Marketing Department

A five-person marketing team costs $372,000 a year before benefits.

This is the same set of jobs — strategist, writer, designer, editor, analyst — from $395 a month. You find out it is working from the orders.

Same jobs. Same output. One invoice, and nobody to manage.

Consumer and social trend analysis feeding studio-quality advertising produced in days rather than quarters. When a trend starts moving that your brand can credibly stand next to, you are already in it — not three weeks behind it explaining to your agency why you missed it. Articles, posts, lookbooks and full commercials, all produced in CDX Studio on our own hardware, which is the only reason the arithmetic works at this price.

The gap between a big brand and yours was never taste. It was that they had someone whose whole job was watching for the moment.

How it is priced

Every plan includes a set number of production credits each month — that is how we measure everything we make. A social post is 1 credit, a blog article is 6, a short video is 5, a full commercial is 30. Spend them on whatever mix suits your month.

Roughly two thirds of your subscription is production allowance. The rest is strategy, management, platform and support. We say that out loud because most agencies will not.

If you need more than your allowance, a prepaid block costs $22 a credit and buying à la carte in the moment costs $40. That gap is deliberate: planning ahead should be cheaper than panicking. And if you overspend by more than 40 credits in a month we convert it to a prepaid block automatically and charge you the lower rate.

The Department Stack

This is one of eight departments you can run with us. Every one you add takes another 5% off all of them, up to 20%. That is not a loyalty gimmick — all eight read from the same Brand Brain and the same knowledge base, so your marketing team already knows what your sales team knows. The fifth department genuinely costs us less to run than the first, and we pass that on.

What else is charged

• Setup fee — once, at the start. It covers onboarding, strategy and the baseline we measure against.
• Administration & support — $95/mo per account. Funds 24/7 monitoring, the support SLA, the uptime guarantee and every third-party tool licence. Charged openly rather than hidden in the tier.
• Initialisation — only if we build something from nothing, such as a social channel at $150, a Google Business Profile, a business email domain or an ad account.

Nonprofits get 15% off recurring lines. Businesses based in North Lawndale and the surrounding West and South Side community areas get a further 10% off for the first twelve months.

Exactly what you get

No vague tiers. These are the numbers, and anything past them has a price on the pricing page rather than a quote three days later.

Brand Automations: Signal — $425/mo

What	How much
Platforms included	2
Add another platform	+$125/mo
Posts per month	about 12
Per platform, per month	about 6
Monthly allowance	15 posts, or the equivalent
What that typically buys	12 posts and a graphic
Who publishes	You do - we email the calendar and the finished assets
Team trainings	1 a year
One-time setup	$250

Brand Automations: Current — $975/mo

What	How much
Platforms included	3
Add another platform	+$125/mo
Posts per month	about 20
Per platform, per month	about 7
Monthly allowance	35 posts, or the equivalent
What that typically buys	20 posts, a blog article and a short video
Who publishes	We do, on schedule
Team trainings	1 a year
One-time setup	$500

Brand Automations: Circuit — $1,995/mo

What	How much
Platforms included	5
Add another platform	+$125/mo
Posts per month	about 30
Per platform, per month	about 6
Monthly allowance	70 posts, or the equivalent
What that typically buys	30 posts, 2 blog articles, 3 short videos and a newsletter
Who publishes	We do, and we moderate 5 days a week
Team trainings	2 a year
One-time setup	$950

Brand Automations: Grid — $3,750/mo

What	How much
Platforms included	7
Add another platform	+$125/mo
Posts per month	about 40
Per platform, per month	about 6
Monthly allowance	125 posts, or the equivalent
What that typically buys	40 posts, 4 articles, 6 short videos and one full commercial
Who publishes	We do, and we moderate daily
Team trainings	4 a year
One-time setup	$1,750

What you get, and how to take it with you

In your portal. Every post previewed exactly as it will appear on each platform, in a calendar, with the approval queue in front of it.

How you review it. Accept, edit and accept, or send back with a direction. Revisions counted openly.

What you can export:

• Calendar export (.ics)
• All assets (.zip) at full resolution
• Performance report PDF and the raw numbers (.csv)
• Every caption and hashtag set as text

Everything exports in an open format and stays downloadable. Cancelling does not take any of it away from you.