story and mission.About Flyweel
Flyweel helps teams run advertising with control, clarity, and confidence.
Paid ads move fast. Money moves even faster.
Flyweel exists to bring structure to how advertising money is managed.
Instead of chasing reports after the fact, Flyweel gives teams real-time control over ad spend, budgets, and outcomes. Growth teams and finance teams work from the same numbers, at the same time.
This is what modern AdSpendOps looks like.
What Flyweel is
Flyweel is a platform that connects advertising performance to financial control.
It brings budgets, spend, and revenue into one simple operating layer. Growth teams, finance teams, and founders all see the same numbers at the same time.
What AdSpendOps really is
AdSpendOps is the practice of managing advertising like financial capital.
Flyweel is built around this idea. Advertising is not just marketing. It is money in motion.
With AdSpendOps, teams move from:
- Guessing → knowing
- Reacting → controlling
- Reports → real decisions
Flyweel sets a clear standard for ad spend management that works at scale.
Why most ad tools break at scale
Most advertising tools explain what already happened.
That is not enough.
Modern teams struggle with:
- Ad spend spread across platforms
- Manual ad budget management
- Delayed reporting
- Finance numbers that do not match marketing
- Overspend found too late
These are not people problems. They are system problems.
Flyweel was built to fix advertising spend control at the source.
Control spend while it is live
Flyweel gives teams real-time advertising spend control.
This means:
- Budgets adjust while campaigns run
- Issues show up early
- Waste is reduced before it grows
- Teams act with confidence
AdSpendOps is about staying ahead of spend, not cleaning it up later.
Set budgets that do not fall apart
Ad budget management should not live in spreadsheets.
Flyweel brings ad budget management into one shared system:
- Growth teams see performance
- Finance teams see real numbers
- Leaders see the full picture
Everyone works from the same source of truth. This is core to effective paid media finance.
Where ad spend meets real money rules
Paid media finance sits between marketing and accounting.
Flyweel closes that gap.
By connecting ad platforms with financial logic, Flyweel helps teams:
- Trust their numbers
- Reduce manual reconciliation
- Align spend with outcomes
- Build repeatable AdSpendOps processes
This is how advertising financial operations should work.
How Flyweel came to life
We wake up to the same problem: teams with real budgets still run blind.
The pain
Reuben scaled a lead generation business where paid media drove growth, spending $40M+ on digital ads over 10+ years. The company was acquired and named an Australian Financial Review Fast Starter in 2022. As spend increased, control broke down. Data lived in many places. Answers came too late. The problem was clear. Advertising money had no operating system.
When worlds collided at Antler 
Reuben met Matteo when they serendipitously both joined Antler in November 2024. Reuben brought Matteo the problem. They spoke to 100+ high-spend advertisers, and the results shocked him given his experience managing $300M/year payment systems at Semrush as Head of Engineering for payments, plus years at fintechs like Adyen and Mollie. He could not believe the waste. He knew then he had a mission worth pursuing.
Flyweel is formed
They aligned on an opportunity to solve a $1T headache and turn ad spend chaos into a predictable investment, geared toward the bottom line with a vertically integrated financial layer. In April 2025 Flyweel was established and received pre-seed funding from Antler.
Beta launch
Flyweel launched its beta to early teams managing real paid spend. The focus was simple: prove AdSpendOps works in the wild, not in theory. Real budgets. Real money. Real pressure.
What teams unlock with Flyweel
Flyweel supports best practice across advertising financial operations:
- Clear ad spend management
- Strong advertising spend control
- Simple ad budget management
- Shared visibility across teams
- Faster, calmer decisions
Reach out to the team
Book a call or email us anytime. We will help you find the right next step.
Email: team@flyweel.co
FAQs
What is AdSpendOps?
AdSpendOps is the practice of managing ad spend like financial capital, with real-time control and clear accountability.
What is Flyweel?
Flyweel is a platform that helps teams manage advertising spend through AdSpendOps.
Who is Flyweel built for?
Flyweel is for companies and agencies that rely on paid media and need better ad spend management.
How is Flyweel different from ad reporting tools?
Reporting tools show the past. Flyweel helps teams act in real time.
Why does ad spend management matter?
As spend grows, small mistakes become expensive. Control reduces waste.
What problems does AdSpendOps solve?
It solves delayed reporting, poor ad budget management, and broken trust between growth and finance.
Does Flyweel replace ad platforms?
No. Flyweel works above ad platforms to manage advertising spend control.
Can Flyweel reduce wasted ad spend?
Yes. Flyweel helps teams act before waste builds up.
How does Flyweel help finance teams?
It reduces manual work and improves trust in advertising numbers.
Is AdSpendOps only for large companies?
No. AdSpendOps becomes more valuable as spend and complexity grow.
Why is AdSpendOps important now?
Advertising moves faster than ever. Financial control must keep up.
What does Flyweel help teams do better?
It helps teams stay clear, calm, and in control as they scale.
