Growth Mode | For marketing agencies
Your marketing agency
is still you.
Growth Mode moves one repeat client workflow to an AI team that stays on in your cloud. Steve sets it up with you, tests it, and hands it off in 30 days.
Show me the workflowAbout 3 minutes | Get a workflow blueprint | Personal questions come last
- workflow
- One workflow
- proposed roles
- 6 proposed roles
- first-workflow guarantee
- 30-day first-workflow guarantee
Product direction | Conceptual illustration | Not product UI
The work still routes through you
You did not hire a team to review a team.
You are the checkpoint
The deliverable cannot move until you look at it. Your calendar becomes the agency's throughput limit.
Delegation costs more than doing it
Briefing, correcting, following up, and re-explaining can take longer than producing the work yourself.
AI produced output, not relief
The tools became faster. You still read every line because nothing proves what happened or where the work should stop.
Capacity still means headcount
Another client still means another person, another layer, and another operation to supervise.
Growth Mode does not promise to automate your agency. Today it gives one economically useful workflow a founder-led operating plan, explicit review steps, and human approval points. Automated governance is the product direction.
Three workflow starting points
One workflow. Not a workflow marketplace.
You do not need forty disconnected automations. These are blueprint starting points for one founder-led activation, not pre-deployed capabilities.
Performance Intelligence Desk
- First mission
- Prepare a weekly performance brief and optimization queue for review.
- Best fit
- Paid media, growth, analytics, and SEO marketing agencies.
Material budget changes, external publication, and any action outside the documented workflow scope.
Delivery Assurance Desk
- First mission
- Review every outbound deliverable against scope, brand, and evidence before it reaches the client.
- Best fit
- Content, creative, web, and lifecycle marketing agencies.
Client delivery, disputed findings, policy exceptions, and changes to the approved scope.
Pipeline Research Desk
- First mission
- Prepare researched, evidence-backed outreach and meeting briefs for named accounts.
- Best fit
- B2B and full-service marketing agencies.
Sending, representation of the agency, sensitive claims, and changes to the approved target list.
Built for client work
Client work needs a boundary.
During founder-led activation, Steve scopes which context belongs to the workflow, which tools and credentials it may use, and which actions require human approval. Automated enforcement of those boundaries is product direction.
Where hard separation is required, the workflow can be scoped to a separate Box or trust domain. That infrastructure is scoped separately.
One client's context should not become another client's context.
Separate context
Reduce client and brand contamination.
Separate access
Limit tools and credentials by workflow.
Separate approvals
Document which actions remain human for each engagement.
Separate operating notes
Keep the workflow scope and review decisions tied to the correct client.
6 proposed roles | Configured with Steve
One agent is a faster way to make a mistake.
The work is planned to be split so no single role both produces and approves a consequential deliverable.
- 01
Mission Lead
Proposed to own the lane, sequence the work, and decide what escalates.
- 02
Researcher
Proposed to gather the source material every important claim must point back to.
- 03
Operator
Proposed to work inside approved tools and stop at every consequence boundary.
- 04
Analyst
Proposed to turn account and workflow data into the finding that matters.
- 05
Builder
Proposed to produce the deliverable to the agency's standard and operating context.
- 06
Independent Reviewer
Proposed to use a different engine to challenge the work before the operator sees it.
Proposed team design | Conceptual illustration | Not product UI
Producer and reviewer are planned to never be the same engine for consequential work.
Product direction
Let safe work move. Stop the risky parts.
Today Steve sets up the workflow and review steps with you as a service. The software path below is where the product is headed, not a claim about what runs on its own today.
- Task
- Builder
- Second review
- Rules check
- Your review when needed
- Action
- Work record
Draft and research work can keep moving inside the rules you set.
- Research
- Analysis
- Drafting
- Comparison
- Preparation
- Bounded reversible work
Client sends, spend, deletes, and public work stop for your review.
