Agency Cost Cutting With AI
AI for marketing agencies — I audit your stack, build the workflows, and coach your team. Replace expensive tools, automate the client busywork, and run leaner and more profitable, without dropping quality or piling on headcount.
At my peak I was running my agency to about $25,000 a month in revenue. The logical next step looked obvious: hire more people and push for $100,000 a month.
But I was already drowning — two or three full-time employees, roughly $7,000 a month in expenses, and a constant treadmill of winning new clients just to replace the ones that churned. Scaling up meant more of exactly the stress I’d grown to hate: more payroll, more management, more churn to chase.
Truthfully, managing a business never really suited my personality. Chasing $25k to $100k a month wasn’t worth losing my life and my time with my family — I’d much rather stay small, and free to follow my natural curiosities.
So I decided to become insanely profitable as a solo founder instead. I started replacing every tool and manual workflow with AI, one by one. Today I run leaner than ever — about $300 a month in expenses — while still delivering data-driven SaaS marketing for my clients, and giving them an even better service than I did with a full team.
I make less than I did at my peak, but I work about four hours a day now and it’s exactly how I like it. Now I help other agencies do the same: find what to cut, what to keep, and where AI actually moves the needle.
Four ways AI makes an agency leaner.
Replace overpriced agency tools
Audit every subscription — project management, reporting, SEO, social, design, email. Swap bloated platforms for leaner AI-native tools, or one workflow that does the same job for a fraction of the cost.
Reduce headcount & stay lean
Before you hire for reporting, QA, research or admin — or backfill someone who leaves — see what AI can already do. Reduce headcount, skip the next hire, and keep the salary as margin.
Automate the client busywork
Client reporting, content drafts, outreach, QA and ops — wire AI into the repetitive work eating your week, so you deliver more without adding people.
Make more per client
Faster turnarounds, AI-assisted strategy and content, sharper targeting — do better work in less time and protect the margin on every retainer.
Pick the right engagement.
- •Full agency stack & subscription review
- •Human-resource audit — roles AI can take on
- •Map tools → AI replacements or custom/free tools
- •Ranked savings & ROI report
- •Build the AI workflows for you
- •Integrated into your existing tools
- •Your team trained to run them
- •Fixed scope and timeline
- •Direct DM support, async
- •Ongoing tool & workflow research
- •Tailored to your agency’s stack
- •Money-back guarantee — cancel anytime
Agency AI questions, answered.
Tell me about your account.
Whether you want an audit, ongoing management, or just a second opinion on your current setup — drop a message and I’ll reply within one business day.