The marketing agency alternative that runs your ads

Viewfy is the marketing agency alternative that runs the work itself. The agents launch Meta and Google ads in your own account, ship SEO fixes to your repo for you to merge, and publish a daily post on your domain.

Agencies send reports. Tool stacks send drafts you still have to place yourself. Viewfy's agents ship, and one morning message at 7am says what went live. New ads, today's post, the SEO fix, the pitches waiting for your yes.

What are the real alternatives to a marketing agency?

A founder with a live product has three options. A marketing agency, a do-it-yourself tool stack, or Viewfy's AI agents. Only the agents do the work inside your own accounts, repo and domain, where the other two advise, report or hand back drafts.

An agency bills against a retainer. A retainer is a fixed monthly fee that reserves an agency's hours for an agreed scope of work. A tool stack flips the deal. You pay for software that scores, suggests or drafts, then you do the placing, merging and publishing yourself.

Look at the third column again. That's the whole argument. Work that lands in your own accounts stays yours, and you can see every change without asking for a report.

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What does an agency retainer actually pay for?

A retainer pays for execution across six jobs. Meta and Google ads with the creatives, a steady blog, SEO fixes, links from other sites, replies where buyers ask, and a read of the market that steers all of it. Viewfy's agents were built around that same list.

Each job has an output you can check. A live ad, a merged SEO fix, a link on a real site. So the fair test for any alternative is whether those outputs exist in your accounts by the end of the week. A draft waiting in a folder doesn't count.

We walked through what the agents ship, job by job in a separate post.

How do the agents run Meta and Google ads in your own account?

The agents run Meta and Google ads inside your own ad account, make fresh creatives every week, and log every change on the ads board. An ad account is the campaign and billing home on Meta or Google that holds your ads, budget and history.

Nothing launches cold. Before the first ad, the agents do a market read: the paid ads every rival is running, what buyers search, and what they ask ChatGPT. A market read is a scan of rivals and buyer demand that comes before any ad, post or pitch.

Owning the account matters more than it sounds. Your spend history, your creatives and your results stay where you can see them, and they stay there if you ever stop. A tool can tell you which creative to test next. Viewfy's agents make the creative and run the test.

What happens to the blog, SEO fixes and links?

The agents publish one post a day on your own domain with your colors, logo and search markup, ship technical SEO fixes as a pull request you merge, and send link pitches to editors from your own address. Nothing is bought.

A pull request is a proposed code change that waits in your repo until you review and merge it. Viewfy's fixes cover schema, meta tags, sitemaps and alt text, and app logic stays untouched. If you already work in git, see marketing tools that fit a git workflow for how this sits next to your normal reviews.

Every draft has to carry one fact that's only true about your product, or it doesn't publish. There's also a hard refusal list for AI-sounding copy: no em dashes, none of the stock filler words, no recycled year-trend posts. We covered how a daily blog holds up under Google's spam update separately.

Editor pitches wait in a queue until you approve, edit or skip them. The agents also check whether the crawlers ChatGPT and Claude read with can reach your site at all. A crawler is a bot that fetches pages so a search engine or AI model can read them.

How do you judge the work each week?

Judge the work by what exists at the end of the week: ads live in your account, pull requests merged, posts on your domain, links placed on real sites. If you can't point to it, it didn't ship.

Viewfy reports in one short morning message at 7am, so there's no dashboard to dig through. For AI answers, the agents ask your buying questions every month and track the visits that actually arrive. A visibility score with no visits behind it doesn't pay for anything. You can cross-check those numbers with Search Console as a free AI visibility check.

What should you hand to the agents first?

Hand over paid ads first. Meta and Google ads are the biggest share of Viewfy's plan, and they're the clearest signal of whether a live product can earn users from strangers.

1. Connect your own Meta and Google ad accounts, then let the market read finish on rival ads before anything launches.
2. Turn on the daily post once ads are running.
3. Review the first SEO pull request like any other diff, and merge it if it looks right.
4. Clear the approval queue each morning. Approve, edit or skip each editor pitch and thread reply.
5. Once a month, look at who ChatGPT and Google name for your buying questions.

Who is Viewfy the wrong fit for?

Viewfy is the wrong fit for founders who want replies posted automatically with no human approval, a guarantee about what a chatbot will say, or bought links and paid placements. Founders with nothing shipped yet should wait too, because the agents need a live site to read.

Approval is part of the design, so every reply and pitch waits for you. We guarantee live mentions on real sites, never what a chatbot will say. Nobody honest can promise that. If someone is selling placement inside AI answers, read whether you can buy a ChatGPT mention before you pay.

What does Viewfy cost?

Viewfy starts free with 100 drafts and no card. Viewfy Mini is $29/mo and Viewfy Mini Max is $49/mo, while Viewfy Pro, the plan that replaces the agency, starts with a call. Prices are current as of 2026-10-02.

Mini and Mini Max draft replies in the site's own comment field. The extension doesn't post, comment, upvote, follow or message on your behalf, and doesn't read your browsing history.

Want to see the agents on your own market first? Paste your URL at viewfy.ai and the free tier shows which threads Viewfy finds before you spend a cent. Viewfy gets you users while you ship.