AI-First Marketing for Small Business

The always-on marketing engine that makes you the obvious choice.

Strategy and execution for owner-led businesses that need consistent growth without hiring a team. We name the edge that already makes you the obvious choice, then beat that drum every month.

Book a Discovery Call See what ships each month → 20 minutes. Bring one messy marketing priority — leave with a clear next move.
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4
finished assets shipped every month, at Pro
3
places each one shows up: page, social, newsletter
30
days to your first shipped work, not a start date
$3,150
a month, all in from month one

The second job

Most small businesses don't have a marketing problem.

Owner-led businesses have a focus, time and bandwidth problem, and marketing is what loses. The overhead becomes a second job. Here is where it goes.

The worst marketing looks like a spreadsheet.

  • The posts.
  • The scheduling.
  • The tools.
  • The timing.
  • The dashboards.
  • The week.

Comes off your plate. Lands on ours.

The best has always looked like a story.

Marketing is just telling your story. We make it the only part you have to think about.

  • 01Find your story. The edge that already makes you the obvious choice, named and turned into words your buyers repeat.
  • 02Beat the drum. One approved priority a month, shipped as finished work across every channel that matters. You review it once a week.
  • 03Watch it compound. Every month stacks more coverage on the last, and every decision you make teaches the system your business. Month twelve beats month one.

The Math

All of that, for what $3,150 a month actually replaces.

Marketing has always been an overhead decision. The engine makes it a utility bill — one number, everything included, no headcount to manage.

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Marketing has always been an overhead decision. You either pay an agency eight to twelve thousand a month, hire one person for seventy thousand a year and still manage them, or you do it yourself, nights and weekends, for as long as you can keep that up. The engine turns that into a utility bill. One number, thirty-one fifty a month, and everything is inside it: the strategy, the production, four finished assets shipped every month, no headcount to manage. That's not a discount on marketing. It's marketing priced like electricity, so you can stop deciding whether to afford it and start deciding what to say.

Agency retainerplus ad spend
$8–12Kper month
Full-time hire$70K+ per year, plus benefits & tools
≈$5,833per month
Doing it yourselffor as long as you can keep it up
Nights + weekends
The 9xNine Engineall in from month one
$3,150per month

Bars scale to monthly cost. The agency bar uses the $10,000 midpoint of an $8–12K retainer; the salary converts at $70,000 ÷ 12 and excludes benefits and tools.

No contracts to decode, no scope creep, no surprise invoices. One priority, one number, one engine that compounds.

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The lobby

Pick a door into 9xNine.

Everything about 9xNine is one click deep. Six pages, one job each.

Subscription Here is exactly what ships every month.A pillar page, three articles shipped as sets, a newsletter, four AI assistants on duty and a strategy check-in, every month at Pro. How it works Plan monthly. Review weekly.Jade drafts, Michael reads, you approve, and it learns your business every week. Pricing Marketing subscription pricing. Choose your path.Momentum $2,500 · Pro $3,150 · Scale $5,000+ a month, or a one-time strategy playbook from $3,000. Approach Human judgment. AI-first execution.Why one priority at a time works, and how the operating model runs. Insights What we think about, out loud.Latest: Run the Two-Week Test. About Meet the operator.Michael Weisfeld, 25+ years in marketing. AI makes the work fast; he makes it right.

Get Started

Ready to stop spinning and start shipping?

One call, one clear plan. Then choose: we build the engine and run it, or you take the playbook and go.

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Path A · Recommended

We build it and run it.

Month one stands up your message, your stack and your first workstream. Then the engine runs every month. $3,150/mo, all in.

Path B

Strategy, you run it.

Positioning, pillars, calendar and the production playbook, delivered once and yours to keep. From $3,000, one time.
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