For agencies that sell content, SEO or social
A researched article a day for every client.
Under your brand. No new writers.
ACE builds a Brain for each client, writes from it, checks every source, and scores every draft before it reaches your queue. Your logo, your portal address, your prices.
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Your clients want content every day. Your margin can’t carry a writer for each one.
Every client on a content retainer needs the same things: research, a draft that sounds like them, sources that hold up, an image, a post for each channel, and a report that shows it worked.
Done by people, that’s hours per article, per client. Add a client and you add hours, so the margin never gets better as you grow.
The cost doesn’t show up as one big number. It shows up as the client you couldn’t take on and the retainer you priced too low.
You don’t have a sales problem. You have a delivery problem.
You can sell content. Delivering it every day, for every client, in each client’s voice, with sources that survive a client’s review, is the hard part.
Writers get stretched across too many accounts, quality drifts, and the account manager turns into the editor.
Then the monthly report comes due, and someone has to explain what the client paid for.
Why the last attempt didn't stick, and why that wasn't on you.
Most agencies have tried at least one of these. Each one fails for a reason that has nothing to do with effort.
You hired writers.
Good writers cost real money, and each one can only hold so many clients’ voices in their head. Add clients and quality slips, or payroll grows faster than revenue.
You used a white-label content vendor.
The articles came back generic, because the vendor never had a file on your client’s offers, prices or claims. Your team rewrote them, so you paid twice.
You let the team use ChatGPT.
Fast, but every client started to sound the same, and nobody could trace the numbers. One bad claim on a regulated client’s blog is a lost account.
You tried an “autopilot” content tool.
It published plenty, under your client’s name, without anyone reading it first. That’s a call no agency wants to take.
Look at what's missing in every one. A record of what’s true about each client’s business. A check before anything reaches you. Your sign-off before anything goes live. ACE is built around exactly those three.
Brain first. Then the gate. Then you.
AI is good at writing. It's bad at knowing what's true about your business. ACE fixes the second problem first, then sends every article through the same three stops, in the same order. None of them can be skipped.
A record of what's true about your business, approved by you.
Before ACE writes a word, it builds your Brain from your website, your documents, your reviews and a short interview about whatever it couldn't find. It holds your offers, your prices, your voice, your customers, and the claims you can and can't make.
You review it and approve it. Your price, your guarantee, the claims to avoid and the words you never use are never filled in automatically. ACE only uses them once you've accepted them.
Seven scores. One bar. No exceptions.
Every draft is researched first: what ranks, what people ask, and the sources worth citing. Then it's scored on seven parts.
- SEO
- Answer engines (AEO)
- AI citations (GEO)
- Evidence
- Readability
- Voice
- Strategy fit
A draft has to score at least 80 overall, and it can't fall below half marks on any single part. A draft with fewer than two sources, or a claim that isn't in your Brain, is held back.
You never see it. You only see the drafts that cleared.
Nothing goes live without your Approve.
Drafts that clear the gate land in your queue with reviewer notes. Read it, edit it, or click “Apply these edits” and let ACE make the fixes. Then approve it.
An approval covers that exact version. Change it afterward and it waits for you again.
Then ACE publishes it, and checks its own work.
On the planned date, ACE publishes to your site and checks the live page: that it loads, that Google can fetch it, and that it's in your sitemap.
A few minutes after you approve, the matching email draft and social post drafts are ready to copy into your own tools.
Built by an operator. Strict on purpose.
ACE comes from DEMG, the marketing systems company run by Jeff Barnes. Before DEMG, Jeff served on the nuclear submarine USS Jefferson City as an Assistant Quality Assurance Officer, writing and signing off more than 200 quality assurance packages. In the 25 years since, he's founded more than 12 businesses and built the marketing systems behind them.
If the gate looks strict, that's where it comes from. Quality assurance on a nuclear plant doesn't take anyone's word for it. ACE doesn't take a draft's word for it either.
It's also why the demo runs on a cartoon company. We don't put client accounts on display.
