I'm a self-taught builder. No formal degree, no investors, no connections. Just a lot of time studying how businesses actually operate behind the scenes . not how they look on LinkedIn, but how the work actually moves.I started talking to marketing agencies earlier this year. Not to sell anything. Just to understand.
Same story every time. Someone spending 15-20 hours a week manually pulling data from ad platforms, reformatting it, and sending it to clients. Leads falling through because the handoff between the ad form and the CRM is a copy-paste job. Onboarding that takes two weeks because the process lives in a senior person's head.These aren't chaotic startups. Some have 20+ people and real revenue. The tools are all there. The work between the tools is still done by hand.
What I'm building is an AI operations system for agencies. Not another automation tool , the layer above the tools. It starts with an audit that maps exactly where the agency is bleeding time and money. Then an AI brain reasons about how the business works and directs the execution layer underneath it. The AI reasons. The system acts.Still early and honestly still figuring parts of it out.Curious if anyone here has seen this problem up close , either building for agencies or running one. What have I got wrong?