AI Marketing & Automation · Houston, TX

Houston AI Automation & Ads Agency — Built for Texas Business, Delivered Remote

Horsiq is a Tampa, FL AI marketing and automation agency serving Houston businesses remotely. We build AI agents and automations, run Facebook & Meta ads, develop websites, and build custom CRMs — fixed-price, you own everything, and founder Alex Trojan is on every build. Serving businesses across Texas.

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01 / Working with Houston businesses

Remote, senior-operator model. You own every deliverable.

Horsiq works with Houston businesses entirely remotely from Tampa, FL — same Central Time zone, which means same-day communication and no chasing offshore teams across time boundaries. The remote model is not a gap; it is the structure that lets us keep the work lean and the price fixed. There is no downtown office with a lease factored into your invoice.

Every project runs through Alex Trojan, the founder and operator, directly. You are not handed to a junior after the proposal is signed. The person scoping your project is the person building it, and you have direct access throughout. That single-operator model means fewer handoffs, faster decisions, and a build that actually reflects what you asked for.

Ownership is non-negotiable. Websites live on your hosting. AI agents run on your API keys and your infrastructure. Ad accounts are yours. CRMs sit in your database. If you decide to stop working with Horsiq, nothing shuts down, nothing migrates, nothing is held hostage. You own what we build from day one.

02 / Houston

Built for the shape of Houston's economy.

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest in Texas — but its economic character is nothing like the Sun Belt generic. The city runs on energy: the Houston Ship Channel and the surrounding petrochemical corridor make this the undisputed capital of US oil and gas, and the downstream ecosystem of engineering firms, logistics operators, equipment suppliers, and field services is enormous. The Texas Medical Center — the largest medical complex in the world — sits inside the city and employs more than 100,000 people, generating a dense concentration of healthcare practices, medical suppliers, and life-sciences companies that need systems, not just websites.

Beyond those two anchors, Houston's growth machine is home services and construction — a massive, sprawling metro with constant new-build activity across The Woodlands, Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, and Cypress keeps HVAC companies, plumbers, roofers, landscapers, and general contractors in a permanent race to capture inbound demand before a competitor picks up the phone. The real estate market — residential and commercial — is one of the most active in the country and runs on speed: who answers the lead first wins the listing, wins the showing, wins the deal.

The common thread across all of it is that Houston businesses compete on response time, volume, and operational capacity — not on polish or brand. A home-services company missing calls at 7pm loses jobs to whoever answers. A medical practice with a clunky intake form loses new patients before they ever come through the door. A real estate team without automated follow-up loses the lead to a Zillow Premier Agent within the hour. That is the environment AI automation is built for — and the environment we build in.

03 / What we build

The growth stack for Houston small businesses.

  • 01

    AI agents & automation

    Custom agents for booking, intake, lead follow-up, reporting, and data work — trained on how your specific Houston operation runs, built on your infrastructure, owned by you. Not a chatbot widget. A system calibrated to your business.

  • 02

    Facebook & Meta ads

    Meta (Facebook and Instagram) lead-gen and local service campaigns for Houston businesses — creative, copy, targeting, and ongoing optimization on a fixed monthly fee, not a percentage of spend. Your ad account, your data, your leads.

  • 03

    Web development

    Fast, conversion-focused websites for Houston service businesses — built for local SEO, built to load on a phone in a hot parking lot, and built to own outright on your hosting. No page-builders, no monthly subscriptions to keep the site running.

  • 04

    Custom CRM & ERP

    Bespoke CRM and ERP systems built around how Houston businesses actually track leads, jobs, and revenue — not how a SaaS product wants you to. Fixed-price, your database, no per-seat licensing that scales against you as you hire.

04 / Industries we serve

Industries where Houston businesses compete on speed and operational capacity.

  • 01

    Home services & HVAC

    Houston's sprawl and construction volume means permanent demand for HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and electrical. The businesses that win capture inbound calls and web leads in under five minutes — HVAC Facebook ads and booking automation are the primary levers.

  • 02

    Healthcare & medical practices

    The Texas Medical Center ecosystem extends outward into private practices, urgent care, dental, chiropractic, and med spa across Houston's neighborhoods. Automated new-patient intake and follow-up, plus medical Facebook ads, reduce no-shows and fill the schedule.

