How to Make Restock Ads with AI (Step-by-Step)
Turn a back-in-stock moment into ads fast: connect Polaris to Claude, ask in chat, choose settings via cards, get finished restock ads in a live panel.
To make restock ads, connect Polaris to Claude, then ask in chat for a "back in stock" style ad around your product photo — choose the model, voice, and caption style from tappable cards, and the finished ad appears in a live panel in under three minutes.
Why restock ads are a fast-turnaround problem
A restock moment is time-sensitive: the ad needs to go out while demand and urgency are still high, not days later once a shoot gets scheduled. This makes restock messaging one of the clearest use cases for generating ads directly inside a chat, since there's no new product to photograph — you're reusing an existing asset with fresh urgency-driven copy.
Step-by-step: generating restock ads with Polaris in Claude
- Connect Polaris to Claude. Add the MCP connector once and authorize it — this only needs to happen a single time.
- Attach the product photo you already have. No new shoot needed for a restock; reuse existing product imagery.
- Ask Claude directly. For example: "make a restock announcement ad for this product, back-in-stock urgency, UGC style."
- Choose settings from the option cards. Pick the video model (Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1 Quality or Fast, Seedance 2.0, or Omni for a talking actor), voiceover, and whether to burn in captions.
- Watch the render. A live panel inside the conversation shows progress and the finished ad, typically in 20 to 180 seconds.
- Generate a few hook variants in parallel ("selling out again," "we heard you," "restocked by popular demand") and download the batch as a ZIP once ready.
- Run scripts through Copy Judge before committing to a full batch if you're testing several urgency angles.
Everything above happens in chat first; a web app is available as a secondary surface if you prefer managing assets outside Claude. More detail on the chat workflow is in generating ads inside Claude via MCP.
Pro tips for restock ads
- Lean on urgency language in the script since restock ads perform on scarcity — but keep the claims accurate (don't guarantee it stays in stock).
- Reuse the same product photo across multiple restock moments; you don't need new visuals each time, just a new angle or hook.
- Batch two or three variants (urgency, social proof, plain announcement) so you're not betting the whole restock window on one script.
- Add burned-in captions by default — restock ads are often watched muted in feed.
Honest caveats
Restock ads still need real testing once they're live — a strong-sounding hook in chat doesn't guarantee performance until it's run against an audience. Polaris builds the ad around your actual product rather than pulling from a stock-avatar library, and the AI actor reads your script rather than impersonating a real person. If your product is in a regulated category, keep restock claims compliant — no disease, cure, or guaranteed-result language.
See pricing for how credits work across renders, and AI UGC ads for more on the ad format.