[ 00 — Marketer of One ]

Your agency needs agents, not more hires.

Agents trained on your briefs, past work and edits carry the drafts and reports, and nothing reaches a client without your yes.

See a worked example Find your starting point

[ 01 — What you get ]

Your first agents, trained on your work.

A map of your agency’s work, agents trained on your briefs and edits, and a review step before anything reaches a client.

A map of your agency’s work, and the first jobs to hand to agents.
Agents trained on your briefs, past work and edits. They do the research, the drafts, the reports and the client updates.
A review step, so nothing reaches a client until you or your best people approve it.
Build-with-you coaches who keep your agents current as the models change. If you ever leave, everything we built for you transfers to you.

Consult: 5-hour block · $2,000 minimum. Build: $15,000 a month, three-month minimum · $45,000 minimum commitment.

Discuss fit Compare Consult and Build

[ Chapter 02 ]

Every new client means another hire.

Another writer, another account manager, another salary to carry before the retainer pays for it.

[ Chapter 03 ]

And it all still runs through you.

Every pitch, every brief and every final edit waits for you. The agency moves only as fast as you do.

[ Chapter 04 ]

The people you train walk out with it.

Your standards live in people’s heads. When someone leaves, the craft you taught them leaves too.

[ Chapter 05 ]

Clients ask for an AI discount.

If you bill by the hour, every hour a tool saves comes off your invoice, while the judgment behind the work goes unpaid.

[ Chapter 06 ]

Clients can buy the tools. Not your judgment.

Clients pay for your taste, your standards and your calls. Until now, there was no way to make more of them.

[ Chapter 07 ]

Now your craft can be taught to agents.

Agents are trained on your briefs, past work and edits, and each round of your edits updates the rules they follow.

[ Chapter 08 ]

Only the final call runs through you.

Agents do the research, drafts, reports and client updates. Nothing reaches a client until you or your best people approve it.

[ Chapter 09 ]

A team the size of each project.

Run a few agents on a small job and more on a launch, with no salaries waiting between projects.

[ Chapter 10 ]

More clients, same standard.

Our design target is one person running 15 to 20 custom clients. It is a target, not a measured result, and depends on how repeatable your work is.

[ Chapter 11 ]

Hire allies, not payroll.

When you add people, add the best. Your team keeps the work that needs a person, and agents carry the volume.

[ Chapter 12 ]

Grow the profit, not the headcount.

Price the result, not the hours. Whether Build pays for itself is a question for your own numbers, worked through before you sign.

[ Chapter 13 ]

Every new model, tested on your work.

When a new model appears, it is tested on your own tasks before it goes anywhere near a client.

[ 14 — Worked example ]

See an agent learn from your edits.

A fictional agency’s monthly client report: the agent’s draft, the owner’s edits and the rules the next draft follows.

Illustrative example · fictional data · not a client result

An agent learns from the owner’s edits

Before: Junior staff draft reports that the owner rewrites late at night. The owner’s standards live in red ink, not anywhere the team or a tool can read.
After: An agent drafts the report from analytics and the content calendar, following written rules drawn from the owner’s past edits. The owner reviews and approves it, and new edits become new rules.

Collect the craft
Write the rules
Draft and review
Fold the edits back in

Report edit log: one client, October (fictional): 2 of 5 rows

Section: Opening
Agent draft: Listed all twelve metrics
Owner’s edit: Lead with the one result the client cares about
Rule added: Open with the goal metric and its change
Next draft: Opened with qualified leads and their change

Section: Traffic dip
Agent draft: Said traffic fell 8%
Owner’s edit: What evidence explains the drop, and what is still unknown?
Rule added: Check each drop; name evidence and uncertainty
Next draft: Flagged the holiday week as a hypothesis to check

See the full example → Is this a fit? →

[ Chapter 15 ]

Before the next hire, test the agent.

Pick the repeatable work, measure it today, and see whether an agent trained on your craft can carry it under your review.

[ 16 — How we work ]

Learn to run it. Or have it built with you.

Learn it

We teach you to run your agency AI-first. You learn which work to hand to agents, how to train them on your craft and how to check what they send out.

Build it

We build your agent system with you, trained on your work and wired into your tools, and we change it as your clients and the models change.

[ 17 — Ways to begin ]

Start with five hours. Or your own agents.

Consult

$400 per hour 5-hour block · $2,000 minimum

Five hours at a time, $2,000 per block

A $2,000 block (five hours) can work toward a map of your agency’s repeatable work, the first job to hand to an agent, and the start of training it on your past briefs and edits. We agree the focus at the start; a block does not deliver a finished agent. We agree the scope before starting.

Ask about Consult → Details

Build

$15,000 a month Three-month minimum · $45,000 minimum commitment

Build-with-you coaches · your agents · shared 24/7 on call

Put recurring work on a reliable path, with a person checking the decisions that matter. We build on your own tools and teach you how to run it.

Each month, pick up to 5 business processes for us to work on. Work starts in week one. Anything not finished carries into next month’s 5.
A business process is one repeatable job, start to finish. Like: a client report gets built and sent.
Each one becomes a working automation in your own tools, tested on your real work and taught to the people who run it.
Build Plus and Build Program handle more than 5 at once. New software products and replacing a core system are quoted separately.
You own everything we build.

See Build Plus and Build Program →

Not sure where to start? Start with a Consult block ($2,000).

