Lighthouse Voyages · Marina · For Business ATL · Built for operators · 2026
For founders running real teams

Reduce your overhead by 15–40%.

Your 10-employee back office costs you a million dollars a year, loaded.

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$ before Marina · the real payroll math

Here's what these 10 roles
are costing you.

Median 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.

$ payroll · annual · 10 roles · loaded
The full back-office stack.
Salary + benefits + taxes + tools
Role Annual cost (loaded) What Marina replaces
Executive Assistant
$96,600
Calendar · email triage · scheduling · inbox routing
Operations Manager
$131,000
Dashboards · KPI tracking · workflow orchestration
Sales Closer (AE)
$152,000
Discovery scripts · objection handling · proposal drafts
Appointment Setter (BDR)
$69,000
Outreach sequences · lead nurture · auto-follow-ups
Team Lead / Project Mgr
$103,500
Task assignment · deadline tracking · status reports
Customer Service Rep
$62,100
Tier-1 support · FAQ resolution · ticket routing
Client Success Manager
$110,400
Onboarding flows · QBR prep · health-score monitoring
Market Researcher
$99,300
Competitor audits · industry pulls · trend reports
Social Media Manager
$89,700
Content calendar · post drafting · scheduling · analytics
Video Editor
$82,800
Auto-captions · cuts · color · b-roll · social repurpose
10-role back-office total
$996K
Marina handles 25–40% of these tasks within 30 days.

The dollar number nobody wants to do the math on:
$249,000 to $400,000.

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.

throughput on the same headcount

Don't fire your team. Stop hiring the next five.

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.

$ inside marina · 10 departments

1 bot, 10 departments.

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.

Dept 01

Executive Assistant

Replaces: Executive Assistant ($96K loaded)

Runs your calendar, triages your inbox, and sends every follow-up before you remember to ask.

Dept 02

Operations Manager

Replaces: Operations Manager ($131K loaded)

Builds the dashboards that tell you what's actually working — refreshed live, not weekly.

Dept 03

Sales Closer

Replaces: Sales Closer ($152K loaded)

Drafts your discovery scripts, objection rebuttals, and proposals — in your tone, with your pricing.

Dept 04

Appointment Setter

Replaces: BDR / Appointment Setter ($69K loaded)

Cold outreach, nurture flows, and 5-touch follow-ups across every channel your buyers actually use.

Dept 05

Team Lead / PM

Replaces: Team Lead ($103K loaded)

Assigns tasks, tracks deadlines, and writes the status report nobody on your team wants to write.

Dept 06

Customer Service

Replaces: Customer Service Rep ($62K loaded)

Answers tier-1 tickets, routes the rest, and only escalates to a human when one is actually needed.

Dept 07

Client Success

Replaces: Client Success Manager ($110K loaded)

Onboards every new client, runs QBRs, and flags renewal risk before it shows up in revenue.

Dept 08

Market Researcher

Replaces: Market Researcher ($99K loaded)

Audits competitors, mines reviews, and pulls trend reports before your morning standup.

Dept 09

Social Media Manager

Replaces: Social Media Manager ($89K loaded)

Drafts, schedules, and posts across every platform — on-brand, on-cadence, every week.

Dept 10

Video Editor

Replaces: Video Editor ($82K loaded)

Cuts, captions, color-grades, and repurposes long-form video for every short-form platform.

What's inside every Marina.

60+
Specialist skills
A library of structured playbooks across marketing, ops, sales, content, video, customer success, and research.
8
Social platforms wired
IG, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest — drafted, scheduled, and posted from one bot.
Multi
Dashboard surfaces
Command Center, prospect audits, social, funding pipeline, team task queue — IDE-native. Add new surfaces on demand.
24/7
Operational + Memory
Always-on execution with persistent memory. Marina runs when you sleep — and remembers everything she did when you wake up.
$ pricing · three tiers

Pick the Marina sized to your business.

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.

Tier 1 · Solo
Founder Marina
$15K
one-time install · starting at
Solo operators < $50K/mo · 1-3 person teams
ROI: Replaces ~$120K of overhead. Pays back in < 60 days.
  • 5 departments live
  • Executive assistant + scheduling
  • Social media (3 platforms)
  • Video editor pipeline
  • Market researcher (audits)
  • 1 dashboard surface
  • 30 days of priming support
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Tier 4 · Enterprise + Bespoke
Bespoke Marina
$35K+
one-time install · quoted on audit call
$500K+/mo · 40+ person teams · holding cos · multi-LLC
ROI: Custom — calculated against your specific payroll burden. Replaces $400K+ of overhead for standard enterprise scope.
  • All 10 departments · multi-tenant ready
  • Team orchestrator (Slack-native)
  • Role-based access control + audit log
  • Unlimited dashboard surfaces
  • Cross-bot memory sync (multi-LLC orgs)
  • White-glove install across every entity
  • 4 operators trained on your team
  • Custom skill development (3 bespoke)
  • 180 days of priming support
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$ your time investment

What it costs you in time.

No 6-month consulting engagement. No discovery deck. Here's what your team actually puts in — and what they get back.

~3 hrs
your time / week during install
Hardware audit, brand-voice priming, operator training. We handle ~90% of the build. You answer questions and record one 30-minute brand session per week.
15+ hrs
saved / week after Day 30
Calendar triage, social drafts, customer DMs, market pulls, follow-up sequences — all running before you open your laptop in the morning. That's per-person, not total.
Zero
developers / engineers required
Your operator is a non-technical hire (we usually train an EA, CS rep, or VA). No new engineering headcount. No CTO involvement. No SaaS budget line.
$ marina, already shipping

Real businesses, real output.

A snapshot of what Marina is doing right now for the operators we've built her for.

Lighthouse Voyages · holding co

10 departments, 1 bot.

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.

Replacing ~$300K of overhead · live since 2026
Overflow Cakes · D2C bakery

Social on autopilot.

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.

Output metric · TBD with client
Shooters Agency · creative

Lead-pipeline automation.

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.

Output metric · TBD with client
Carrington Consulting · funding advisory

Client-portfolio orchestration.

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.

Output metric · TBD with client

Common questions.

Do I have to fire anyone?

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.

Is my data safe? Where does it live?

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.

What happens if I want to leave?

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.

Can Marina actually learn our brand voice?

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.

What if I don't have a technical person on staff?

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.

Why is this different from ChatGPT or Claude.ai?

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.

We already have a marketing team. Why do we need this?

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.

How much of MY time does the install take?

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.

What if it doesn't work for our industry?

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.

How does Marina sound like ME and not like generic AI slop?

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.

What about IP, security, and compliance?

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.

Installing only15 Marinasevery 60 days · capacity-limited

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