How is AI agent marketing different from AI startup marketing?
Agent buyers reject capability slides and reward unedited agent runs. The wedge is demo-led plus AEO citation: ship the agent run end-to-end, voice-over the failure modes, repeat at cadence, and earn citations inside ChatGPT and Perplexity for category queries. AI-startup marketing leans on founder authority and technical thesis at the company level; agent-product marketing leans on the agent doing the talking and the model citing it back. Channel weighting also shifts: AgentOps, LangChain, and YouTube long-form rise, paid social falls.
What does the agent engagement actually cost?
Engagements sized per service stack chosen, by application. Pilot floor sized per service economics, by application. Common shapes are an Answer Engine Optimization sandbox plus retainer (sandbox plus retainer), a Founder Funnel retainer (retainer, 90-day minimum), a DevRel retainer (retainer, 90-day minimum), or a Marketing Foundation project (fixed-scope project). All by application, capped at five engagements per quarter.
Do you work with pre-launch agent companies still in closed beta?
Yes, when the founder records one unedited agent run per week and a real agent is running for at least one paying or design-partner buyer. The lead wedge is Founder Funnel plus Demo Production plus AEO citation work. We start the autonomy-claim narrative before public launch so the demo lands into a primed audience instead of cold.
What does a demo-led campaign actually ship for an agent product?
An 8-minute end-to-end agent run per week, recorded unedited and voice-over by the founder. A 30-minute long-form per month (Q&A, autonomy walkthrough, ops receipt). 30+ clip variants per long-form: builder cuts on X, buyer cuts on LinkedIn, full receipts on YouTube. AEO + GEO citation work runs in parallel so generative engines name the agent inside category queries inside 60 days.
How do you handle agents that fail on demos?
Failure-mode honesty is the wedge. Buyers trust agents that show the rough edges and the recovery, not the polished happy path. We script the failure points the agent already has and frame the recovery as the proof. Pretending an agent is perfect loses every buyer who has run agents before.
Can you cover both X (builders) and LinkedIn (buyers) for agent companies?
Yes, with cuts tuned for each surface. Builders on X want product mechanics, integration depth, eval rigor, model-choice rationale, and developer-grade demos. Buyers on LinkedIn want outcome stories, vertical fit, ROI receipts, and named-customer proof. Same long-form, different cuts, different cadence.
Do you work with horizontal agent platforms or marketplaces?
Yes, with two parallel narrative arcs: builder credibility (developer trust, SDK quality, framework fit, eval transparency) and buyer outcomes (vertical wins, integration receipts, ROI). Two-sided liquidity problems need two-sided distribution. Single-channel pushes do not work for marketplaces.
What does outcome pricing look like for agent companies?
We anchor on cited-LLM share, qualified demo requests, integration signups, contributor PRs, and design-partner conversion depending on the lead wedge. Per-clip and CPM models do not apply. Vertical-agent teams typically anchor on cited-LLM share plus qualified demos. Coding agents anchor on contributor and integration counts. Multi-agent platforms anchor on builder-side and buyer-side liquidity together.