“You'll never find anyone who knows more about marketing technology. I've been in digital marketing for 25 years — Jeff and his team are the most sophisticated marketing tech folks I know.”
What ACE did for two real businesses.
Both companies publish with ACE. Here’s what changed.
Ten ACE articles a day, on its own site.
- Search impressions
- 4.15M
- search impressions, March to July 2026. Up from 318K over the prior 12 months.
- Search clicks
- 5,940
- search clicks, March to July 2026. Up from 4,230 over the prior 12 months.
- Email list growth
- +50%
- email list growth in three months.
Disclosure: Jeff Barnes is Chairman of Angel Investors Network. AIN publishes automatically once a draft clears every check, an option your ACE team can set up. Read the case study
From one blog post every six months to two ACE articles a day.
- Blog cadence
- 2/day
- articles, up from one every six months.
- Google Business Profile
- #1
- on Google Business Profile, up from page 2, in a highly competitive market.
- Cost per acquisition
- −50%
- cost per acquisition, or better.
Two businesses, not a promise. Search results depend on your market, your competition and your site. A new article commonly shows its first impressions in Search Console within a few weeks and settles over two to six months.
What you actually get, from Brain to finished post.
Some of these screens come from ACE’s demo account, a cartoon company we use so we never show a client’s workspace. The finished article, the social posts and the ad report are real output from real accounts. Each one is labeled.
Click through the live demo ↗- 1 · Your Brain
ACE’s research does most of the work.
It reads your site, your reviews, your social profiles and your documents, then asks you only about the gaps. Offers, prices, voice, customers and the claims you can prove all live here.
Demo account · sample data - 2 · Strategy and plan
What to write first, and when.
The strategy report matches what you sell to what people search, checks what your site already covers, and picks the articles worth writing first. The planner puts each one on a date.
Demo account · sample data
- 3 · The finished article
Live on the site, with its sources.
This went live on Angel Investors Network’s site on October 29, 2026. It opens with a TL;DR answer, links every source, uses the reader’s questions as headings, and puts its numbers in a table with a source column. It scored 91 on ACE’s seven-part gate.
Real output · published
- 4 · Social posts, with the article’s image
One article. A post for every platform.
These are the drafts ACE wrote for that same article, word for word. Each platform gets its own version, sized and written for how people read there. You copy them into your own tools.
Real output · draftsAINAngel Investors NetworkLinkedIn draft52% of 401(k), 403(b), and 457 participants say they would invest in private equity and private debt if their plan offered it. That is per a Schroders survey reported by InvestmentNews. The figure was 45% in 2025 and 36% in 2024. The number needs context. The poll covered 1,500 U.S. investors aged 30 to 79, including 615 plan participants, between March 20 and April 15, 2026. It measures stated intent, not purchases. Understanding of these assets lags interest, and plan sponsors still control access. Private equity and private debt remain illiquid and speculative. Our breakdown covers the trend, what it means if you are already accredited, and the mistakes to avoid. angelinvestorsnetwork.com/alternative-investments/private-assets-in-401-k… #PrivateEquity #PrivateCredit #RetirementPlans
angelinvestorsnetwork.comPrivate Assets in 401(k)s: Savers' Interest Is RisingAINAngel Investors NetworkFacebook draftMore than half of workplace retirement plan participants, 52%, say they would invest in private equity and private debt if their plan offered it, per a Schroders survey. It was 36% in 2024. But it is a self-reported intention from 615 plan participants, not a count of purchases. Wanting access is not the same as understanding what you would own. We look at what the number means and where it falls short. angelinvestorsnetwork.com/alternative-investments/private-assets-in-401-k…
angelinvestorsnetwork.comPrivate Assets in 401(k)s: Savers' Interest Is RisingAINAngel Investors NetworkX draft52% of plan participants say they would buy private equity and private debt in a 401(k), up from 36% in 2024, per Schroders. It measures intent, not purchases. angelinvestorsnetwork.com/alternative-investments/private-assets-in-401-k…
angelinvestorsnetwork.comPrivate Assets in 401(k)s: Savers' Interest Is RisingDrafts written by ACE on October 29, 2026, shown with the article’s own hero image. The text is unedited; ACE leaves a placeholder for the link, filled in here. ACE wrote Instagram and Google Business Profile versions of this one too.
