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AI for Marketing Agencies
"I feel behind on AI, and there is no chance I can catch up." If that is the sentence in your head, you are exactly who I work with. I am not selling software or theory-based advice. I run my own ten person managed services business on Claude, I know the value it adds every week, and now I help owners do the same inside marketing agencies like yours: your team trained, jobs automated, hours saved. Saying yes to starting puts you ahead of many of your competitors.
Experience, Not Theory
That is our first four automations at Stacks, across a ten person team. We took on more clients, and gross margin went from 26% to 56% in twelve months. AI was not the only driver. It was the biggest one. It also set a new standard for what my team sends out: the same bar for research, formatting, and finish on everything that leaves the building, no shortcuts.
Casey Templeton, Founder of Stacks. Nashville.
"In one week I went from a two-hour session with Casey to a brand new marketing site and firing the marketing firm I'd used for two years. If Casey wants to work with you, don't be a dummy. Just do it."
The Week
Your Week. I Know It.
Five jobs that eat the week. This is the work an automation goes after first.
The kickoff call runs ninety minutes. The brief gets written three days later from memory.
The monthly report gets rebuilt platform by platform. Same exports, same commentary, twelve times a year.
One more round gets absorbed into the retainer. Nobody writes it down, so nobody ever bills it.
Pitch work eats a week nobody bills. Three people go non-billable and utilization takes the hit.
The owner rebuilds the numbers on Monday. Timesheets land late and get reconciled by hand.
Every hour that never reaches an invoice comes out of that margin.
Source: Promethean Research, April 2026.
The First Step
Two Sessions. Two Hours Each.
For most marketing agencies, this is the first step. Homework first, then two sessions, two hours each. In person if you are near Nashville, or over Zoom. $1,950.
For the math: one person at $25 an hour who gets two hours a week back is worth about $2,600 a year. If the first automation does that for one employee, it pays for itself with room to spare. And if after our first session you do not see a job worth automating, you pay nothing.
An automation is a repeated piece of work you teach Claude once. Your team runs it every day, you own it and tune it, and it carries the work to 80 percent so your people finish the 20 that needs their judgment.
"Casey taught me how to actually put AI to work. I generate quotes faster, my workflow is smoother, and I'm making more money because of it. One of the best investments I've made in my business."
01
Homework
Before we ever meet, you pull real examples of the work that eats your week: actual documents, actual messages, nothing cleaned up for me.
02
Session One
Two hours. We map how your agency actually runs, get Claude set up for your team, and train you on how to operate it.
03
Session Two
Two hours. We start building your first automations and put together the training your team needs to run Claude every day.
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What You Leave With
Claude running for your team, your people trained on it, and one job automated and in use.
Five Automations We Could Build In Your Agency.
One page, no obligation. Proof of what we could build together, before we ever talk.
One email with the PDF. No newsletter, no drip campaign.
of agencies follow a documented client onboarding process.
Source: Promethean Research, July 2026.
Client work sits under NDAs, so the data path gets written down and you approve it before any automation runs.
The Stack
Claude Sits In The Middle.
It works with the tools you already run. It reads from your project management system, your time tracking, and your reporting platforms, and writes back where it can.
Start with one connection, not all of them. The first automation usually needs one export from one system, and that is the whole first step. Once it earns its keep, the next system comes in, then the one after that. Every automation gets sharper as it goes, because Claude stops looking at one dashboard at a time and finally sees the whole agency.
The Numbers
The Numbers Agency Owners Are Seeing.
That feeling of being behind is not in your head. AI is already in the client work, and far fewer marketing agencies have pointed it at the business behind it.
Marketing teams surveyed using AI somewhere
Source: HubSpot State of Marketing, April 2026.
Agencies with AI across the business
Source: Promethean Research, March 2026.
Questions
Questions, Answered.
I feel like I am already behind on AI. Is it too late?
No, and you are not as far behind as you think. The owners who feel furthest behind often move fastest once they start, because they have not spent a year on tools that did not stick. You do not need a strategy, a budget cycle, or a technical person on staff. You need four hours and one job that is costing you time every week. That is the whole first step.
Will this replace my staff?
No, and that is the whole design. An automation carries a job to 80 percent quickly and your account lead takes the final 20 percent over the finish line. Efficiency goes up for everyone, the agency grows without the headcount it used to need, margins grow with it, and your people spend their time on strategy and craft instead of assembling reports.
Will it work with the software we already run?
Usually, whether that is Asana, Basecamp, ClickUp, or Harvest. Some systems give me an API, some give me an export, and a few give me nothing but a screen to copy from. I tell you which one you have before I scope anything.
We already use AI every day. What is left?
The agency itself. AI is already in the client work, the copy, the media, the research, the deck. What usually never gets written down is the operation behind it, because it lives in senior people's heads. I put it on paper first, then build automations on top.
Does any of this make client-facing creative?
No. Everything I build is internal. Strategy, concepts, and the words that reach a client stay with your people. An automation drafts a brief from your kickoff notes or assembles a report from your exports. A human owns it before it leaves the building.
Clients are asking whether AI work costs less. What do we say?
That is a fair question, and it is yours to answer. I am not in your pricing conversations and I will not hand you a script. What I build is the internal work, the briefs and reports and scope notes your people already write. What you charge for thinking stays your call.
How long before we see something working?
The first automation runs in weeks, not quarters. The two sessions scope it, I build it against your real kickoff notes, and your team uses it while I refine it. One automation in production beats five in a plan.
Who owns what you build?
You own the automations and the documentation. They live in your account, written in plain language, so your team can read them and change them. If you stop working with me, nothing walks out the door.
What if we get to the end and nothing is worth automating?
Then you pay nothing. If after our first session you do not see a job worth automating, the engagement ends there and there is no charge. The first session either surfaces a job worth the money or it does not, and that risk is mine, not yours.
Why $1,950?
Because the format is small on purpose. Homework, two working sessions of two hours each, and the setup work around them. For the math: one person at $25 an hour who gets two hours a week back is worth about $2,600 a year. If the first automation does that for one employee, it has paid for itself with room to spare. Every number in that sentence is yours to check.
Who You Will Be Working With
Casey Templeton.
Founder of Stacks, a ten person business in Nashville that runs on Claude. Both sessions are with him directly, and every message from this page lands in his inbox, not a queue.
Start Here
Start With A Conversation Between Two Small Business Owners.
Tell me about your agency. I take on two or three of these engagements a month. Every message comes to me and I answer it myself. The first conversation costs nothing.
Book A 15 Minute Call"A fear of not understanding AI had kept me from diving in. Casey's coaching changed that. It opened my eyes to a sea of possibilities and left me more confident to explore. Come open-minded, and see where your imagination takes you."
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