TikTok, and LinkedIn ads... this is not that." A company that tells you what it does not do has earned some trust on what it says it does.
Named agent systems for conversion copy, budgeting, search intent, and opportunity discovery, plus dynamic landing pages, executing 24/7 - trained, by their own claim, on "$500B+ in Profitable Google Ad Spend". You can question full autonomy. You cannot call this vaporware.
"No VC funding or other nonsense - if our campaigns didn't outperform the market, we simply wouldn't have a business to run." Their words. That incentive structure - the product works or the company does not eat - is one we respect.
The question this page is about
You liked the pitch because the pitch is true. The agents are real, the price is honest, and software really can watch a Google Ads account every minute of every day - no human team can. We believed the same thing, which is why we built our own engine.
Then you asked the diligence question every founder eventually asks. When a big call has to be made on my account - scale this, kill that, hold through the dip - who makes it, and who answers for it by Friday?
Their answer is agents plus an account manager. Ours is agents underneath a senior operator who scaled their own stores and owns the outcome. Nothing failed in this story, nobody dropped the ball - the question matters even when the AI gets every call right. The difference is the shape of who stands on top.
The table below puts the two shapes side by side.
That is an illustrative scenario, not a real account. No client told us this story, and nothing here says the agents got a call wrong. The accountability question is worth asking even when the software is right every time.
Before the differences
A comparison that finds nothing in common is not a comparison, it is an advert. Here is the honest overlap.
More than on any other page in this series. Both companies publish their pricing, which almost nobody in this industry does. ZenoX is month to month. groas asks for the first 90 days up front, then lets you cancel any time. Both built real software rather than dressing up a spreadsheet. Both are Google-first and say so. Both name their own limits in public. Their older posts describe Google Ads limits; their 8 October 2026 offer also includes organic search. Ours is that we only take ecom stores. If you are choosing between us, you are choosing between two companies that already passed the honesty test most of this market fails.
This is the rare comparison where both sides ship real software. So the table is about everything around it - accountability, proof, and what happens at scale. Their side from their own site, ours from ours.
Who wins the row for one buyer: an ecom store hiring for Google Ads. A row can go the other way and still describe a company we rate. On this page 4 of 10 rows go to groas or come out even.
| What we compared | ZenoX MediaEcom Google Ads only. 300+ stores, senior operators, and an in-house AI engine on every account. Published pricing, month to month. | groasAutonomous AI agents + a dedicated account manager. Flat published pricing, Google only. |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs your accountThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX MediaSenior operators who scaled their own stores; our engine works underneath them | groasAutonomous AI agents, with one dedicated account manager attached |
| Who owns the judgment callsThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX MediaA named senior human - the call and the fix have a face | groasThe agents make the moves by design - that is the product's stated thesis |
| Price before you talk to anyoneThis row is a split - both sides answer it well. | ZenoX MediaFull rate card published: 10% down to 6% of spend | groas$7,500 first 90 days, then $2,000/mo (8 Oct 2026). One channel; first 90 days paid up front |
| One-channel feeThis row is a split - both sides answer it well. | ZenoX Media10% of the first €10K of spend, stepping down to 6% above €150K | groas$7,500 first 90 days, then $2,000/mo (8 Oct 2026). One channel; first 90 days paid up front |
| Fee stays flat as ad spend growsThis row goes to groas. | ZenoX MediaSame published brackets all the way up - 6% above €150K/month | groasFlat at any spend, with no spend cap (its site, 8 October 2026) |
| Walking awayThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX MediaMonth to month, terms published - leave any time | groasFirst 90 days paid up front. Cancel any time after the first quarter (8 October 2026) |
| What is covered beyond campaignsThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX MediaFeed engineering, server-side tracking, product-level strategy - built in-house | groasGoogle only; no creative production or web work (their own posts) |
| Proof you can check in five minutesThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX MediaTrustpilot 4.8 from 38 reviews, clients on camera | groas"500+ businesses" claimed; we found 1 G2 review, no Trustpilot (17 Jul 2026) |
| Ecom specializationThis row goes to ZenoX. | ZenoX Media300+ ecom stores - fashion, jewelry, home decor - and nothing else | groasEcom brands, B2B SaaS lead gen, and agencies (their stated targets) |
| Terms for switchersThis row is a split - both sides answer it well. | ZenoX MediaMonth to month, no setup fee, no lock-in | groasGuided get-started flow, onboarding call included |
How to Read This Comparison
We wrote this page, and we are one of the two agencies on it. So read it as our case for ZenoX, not a neutral review. Check us for yourself: real reviews on Trustpilot, real press coverage, and the competitor's own site, since every one of their numbers here is public and dated.