- Publish
- Send
- Spend
- Delete
- Deploy
- Credentials
- Client data
Planned work records
The product direction includes a record of what was asked, which sources were used, who reviewed it, and what took place. This is not live for all work today.
- Task
- AI role
- Sources
- Second review
- Rule used
- Your sign-off
- What took place
Product direction | Conceptual illustration | Not product UI
Your stack stays yours
Connect the systems your agents already use.
- HubSpotConnection target
- SalesforceConnection target
- GoHighLevelConnection target
- CloseConnection target
- PipedriveConnection target
Connection target means Steve can assess and configure an available path through the customer's authorized model, MCP, or API inside the customer-controlled environment. These are not five native AgentHost integrations. Availability and setup vary by system.
Your agents connect through access you authorize
Connections use model, MCP, or API access you authorize inside your environment. Founder-led setup does not require Steve to take custody of your CRM credentials or copy your client records into an AgentHost vendor database.
Review the data-handling terms of every model provider, MCP server, and connected application you authorize. Those systems have their own handling of the data you route through them.
How the connection is configured today
- Your agent or model
- Authorized MCP or API
- Your CRM
Steve writes down what the workflow may reach, sets up the path, and names the steps that must wait for a person. The software that checks those rules and saves a full action record is product direction.
See all models and tool targetsProduct direction | Trust levels
A path from draft work to safe action.
Today Steve sets the review points with you. The path below shows how the product may let an AI team earn more trust over time. It is not live software yet.
- 0ObserveRead approved information and recommend actions.Future: works alone
- 1DraftProduce analysis and work for review.Future: works alone
- 2PrepareAssemble a consequential action without executing it.Future: earns trust
- 3Do an approved stepTake one small action that you approved in advance.Future: follows your rule
- 4Human authorityDelete, change credentials, expose sensitive data, or cross an explicit boundary.Always: waits for you
Your rules must always outrank what the agent wants to do.
Product direction | Client proof
Give clients something they can inspect.
The receipt system is product direction.
When a client asks what happened, "the AI completed it" is not an answer. Today the founder-led service documents the agreed workflow, review steps, and approval points.
The product direction is a durable, inspectable governance receipt for material actions. Universal automated receipts are not shipped today; the block below shows the intended record format.
Direction: assurance by artifact, not assertion.
See an illustrative receipt
- Requested outcome
- Weekly performance brief for one account
- Agent / role
- Analyst to Builder
- Evidence
- 4 sources cited, all resolved
- Independent reviewer
- Proposed: different engine
- Policy / boundary
- Example: no spend change or external send
- Human approval
- Example: required before delivery
- Action taken
- Example: held for internal review
- Outcome
- Illustrative only
Example only | Not a real client record | Not current product UI
Product directionPlanned receipt system | Conceptual illustration | Not product UI
30-day first-workflow guarantee
This is setup and rehearsal with Steve.
It is not automated certification.
- 01
Scope
Set the mission, proposed roles, tools, data access, and work that must remain human.
- 02
Connect
Configure available customer-authorized systems inside the customer-controlled environment.
- 03
Rehearse
Run customer-approved examples and compare the output with known answers.
- 04
Review
Document misses, exceptions, review steps, and required human decisions.
- 05
Handoff
Confirm the configured workflow, operating notes, current limitations, and next decision.
The clock starts when Stripe confirms your payment. If the first agreed workflow is not configured, tested, and handed off by day 30, you get 100% of that Growth Mode payment back. This does not promise a business result, automated certification, or unattended governance.
Capacity without another layer
Make one recurring lane easier to supervise before adding another layer.
Agencies usually add capacity by adding people. Then they add another person to brief the work, check the work, follow up on the work, approve the work, and explain the work to the client.
Growth Mode starts by documenting and configuring one recurring lane with you. Reduced supervision is the goal, not a guaranteed result.
Start with one workflow and make the operating boundary clear.