- 5 · The Ad strategy report
Your competitors’ ads, read for you.
Each competitor up close: how they position, where they fall short, how many ads they run, and whether the page behind the ad keeps its promise. More on this report below.
Real output · Oct 29, 2026
- 6 · Reports
Measured, never guessed.
Clicks and impressions from Google, page by page, straight from your Search Console. Every number shows the dates it actually covers, and the monthly report lands on the 1st.
Demo account · sample data
See what your competitors are doing. Then do it better.
Most owners find out what a competitor changed when a customer mentions it. ACE checks every week, reads their ads, and tells you where the open ground is.
The competitor watch
- ✓A positioning map. Where each competitor stands on the two things your buyers care about, and the empty space nobody claims.
- ✓Angles they can’t copy. Things you can say that a competitor can’t easily match, tied to what your customers actually say.
- ✓A check every Monday. New pages on their sites, and Google ads started, stopped or stepped up. You get an email when something moves.
- ✓A monthly read on each one. Estimated Google visits, Domain Rating, new first-page searches, their Facebook and Instagram ads, and their Google reviews.
- ✓5 competitors tracked on Growth, 10 on Authority.
The Ad strategy report
ACE collects the ads your competitors run on Meta and Google, reads the pages those ads send people to, and sets them against your customers’ own words. Then it writes ads you can run, from your Brain.
- →The read on your ad market, and the three ads to run first
- →Who advertises to your customers, and where
- →Each competitor’s longest-running ads and the pages behind them
- →The angles everyone uses, and the ones nobody owns
- →Ready-to-run ads: hook, text, headline, button, picture and landing page
- →How to split your spend, a test plan, and how to grow it over 90 days
Ready in a few hours. Download it as a PDF, the ads as a spreadsheet, or the whole report as one file for your AI assistant. If a competitor runs no ads, the report says so. ACE never invents ad activity.
A real Ad strategy report, run October 29, 2026 for Women Gun Owners Association of America, a DEMG client. The client’s own ad results are left out of these screenshots.
Everything it takes to publish every day, in one subscription.
Every client account gets all of it, and so does your own business.
- 01
Your Brain
Built from your site, your documents, your reviews and a short interview about whatever ACE could not find. Approve it, edit it any time, and download it as Markdown.
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A strategy report and keyword plan
Keyword and competitor research, what your site already covers, and which articles to write first. You approve the plan before a word is written.
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A monthly content calendar
Every article with its target search, its title and its date, a whole month at a time.
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Articles every day
1 a day on Growth, 2 a day on Authority. Research before every draft, a TL;DR answer at the top, and the structure search engines and AI answers read.
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Every source opened and checked
Each cited source is checked against its page before the draft reaches you.
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The seven-part quality gate
A score of 80 or better, with no part under half marks, or the draft is held back.
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A custom hero image for every article
In your brand's look, with two remakes if you want another take.
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An email draft and social drafts for every article
A branded HTML email plus LinkedIn, Facebook and X drafts, ready to copy into your own tools.
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Your approval queue
Reviewer notes on every draft, one-click “Apply these edits”, and nothing published until you approve it.
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Scheduled publishing, then a live check
WordPress, your GoHighLevel blog, HubSpot, GitHub or Netlify sites, a signed webhook, or a blog ACE hosts on your own domain. After it publishes, ACE checks the page loads, Google can fetch it, and it is in your sitemap.
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Reporting that is measured, never written by a model
Search Console and Google Analytics (read-only), site health, AI-answer visibility (estimated), a competitor watch every Monday, and a monthly report on the 1st.
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It learns from your edits
What you change in the early drafts becomes how ACE writes the later ones.
From the call to your first client’s articles.
Every client then follows the same six steps your own business did, and each client’s dashboard always says whose move it is.