Read our Trustpilot reviewsSee our press coverageSee our real results
The AI and account-manager claims come from groas home, about, get-started and blog pages checked on 17 July 2026. Pricing and terms come from groas.com/for-businesses and groas.com/pricing, checked 8 October 2026. One channel costs $7,500 for 90 days, paid up front, then $2,000 a month. The fee stays flat at any spend. You can cancel after the first quarter.
Same seven criteria on every comparison we publish. Their column is quoted from their own public pages, on the dates below. Never from a review aggregator or a rival's blog. Our column is quoted from our own site, where the rate card, the terms, and the reviews are already public. Where we could not confirm something, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Focus - how much of the company does the one job you are hiring for
Fit - the size and type of business each shop is actually built around
Price - what you can learn before anyone gets you on a call
Terms - how you leave if the numbers stop landing
Proof - what a stranger can check without either agency in the room
Software - what each company built itself, versus what it rents or uses off the shelf
People - who touches the account and how fast they answer
Every link goes to the page the claim sits on. Read them yourself - that is the point of printing them.
Checked on
Not a criticism of them. Just the honest edge of what is public - and the questions worth asking on your own call.
The "500+ businesses" figure. We found one G2 review and no Trustpilot or Capterra profile at check time, so there was nothing independent to weigh it against.
How the agents behave on a specific account. We describe what their pages claim, not what we have watched.
Pick groas if you want one flat fee at any spend and can pay $7,500 up front for the first 90 days. Agree on a written target; if it misses that target, it works free for up to another 90 days. ZenoX fits stores that want a named senior operator to make the calls, backed by our AI engine.
Christopher Krassnig
Founder & CEO - ZenoX Media
A note from Chris, founder of ZenoX
Pages like this usually turn into 'humans good, robots bad'. Not this one. I believe exactly what groas believes: software should watch your account around the clock, because no human can.
Where we split is the last step. Our engine reads every account every hour and re-ranks every product every night. Then a senior operator who has scaled their own stores makes the call and puts their name on it. When one bad day costs four figures, I want a human answering for it. That conviction is the whole company.
Check what you can commit before you choose. We are month to month. groas asks for the first 90 days up front, then lets you cancel any time.
Proof, not promises
Shopify dashboards, ROAS shots, client texts - straight from the accounts we run, posted as they happen. This is what 300+ stores look like from the inside.
From @ecomchrisx on Instagram
Three stores. $211k in 7 days.
97.8k toward a 100k target.
161k euros in one day. +226%.
514k euros BFCM. +186% YoY.
'Bro you are a MONSTER.'
0 to $193k in 20 days. Sessions +2,500%.
Almost a 100k day on one store.
100k day. Still warming up.
50k day in October. Next goal: 100k.
'Are you guys magicians?'
Featured as the Google goat. Savage Community.
First 10k day. 'Could not have done it without you.'
10k day at 3.24 ROAS.
Record day. 42k revenue, 3.5 ROAS.
0 to 100k pounds in 12 days.
1k day to 5k day in 3 days.
10k mission completed.
245k pounds in five weeks.
212k euros. Sessions up 324%.
The part you cannot hire
This is the one comparison where both sides ship real software, so we will skip the hand-waving and show ours. Eight in-house systems run on every account: they rebuild your feed from the Shopify catalog, rewrite product data around the queries that convert, sort every SKU into budget buckets each night, and scan for spend spikes and tracking breaks every hour.
The difference is what happens when a signal fires. In the AI-first model, the agents act - that is the whole pitch. Here, the signal lands in front of a senior operator who has scaled their own stores. They make the move, and they answer for it by name, same day. Software underneath humans. That is the whole design.
groas' own comparison post draws the line for us: a full-service agency keeps the edge when you need creative production, web development, and multi-channel work beyond Google Ads - their words, on their own blog, checked 17 July 2026.
One private AI brain underneath all eight - trained on what 300+ stores have already taught it.
See the full engineDay one, you ship the cleanest Shopping feed in your niche.
Your product data, written in the language that converts.
Your best products take more of the carousel.
The tracking layer that survives every iOS and cookie deprecation.
Every product, sorted into the five buckets that decide budget.
Your account, watched every hour. Healed where we can.
Where the next month is going, before the next month gets here.
Disapprovals fixed before they bite.
Both models are real, and both companies publish their terms. The right pick comes down to your spend, your risk tolerance, and who you want answering when a decision matters.
