Five AI employees do the daily marketing work: SEO and AI search, Google Maps, content, ads, and competitor analysis. I’m the strategist on the account. They propose the work, and I approve it before it goes live. You get the team, and me on the phone.
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Why owners are hiring AI employees
Someone has to post on your Google profile twice a week, fix the pages that slipped, check whether ChatGPT recommends you, and tell you which of that work brought customers in.
That used to mean a new hire, or an agency that sends a PDF once a month. AI employees can cover most of that work, at a pace a small team cannot keep up with.
They still cannot decide what matters to your business. They do not know which customer is worth the trip and which one is a poor fit. They will publish a wrong fact and keep going.
So a person sits on top of the team. That person is me.
I’m an AI go-to-market, forward-deployed marketing engineer, and I’ve had multiple successful exits. In the elearning industry I dominated Google. My elearning company sold to private equity in an eight-figure exit, largely on how well we ranked and converted traffic. I run Leedly on AI agents, and I served three deployments in the US Navy. Every team I put on an account runs the way I run my own company. The employees do the work. I make the calls.
How your AI marketing team is organized
You set the goal. More booked jobs in the towns you actually serve. More conversations with the buyers who pay. Less time spent on work that does not pay you back.
I run the team. I turn that goal into a 90-day plan, choose which AI employees work on what each week, and approve the work before it reaches your website, your Google Business Profile, or your ad accounts. Once a month we get on a call. I walk you through what shipped and what is next.
Five AI employees do the work. Research, pages, posts, monitoring, and reports, every day. They propose. A person approves it. Nothing goes live on its own.
Meet the team
| AI employee | Job | What I review each week | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEO (AI-SEO / GEO) | Builds and fixes the pages buyers find, and works the sources ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Perplexity read so they can name you. GEO is part of this job. | Pages losing ground, fixes ordered by the business they can affect, new page briefs, and which AI answers named you. | A service page for a medical courier brought in an account approaching $3,000 a week, about $150,000 a year, and the same work opened two more markets. ChatGPT names that company in 87.8% of answers on its core rush search, at an average position of 1.05. Google AI Mode names it in 93.9% of answers on the main service search, at an average rank of 1.39. |
| Google Maps | Runs your Google Business Profile, posts, reviews, and local pages so nearby buyers call. | Two Google Business Profile posts for approval, drafted review replies, and changes on the map grid. | For a medical courier, share of local voice on the main service search reached 67%, 69%, and 65% across three metros. |
| Content | Turns your services, proof, and questions into pages and short videos the other employees can rank and cite. | Drafts in your voice. The facts are checked before I review them. | Comparison and county pages helped a national property tax appeal firm grow Google clicks 52% in one month, with 341 tracked conversions. In that same month, click-through rate moved from 0.92% to 1.20%, and average position improved from 8.2 to 7.8. |
| Ads | Watches your Google and Meta campaigns and proposes budget moves, negative keywords, and new creative. | Proposed changes only. The employee does not edit the ad account on its own. | Changes run only after I approve them. |
| Competitor Analysis | Watches the businesses you compete with across search, Maps, AI answers, content, and ads, and flags what changed. | A short brief of what moved, and which changes are worth a response. | I read the brief and decide what we do. The employee does not change your site or your ads. |
More on the work itself: AI SEO, generative engine optimization, Google Maps and local SEO, content and authority, and paid ads. The longer write-up of the results above is on Results. AI marketing agents goes further on how the search, Maps, content, and ads work is done.
An AI marketing team, a hire, or an agency
| Comparison | Hire a marketing person | A traditional agency | Leedly AI marketing team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | One person, on a few channels | A rotating account team | Five AI employees, on search, Maps, content, ads, and competitors |
| Who decides | You, when you have the time | The account manager | Me, with you |
| What you see | Whatever they remember to send | A monthly PDF | A monthly call. Calls, forms, and booked jobs, set against the baseline from month one |
| When it ships | When they get to it | On the retainer calendar | Each week, after I approve it |
| Starting cost | Salary, benefits, and tools | It varies | Google Maps Boost at $497 a month. AI-SEO / GEO and ads management each start at $1,500 a month. No long-term contract |
If you want to hire an AI employee for the one channel that is slipping, we can start there. Most owners hire the AI marketing team and let me assign the week.
What a week looks like
Monday. The employees pull last week’s Search Console, Google profile, and AI-answer data, and they flag what changed.
Tuesday. I review the flags, approve the fixes and new pages, and hold back anything that misses the goal.
Wednesday to Friday. Approved work goes live: pages, posts, and review replies.
Every month. We get on a call and go through the scoreboard: calls, forms, and booked jobs, split between new buyers and people who already knew you.
Who this is for
A fit if you:
- Run a B2B or local service company doing $500K to $2M or more
- Earn thousands of dollars from each new customer
- Want the daily output of a marketing team without three new hires
- Want one person accountable for the plan
A poor fit if you:
- Want a tool you run on your own. We do the work.
- Need new customers this week. Search and AI visibility build over months.
- Sell low-priced products to consumers at high volume.
Pricing
- Google Maps Boost: $497 a month. No setup fee.
- AI-SEO / GEO: starting at $1,500 a month. GEO is included.
- Ads: starting at $1,500 a month, plus a setup fee. Ad spend is separate.
No long-term contract.
FAQ
What are AI employees?
AI employees are workers that each own one ongoing marketing job, such as your search pages, your Google Business Profile, your content, your ads, or competitor research. At Leedly they work as one AI marketing team and report to me. I set the plan and approve their work before it goes live.
Can I hire an AI employee instead of a marketing person?
For the daily execution, yes. Posting, page fixes, monitoring, and reporting are the work AI employees handle well. You still need judgment about your customers, and that is my job. Some owners hire an AI employee for one channel first. Others hire the whole AI marketing team.
Do the AI employees publish on their own?
No. They research, draft, and propose. I approve every change before it touches your website, your Google Business Profile, or your ad accounts.
Who runs the AI marketing team?
I do. I’m Clayton Turner, an AI go-to-market, forward-deployed marketing engineer with multiple successful exits. I dominated Google in the elearning industry, and my elearning company sold to private equity in an eight-figure exit, largely on how well we ranked and converted traffic. I set the plan and approve what the employees ship.
What does an AI marketing team cost?
Google Maps Boost is $497 a month with no setup fee. AI-SEO, with GEO included, starts at $1,500 a month. Ads management starts at $1,500 a month plus a setup fee. Ad spend is separate from the management fee. There is no long-term contract.
How fast will I see results?
Google Maps and Google AI Mode usually move first, because they read Google’s own index. Organic search and ChatGPT take longer, because they weigh what other sites say about you. Month one sets the baseline, so later months are measured against it.
Where should I start?
Local service businesses often start with Google Maps Boost. Companies that need to be found in Google and in AI answers start with AI-SEO / GEO. Ads can run while that work builds. The free AI visibility scan shows where you stand and which employee to start with.
Start with the scan
The scan shows how Google, Maps, and the AI assistants see your business today, and who they name when a buyer asks. It also shows which employee is the right first hire.