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The AI staff your clients think you hired. Hire a team of ~100 AI specialists — copywriters, ad composers, strategists, email sequencers, re...
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Drew OdenbachProfile picture@dtodenbach·May 6

The math on hiring vs. AI staff for a 5-client agency

I ran a 5-client marketing agency for two years before I broke.


Not broke as in money — broke as in 14-hour days writing the same Facebook ad for the third HVAC company that month while pretending each one was a unique creative breakthrough.


So I did the math:


Hiring a junior copywriter: $45-55K/yr + benefits + management overhead + 2 weeks before they match a client's voice. And they can only work on one thing at a time.


Hiring a strategist: $70-90K/yr. They're great — but now you need the revenue to justify them, which means more clients, which means more copy, which means...


The AI alternative: ~100 specialists that already know how to write copy, build ad sets, draft strategy briefs, sequence emails, and write monthly recaps. They learn each client's voice from day one. They work in parallel. And they cost less than your coffee budget.


The unlock isn't "AI is cheaper." The unlock is that you can take on 3 more clients tomorrow without hiring anyone. Your output scales. Your overhead doesn't.


That's what we built OpenAgentcy for — small agency teams who want to grow the book without growing the headcount.


If that's you, come check it out.