AI Marketing & Automation · Seattle, WA

Seattle AI Automation & Marketing Agency — Built for Washington's Most Demanding Market

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

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01 / How we work

Working with Seattle businesses: the remote senior-operator model.

Horsiq is based in Tampa Bay, FL and works with Seattle clients entirely remotely. That framing matters: you get a senior operator — the person who scopes, builds, and hands over the work — not an account manager relaying messages to an offshore team. Every call, every decision, every deliverable goes through one person who owns the outcome.

Remote isn't a constraint here — it's the design. Seattle businesses are used to distributed teams and async-first culture. Our work happens over recorded walkthroughs, shared dashboards, and direct communication with the builder. The time zone difference (Pacific vs. Eastern) is manageable with intentional scheduling; we keep a standing window that overlaps your Seattle workday.

Fixed-price projects mean you know the number before we start. Everything we build — agents, workflows, websites, ad accounts — lives on your infrastructure and is owned by you outright from day one. No platform tax, no subscription lock-in, no hostage situation when you want to move on.

02 / Seattle

Built for Seattle's economy — and what actually makes it hard to compete here.

Seattle runs on three overlapping economies, and each one creates a specific pressure on the small businesses inside it. The largest is the big-tech orbit — Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, and a dense tier of mid-size SaaS and aerospace suppliers that have made the Puget Sound corridor one of the highest-wage metro areas in the country. That concentration raises the bar on professionalism: a website, an ad campaign, or a customer experience that looks dated gets dismissed in a market where the median consumer works in tech and knows what good looks like.

The second economy is local services — healthcare, home services, hospitality, real estate, and professional services catering to one of the most educated and highest-income urban populations in the US. Capitol Hill, Ballard, Queen Anne, Bellevue, and Kirkland are full of small practices, boutique service businesses, and owner-operated shops competing for customers who have a lot of options and no patience for slow follow-up. Speed-to-lead in this market is not a nice-to-have — it is the competitive variable that determines whether the phone rings or goes to the next result.

The third is the King County and Eastside small-business layer — contractors, clinics, restaurants, retail, and professional services from Renton and Kent up through Redmond and Bellevue and north toward Shoreline and Edmonds. These businesses have higher operating costs than the national average (commercial rent, labor, permitting) and tend to run lean — which makes the cost of wasted manual work steeper than it looks on paper. An owner spending eight hours a week on lead follow-up that could be automated is bleeding more than that in opportunity cost in a Seattle-wage environment.

We build for that reality. The edge isn't flashier AI branding — it's automation and marketing that actually fits how your Seattle operation runs, built by someone who took the time to understand it.

03 / What we build

What we build for Seattle businesses.

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    AI agents & automation

    Custom agents trained on how your operation actually runs — booking, lead follow-up, intake, reporting, back-office data work. Built on your infrastructure, owned by you. Not a chatbot widget; a workflow engine that handles the routine work while your team handles the work that requires judgment.

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    Facebook & Meta ads

    Direct-response campaigns on Meta for Seattle businesses where the offer converts at a real cost per lead. Copy, creative direction, audience targeting, and spend management — built around cost per acquisition, not vanity metrics. Your ad account stays yours.

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    Web development

    Marketing sites and conversion-focused landing pages for Seattle businesses that need to compete above the median in a tech-literate market. Fast, clean, and built to convert — not to win a design award. Fixed-price, delivered to your hosting.

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    Custom CRM & ERP

    Operational systems built around how your Seattle business actually works — not a bloated SaaS subscription you use 20% of. Pipeline tracking, job management, client records, billing, reporting. Built once, owned outright, runs forever without a per-seat fee climbing every year.

04 / Industries

Industries we serve in the Seattle market.

Seattle's local economy clusters around a specific set of service industries that deal with the same pressure: high customer acquisition costs, a sophisticated buyer who moves fast, and operational overhead that runs lean. We work across:

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    Healthcare & clinics

    Intake automation, appointment follow-up, no-show reduction, and patient communication — with on-premise options for practices that can't let data leave the building. Relevant across Seattle, Bellevue, and the Eastside medical corridor.

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    Home services

    Lead capture, speed-to-estimate automation, and job scheduling for contractors working King County and the surrounding suburbs. The market is competitive and the homeowners move fast — the business that responds first usually wins the job.

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    Restaurants & hospitality

    Reservation follow-up, review management workflow, and local paid social for Seattle's dense restaurant market — from Capitol Hill independents to Eastside chains dealing with high volume and thin margins.

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    HVAC & mechanical services

    Seasonal demand in the Pacific Northwest is real — summer heat events and winter systems both spike call volume. Paid social and lead-capture automation that handles the surge without the team drowning in follow-up.

