AI Marketing & Automation Agency · Portland, OR

Portland, Oregon AI Automation & Marketing Agency — Fixed-Price, You Own Everything

Horsiq is a Tampa, FL AI marketing and automation agency serving Portland businesses remotely. We build AI agents and automations, run Facebook & Meta ads, develop websites, and build custom CRM/ERP systems — fixed-price projects, founder Alex Trojan on every build, and you own everything we ship. Serving businesses across Oregon.

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01 / Working with Portland businesses

A senior operator, not an account manager. Remote, not anonymous.

Most agencies that take Portland clients have a salesperson who closes the deal and a junior team that does the work. You rarely see the senior person again after the proposal. We run the opposite model: Alex Trojan — the founder — scopes, builds, and ships every project directly. There is no handoff to a junior sub.

Working remotely from Tampa doesn't change that. We're two hours ahead of Portland, which in practice means your morning Slack message has a response waiting before your coffee is done. Almost everything ships remote — video calls for strategy, async for feedback, screen-shares when we need to walk through something live. The clients who value deep senior work over a local storefront consistently do well with this model.

You own every deliverable from day one. No platform lock-in, no per-seat license on your own agents, no holding your website hostage. When the build is done, it's yours outright — accounts, code, data, workflows.

02 / Portland

Built for Portland's independent, maker-driven economy.

Portland's economic character is distinct enough that a generic agency playbook doesn't map onto it cleanly. The city is home to a dense cluster of independently owned businesses — craft breweries, design studios, specialty food producers, outdoor-gear brands, and a serious home-services market serving one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the Pacific Northwest. The metro area's population crossed 2.5 million, and the business community still skews heavily independent over chain, which means the competitive pressure is between real local operators, not franchises.

Nike, Adidas North America, and Intel have major Portland presences, which anchors a vendor, contractor, and professional-services ecosystem around those campuses. The Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) campus on Marquam Hill and the broader Legacy Health and Providence Health systems make healthcare one of the largest employer sectors in the metro — which means the clinics, dental practices, physical therapists, and specialty providers orbiting that healthcare infrastructure face real competition for patients and need to convert the digital demand they're already generating.

The east-side neighborhoods — Division Street, Mississippi Avenue, Alberta Arts District — run on foot traffic and word-of-mouth, but the businesses there are increasingly finding that word-of-mouth alone doesn't fill a calendar during the gray November-through-February stretch when Portland's outdoor draw fades. Paid social and automation don't replace the community relationship — they handle the follow-up and inquiry volume so the owner can keep doing the work that earns the relationship.

None of this means Portland needs a generic "local business marketing" package. It means a craftbrewing operation needs different follow-up logic than a roofing company in Beaverton, which needs a different intake flow than a dental practice in Lake Oswego. We build for the specific operation, not the vertical template.

03 / What we build

The full growth stack for Portland small businesses.

  • 01

    AI agents & automation

    Custom agents trained on how your Portland operation actually runs — booking, lead intake, follow-up sequences, weekly reporting, data work. Built on your infrastructure, owned by you, running 24/7 without adding headcount.

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    Facebook & Meta ads

    Campaigns built around your offer and Portland-area customer, not templated creative with your logo swapped in. We write the copy, structure the targeting, and wire the lead flow so every inquiry has a follow-up waiting. Fixed monthly management — no percentage-of-spend model.

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    Web development

    Marketing sites and landing pages built to convert Portland traffic into booked calls and submitted forms — not portfolio pieces that look good on a design award and load in four seconds on mobile. Fast, SEO-structured, yours outright.

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    Custom CRM & ERP

    When off-the-shelf tools stop fitting — multi-location inventory, custom quoting, subcontractor dispatch, industry-specific pipelines — we build a tight MVP on your infrastructure. No per-seat license, no platform you can't leave.

04 / Industries we serve

Where we work in the Portland market.

Portland's independent business economy maps closely to the verticals where automation and paid media earn the clearest return. The problem in each case is roughly the same — demand exists, but speed-to-lead and follow-up consistency determine who converts it.

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    Healthcare & dental clinics

    Booking agents, new-patient intake flows, and appointment-reminder sequences for the clinics and specialty practices across the Portland metro — OHSU-adjacent providers in the SW hills, practices in Lake Oswego, Beaverton, and Tigard.

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    Home services

    HVAC, plumbing, roofing, landscaping, and remodeling companies serving the Portland metro and suburbs — Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Tigard, and the east-side neighborhoods. Lead intake that doesn't lose jobs to voicemail.

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    Restaurants & hospitality

    Portland's food scene is nationally recognized — which means the competition for covers is real. Reservation flows, private-event inquiry handling, and Meta ads that fill shoulder nights without discounting.

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    HVAC — Facebook ads

    Portland summers have sharpened over the past few years — the 2021 heat dome moved HVAC from a mild-market afterthought to a year-round demand driver. Paid social that captures that demand before the seasonal surge hits your voicemail.

