Built for lean teams

A lean team with no growth team.

You've got product, ops, maybe sales — but no marketer. Ceres is an AI Growth Officer that runs research, SEO, content, and social so growth doesn't wait on a hire you can't justify yet. From $39/month.

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The problem

Every head on a lean team is load-bearing. You've staffed the things that break loudest — product, support, sales — and marketing is the seat nobody's in. So it gets done by whoever has a spare hour, which means it gets done badly, or not at all.

Marketing compounds only when it's consistent: SEO that builds over months, content on a cadence, a steady presence where your buyers already are. A lean team can manage a burst before a launch and then go quiet for six weeks — so the compounding never actually starts.

A first marketing hire is a big bet at your size: a salary you feel, plus onboarding time from people who don't have it. So the seat stays empty, and "we should really be doing more marketing" stays a recurring line in standup.

How Ceres helps

Ceres is an AI Growth Officer — one coordinating agent plus the specialists you switch on. It covers the growth functions a lean team can't staff: research, SEO topic work and drafts, social, lifecycle email, launch prep.

It works async and reports into your team's Slack — short, evidence-cited briefings anyone can act on, with no new dashboard for the team to learn.

Control stays with your team. Outbound is draft-default and approval-gated — whoever owns the call reviews and ships. Ceres absorbs the execution hours a lean team simply doesn't have to spare.

Instead of hiring a growth team

What a lean team actually weighs:

Hire your first marketer$70–110k + ramp

A real commitment at your size — and you need someone senior enough to set strategy with little support around them.

Stretch an existing teammateTheir salary, redirected

You lose their real output and still don't get a marketer — just a busy engineer or PM doing marketing part-time.

Agency or freelancers$2,000–6,000/month

Coordination overhead, and the context lives outside your team instead of compounding inside it.

Ceres starts at $39/month, switches on per role, and scales with you. It's the growth function before you can justify the headcount — and it keeps a per-company memory, so nothing resets when you finally do hire.

Specialists that fit

Market Research LeadCompetitor and customer signal without pulling a teammate off their real job.View role →SEO ExpertKeyword work and near-publishable drafts, so organic traffic compounds in the background.View role →Paid Ads ManagerGet paid acquisition running and tuned without a dedicated performance marketer.View role →Social Media Manager (LinkedIn)A consistent B2B presence in your company's voice, drafted for your approval.View role →

FAQ

We don't have anyone to 'own' marketing — does Ceres need a manager?
No. Ceres is the AI Growth Officer — a coordinator that decides what to work on and routes it to the right specialist. It runs on a schedule and pushes briefings to your team's Slack. Someone on the team approves anything that goes out, but no one has to project-manage it day to day.
Can the whole team see and act on what Ceres produces?
Yes. Briefings and drafts land in a shared IM channel, and Team management lets you decide who can chat with which agent and who approves outbound. It's built to drop into a small team's existing Slack/Telegram, not to be one person's private tool.
What if we only need one thing right now, like SEO?
Switch on a single specialist and add more at your pace. You're not forced to turn on the whole team to get value from one role — many lean teams start with SEO or research and expand once they trust the output.
Will it send anything to customers without sign-off?
No. Outbound — posts, cold email, ad changes — is draft-default and approval-gated. Ceres drafts; the owner of that decision approves before anything ships. Internal research runs on its own.
How is this different from giving a teammate a ChatGPT seat?
A ChatGPT seat still needs a person to drive it, remember to do it, and check the output — exactly the time a lean team doesn't have. Ceres runs on its own schedule, keeps a per-company memory across runs, cites evidence, and coordinates multiple specialists. It removes the work, not just speeds up the typing.
Does it scale when we do hire a marketer?
Yes — and it makes that hire more effective. Ceres keeps a durable per-company memory (brand voice, what's converted, competitor moves), so a new marketer inherits months of context and uses Ceres as leverage instead of starting from zero.

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