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    Real estate

    Lead generation and follow-up automation for Seattle-area real estate agents and brokerages. The market moves fast and buyers expect immediate responses — agents who follow up in minutes close more deals than agents who follow up tomorrow.

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    Real estate AI automation

    End-to-end AI workflows for brokerages and property managers — listing updates, tenant communications, maintenance routing, lead qualification. The operational backend that lets a small team manage more doors without more headcount.

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    Medical & aesthetic practices

    Patient acquisition via paid social for med spas, dental practices, and elective-care clinics in the Seattle metro. Compliant creative, targeted audiences, and intake automation that converts the ad click into a booked consultation.

05 / Process

How a Seattle project goes from call to delivered.

  1. Step 01

    Intro call

    30 minutes. We cover your operation, the gap you want to close, and what a realistic return looks like. If the project won't pay back for your business, we say so here — not six months into a retainer.

  2. Step 02

    Scope & proposal

    Fixed-price scope delivered in writing: exactly what gets built, what you own at the end, timeline, and number. No hourly billing, no scope creep that shows up on an invoice.

  3. Step 03

    Training / discovery

    For AI automation builds: a 2–4 week window where we learn how your Seattle operation actually runs before any code ships. Voice notes from your team, process review, tool and data walkthrough. The agent is calibrated to your real workflow, not a generic template.

  4. Step 04

    Build

    Agents, workflows, websites, and CRMs built on your infrastructure from day one. You have visibility throughout — no black-box delivery at the end of a long silence.

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    Handover & 30-day support

    Recorded walkthroughs, documentation, and 30 days of direct access while the system settles into real-world usage at your Seattle business. Issues get fixed, not deferred.

06 / FAQ

Questions from Seattle businesses.

How does a Tampa-based agency serve Seattle businesses?
Fully remotely. Every project — AI agents, ad campaigns, websites, CRM builds — is scoped, built, and delivered over video, shared tools, and async updates. Seattle businesses in particular tend to work well in a remote model: the region has been distributed-work-native since before it was fashionable, and most of our engagement happens over Loom walkthroughs, shared dashboards, and direct Slack access to the person doing the actual work.
What kinds of Seattle businesses do you typically work with?
Small and mid-size businesses across healthcare, professional services, home services, hospitality, and retail — the kinds of operations where the owner or a small team is doing too much manually and the pressure is coming from all sides. Seattle's density of tech-adjacent SMBs means owners here often understand what automation can do in theory; we're the shop that builds it for them in practice.
What does AI automation actually do for a Seattle small business?
The most common first build handles the work that falls through the cracks: lead follow-up that doesn't happen because the team is busy, booking that sits on voicemail after hours, data entry that takes a Friday afternoon. An AI agent reads context and acts — qualifies a lead, books an appointment, sends a follow-up sequence, pulls a weekly report — without anyone touching it. We scope, train, and build it around how your specific Seattle operation runs.
What does a project cost?
We price fixed per project, scoped before any work starts — so you know the number up front, not after. Most first AI automation builds for a small business land in the low-to-mid thousands depending on scope. Paid ad management is monthly. Web builds are fixed-price with an optional care retainer. The 30-minute intro call ends with a real number for your situation, not a pricing deck.
Do I own the software, agents, and ad accounts — or am I renting them from you?
You own all of it. AI agents are built on your API keys and your infrastructure. Ad accounts are yours — we manage them, but the account and its history belong to you the day we start. Websites and CRM builds are delivered to your hosting. If you stop working with us, everything keeps running. We are the operator, not a platform extracting a monthly platform fee.
Is Facebook advertising worth it for a Seattle business?
For the right offer, yes — even in a market with high baseline digital sophistication. Seattle consumers are used to being advertised to, which means generic creative gets ignored and well-targeted, direct-response creative gets results. We write the copy, produce the creative direction, test audiences, and manage spend — focused on cost per lead and cost per acquisition, not impressions.
How long does it take to get started?
Paid ad campaigns can typically go live within one to two weeks of contract. AI automation builds start with a 2–4 week training window where we learn your operation before anything gets built — that's what prevents the agent from being a generic chatbot that embarrasses you. Web and CRM builds are scoped and scheduled at project start. We keep timelines honest at the proposal stage.
Can you handle data privacy requirements for Seattle healthcare or professional services firms?
Yes. For firms that can't let patient or client data touch a cloud model — clinics, legal offices, financial services — we build on-premise agents that run on your own hardware, inside your office network, on local open-source models. No data leaves the building. For cloud-mode builds, we scope to your specific compliance requirements from day one of the build.

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