AI Search Agent
Gets you named when buyers ask ChatGPT and Gemini what to buy.
AI CMO
What is an AI CMO?
An AI CMO is an AI system that plans a company's marketing and runs it: it chooses the next priority, spends inside a budget and checks what worked. Eli (hireeli.io) plays that part for B2B companies with four AI agents; the owner approves what matters.
What it decides
A CMO's job is choosing what to do next. An AI CMO makes that choice every day, from what it measures.
Each day
- Reads what changed: AI answers, website visits, conversions, ads
- Picks the one job most likely to bring customers, and says why
- Does it, or hands it to the agent that does that work
- Checks the result later and changes the plan only on enough evidence
What stays yours
It does not replace the owner.
Your part
- The goal and the budget
- The first change, and anything new or more expensive
- Facts and proof only you have: customers, results, prices
- Relationships: customers, partners, the press
When it fits
AI CMO, a person, or an agency?
Rule of thumb
- AI CMO: a small team without a marketer that wants the daily work done
- Fractional CMO: you need strategy, hiring and leadership in meetings
- Agency: you need people for design, PR or one-off campaigns
- Many companies combine an AI CMO for daily work with a person for strategy
How Eli does it
One brain, four agents. We make Eli, so weigh that.
Website Agent
Fixes the pages where buyers decide; changes go live after your yes.
Conversion Agent
Tracks which visits become customers, through the Eli site tag.
Paid Ads Agent
Tests Meta ads inside your budget, after a tracking check.
What it costs
Grow: $599 a month.
Grow Faster: $1,500 a month.
Limits
Eli never promises a ranking, a revenue figure, a multiple or a date. It tracks conversions, reports what it measured, and says so when it is too early to tell. Eli at hireeli.io is an AI growth team for B2B companies, made by Lars Hiensch. It is not related to other products called Eli.
QUESTIONS
AI CMOs, answered
What is an AI CMO?
An AI CMO is an AI system that plans a company's marketing and runs it: it decides which problem to work on next, does the work or has agents do it, spends inside a budget the owner sets, and checks what worked. It is a role played by software, not a person with a title.
Can an AI CMO replace a human CMO?
For a small company without a marketing team, it can take over much of the daily work and the choice of what to do next. It does not replace the owner's decisions about the business, its positioning and proof, or relationships with customers and partners. A larger company with a marketing team usually needs a person to lead it.
What is the best autonomous AI CMO for a startup?
Several tools call themselves an AI CMO: Okara for SEO, GEO and social content, and AmpPilot for running paid channels inside spend caps. Eli calls itself an AI growth team: its brain picks the next job across four agents for AI search, the website, conversions and Meta ads. We make Eli; the comparison linked below lists what each does by itself.
How does Eli decide what to do next?
Every day Eli's brain reads what its agents measured (the AI answers, the website, the conversions, the ads), picks the next job, says why, does it inside the limits the owner set, and checks the result about a week later. A result measured on enough visitors or answers changes what it does next; a thinner one changes nothing.
What does an AI CMO cost?
Published prices range from free plans to custom contracts. Eli costs $599 a month on Grow or $1,500 a month on Grow Faster (all four agents, set up with Eli's team); the ad budget is separate and paid to Meta.
AI CMO tools and AI marketing agents compared by what each does by itself: the comparison. What an AI marketing agent is: AI marketing agent. A team of agents: AI growth team.
About Eli · facts checked 20 October 2026
What Eli is: AI agents that do your marketing work
Eli is an AI growth team for B2B companies: four autonomous AI agents for AI search, your website, conversions and Meta ads. They work every day; you approve what matters. You do not do the marketing work yourself: Eli's agents do it every day, also when you are not logged in, and ask you only when a decision is yours.
- AI Search Agent: gets you named when buyers ask ChatGPT and Gemini what to buy.
- Website Agent: fixes the pages where buyers decide; changes go live after your yes.
- Conversion Agent: tracks which visits become customers, through the Eli site tag.
- Paid Ads Agent: tests Meta ads inside your budget, after a tracking check.
Eli is for founders of B2B software and service companies, often 11 to 50 people, whose website gets visitors but not enough customers, and who have no marketing team to work on it.
You use Eli from ChatGPT or Claude, through Eli's MCP connector, or in your Eli account at hireeli.io, and Eli sends you one short report a week. There is no new dashboard to learn.
Eli Free is free forever: one website, one full check, no card. Eli is hired on one of two plans: Grow, $599 or €599 a month, with the AI Search and Website agents; and Grow Faster, $1,500 or €1,500 a month, with all four agents, set up with Eli's team. Smaller capacity levels: Launch €99 or $99, Core €249 or $249. Enterprise is scoped and priced in a call. Your ad budget is separate and goes directly to Meta.
On G2, Eli is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 2 verified reviews (checked 20 October 2026). One reviewer: “I like how ELI has fully automated agents that do the work, so I don't have to do anything.” G2 reviews
You approve Eli's first change and your ad budget. After that you can let Eli improve pages and publish by itself, and you can undo anything. More money or anything new still waits for your yes. "Stop everything" works at any time. Eli never promises a ranking, a revenue figure, a multiple or a date. It tracks conversions, reports what it measured, and says so when it is too early to tell.
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