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    Real estate — Facebook ads

    The Portland metro has seen significant price movement and inventory shifts over the past several years. Agents and brokerages that want a consistent lead flow outside of Zillow referrals need a paid social engine that runs independently.

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    Real estate — AI automation

    Lead qualification, instant follow-up, and calendar booking for Portland real estate teams — so every inquiry from Multnomah County, Washington County, or Clackamas County gets a response in minutes, not the next business day.

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    Medical practices — Facebook ads

    Med spas, dermatology, physical therapy, and elective-care practices across the Portland market. Paid social campaigns structured for compliance and built to convert, with intake automation on the back end so no lead goes cold.

05 / How it works

From first call to live build — what the process looks like.

  1. Step 01

    Scope call

    30 minutes. We find the highest-leverage place to start — the workflow that costs the most unbilled hours, the ad channel leaving demand on the table, the intake process losing Portland leads to whoever responds first. If the timing or budget isn't right, we say so rather than sell a build that won't pay back.

  2. Step 02

    Training & context (AI builds)

    2–4 weeks before code ships. We learn how your Portland operation actually runs — your offer, your calendar rules, your edge cases, the judgment calls your best employee makes without thinking. An agent trained on your real context doesn't hallucinate your pricing or miss your busy-season patterns.

  3. Step 03

    Build

    Everything goes on your accounts and your infrastructure from the start. No trial period on Horsiq servers that gets migrated later — your accounts, your API keys, your data, from the first commit. You could hand it off to another developer tomorrow and they'd find clean, documented work.

  4. Step 04

    Ship & handover

    Live with recorded walkthroughs, escalation paths documented, and a 30-day window where we stay on call while the build settles into real Portland usage. Ongoing care retainer available — or the handover is complete and you run it independently.

06 / FAQ
Does Horsiq have a local Portland office?
No — we're based in Tampa, FL and work with Portland businesses entirely remotely. That's intentional. We stay lean, pass the overhead savings into the build cost, and have shipped projects for clients we've never met in person. Video calls, shared tooling, and async updates cover the distance without the Portland agency markup. If you need a warm body in the room regularly, we're not the right fit — if you want senior work done right for a fixed price, the time zone difference hasn't mattered.
What does an AI automation build cost for a Portland small business?
Most first builds are fixed-price, scoped to one workflow — a booking agent, a lead follow-up sequence, or a reporting automation. Cloud-mode running cost after launch is typically $50–$500 per month in API usage depending on volume; on-premise mode is a one-time hardware investment with near-zero ongoing cost. Those are typical market ranges. Your exact number comes out of a 30-minute scoping call, not a rate card, because the scope determines the price.
Do I own the AI agents and website Horsiq builds for me?
Everything we ship is yours. We build on your accounts, your API keys, your hosting — your infrastructure. If you stop working with us tomorrow, every agent, workflow, and site keeps running without us. We're the operator who builds it, not a platform renting you access behind a monthly fee you can't exit.
Will AI automation work for Portland's creative and maker economy?
Yes — and it's a particularly good fit. Portland's independent studios, small manufacturers, craft-beverage brands, and design agencies carry a lot of repeatable administrative work — inquiry handling, quote follow-up, order tracking, vendor coordination, reporting — that runs on the same patterns every week. Agents handle those patterns 24/7 at a cost that doesn't scale with headcount. The creative output stays human. The back-office overhead shrinks.
How does Horsiq handle Facebook and Meta ads for Portland businesses?
We build campaigns designed around your customer and offer — not generic ad templates with your logo swapped in. For Portland businesses that typically run on word-of-mouth and Instagram, paid social is often an underused channel. We scope the offer, write the copy, structure the targeting, and connect the lead flow so that every click from a Portland-area prospect has a follow-up sequence waiting on the other side. Fixed monthly management fee, no percentage-of-spend model.
Which industries in Portland do you work with?
Home services (HVAC, plumbing, roofing, landscaping), healthcare and dental clinics, restaurants and hospitality, real estate agencies, and local service businesses that need to convert more of the demand already in their market. Portland's density of independent businesses in each of those verticals means the lead volume is there — the gap is usually speed-to-lead and follow-up consistency, both of which automation fixes directly.
How long does it take to launch an AI agent for a Portland business?
A focused single-workflow agent — booking, lead intake, weekly reporting — typically ships in 3–6 weeks from scoping call to live. The timeline front-loads a 2–4 week training window where we learn how your operation actually runs before we build anything. Skipping that window is why most AI pilots die in week three. We don't skip it.
Can Horsiq build a custom CRM or ERP for a Portland company?
Yes. Off-the-shelf CRMs work fine for simple pipelines; once your operation has multi-location inventory, custom quoting logic, subcontractor dispatch, or industry-specific data models, the workarounds add up faster than a custom build would have. We scope a tight MVP — the workflows that actually matter — built on your infrastructure, priced as a fixed project, and handed over with full documentation.

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