From spending thousands with a content agency to building AI content employees

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We partnered with a coach who was spending over $3,500 per month on a content agency that was not meeting their needs

Despite the investment, they were frustrated with:

  • Generic content that didn’t capture their unique expertise
  • Lack of agility to respond to market trends or news
  • Slow turnaround times (1-week revision cycles)
  • Limited posting frequency (3 posts/week across all platforms)
  • No real understanding of their business or industry nuances

They wanted to bring content production in-house but their 2-person marketing team had no capacity to manage it themselves.

The Solution: Building an AI Workforce

Instead of hiring another agency or bringing it in-house, we built them three AI employees that work together like a real content team at 2% of agency cost.

Results At A Glance

  • 97% cost reduction
  • 625% more content
  • Better quality (founder prefers it to agency 70% of the time)
  • 85% less time required
  • Gets smarter every week

Phase 1: Deep Business Discovery

Before building anything, we needed to understand their business better than any agency ever had.

What We Gathered:

Brand Voice:

  • Analyzed their best-performing content
  • Reviewed their client success stories
  • Documented what makes them different from competitors

Business Intelligence:

  • Technical understanding of their services
  • 3 detailed customer profiles
  • What the previous agency kept doing wrong despite low engagement

Performance Audit:

  • Which platforms mattered (LinkedIn dominated)
  • Posting frequency and missed deadlines
  • Team time spent in revision cycles with the agency

Phase 2: Building the Infrastructure

We built the one-time infrastructure that would power their AI workforce—not just for these three employees, but for any future additions.

What We Created:

Simple Control Dashboard:

  • Review content, logs, and proposals
  • Approve posts with one click
  • Works on phone, tablet, or computer
  • No complicated software to learn

Self-Learning System:

  • Logs every action and outcome
  • Identifies patterns automatically
  • Proposes improvements based on data
  • Gets smarter over time without manual updates

Quality Control Layer:

  • Tracks what content performs well
  • Validates every result based on specific rules we set up
  • Automatically revises content that doesn’t meet quality standards
  • Everything reviewed before final outcome

Security & Control:

  • Company data stays private
  • Full transparency on what’s created
  • Override or edit anything
  • Human approval required before publishing

Why This Matters: This infrastructure supports unlimited AI employees. Adding new ones later takes days instead of weeks.

Phase 3: Training the AI Employees

We trained four specialized employees using everything we gathered in Phase 1.

The Content Strategist:

  • Researches new trends
  • Reviews topics set by the business
  • Decides what to post where and when
  • Adjusts strategy based on performance data

3 Content Creators (one per platform), each with the following tasks:

  • Writes posts based on specific frameworks
  • Generates an image
  • Drops all content into Airtable ready for approval

The Self-Improvement System:

  • Each employee logs every decision
  • The system analyzes data over time
  • Proposes specific improvements
  • Rewrites the instructions after human approval

The system learns from both approvals and rejections.

Phase 4: Testing & Launch

Testing Phase:

Launched live

Stress tested each content creator over time

Fine-tuned instructions and frameworks

Easy Expansion (The Infrastructure Advantage)

Adding new AI emplyees:

With the infrastructure already built we can now:

  • Build new AI employee in a matter of days
  • Same approval workflow
  • Same quality standards