A dev team with no growth team.
Ceres is your AI Growth Officer — the marketing function your team has before you can justify the headcount. Specialists for SEO, ads, content, and outbound; your team stays in the loop. From $39/month.
The problem
You have three, five, maybe eight people — and every one of them ships code. Nobody owns growth, so growth is whatever the founder gets to after the standup, the review, and the customer call.
Marketing-by-founder-nights does not scale, and it is the first thing dropped in a crunch. Meanwhile the roadmap is full and the pipeline is not.
The honest blocker is timing. A real marketing hire is a $90k+ commitment and a desk you would rather give to an engineer. You need the marketing function before you can justify the marketing headcount.
How Ceres helps
Ceres is an AI Growth Officer — a coordinator plus specialists that cover the work a first marketing hire would do: SEO, content, paid-ads ops, LinkedIn, and cold outbound.
It runs on a schedule and reports into a shared Slack channel, so growth becomes something your team can see and steer — not a tab the founder forgets. Evidence-cited briefings, not status theater.
It fits how a dev team already works. Outbound and spend changes arrive as drafts and proposals with the evidence attached, and someone approves them the same way you approve a pull request. Growth gets a process instead of a hope.
Instead of hiring a marketing team
What covering growth actually costs a small team:
A senior bet on an unproven channel mix — and about three months before they're productive.
You still own strategy and briefs; they own none of the outcome.
Unsustainable — and it stops the moment a release slips.
Ceres starts at $39/month and scales by plan as you add specialists and seats. It's the growth function now; you make the marketing hire later, from data instead of hope.
Specialists that fit
FAQ
- How does a small dev team do marketing with no marketer?
- Ceres is the marketing function a small dev team has before it can justify the headcount. It is an AI Growth Officer plus specialists covering SEO, content, paid ads, LinkedIn, and cold outbound — reporting into a shared Slack channel so growth is something the whole team can see and steer. Outbound and spend changes arrive as drafts the team approves, the same way you approve a pull request. From $39/month, scaling by plan as you add seats.
- Who on the team manages this?
- Whoever owns growth this quarter — it doesn't need a dedicated person. Plan on about 30 minutes a week reviewing briefings in a shared channel and approving drafts.
- We'll hire a marketer eventually — is this a stopgap?
- It's the growth function now, and it makes the eventual hire better — they inherit baselines, evidence, and a running channel mix instead of a blank page. After the hire, they direct Ceres instead of doing the execution by hand.
- Can multiple people use it?
- Yes. Plans include seats, and briefings land in a shared channel the whole team can see and steer. Growth stops being one person's hidden tab.
- Does it change ad spend on its own?
- No. Spend changes always require explicit human approval. Ceres drafts the recommendation with the evidence — the cost-per-acquisition chart, the baseline, the numbers — and waits for someone to approve it.
- How is this different from hiring an agency?
- An agency doesn't know your product, your voice, or your data, and bills a multi-thousand-dollar retainer. Ceres learns all three, lives in your Slack, and starts at $39/month — and you keep ownership of the strategy.
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