A dev team with no growth team.
AgentCeres is your AI Growth Officer — the marketing function your team has before you can justify the headcount. Specialists for SEO, ads, content, and outbound; your team stays in the loop. From $39/month.
Free for 14 days. No credit card.
The problem
You have three, five, maybe eight people — and every one of them ships code. Nobody owns growth, so growth is whatever the founder gets to after the standup, the review, and the customer call.
Marketing-by-founder-nights does not scale, and it is the first thing dropped in a crunch. Meanwhile the roadmap is full and the pipeline is not.
The honest blocker is timing. A real marketing hire is a $90k+ commitment and a desk you would rather give to an engineer. You need the marketing function before you can justify the marketing headcount.
How AgentCeres helps
AgentCeres is an AI Growth Officer — a coordinator plus specialists that cover the work a first marketing hire would do: SEO, content, paid-ads ops, LinkedIn, and cold outbound.
It runs on a schedule and reports into a shared Slack channel, so growth becomes something your team can see and steer — not a tab the founder forgets. Evidence-cited briefings, not status theater.
It fits how a dev team already works. Outbound, and any ad spend beyond a plan you approved, arrive as drafts and proposals with the evidence attached, and someone approves them the same way you approve a pull request. Growth gets a process instead of a hope.
Instead of hiring a growth team
What covering growth actually costs a small team:
- Hire a marketer$70–110k/year + benefits + equity
A senior bet on an unproven channel mix — and about three months before they're productive.
- Retain an agency$3,000–8,000/month
You still own strategy and briefs; they own none of the outcome.
- Founder does itThe founder's nights and weekends
Unsustainable — and it stops the moment a release slips.
AgentCeres starts at $39/month with the full roster included, and scales by plan as you add projects. It's the growth function now; you make the marketing hire later, from data instead of hope.
Specialists that fit
- SEO agent
A real content engine — keyword strategy plus drafts — without a content hire.
- Ads agent
Daily eyes on your ad accounts; refresh creative drafted, and it never spends money you haven't approved.
- Social media agent (LinkedIn)
Consistent B2B presence in a founder or operator's voice.
- GEO agent
Track whether AI engines cite you — the channel competitors aren't watching yet.
FAQ
- How does a small dev team do marketing with no marketer?
- AgentCeres is the marketing function a small dev team has before it can justify the headcount. It is an AI Growth Officer plus specialists covering SEO, content, paid ads, LinkedIn, and cold outbound — reporting into a shared Slack channel so growth is something the whole team can see and steer. Outbound, and any ad spend beyond an approved plan, arrives as drafts the team approves, the same way you approve a pull request. From $39/month, scaling by plan as you add projects.
- Who on the team manages this?
- Whoever owns growth this quarter — it doesn't need a dedicated person. Plan on about 30 minutes a week reviewing briefings in a shared channel and approving drafts.
- We'll hire a marketer eventually — is this a stopgap?
- It's the growth function now, and it makes the eventual hire better — they inherit baselines, evidence, and a running channel mix instead of a blank page. After the hire, they direct AgentCeres instead of doing the execution by hand.
- Can multiple people use it?
- Yes. Invite your teammates — briefings land in a shared channel the whole team can see and steer. Growth stops being one person's hidden tab.
- Does it change ad spend on its own?
- Only inside a plan you approved. It never spends money you haven't approved: there it can pause or lower a budget on its own, and anything that would spend more or reach new people waits for an explicit human approval. AgentCeres drafts the recommendation with the evidence — the cost-per-acquisition chart, the baseline, the numbers — and waits for someone to approve it.
- How is this different from hiring an agency?
- An agency doesn't know your product, your voice, or your data, and bills a multi-thousand-dollar retainer. AgentCeres learns all three, lives in your Slack, and starts at $39/month — and you keep ownership of the strategy.
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