# Check TikTok budget pacing mid-month

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

Mid-month pacing on TikTok: run rates against intention, the platform's budget model read correctly.

**Intent.** Whether TikTok spend lands the month on target, with the platform's own budget mechanics respected.

## When to use

- Mid-month, every month.

## When not to use

- The first days of the month: run rates on two days are noise.

## Sources

Required: TikTok Ads

## Preconditions

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

## Inputs

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

## Procedure

1. Read budgets and their modes. — tools: `tiktok_get_campaigns`, `tiktok_get_adgroups`
2. Compute month-to-date run rates and project. — tools: `tiktok_get_insights`

## Decision rules

- **When** Projection misses intention by more than 10% → **conclude** Flag now with the daily delta: month-end surprises are mid-month findings ignored.
- **When** Campaign and ad group budgets coexist → **conclude** the binding one is the lower after pacing, name which binds.

## 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

- TikTok reporting lag understates the current day: pace on yesterday-complete.

## Output

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

## Related

- Skill: [budget-reallocation](https://www.getmcpads.com/skills/budget-reallocation.md)
- Skill: [google-ads-budget-pacing](https://www.getmcpads.com/skills/google-ads-budget-pacing.md)