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Everyone’s Wrong About Agency AI. Here’s the Truth.
This is how AI will actually run your agency in 2026


💡 Today's Key Insight:
Everyone keeps asking me what custom AI actually looks like inside a real agency once it’s fully built.
And honestly? It’s going to surprise you.
Because when you picture “AI,” most people imagine dashboards, prompts, or a bunch of complicated tools. But that’s not what agencies actually experience.
What really happens is far simpler, and far more transformative.
Let’s walk through the three interfaces where custom AI will show up inside your agency every single day.
These are the exact ways 7-8 figure agencies are already interacting with workflows, agents, and operational intelligence without changing their behavior, retraining their team, or adding extra steps.
1. Slack: Your Command Center
The simplest way to interface with custom AI is the place you already work: Slack (or your preferred communication tool).
There are two core interactions you’ll see:
A.) You message the agent to get things done
Need to ask a question? Tasks created? A summary?
You simply Slack-message the agent, and it executes instantly. No switching tabs, opening tools, or friction.
Just: “Hey, generate tasks from this meeting,” and it’s done.
B.) The agent pings you
This is the part founders love most.
Your agent updates you proactively when:
Something needs approval
Something has been completed
Something requires your attention
A meeting outcome triggered a task
Slack becomes your AI concierge, handling the decision-making layer you used to spend hours on.
Want to see how this exact system would interface with your agency? Get in touch, and I’ll walk you through exactly what this would look like in your day-to-day environment.


2. Inside Your Project Management Tool
This is where teams get the biggest productivity unlock.
To give a real example, we worked on an SEO agency’s ClickUp base to include a native “Run Agent” button.
A strategist simply:
Selects the content type (brief, blog, deliverable, etc.)
Clicks the agent button
Receives completed outputs, tasks, or updates automatically
Your project management tool becomes an AI-enabled operating system rather than a static task list.


3. Your Internal Agency Brain
This is the one I’m most proud of.
It took 9 months and over $100,000 to build the first version of it. And agencies at $8M–$20M+ in revenue are lining up to deploy it.
What the ‘Brain’ actually is:
It’s your internal app that centralizes:
Operational knowledge
SOPs
Client data
Processes
Historical outputs
Cross-departmental insights
It becomes the single source of truth for everything inside your company. This is where serious agencies start, because once your data is centralized, your agents become exponentially smarter.
How it works day-to-day:
On a call, an AI workflow identifies an action item → it pushes it into the Brain → you approve it → it automatically lands inside project management assigned to the correct person with correct metadata.
This eliminates:
Manual task entry
Human error
Missed follow-ups
Lost context
Cross-team inconsistencies
It is, quite literally, the agency OS of the future.


Here’s the Part Most Founders Don’t See
Custom AI doesn’t sit in a dashboard.
Your team doesn’t “log into AI.”
No one is rewriting their workflows.
Instead, AI workflows meet you where you already work:
Slack
Project management
Your internal Brain
It feels less like a tool and more like adding a full-time operator who never forgets anything, never drops a ball, and works 24/7 at perfect accuracy.

Ready to See This Inside Your Agency?
If you want a blueprint of exactly how custom AI would plug into your stack, team, and workflows:
I’ll walk you through how to integrate custom agents, your internal Brain, and automation infrastructure that compounds capacity every quarter.
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Want us to run a diagnostics on which of the following systems you need the most help with and put together an easy-to-implement action plan to improve them? So you can finally escape agency prison and build your dream agency? Book a demo here!


Stay happy, stay hungry,

Jordan Ross
CEO & Founder @ 8 Figure Agency

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