Software and marketing, with AI inside
The surrounding work: the custom software the business runs on, and the ads and marketing that bring people to it — both built so AI helps where it helps and stays out of the way where it does not.
What this is
Marketing and software get bought separately and then fail at the seam between them. The ads run, the leads arrive, and nothing downstream knows where they came from — so the reporting cannot answer the only question that matters, which is what a booked customer costs to get.
Built together, that seam closes. Conversion tracking reaches the actual booking rather than a thank-you page. Follow-up happens because the system knows a form was filled in and nobody called back. The reporting is a page the owner can open, not a call that has to be scheduled.
AI shows up here in specific places — drafting ad variations, classifying inbound leads, summarising what happened last month — and stays out of the places it would be a liability, like spending decisions and anything a customer reads without a person checking it first.
Typically includes
- Custom web applications and internal systems
- Marketing sites built for local search
- Google Ads management and conversion tracking
- Booking, intake and follow-up that actually connect
- Reporting an owner can read without a call
You probably need this when
The software and the marketing are run by different people who have never spoken, so nobody can tell you what a lead actually costs.
Questions
What people ask about this.
- Do you take over an existing site, or rebuild it?
- Whichever is cheaper for the outcome. A site that ranks and converts does not get thrown away because it was built elsewhere. A site fighting its own structure usually costs more to patch than to replace, and I will tell you which one you have.
- Do you manage the ad spend itself?
- Yes, including the tracking underneath it. Ads managed without working conversion tracking are guesswork with a budget attached, so the measurement gets fixed before the spend gets optimised.
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Next step
Tell me where the business is losing time.
No pitch deck and no discovery-call funnel. Describe the bottleneck and I will tell you plainly whether it is worth building something for, and roughly what that would take.