Built for small businesses

A growth team for your business — without the headcount.

Ceres is your AI Growth Officer — it runs the SEO, content, research, and social a growing business needs to stay visible online, without a marketing department or an agency retainer. From $39/month.

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The problem

Your customers find you online — through search, social, and the content you publish. But keeping that engine running is a full-time job, and you're already running the business. So marketing happens in bursts, then goes quiet — and the pipeline goes quiet with it.

Doing it well means consistency: SEO that compounds, content on a schedule, social that actually shows up, and an eye on what competitors are doing. That's a growth team's worth of work — and most small businesses can't justify a growth team.

The usual options don't fit. A full-time marketer is $60–100k. An agency is a retainer plus a stack of briefs you still write yourself, run by junior account managers who don't know your business. So it falls back to you, between everything else.

How Ceres helps

Ceres is an AI Growth Officer — a coordinating agent plus the specialists you choose. It runs the online-growth work consistently: keyword and competitor research, SEO content drafts, social posts, and getting you cited when buyers ask AI tools about your space.

It works on a schedule and reports in plain language to your Slack or Telegram — short, evidence-cited updates written for an owner, not a marketing analyst.

You approve what goes out. Posts, emails, and ad changes arrive as drafts for your okay; nothing publishes on its own. Ceres does the hours; you keep the brand voice and the final say.

Instead of hiring a growth team

Here's the math most small businesses face:

Hire a marketer$60–100k/year + benefits

A real salary for one person who can't cover SEO, content, social, and ads well all at once.

Retain an agency$2,000–6,000/month

Generic playbooks and junior account managers — and you still approve and brief everything yourself.

Do it yourselfA day or two a week

Time the owner doesn't have — so marketing happens in bursts and the results never compound.

Ceres starts at $39/month — about what one tool costs, for a coordinated team's worth of output. It learns your business over time, so the work gets sharper instead of resetting with every new freelancer.

Specialists that fit

SEO ExpertKeyword research and near-publishable drafts, so search keeps sending you customers.View role →Market Research LeadTrack competitors and what your customers want — without the manual digging.View role →Paid Ads ManagerGet paid acquisition set up and tuned, with spend changes you approve first.View role →Generative Engine Optimization StrategistGet recommended when buyers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity about your category.View role →

FAQ

What do I need to get started?
Just your website to start — Ceres reads it to learn your business and your voice. Connect data sources like Google Analytics or Search Console when you want deeper, data-driven work, and switch on specialists one at a time. There's no long setup; you can be running with a single role in minutes.
I don't have a marketing background — can I even use this?
That's the point. Briefings are written for owners, not marketers — plain language, no jargon. You can start with a single specialist and let Ceres handle the parts you'd otherwise never get to. You make the calls; it does the work.
Will it post or email my customers on its own?
No. Anything customer-facing — social posts, email, ad changes — is draft-default and approval-gated. Ceres drafts it; you review and approve before it goes out. Internal research and analysis run on their own.
How is this cheaper than an agency without being worse?
An agency's cost is mostly people time — account managers, coordination, and the hours to brief them. Ceres does the execution directly and keeps a memory of your business across every run, so you're not re-explaining context monthly. You stay the brand voice and approver; you just skip the retainer and the overhead.
Can I start with just one thing, like SEO?
Yes. Start with a single specialist on the entry plan and add more at your pace. Many businesses begin with SEO or research and expand once they see the output.
What does it cost, and am I locked in?
Plans start at $39/month with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime. You add specialists as you need them rather than paying for a whole team up front.

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