Growth shouldn't ride on the founder's spare hours.
AgentCeres is your AI Growth Officer. It runs the research, SEO, content and social you keep pushing to “after the next release,” and sends you a short brief every morning. No marketing hire, no agency retainer. From $39/month.
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Good morning. Search had a good day.
By the numbers
- Website visits: 1,180 yesterday, up 14% on the same day last week (Google Analytics).
- Trial signups: 9, the most since launch week.
- Search clicks: 212, most of them to the invoice template guide (Search Console).
Highlights
- A competitor dropped its free plan, and three Reddit threads are asking for alternatives.
- Your changelog post on X got four times your usual replies.
My take
Answer those Reddit threads today. Two replies are drafted and waiting for your approval.
The problem
You started the company to build the product, not to run a content calendar. But until you hire a marketer, growth is your job, squeezed between the product, the customers and this week's fire.
Marketing only works when it's consistent: search that compounds over months, posts on a cadence, showing up where your buyers are. Done in stolen half-hours, it becomes a burst before each launch and six weeks of silence after. And a growth hire is premature: $90–130k plus months to find and ramp someone, for a job you can't brief well yet.
Default times, in your own time zone. You can change any of them, and pause any of them.
How AgentCeres helps
AgentCeres is an AI Growth Officer: one lead agent you talk to, with a team of specialist agents behind it. Every workspace gets the whole team. Give it a goal, like a launch, and it splits the work between them.
Every morning a short brief lands in your inbox: what moved, why it matters and the one thing it would do next, with sources. Posts and emails come to you as drafts to approve by default, so it does the hours and you spend the minutes that need your judgment.
We ship v2 next Tuesday. Get the launch ready.
- Checked with your Launch & PR agent
- Checked with your SEO agent
- Checked with your Social media agent
Here's the launch plan. The drafts are waiting for your review:
- A launch post and a five-post thread for X, in your voice.
- A blog post on v2's headline feature, written around what people search for.
- A launch-day checklist, plus the newsletters and communities that cover tools like yours.
Instead of hiring a growth team
The growth-hire math, before you're ready for one:
- Hire a head of growth$90–130k + equity
Months to find and ramp, and you have to know what good looks like to manage them. Usually premature at your stage.
- Push it onto a cofounderFree, on paper
The same context-switching tax, moved to someone whose time is also the product.
- Retain an agency$3,000–8,000/month
You still write every brief, and they'll never know your product the way you do.
- AgentCeresfrom $39/month
The whole team, and a brief in your inbox every morning.
AgentCeres starts at $39/month and is set up in minutes. It doesn't replace the growth leader you'll eventually hire. It does the work until then and keeps what it learns about your company, so that hire starts with months of context.
Specialists that fit
- Research agent
Know what competitors and customers are doing without the manual digging.
- SEO agent
Keyword work and near-publishable drafts, so search traffic compounds while you build.
- Social media agent (X / Twitter)
Show up consistently in your founder voice, without the daily blank page.
- Launch & PR agent
Turn each release into a real launch moment instead of a quiet changelog entry.
FAQ
- I'm a founder, not a marketer. Can AgentCeres actually run growth for me?
- That's who it's for. The AI Growth Officer and its team of specialist agents run the growth work founders never get to: research, search content, social posts in your voice, launch prep. A short brief lands in your inbox every morning, in plain language, and posts and emails come to you as drafts to approve by default. From $39/month, with no growth hire and no agency.
- When should I hire a real growth person instead?
- When growth becomes a full-time strategic function with budget and headcount to manage. That's a real hire, and AgentCeres isn't pretending to be a VP of Growth. Before that point the bottleneck isn't strategy, it's execution hours you don't have. AgentCeres covers those, and because it keeps a memory of your company across runs, the eventual hire inherits context instead of a blank page.
- Will it post or email anyone without me approving?
- Not by default. Posts and emails come to you as drafts and go out when you approve them. If you switch on Auto mode, posts and emails can go out on their own, up to a daily limit. It never spends money you haven't approved. Research runs on its own, because nothing in it leaves your workspace.
- How is this different from just using ChatGPT between meetings?
- A chat box waits for you to prompt it, forgets last week and cites nothing. AgentCeres works on a schedule whether or not you remember to, keeps a memory of your company across runs, says where its findings came from, and has a lead agent that routes work to the right specialist. Growth keeps moving while your attention is on the product.
- I have a cofounder who 'does marketing' sometimes. How does AgentCeres fit?
- AgentCeres does the execution and your cofounder keeps the judgment. Instead of losing real product or sales hours to a content calendar, they review AgentCeres's drafts and approve the direction. Same brand voice, far fewer hours.
- How much of my week does it actually take?
- Reading the morning brief takes a couple of minutes. Approving or editing drafts takes as long as you choose to spend on them. The research and drafting hours are AgentCeres's; the decisions stay yours.
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