Discuss Build → Details

[ 18 — Your next step ]

Be the marketer of one.

Tell us about your agency, your clients, your team and the work you want off your plate.

Send a short enquiry, then choose a time to talk or wait for our reply. We agree the scope and price before paid work begins. Sending this form does not book or buy a service.

Got it. Book a time below, or look for our reply in your inbox.

Pick a time →

[ Questions ]

Is 15 to 20 clients per person a promise?: No. It is the design target the system is built toward, not a measured client result. Your real number depends on your services, how repeatable the work is and how consistently you review.
Can I see what training on my craft looks like?: The example page shows a fictional agency’s report edit log: the agent’s draft, the owner’s edits, the rules they became and the next draft. It illustrates the method, not a client result.
How do I know whether Build would pay for itself?: Start from your own revenue, payroll and margin by client. The fit page has a worksheet that runs only in your browser; it sets your numbers beside the three-month minimum and makes no projection.
Will AI make my work generic?: It can. Past work and written rules give the drafts a better starting point; they do not replace your judgment. Review drafts against your own standards, keep the edits, and stop or change the workflow if it cannot meet them.
What exactly am I buying?: Working AI agents for your agency. We build them with you, train them on your own briefs, past work and edits, and keep them current as the models change. You approve what goes to clients. Start with Consult, hands-on hours at $400 an hour in five-hour blocks, or go straight to Build, $15,000 a month. Each month, pick up to 5 business processes for our build-with-you coaches to work on. They build your AI systems with you and teach your team to run them. If you ever leave, the systems stay with you. Build has a three-month minimum: $45,000 at the base level. Higher tiers and separately quoted work cost more.
How fast can agents be working?: We get projects up and running within a week, depending on complexity and how quickly you give us access to your systems.
What is Marketer of One?: Marketer of One (marketerofone.com) is a Utlyze site for marketing agency owners who want to grow their profit without growing their headcount. It shows how to run an agency AI-first: your craft is trained into AI agents that do the volume, and you keep the judgment.
Who is it for?: Owners of marketing agencies and consultancies, from solo operators to about 50 people. It fits owners who want higher margins, more clients and more freedom, and who would rather work with a few strong allies than manage a large staff.
Why do agency margins shrink as the agency grows?: Promethean Research finds that profitability tends to fall as agencies get larger, because growth adds management, support and other overhead. In 2025, digital agencies with 50 or more full-time employees averaged 8% of revenue as after-tax profit, while studios with fewer than 10 averaged 19%.
What happens to my team?: That is your call, and nothing here requires you to let anyone go. The agents take the repeatable work, so the people you already have can spend their time on work that needs a person. When you do hire, you can hire for talent instead of hours.
Does this help me win clients?: The work starts with delivery, because that is where margin leaks. Once agents carry the repeatable work, you get your selling time back.
How will I know it is working?: Each piece of work moves to agents with a measure taken before it moved, a person who reviews it, and a trigger that sends it back if quality drops. Nothing you cannot undo goes out without a person approving it.
My clients want an AI discount. What do I do?: Stop pricing by the hour. When agents do the volume, you can price the result the client gets. 39% of agency leaders already see clients expecting lower prices because of AI (SoDA, Q4 2025), so the pricing talk is coming either way.
Why Utlyze?: We have built with AI since ChatGPT launched in November 2022. More than half of our revenue goes back into research and development each month. When a new release can lift a client’s ROI, we put it into their system within a week.
How is this different from an AI course or an AI tool?: A course teaches you tools, and a tool gives you a general assistant. We build your own system around your craft and your clients, measure it against your numbers, and keep it current as the models change.
Do I keep what we build if I leave?: Yes. If you ever end your contract, we transfer all of the infrastructure we built for you, agents included, to you to run and maintain. Our goal is to build people who can build themselves.
Which one is for me?: Consult fits owners who want to learn to run it themselves, five hours at a time. Build fits agencies where $15,000 a month is clearly less than the margin at stake. Build has a three-month minimum: $45,000 at the base level. Higher tiers and separately quoted work cost more.
Is Build worth it at $15,000 a month?: Only if the margin it recovers is clearly larger than the fee. We work that out with you before you sign, starting from your own numbers: revenue, payroll and margin by client.
What do Consult and Build cost?: Consult: $400 an hour, with a 5-hour minimum ($2,000 at the least). Build: $15,000 a month. Each month, pick up to 5 business processes for our build-with-you coaches to work on. They build your AI systems with you and teach your team to run them. If you ever leave, the systems stay with you. Agents work only for your agency, and a shared 24/7 on-call rotation answers, with response times in writing. Build has a three-month minimum: $45,000 at the base level. Higher tiers and separately quoted work cost more.
Is this financial, legal or tax advice?: No. Anything here about money, pricing, employment or law is general education. It does not replace advice from professionals who know your agency.
How do I get started?: Use the form at the bottom of this page. Pick Consult to book hours with us, or Build to ask about building your agents with us.
What happens after I enquire, and what is the minimum commitment?: Send a short description of your work, then choose a time to talk or wait for our reply. The enquiry does not buy a service. We agree scope and price before paid work. Consult: 5-hour block · $2,000 minimum. Build: Three-month minimum · $45,000 minimum commitment. Build Plus is $25,000 a month ($75,000 minimum); Build Program is $50,000 a month ($150,000 minimum). New software products and core-system replacement are quoted separately.

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