AI Automation & Marketing Agency · Chicago, IL
Chicago AI Automation & Facebook Ads Agency — Remote, Fixed-Price, You Own Everything
Horsiq is a Tampa, FL AI marketing and automation agency serving Chicago, IL businesses remotely. We build custom AI agents and automations, run Facebook & Meta ads and Google ads, develop websites, and build CRMs — all fixed-price, all on your infrastructure, with founder Alex Trojan on every build. Serving businesses across Illinois.
Working with Chicago businesses: what remote actually means.
Horsiq is based in Tampa Bay, Florida. We serve Chicago and Illinois businesses entirely remotely — and that remote model is a structural advantage, not a limitation. Every piece of work we do lives in the cloud: AI agents run on your API keys, ad campaigns run inside your Meta and Google accounts, websites and CRMs live on your hosting and in your repositories. Nothing we build requires a local office or a local rep to maintain.
What you get with a remote operator over a local Chicago agency: the founder doing the work instead of a junior account manager, overhead that doesn't get baked into your invoice, and a system that's genuinely yours — not access to a vendor's platform you're renting by the month. Central Time is one hour behind Eastern, so same-day communication and calls across the business day are routine.
Fixed-price scoping before we start. Recorded walkthroughs as we build. Documented handover so your team can operate independently. About half our clients we have never met in person, and the engagement runs the same either way.
Built for Chicago's economy — not a generic template with the city name swapped in.
Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States and home to one of the most diverse metro economies in the country. The Loop and surrounding neighborhoods anchor a dense professional-services sector — law firms, accounting practices, consulting, financial services — that has been operating at scale for over a century. Cook County alone has more small businesses than many entire US states. The North Shore suburbs (Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, Northbrook) and the western edge of the metro — Naperville, Schaumburg, Aurora — run a parallel economy of mid-size businesses in healthcare, home services, real estate, and light manufacturing.
That economic complexity is why generic automation fails in Chicago faster than most cities. A medical practice in Lincoln Park, a roofing company working storm damage across Berwyn and Cicero, a restaurant group in River North, and a home-services franchise operating from Schaumburg to Joliet all need automation — but each one runs on completely different intake rules, pricing logic, follow-up cadences, and compliance requirements. The hospitality and restaurant density along the Chicago River and in neighborhoods like Wicker Park and Logan Square means speed-to-reservation and post-visit follow-up sequences need to be tight, seasonally aware, and integrated with platforms that aren't the same as what a clinic would use.
Chicago also has a significant healthcare footprint — Northwestern Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and a dense ecosystem of independent clinics and specialty practices across the metro. Those businesses have data-handling and compliance requirements that generic cloud chatbots can't meet. On-premise agent deployments — where no patient data ever leaves the building — are a common starting point for practices that want automation without the liability exposure.
The build we deliver for a Chicago business reflects how that business actually operates: the service area it covers, the volume patterns it runs on, and the edge cases its best employees handle without thinking. We map that before we write a line of code.
The full growth stack for Chicago small businesses.
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AI agents & automation
Custom agents trained on how your Chicago operation actually runs — intake, booking, lead follow-up, weekly reporting, back-office data work. Built on your accounts, owned by you, calibrated to your specific service area and volume patterns.
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Facebook & Meta ads
Full-funnel Meta campaigns — audience research, creative strategy, copy, and ongoing optimization — running inside your ad account, reported transparently. Chicago's competitive local-services market rewards precise targeting and fast creative iteration over set-and-forget campaigns.
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Websites & landing pages
Fast, conversion-oriented sites built for the real job: turning Chicago ad traffic and organic search into booked appointments and quote requests. No page-builder subscriptions to maintain. You own the code and hosting.
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Custom CRM & ERP systems
CRMs built around how your Chicago business actually tracks deals, jobs, clients, and follow-up — not a generic SaaS you're trying to force into your workflow. One database, one source of truth, one system your team will actually use.
Industries across the Chicago metro we build for.
Chicago's economy is wide. Below are the verticals where the work we do has the clearest return — but the underlying question is always the same: is there routine, repeatable work your team is doing by hand that a trained system could handle? If yes, the vertical label is secondary.
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Healthcare & medical clinics
Independent practices, specialty clinics, dental offices, and med spas across Cook County and the North Shore. Intake agents, appointment booking, no-show reduction sequences, and — where required — on-premise deployments where patient data never leaves the building.
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Home services
HVAC, roofing, plumbing, and contracting businesses working the suburban patchwork from Naperville to Oak Park to Waukegan. Lead-capture agents, instant estimate follow-up, and crew scheduling that fills the calendar without drowning the office in calls.
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Restaurants & hospitality
Chicago's dense dining and hospitality scene — from independent neighborhood restaurants in Logan Square and Wicker Park to event venues and hotel food and beverage. Reservation follow-up, review generation, seasonal campaign management, and post-visit sequences.
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HVAC & contractors (paid ads)
Chicago winters and summers both drive high-intent HVAC demand. Facebook and Meta campaigns calibrated to the seasonal spikes, geographic service areas, and the homeowner demographics that convert for HVAC and contracting across the metro.
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Real estate
Chicago-area real estate agents and brokerages running lead generation across the metro and suburbs. Meta ads driving buyer and seller inquiry, plus AI agents that qualify and route every lead before it goes cold.
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Medical & aesthetics (paid ads)
Medical spas, aesthetics practices, and elective care providers across the Chicago metro running compliant Meta and Google campaigns to high-intent local audiences, with lead follow-up automation so no inquiry sits overnight.
How a Chicago engagement goes from scoping call to live system.
- Step 01
Scoping call
30 minutes. We find the highest-leverage starting point for your Chicago business: the routine work bleeding the most hours, the campaign with the most obvious gap, or the pipeline stage where leads are going cold. If the project isn't worth doing yet, we say so.
- Step 02
Mapping
For automation work: a 2–4 week period where we learn how your operation actually runs — tools, data, the judgment calls your team makes without thinking. The agent we build is calibrated to that reality, not a generic template. For ad and web work: audience research, competitor review, and a documented strategy before anything goes live.
- Step 03
Build
Everything built on your infrastructure: your accounts, your API keys, your hosting, your ad accounts. You see progress via recorded walkthroughs as we go — no big-reveal deliverable at the end of a long silence.
- Step 04
Handover & 30-day support
Live with monitoring, escalation paths, and documented operating procedures so your Chicago team can run the system independently. We stay on call for 30 days while it settles into real usage.