HERE.Marketing agencies can save 15-20 hours per week by delegating five key tasks to AI team members: client research briefs, competitive analysis, first-draft proposals, social media content calendars, and client report compilation. The most effective approach is creating specialised AI team members for each task rather than using one general-purpose chatbot.
Last month, I sat down with a team that were stretched thin.
Their bottleneck wasn’t strategy. It wasn’t creativity. It was the mountain of research, reporting, and first-draft work that ate up her team’s days before they could do the work that actually matters.
Sound familiar? It should. I hear this from agency owners every week.
Here are the 5 tasks that agency teams should delegate to AI immediately, and how to set each one up.
Task 1: Client Research Briefs
The pain: Before every new client call or pitch, someone on your team spends 1-2 hours pulling company information, checking recent news, reviewing their social media, and summarising it into a brief.
The delegation: Create an AI team member with the role of “Client Research Analyst.” Give it a brief template and instruct it to: pull company overview, recent news, key stakeholders, social media presence, and potential pain points.
What this looks like in practice:
You type: “Research Acme Digital for our Thursday pitch.”
Your AI team member delivers: A structured brief with company overview, founding year, team size, recent funding, key decision makers, their current marketing stack (based on their website/job listings), recent blog posts and social activity, and 3 conversation starters tailored to their likely challenges.
Time saved: 1-2 hours per client, typically 5-8 clients/month = 5-16 hours saved monthly
Task 2: Competitive Analysis
The pain: Clients expect you to know their competitive landscape. Building competitive analyses is necessary but time-intensive, from reviewing competitor websites, checking their ad libraries, analysing their content strategy.
The delegation: Create a “Competitive Intelligence Analyst” team member. Upload a competitive analysis template. For each competitor, instruct it to cover: positioning, key messages, product features, pricing (if public), content strategy, social presence, and strengths/weaknesses.
Pro tip: Have your AI team member produce a comparison table – these are scannable and clients can reference them in meetings.
Time saved: 2-3 hours per analysis, typically 2-4 per month = 4-12 hours saved monthly
Task 3: First-Draft Proposals
The pain: Proposals take 3-5 hours each. They follow a similar structure every time, but each client needs customised sections. Your senior team writes them because juniors can’t match the quality.
The delegation: Create a “Proposal Writer” team member. Upload your 3 best proposals as examples. Define the structure: Executive Summary, Client Challenge, Our Approach, Deliverables, Timeline, Investment, Next Steps. Give it the client research brief as input.
What changes: Your senior team goes from writing proposals from scratch (3-5 hours) to reviewing and customising AI-drafted proposals (30-45 minutes). That’s the single biggest time unlock for most agencies.
Time saved: 2-4 hours per proposal, typically 4-8 per month = 8-32 hours saved monthly
Task 4: Social Media Content Calendars
The pain: Clients need content calendars every month. Coming up with 20-30 post ideas, writing captions, suggesting hashtags, mapping to a calendar – it’s creative but repetitive work.
The delegation: Create a “Content Strategist” team member. Upload the client’s brand guidelines, past top-performing posts, and their content pillars. Ask it to produce a monthly content calendar with post ideas, captions, suggested formats, and best posting times.
Important: The AI drafts the calendar. Your team adds the creative spark – the client-specific angles, the trending references, the visual concepts. This is a collaboration, not full automation.
Time saved: 2-3 hours per client per month. For 5 clients = 10-15 hours saved monthly
Task 5: Client Report Compilation
The pain: Monthly client reports pull data from 5-10 sources (Google Analytics, social platforms, ad managers, SEO tools). Compiling, formatting, and adding insights takes 2-4 hours per client.
The delegation: Create a “Reporting Analyst” team member. Give it your report template and instruct it to: organise data by channel, calculate month-over-month changes, highlight wins and areas for improvement, and suggest 3 action items for next month.
How it works: You paste in the raw data (or screenshots), and the AI compiles it into your report template with insights. You review, add your strategic commentary, and send.
Time saved: 1-2 hours per client per month. For 5 clients = 5-10 hours saved monthly
The Math: 5 AI Team Members, 30-85 Hours Saved Monthly
At $200/hr agency rate for example, that’s thousands in recovered capacity, or 1-2 more clients you can take on without hiring.
Compare that to LaunchLemonade’s cost from $20/ seat for team plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best AI tool for marketing agencies?
The best AI tool for agencies is one that lets you create multiple specialised assistants, not a single chatbot. You need different AI team members for research, proposals, content, and reporting, each trained on specific templates and examples. Platforms like LaunchLemonade let agencies create unlimited specialised AI team members.
Can AI replace agency copywriters?
AI handles first drafts and research which is the 70% of work that’s structural. Your copywriters then add the creative 30%: brand voice, emotional hooks, cultural references, and strategic messaging. Agencies using AI delegation report that copywriters spend less time on grunt work and more time on the creative work they were hired for.
How much does AI cost for a marketing agency?
AI tools for agencies range from $0 (free tiers with limits) to $25-$200/month (premium platforms). LaunchLemonade’s Team plan at gives agencies unlimited AI team members with access to 21+ models. Compared to a junior hire ($3,000-5,000/month), AI delegation costs 98% less for repetitive task work.
How do I convince my agency clients that we use AI?
Be transparent. Position AI as a productivity multiplier, not a replacement for your team’s expertise. Frame it as: “We use AI research assistants to ensure our team spends 100% of their creative energy on YOUR brand strategy, not on data compilation.” Most clients care about results and speed, not whether a human or AI compiled the initial research.
Is AI-generated content safe for client deliverables?
AI-generated content should always be reviewed and edited by a human before going to clients. The AI produces the first draft; your team adds quality control, fact-checking, brand alignment, and strategic context. This review step is non-negotiable – it’s what separates professional agency work from raw AI output.
Your agency doesn’t need more hours in the day. It needs smarter delegation.
Set up your first AI team member for your agency: https://launchlemonade.app?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=ai-for-marketing-agencies
Cien Solon is the founder and CEO of LaunchLemonade, building AI team members for every business. Follow her on LinkedIn for daily insights on AI, delegation, and building in public.