  • 03

    Real estate

    One of the most active real estate markets in the US. Agents and brokerages need lead flow and automated follow-up running 24 hours — the lead that sits in a CRM for two hours is already talking to someone else. Real estate AI automation closes that gap.

  • 04

    Restaurants & food service

    Houston has one of the most diverse and competitive restaurant scenes in the country. Reservation management, automated review follow-up, and social advertising build the consistent floor of traffic that keeps margins intact when delivery platforms take their cut.

05 / How it works

From first call to live system.

  1. Step 01

    Audit call (30 min)

    We find the highest-leverage gap in your Houston operation: the routine work bleeding the most hours, the ad channel with the most upside, the website conversion problem costing you leads. If the project would not pay back, we say so — we would rather tell you that than sell you something that dies on the shelf.

  2. Step 02

    Scope & fixed price

    A written proposal: exactly what we build, the timeline, and the fixed price. No hourly rates, no scope creep, no surprises. You approve it or you do not; there is no pressure either way.

  3. Step 03

    Learn your operation

    For AI automation builds, we run a 2–4 week context window before any code ships — studying your tools, your data, your team's actual judgment calls. For ads and web, we learn your offer, your customers, and your competitive position in Houston before anything is written or built.

  4. Step 04

    Build on your infrastructure

    Everything is built on your accounts, your API keys, your hosting — or on-prem hardware if data sovereignty requires it. You own the build from the first line of code or the first campaign setup.

  5. Step 05

    Ship & handover

    We go live with monitoring in place and a 30-day watch period while the system settles into real Houston usage. You get recorded walkthroughs and direct access to Alex for questions — not a support ticket queue.

06 / FAQ
Does Horsiq work with Houston businesses remotely?
Yes — and that is the model by design, not a compromise. We are based in Tampa, FL and serve Houston clients entirely remotely. Every deliverable — AI agents, ad campaigns, websites, CRMs — is scoped, built, and handed over through async collaboration. You get a senior operator on your project, not a rotating account team. We are on Central Time, same as Houston, which makes communication straightforward.
What AI automation services does Horsiq offer to Houston businesses?
We build custom AI agents for booking and intake, lead follow-up and speed-to-lead automation, weekly reporting, data work, and end-to-end workflow automation that connects your ads, CRM, and calendar. Everything is built on your own accounts and infrastructure — your API keys, your hosting — so you own the agent outright and it keeps running whether you work with us or not.
How much does a project cost for a Houston small business?
All projects are fixed-price, scoped before we start. A focused AI automation build or a Facebook ads setup typically runs in the low-to-mid four figures; a full website or CRM is a larger fixed engagement. The exact number comes out of a 30-minute audit call. There are no hourly rates and no scope-creep surprises — the price is agreed before any work begins.
Who actually does the work — a team or one person?
Alex Trojan, the founder, is on every build. Not a PM who fields your emails and delegates — the person running your project is the person doing the technical work. For Houston businesses used to dealing with agencies where the senior person disappears after the pitch, that is a meaningful difference. You get direct access, direct answers, and direct accountability.
Do we own the website, AI agent, or CRM after the project ends?
You own everything. Websites are on your hosting, domains are in your registrar, AI agents run on your API keys and your infrastructure, CRMs live in your database. If you stop working with Horsiq tomorrow, nothing shuts down. We are the operator who builds the system, not a platform that holds it hostage behind a monthly subscription.
Can Horsiq run Facebook and Google ads for a Houston business?
Yes. We set up and manage Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google ad campaigns for Houston businesses — local service ads, lead-gen campaigns, retargeting. Ad management works as a fixed-fee retainer, not a percentage of spend. We handle creative, copy, targeting, and ongoing optimization. The ad account is yours from day one; you are never locked out if the engagement ends.
How long does it take to get started?
The first call is a 30-minute audit — no preparation needed. After that, scoping and proposal usually take a few days. Build timelines depend on scope: a focused automation workflow can go live in two to three weeks; a full website or CRM is typically four to eight weeks. We give you a firm timeline in the proposal and stick to it.
Does Horsiq understand Houston's specific industries and business environment?
We build for the industries that dominate Houston's economy — energy sector services, healthcare and medical practices, home services, real estate, legal, and retail. Before any code ships or any ad runs, we learn how your specific operation works: your offer, your customers, your calendar, your edge cases. Generic automation fails in a specialized market; we do not ship generic.

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