adinspo is Gentic’s new multimodal image-to-image ad search and inspiration AI ad generation product. Search a library of 150K+ ad creatives by text or by image, then turn any ad you find into your own – with your product, in that style. Use it free at gentic.co/adinspo

Here's what we built and how it works.

Every marketer and founder has the same workflow: scroll ad libraries, screenshot the ones that catch your eye, drop them in a folder called inspo/, and then… stare at them, hoping some of that magic rubs off on your own creative.

There are two broken steps there. Finding the right inspiration is keyword-based and shallow – you search "skincare ad" and get a thousand near-identical results. And using it is entirely manual – you brief a designer, wait, iterate, wait again.

We wanted to collapse both. So we built adinspo: a multimodal search engine for ad creative, with one-click AI ad generation built directly on top of the results.

adinspo has two search modes, and neither is keyword matching:

The key word is similarity that means something. Searching "moody whiskey" doesn't look for those words in a caption; it finds ads whose visual and semantic embedding sits near your query in vector space. Same for image search – drop in a photo and we match on what the image actually looks like, not its filename or alt text.

Both modes run on a multimodal vector index built on LanceDB. Every ad in the library is embedded into a shared vector space where images and text live together – which is exactly what makes cross-modal search possible. A text query and an image query can both be embedded into that same space and compared against the ad vectors, so "describe it" and "show me one like this" are really the same operation with different inputs.

We expose this through our Gentic Creative MCP server as two tools:

Both are free to call. That matters for the next part.

Finding a great reference is only half the job. The other half is the loop we really wanted to close.

On any ad in the results, a signed-in user hits "Generate Inspo Ad." You give it two things – your product image and a short prompt – and we kick off generation through the generate_ad_asset MCP tool.

What comes back isn't a copy of the inspiration ad. It's your product, rendered in the style of the ad you picked – the composition, lighting, mood, and layout emulated, but featuring your own product as the hero. You get several variations to choose from, revealed right on the page (generation runs async and typically takes a couple of minutes).

So the full loop is:

From "I like that look" to a set of finished, on-brand ad variations in a few minutes — no folder of screenshots, no design round-trip.

Here's the part we're most excited about. adinspo is just the human front-end. Everything underneath is the Gentic Creative MCP server, which means the exact same workflow is available to AI agents programmatically.

An agent – Claude, or your own – can call search_inspiration_ads to find references, search_inspiration_ads_visual to match a style, and generate_ad_asset to produce the creative, all through standard MCP tools. The web UI and the agent use the same tools. Search is free; generation is metered per image.

That's the design principle behind everything we build at Gentic: a capability shouldn't be locked inside one app. Ship it as MCP tools, then put a nice interface on top if visuals are needed.

We'd love to know what you search for first - and what you generate. Reply to this email or DM me on LinkedIn to let me know what you think

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