- 1 Your move
Book the call
We go over your clients, how you want to bill them, and your wholesale pricing.
- 2 ACE’s move
Sign in
Once your agency is set up, ACE emails you a button that signs you straight in.
- 3 Your move
Set up your own business first
Your agency includes an ACE account for your own business. Do it first and you see exactly what your clients will go through. Its preliminary Brain is usually ready within the hour.
- 4 Your move
Put ACE under your brand
Your logo, colours and name on the portal, the emails and the reports. The portal on your own address, and client emails from your own domain.
- 5 Your move
Bring in your team
Owners, admins and members who work across every client, or people who work on one client only, including the client’s own.
- 6 Your move
Add your first client
Business name, website and plan. Fill in Step 1 yourself, or invite the client once their Brain is ready to check.
- 7 Your move
Bill your clients your way
Charge what you like. ACE never shows your clients a price list. Or connect your own Stripe and send each client a payment link.
What it costs your agency to deliver this for one client.
Here’s one client’s month of work, done by your team with AI or by people you hire. Every assumption is on the table. Multiply it by your client count.
and 79 hours of someone’s month
or $7,416/mo for one day a week from each
Your price per client account, set on a call. Your team’s time: reading and approving.
Your team, with AI, at $50 an hour
| The work, each month | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Research, write, fact-check, format and publish 30 articles 1.5 hours each, with AI | 45 | $2,250 |
| Make 30 hero images with an AI image tool 15 minutes each | 7.5 | $375 |
| Write 90 social posts (LinkedIn, Facebook and X, daily) 5 minutes each | 7.5 | $375 |
| Write 30 email drafts 10 minutes each | 5 | $250 |
| Keyword research, competitor research and the month’s plan Once a month | 6 | $300 |
| Check what competitors changed 1 hour a week | 4 | $200 |
| Pull Search Console, Analytics and site health into a report Once a month | 4 | $200 |
| A top-tier AI plan | – | $200 |
| An SEO research tool (Ahrefs Lite, billed monthly, ahrefs.com/pricing) | – | $129 |
| Total, every month | 79 | $4,279 |
Hours are our estimate. Orbit Media’s 2026 survey of 1,042 bloggers found an average post takes 3 hours 20 minutes; we assume AI cuts that to 1.5 hours, including research, fact-checking, formatting and publishing. It leaves out the time to learn the tools.
Hiring the people who do it
| Role | Median pay | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Content writer Writers and authors | $76,910/yr | $6,409 |
| Graphic designer Graphic designers | $62,960/yr | $5,247 |
| Researcher Market research analysts | $78,760/yr | $6,563 |
| Web developer Web developers | $92,650/yr | $7,721 |
| Ads strategist Advertising and promotions managers | $133,660/yr | $11,138 |
| Total, every month | $37,078 | |
| One day a week from each | $7,416 |
Median annual pay, May 2025, from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook. Salary only, before benefits, payroll taxes, software and the time it takes to manage five people.
Everything above, for every client. Under your name.
Agency pricing is wholesale: one agency fee, which includes ACE for your own business, plus a price per client account. It depends on how many clients you bring and how you bill them, so we set it on a call.
Under your brand
- ✓Your logo, colours and name on the portal, emails, reports and PDFs
- ✓The portal on your own address, like portal.youragency.com
- ✓Client emails sent from your own domain
- ✓Help docs on your address that leave out anything naming DEMG
Every client in one place
- ✓An agency dashboard: what’s waiting, what’s scheduled and what went live this month, for every account
- ✓A client account for each business, on Growth or Authority
- ✓Agency owners, admins and members across every client, plus client-only access
- ✓What each client has used of its plan this period
Your prices, your billing
- ✓ACE never shows your clients a price list
- ✓Connect your own Stripe and send payment links at your price; ACE’s share comes out automatically
- ✓Buy Ad strategy reports ahead and run them for any client; they don’t expire, and a failed one is given back
Tools to win and keep clients
- ✓Prospect audits: ACE scores a company you’re pitching and sets out what you’d build, as a PDF or a no-login link
- ✓Visibility reports: search, AI answers, reviews, social and ads, against up to three competitors
- ✓Meeting prep: a one-page brief for a check-in, strategy review or renewal, and action items pulled from your call transcript
- ✓Review each client’s monthly analysis before the client sees it
A 30-minute call. We go over wholesale pricing, how you’ll bill clients, and which clients to start with.