Steve helps you define the test, the review steps, the human decisions, and the current limits before you rely on the workflow.
No mystery after the CTA
Show us the workflow.
Complete the Team Builder
Answer seven focused questions. Personal contact information comes last.
Receive the blueprint
We propose the likely mission, 6-role roster, required tools and context, consequence boundary, and a draft acceptance test.
Working session
Steve pressure-tests the workflow, economics, failure cases, and what must remain human.
Activate Growth Mode
If the workflow fits, Steve confirms scope and starts the founder-led build with you. The 30-day clock starts when Stripe confirms payment.
Growth Mode
One workflow, configured with you.
Founder-led setup
One workflow, 6 proposed operating roles, and a founder-led 30-day build. If the first agreed workflow is not configured, tested, and handed off within 30 days of Stripe payment, you get 100% of that Growth Mode payment back.
Included
- A proposed AgentHost workflow specification for the customer's environment.
- Six proposed roles around one recurring workflow.
- Workflow, tool, memory, and Brand DNA planning.
- A plan for cross-engine review where the workflow needs it.
- Selected human approval points and operating-boundary planning.
- Founder-led rehearsal with customer-approved examples.
- Customer-defined acceptance test.
- Founder-led activation walkthrough.
- Founder-led calibration.
Questions
What marketing agencies ask before they commit.
- Is this another AI model?
- No. AgentHost is a persistent runtime for agents that use the models, tools, memory, and workflows you authorize.
- Are you automating my whole agency?
- No. Growth Mode starts with one economically useful recurring workflow.
- What does activation mean?
- Activation is the founder-led process of scoping, configuring, and rehearsing one workflow against examples and an acceptance test you define. It is not automated certification.
- Can agents publish, send, or spend without approval?
- During setup, you identify what must remain human and keep those decisions in the connected system or operating process. Automated policy gates and earned authority are product direction, not a blanket runtime guarantee today.
- Which CRM systems can Growth Mode work with?
- The initial connection targets are HubSpot, Salesforce, GoHighLevel, Close, and Pipedrive. Steve can assess and configure an available path through the customer's model provider, an authorized MCP server, or the platform API inside the customer's environment. These are not five native AgentHost integrations. Availability and setup vary by system.
- Does AgentHost store our CRM credentials?
- Founder-led setup does not require Steve to take custody of customer CRM credentials or copy CRM records into an AgentHost vendor database. Credentials and connections remain in the customer-controlled environment and approved provider systems. Customers should review the data-handling terms of every provider and application they authorize.
- Can separate clients have separate boundaries?
- Founder-led activation can scope distinct context, tools, credentials, and human approval points for each workflow. Automated enforcement is product direction. Where hard infrastructure isolation is required, a separate Box or deployment should be scoped.
- Is Growth Mode white-labeled?
- Growth Mode is sold as AgentHost. A complete white-label platform is not included in the current offer. Automated governance receipts are product direction.
- Does this replace project managers or operations staff?
- No. Growth Mode starts with one recurring workflow and aims to reduce repeated supervision. Human operators continue to own relationships, judgment, exceptions, and consequential decisions.
- Where does the Box run?
- The current persistent AgentHost runtime runs in customer-controlled infrastructure with customer-authorized accounts, keys, and data. Automated policy enforcement is product direction.
- What is the 30-day money-back guarantee?
- The clock starts when Stripe confirms your payment. If the first agreed workflow is not configured, tested, and handed off by day 30, you get 100% of that Growth Mode payment back. This does not promise a business result or unattended automation.
Founder-led 30-day first-workflow guarantee | One workflow | 6 proposed roles
Growth Mode | Founder-led today
Start with the workflow you already supervise.
Give it a clear operating plan.
Answer seven questions. We propose the mission, roles, systems, review steps, human approval points, and acceptance test for Steve to pressure-test with you.
About 3 minutes | Personal questions come last