Your 10-employee back office costs you a million dollars a year, loaded.
Schedule a business auditMedian 2025 US salaries — fully loaded (salary + benefits + Medicare + 401(k) + payroll taxes + PTO + equipment + software). Most founders look only at base pay. This is the real annual cost of those ten seats.
That's how much of your $996,000 loaded payroll Marina removes from your overhead in year one — conservatively. Not by firing anyone Day One. By absorbing the repeatable work that didn't need a human in the first place, freeing your team to do the work that did. Some clients keep the headcount and double their throughput. Some clients consolidate and pocket the difference. We help you decide which.
Marina runs underneath your people, not instead of them. Every existing seat ships ~6× the work they ship today. That's how the cost savings above turn into compounding output — without payroll cuts, without layoffs, without a single tough conversation.
Marina is a stack of ten specialized operators sharing a memory, a calendar, and a brand voice. Each department maps to a role you'd otherwise hire for.
Runs your calendar, triages your inbox, and sends every follow-up before you remember to ask.
Builds the dashboards that tell you what's actually working — refreshed live, not weekly.
Drafts your discovery scripts, objection rebuttals, and proposals — in your tone, with your pricing.
Cold outreach, nurture flows, and 5-touch follow-ups across every channel your buyers actually use.
Assigns tasks, tracks deadlines, and writes the status report nobody on your team wants to write.
Answers tier-1 tickets, routes the rest, and only escalates to a human when one is actually needed.
Onboards every new client, runs QBRs, and flags renewal risk before it shows up in revenue.
Audits competitors, mines reviews, and pulls trend reports before your morning standup.
Drafts, schedules, and posts across every platform — on-brand, on-cadence, every week.
Cuts, captions, color-grades, and repurposes long-form video for every short-form platform.
One-time install fee. No SaaS subscription on the bot itself — you own it. Every install is quoted on the business audit call against your specific payroll burden.
No 6-month consulting engagement. No discovery deck. Here's what your team actually puts in — and what they get back.
A snapshot of what Marina is doing right now for the operators we've built her for.
The Lighthouse Voyages back office runs on Marina — content pipeline across 8 platforms, funding deal pipeline, team task queue, prospect audits, and a Command Center that drafts the morning report before Carrington's first coffee.
Marina drafts, schedules, and posts Overflow's IG + TikTok content. Caption sanitization, brand-voice rules, hook generation, weekly performance pull. The bakery owner stopped paying a social media manager.
Cold outreach, proposal drafting, and follow-up sequences for Brandon's 62K-follower agency. Marina runs the appointment-setter playbook so the creative team can stay focused on shooting and editing.
Marina tracks every funding client's deal stage, runs the weekly check-in cadence, generates the renewal-readiness reports, and writes the proposal drafts for net-new business.
No. Most clients keep their team and double output. We've watched a 12-person ops team go from drowning to forward-looking — Marina absorbed the repeatable work, and the humans started doing the work humans should actually do. If you want to consolidate, the math is there. But that's your call, not ours.
On your hardware. Period. Marina runs on a Mac, a VPS, or a Windows box that YOU own. We don't host her. We don't aggregate your data on our servers. No SaaS subscription means no shared multi-tenant cloud. Your customer list stays on your machine.
You keep the bot. You keep the toolchain. You keep the memory. You keep the dashboards. We don't have a kill-switch. If you stop paying for monthly support, support stops — but Marina keeps running indefinitely on the install you already paid for. No lock-in by design.
Yes. We load 21 sections of brand context into her memory at install. Tone, voice rules, do-not-say list, customer profile, pricing, team roster, content pillars. The first week of priming refines the tone against your real existing posts and emails. By the end of W2, your team can't tell which content was you and which was Marina.
We train one of your existing team members as the Marina Operator. Included in every tier. It's not a developer role — it's a prompt-and-permission role. Most operators we train were customer service reps or executive assistants. The skill takes about 2 weeks to internalize.
ChatGPT is a chat window. Marina is an operational system. She has persistent memory across years, scheduled tasks running on cron, dashboard surfaces wired to your real data, automation across 8 social platforms, video and audio pipelines, native iMessage and SMS sending, calendar and contact management, and 60+ specialist skills. A chat window cannot do any of that. Marina runs your back office. ChatGPT helps you write an email.
Your team doesn't go away — they get superpowers. A 3-person marketing team publishing 10 pieces a week ships 60+ with Marina underneath them. We don't replace your people. We multiply their output so you stop hiring and start scaling what you already have. The team you have today, with Marina, is the team you'd have to hire 4 more people to match.
About 3 hours per week during the 30-day install. We handle ~90% of the build. Your job is recording one 30-minute brand-voice session per week and answering questions about your business as we go. After Day 30, your operator runs the bot — not you. Most founders we install for spend less time on Marina in month two than they did managing one EA.
We've installed for credit-repair operators, business-consulting solopreneurs, a D2C bakery, a creative agency, and a holding company. The 10-department architecture adapts because it's built around your workflow, not a template. That said — we screen every prospect on the strategy call. If we don't think Marina is the right fit for what you're solving, we'll say so on the spot. We've turned down more installs than we've sold.
Two stages. (1) At install we load 21 sections of brand context — your voice rules, do-not-say list, tone calibration, customer profile, the names you use, the names you don't. (2) Week-one priming refines the model against your actual existing posts, emails, and DMs. By end of Week 2, your team can't tell which content was you and which was Marina. Clients literally guess wrong on their own posts.
Three layers. (1) Your data lives on your hardware, not ours — Mac, VPS, or Windows box that you own. We never aggregate client data on shared servers. (2) Marina memory is file-based on your machine — your customer list, your SOPs, your sales calls never touch a public model training pipeline. (3) Role-based access (Tier 4+) means each operator only sees what they're cleared to see. The on-hardware posture is stronger than the SOC2 / GDPR posture most SaaS competitors advertise — your data physically cannot leak because it doesn't leave your machine.