You want a flat fee at any spend and can pay $7,500 up front for the first 90 days, then $2,000 a month for one channel (8 October 2026)
You are comfortable letting software make the calls, with one account manager as the human layer
You already handle creative, landing pages, and every channel beyond Google yourself
You want a written target, with free work for up to another 90 days if it is missed
You run real volume, where one wrong day costs more than a month of management fees
You want a named senior operator accountable for the account - with AI underneath, not instead
You want proof you can check today: Trustpilot 4.8 from 38 reviews, ecom clients on camera
You want the feed, the tracking, and the product-level strategy engineered for you, on top of the campaigns
Testimonial #1
Ecom Chris
Arthur and Bryan of AB Ecom were Meta-only. Then they added Google with ZenoX. Revenue tripled. They are now chasing one million a month. Hands-off. Clear comms. No stress.
Arthur
8-Figure Fashion Dropshipper
Testimonial #2
Ecom Chris
Matt was already winning on Meta, but leaving real money on the table by skipping Google. We took it on. Day one, campaigns were printing. ROAS at nine, ten, twenty plus. Zero guesswork. Done-for-you.
Matt
Canadian E-Com Legend
Testimonial #3
Ecom Chris
Mark runs a seven-figure travel brand. Strong on TikTok and Meta. Google was a headache. He moved it to ZenoX. Google revenue doubled in month one. Tripled by month five. GMC, scaling, strategy, the team handles it. He runs the brand.
Mark
7-figure brand owner in the travel niche
Real Google Ads accounts. Names withheld so our partners keep theirs - and named clients tell their own stories on camera above.
Client-reported outcomes backed by first-name video testimonials and private account data. Brand names and source accounts are not public. These results have not been independently audited.
Published Press Links
Some links are press releases or contributor content. Each placement is labelled on the media page.
Reviews
TrustScore 4.8 out of 5 - 38 reviews
Short excerpts from the linked profile. Trustpilot currently labels these reviews Unprompted, not Verified.
Adam
They provide detailed weekly updates on how the business is performing as well as other valuable nuggets to help scale your business.
Max van de Weijgaert
Really great company, nice to work with and really responsive! The results speak for themselves!
Tjade Selman
I expected good but they did record days, switched to a non google css and optimized the entire feed before the week was over. The support is nonstop.
Michael
From setup to management and scaling, they've been on top of every step and helped bring a level of stability and scale to my brands that would've been impossible to achieve on my own.
Bodhi van Klaveren
This agency is the best when it comes down to support.
Peter Pick
Whoever wants to start/scale their business on Google Shopping, this is your guy.
Ivan P
The best thing about working with ZenoX is that I literally don't have to think about or manage Google at all! They take care of absolutely everything, and their fee is very fair.
Stijn de Ruijter
Zenox is one of the best media-buying agency's we worked with so far.
Tobias
Chris and his team are really helpfull, my roas went from 2 sometimes 3, to already a record day of 5 (in the first week) They respond and act fast!
Mo Ait
I started with zero knowledge about Google Ads, and thanks to Zenox Media, I now have a profitable store.
AL
Chris and his team are what you can say the KINGS of Google Ads.
Navroop Singh
Even in such a short time, they've shown a level of professionalism and expertise that's hard to find.
Mdj
From strategy to set up and tracking, he had it mastered.
Julio
Communication is always clear, decisions are data-driven and the team is very proactive when it comes to improving performance and stability.
Christian
Chris and his friendly team, really know their craft, and it's evident in how they communicate and in the outcomes they deliver.
Switching to ZenoX
The usual signs it is time - whoever runs your ads today:
Ask who is accountable for the next move on your account and the answer is a shrug, a tool, or you
Every scaling conversation ends with raising the budget, and none of them ends with fixing a product
The setup felt fast and impressive, but the pace of real improvement dropped off within weeks
groas makes starting easy - a guided get-started flow that ends in an onboarding call with a strategist. Fair play - we will match that confidence with our model. Message us your store and we look at the account live, then tell you straight if we can grow it. Anything an AI tool set up well gets kept, not torn down; good structure travels. Two philosophies, one account, your numbers. Within weeks you will know which one your store actually needs.
What happens when you tap the button: you send us a WhatsApp with your store. We look at the account live and tell you straight if we can grow it. No pitch, no pressure. If it is a fit, we study what your current agency built - good foundations get kept, not torn down - and you keep your campaigns, your history, and your data. Month to month from day one. Cancel any time.
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Software watching your account 24/7 and a senior human answering for the results were never opposites. That combination is literally what we built. Message us your store - the first call ends with a plain verdict, not a pitch.
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