Everything a marketing agency does, priced like software
An agency sells you hours: a strategist monthly, an account manager weekly, a junior doing the posting. Brainito does the hours. One workspace audits your site every week, writes the strategy every month, builds the website, runs SEO, social and email, reports on the ads and keeps the tasks and contacts in one place. You, or one person on your team, owns the number.
Free to start. Paid actions use credits; most businesses spend $20 to $500 a month.
- Weekly audit, monthly strategy, every channel
- No retainer, cancel any time
- Plans from $20 a month; most businesses spend $20 to $500 a month
- You own the website, the data and the accounts
The agency's hours were the expensive part. The hours are now cheap.
A $3,000 retainer at a small agency buys roughly 20 to 25 hours of staff time once margin and management are removed, spread across people you rarely meet. Most of those hours are tasks software now does in minutes: writing, images, ad variations, landing pages, audits and reports.
What a business still needs is someone accountable for the outcome and the machinery to act on it. Brainito is the machinery. The accountable person is you, your office manager, or a freelancer you already trust, and they need a few hours a week rather than a department.
- A monthly report you read onceA weekly audit with the fix list on a task board
- A strategy deck from the kickoffA strategy rewritten every month from live data
- A site the agency ownsA site published to your own GitHub and Vercel
- A retainer in a dead FebruaryCredits spent only when work runs
What marketing costs now, and what it costs here
Typical US figures for a small business in 2026. Ad spend sits on top of every row.
| Option | Typical monthly cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Full-service marketing agency | $3,000 to $10,000 | Strategy plus execution across a few channels, a dedicated team, a six to twelve month contract. |
| Fractional CMO | $3,000 to $8,000 | Senior strategy a few days a month; execution and tools are extra. |
| In-house marketing manager | $5,000 to $8,000 | One salary fully loaded, plus $800 to $1,500 of tool subscriptions. |
| Freelancer, one channel | $500 to $2,000 | One person doing one thing well, part time, with their own tool stack. |
| Brainito AI marketing manager | $20 to $500 | Weekly audit, monthly strategy, website builder, SEO, social, email, analytics, team chat, tasks, contacts and 300+ tools. Dashboards free; credits for work that runs. |
Agency ranges are what small businesses report paying; the Brainito figure is what businesses on the platform typically spend. The $500 AI Marketer plan is 20,000 credits a month with a dedicated human marketing manager.
What is included
The eleven things an agency retainer is supposed to cover, in one workspace.
Weekly marketing audit
77 factors across SEO, speed, conversion, content and AI visibility, re-run every week, with the evidence behind each verdict.
Monthly marketing strategy
A plan built from the audit, your business and your numbers, rewritten each month and broken into tasks with owners.
Website builder
A real site from a brief, previewed at brainito.com/your-domain, edited by clicking, published to your own GitHub and Vercel.
SEO management
On-page fixes per page, technical audit, off-page directories and citations, and a check on whether AI assistants cite you.
Social media management
Drafts, designs, approval on the post, scheduling across the networks you use.
Email automation
Campaigns, follow-up sequences and segments from the same contact list the site feeds.
Analytics and ads reporting
Google Ads, Meta, organic, email and referrals on one page, updated hourly.
Team chat
Talk to your team or your client inside the workspace, next to the work.
Task management
Every module writes to one board: audit fixes, plan steps, posts to approve, with categories, dates and history.
Contacts, a mini CRM
Leads from the site, email subscribers and customers in one list, segmented for email and follow-up.
300+ marketing tools
Keyword research across fifteen platforms, meta tags, schema, UTM links, headline tests and more, most of them free.
The first thirty days
Day 1: audit
Run the free audit on your site. The findings seed everything that follows.
Week 1: strategy and site
Generate the plan, build or fix the site, connect analytics, ads and Search Console.
Weeks 2 to 3: run
Schedule the first posts, start the email sequence, send the SEO fixes to the board.
Week 4: measure
The weekly audit shows what moved. The monthly strategy rewrites itself from the numbers.
Goes with
- Small business marketing agency alternativeFor businesses under about $5,000 a month in ad spend.
- Fractional CMO alternativeWhen you need direction, not another retainer.
- How much does a marketing agency cost?Real ranges and what sits behind them.
- Marketing ManagerThe workspace, module by module.
- For agenciesRun every client from one login.
- PricingCredits, plans from $20 a month.
Start with the free audit. Decide after you have read it.
No call, cancel any time. The audit shows what an agency would find in its first month, in two minutes.