An AI-operated marketing agency built for small businesses — one flat monthly fee, no retainer sticker shock, and no DIY tool stack. Agents plan, draft, test, and report; you keep running the business.
This week — Sept 23
Top line
+31% qualified leads this week
Driven by the new AEO article cluster we shipped Tuesday.
Next: pause the underperforming TikTok ad set, double down on the new Pinterest hook. Approve in one click.
Where the dollar usually lands
Thrive-tier retainers price out founders before month two. The DIY stack works — until iOS privacy, rising CPMs, and the shift to answer-engine discovery eat the margin you were funneling into it.
DIY stack
Jasper + Canva + Mailchimp + Surfer SEO + ChatGPT + …
Freelancer
Strong on copy or design, none on AEO, limited on paid.
Agency retainer
You pay for the deck, the lead, and the brand lift.
Bowsprit
An AI-operated growth team — agentic, accountable, plain-English.
What Bowsprit does, on day one
Behind the dashboard is a small, named set of agents — each owns a job, each is held to a measurable outcome. The owner stays out of the dashboards; the agents coordinate.
A small fleet of purpose-built agents plans campaigns, drafts variants, and tests them against live platform data — across social, search, and your site.
Rewrites your site so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite you — not your competitors.
Search + social managed end-to-end. Budgets allocated weekly by what is actually converting.
Plain-English report the founder can read in under five minutes.
A strategist agent reviews every channel weekly and nudges the calendar — you do not have to.
Every claim, headline, and bid is traceable back to the data behind it.
The loop, in plain English
We sketched this for owners who run operations and would rather not run six dashboards on the side.
You tell us the offer, the audience, and what success looks like. We come back with a written plan and a flat fee.
From week one the strategists, copywriters, designers, and bidding agents are running campaigns and shipping creative variants for review.
Each Monday morning you read a digest under five minutes. Approve a pivot, log a question, ignore the rest — your call.
AEO content lands. Brand-recall creative compounds. Paid bids get cheaper on what works, on memory of what did.
The Monday digest
Every Monday the digest lands in your inbox. Top line, three numbers, and one recommended pivot — written the way a friend would write it, not the way a marketing platform writes it.
Monday digest · Sept 23
What happened
31% more qualified leads this week — concentrated in the new Cinnamon Harvest funnel. ROAS held even with smaller spend, which means the creative carried it.
This week, one pivot
Promote the AEO article cluster we shipped Tuesday — Pin the new Pinterest hook, hold the TikTok set we paused last week.
One flat monthly fee
We scope the engagement after a short kickoff call and quote you a single number — the same number every month, with a one-line plain-English review of what the engagement moved on.
Bowsprit · single tier
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Direct answers
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Get started
Write to us. Tell us what you sell, who buys it, and the last thing you shipped. We will come back with a plan and a flat fee within a business day.
Direct line
bowsprit-19q3co@polsia.app