# Verify every platform is ready before a promo goes live

> Tier: recipe. Operating recipe: real tool sequence, core rules, known traps.

Promo pre-flight across every connected platform, the cross-platform sibling of campaign-launch-qa.

**Intent.** The T-minus checklist across platforms: budgets, creatives, feeds, tracking.

## When to use

- Before sales, launches, seasonal peaks.

## When not to use

- No specific contraindication beyond the preconditions below.

## Sources

Required: any connected source

## Preconditions

- The account is ticked in the dashboard, confirmed via list_accounts.

## Inputs

- `window`: Analysis window. Default: last 30 days.

## Procedure

1. Check budgets and statuses on the promo scope everywhere. — tools: `google_ads_get_budgets`, `meta_get_campaigns`, `tiktok_get_campaigns`, `pinterest_get_account_entities`
2. Check feeds where the promo is product-led. — tools: `google_ads_get_shopping_products`, `meta_get_catalog_products`, `pinterest_get_catalog_diagnostics`
3. Verify tracking fires before spend scales. — tools: `ga4_get_key_events`, `meta_get_pixels`

## Decision rules

- **When** Any leg fails T-minus checks → **conclude** The promo date does not move, so the finding routes immediately: name the owner per failure.

## Evidence requirements

- Every figure carries its account, metric and window.
- Anything below a readable sample size is reported as unjudged, not as zero.

## Human approval boundary

- The readout changes nothing. Any change it motivates goes through Safe Writes: preview, human confirmation, then apply.

## Failure modes

- Promos change prices: feed price mismatches during the switch window are the transition, timestamp them.

## Output

- **Readout**: The figures, with windows and accounts named.
- **Flags**: What deserves a deeper skill or a human decision.

## Related

- Skill: [campaign-launch-qa](https://www.getmcpads.com/skills/campaign-launch-qa.md)
- Skill: [shopping-feed-health](https://www.getmcpads.com/skills/shopping-feed-health.md)