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Marketing agency · 18 people

Their own marketing, off the team's plate

An 18-person agency kept losing its own marketing to client deadlines, because the same billable people did both. A 5-agent AI crew took over the agency's in-house marketing, so the team went back to the clients who pay the bills.

What we built

A 5-agent AI crew that runs the agency's own marketing end to end, its content, social, ads, email, and reporting, so no billable person has to.

Content & SEO

Researches, briefs, writes, and publishes the agency's own blog and site content, tuned to its positioning.

Approval-gated
Social Media

Plans and schedules the agency's own social calendar and tracks engagement.

Approval-gated
Paid Media Agent

Runs the agency's own paid campaigns, watches spend, and flags what to change.

Runs autonomously
Email & Lifecycle

Builds and ships the agency's own nurture and newsletter campaigns for approval.

Approval-gated
Reporting

Assembles the agency's own marketing performance readouts on schedule.

Runs autonomously

Tags mark what already runs on its own versus what still routes through a person for approval. Every workflow starts approval-gated and graduates to autonomous as it earns trust.

5-agent AI crew · part-time oversight · ~3.5× delivery-capacity estimate

The agency's own marketing, handled

Run end to end by the crew, so the billable team stays on client work.

~30
hours a week returned to client work
Estimate
5
channels run weekly
Operating setup
5
agents on it
Operating setup
0
people on it full-time
Operating setup

What the added capacity produced

The agency moved its own marketing off the billable team. The time returned to client work is a capacity estimate, not a measured performance outcome.

  • An estimated 30 hours a week of in-house marketing moved off the team and onto the AI crew.
  • The agency's own marketing runs continuously now, instead of stopping every time a client deadline hits.
  • Only a couple of people, part-time, oversee it; no one is dedicated to it full-time.
  • Every week the AI crew ships the agency's own content, social, ads, email, and reporting.
  • The billable team is back on the work clients actually pay for.
  • What stayed human: positioning, brand calls, and final sign-off on what ships.

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