What you're risking, and what you're not.
You see the product before you pay. The demo is the real portal. Click through every screen first.
Nothing publishes without approval. Every article waits in the queue until someone, on your team or the client’s, approves it.
Your clients see your brand. Not ours, and never our prices.
Ending an account deletes nothing. Its Brain, plan and articles are kept, and articles already on the client’s site stay there.
So what you’re risking right now is a 30-minute call. You’ll know on it whether the numbers work for your agency.
The questions agencies ask before they start.
What does ACE cost an agency?
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Agency pricing is wholesale: an agency fee that includes ACE for your own business, plus a price per client account. It depends on how many clients you bring and how you bill them, so we set it on a short call instead of listing it here. Book an agency call →
Can I put my own brand on it?
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Yes. Your logo, colours and name go on the portal, the emails, the reports and the PDFs. The portal can run on your own address, like portal.youragency.com, and client emails can come from your own domain.
Will my clients see DEMG or your prices?
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They never see a price list. What you charge is up to you. On your own portal address, clients see only your brand, and the help docs there leave out anything that names DEMG.
How do I bill my clients?
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Your way. Invoice them the way you do today, or connect your own Stripe and send each client a payment link at your price. Payments land in your Stripe and ACE’s share comes out automatically. Refunds and disputes are yours to handle.
Can my team work across all my clients?
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Yes. Agency owners, admins and members work across every client. You can also invite someone who works on one client only, including the client’s own people, as an admin, editor or viewer.
Does it help me win new clients?
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Yes. Run a prospect audit on a company you’re pitching. ACE scores what it finds and sets out what you’d build, using your own service names, as a PDF or a link that needs no login. It never shows a price.
Will it sound like each client?
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Each client gets its own Brain, with that client’s voice, offers and the words they never use. Early on ACE writes one article at a time and learns from every edit, so later drafts need fewer.
Does it make things up?
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That’s the failure the gate exists for. Every cited source is checked against its page. A draft with fewer than two sources, or a claim that isn’t in the client’s Brain, is held back and never reaches you. Report numbers are measured from the client’s accounts, never written by a model.
Does ACE post to social accounts or send emails?
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No. ACE drafts an email and social posts for every article, and you or your client send them from your own tools.
How long until a client’s articles rank?
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Weeks to months, not days. A new article commonly shows its first impressions in Search Console within a few weeks and settles into a stable position over two to six months. Competitive searches take longer. We don’t guarantee rankings, and you shouldn’t promise them either.
Is client data used to train AI models?
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No. Each client’s Brain and connected data are used only for that client’s workspace. The providers that run the AI models do so under agreements that bar them from training their own models on it.
ACE isn't for everyone. Skip it if this is you.
- ✕You want to publish client content nobody reads first. ACE expects someone, on your team or the client’s, to approve every article.
- ✕You need someone to run your clients’ ads, shoot video, or post on social for them. ACE writes articles and drafts the email and social posts.
- ✕You promise clients rankings by a date. Nobody honest can, and ACE won’t help you pretend.
- ✕You want a one-off batch of content. ACE is a daily engine, built for retainers.
If none of that is you, you're exactly who we built it for.
Book an agency call. Bring your client list.
- 1Pick a time for a 30-minute call.
- 2We go over wholesale pricing, how you’ll bill your clients, and which clients to start with.
- 3You sign in, set up your own business first, then add your first client.
P.S. If you only read this far: ACE gives every client a researched, source-checked article a day, written from a Brain of that client’s business, under your brand and at your prices. Nothing goes live without approval. Agency pricing is wholesale, so we set it on a call. Book an agency call →
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