Zylo removes marketing
from your to-do list
Zylo 
~20 minutes / week
Marketing runs automatically — with your approval.
You spend a few minutes reviewing and approving. Zylo handles the rest.
Agency
2–5 hours week
Marketing is done for you, but you manage the process.
You brief, review, give feedback, and wait on timelines.
DIY tools
10+ hours / week
You run marketing yourself using software.
You plan, create, launch, optimize, and fix everything.
Agency
2–5 hours week
Marketing is done for you, but you manage the process.
You brief, review, give feedback, and wait on timelines.
DIY tools
10+ hours / week
You run marketing yourself using software.
You plan, create, launch, optimize, and fix everything.
Agencies ship in cycles. Tools rely on you.
Zylo runs your marketing every day — with your approval.
Effort & speed |
Zylo | Agency | DIY tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✦ Time required per week |
 ~20 minutes |
 2–5 hours |
 10+ hours |
| ✦ Time to get started |
Immediate |
2–4 weeks |
1–2 weeks |
| ✦ How often work ships |
Continuous |
Scheduled |
Inconsistent |
Cost & predictability
| ✦ Typical monthly cost |
Flat monthly fee
|
$2,000–$10,000+ |
$50–$500 |
| ✦ Upfront commitment |
None
|
Often required |
None |
| ✦ Ability to pause or cancel |
Anytime
|
Contract-dependent |
Anytime |
| ✦ True cost over time |
Predictable
|
High |
Often underestimated |
Quality & results
| ✦ Creative quality |
Consistently on-brand
|
High but variable |
Skill-dependent |
| ✦ How results are shared |
Weekly scorecards
|
Monthly reports |
Self-configured |
| ✦ How marketing improves |
Continuously
|
By campaign |
When you optimize |
Control & support
| ✦ Who does the work |
Zylo
|
Agency team |
You |
| ✦ Final approval |
Always yours
|
Varies |
Yours |
| ✦ Getting help |
In-app + human
|
Account manager |
Self-serve |
Coverage across channels
| ✦ Channels covered |
On/off toggle Social, ads,search, reviews, website
|
Limited by scope |
Tool-by-tool |
| ✦ Final approval |
Built-in
|
Manual |
Manual |
Agencies ship in cycles. Tools rely on you.
Zylo runs your marketing every day — with your approval.
Effort & speed
Cost & predictability
Quality & results
Control & support
Coverage across channels
When Zylo is a better
fit than agencies or DIY tools
Zylo
Best for
Owners who want day-to-day marketing done automatically, with light approvals and minimal time commitment.
Not Ideal for
Businesses with complex brand teams, highly custom creative workflows, or long approval chains.
Agency
Best for
Businesses with larger budgets, complex campaigns, and highly customized strategy or creative needs.
Not Ideal for
SMB owners who want everyday execution, predictable pricing, and direct control over their marketing.
DIY tools
Best for
Owners who enjoy learning marketing tools and have time to plan, execute, and optimize their own campaigns.
Not Ideal for
Owners who are already stretched thin or want marketing to run consistently without ongoing effort.
When Zylo is a better
fit than agencies or DIY tools
Zylo
Consistent, on-brand weekly marketing
packages that run automatically.
Agency
Work arrives in cycles and depends
on timelines
and revisions.
DIY tools
You create, launch, track,
and optimize everything yourself.
The hidden costs
(worth knowing upfront)
Comparison FAQs
How is Zylo different from hiring a marketing agency?
Zylo is an AI marketing platform that uses a suite of specialized AI agents to run the marketing you’d typically hire an agency for. Instead of long planning cycles, multiple meetings, and revision loops, you choose what you want done, review the output, and approve what goes live. It delivers ongoing execution without the overhead of a traditional retainer.
When should I hire an agency instead?
If you need a full rebrand, complex strategy work, or large, custom campaigns with significant budgets and creative direction, an agency may be the right choice. Zylo is built for steady, practical marketing execution without the complexity and cost structure of agency engagement.
How is Zylo different from using tools like Canva or ChatGPT?
Tools help you create marketing yourself. Zylo creates it for you. It uses your business data and goals to generate coordinated marketing, so you’re not starting from a blank page or stitching together outputs across multiple tools.
Is Zylo just a cheaper alternative to an agency?
No. It’s a different model. Agencies rely on human teams and project cycles; Zylo is a tech platform with specialized AI agents that continuously generate marketing based on your business and priorities. The structure, workflow, and cost model are fundamentally different.
Will Zylo replace my current tools?
Zylo can reduce the number of tools you rely on by producing coordinated marketing across channels in one place, but it doesn’t require you to abandon what already works. You can use Zylo alongside your existing setup and simplify over time.
Can Zylo work if I have no time?
Yes. Zylo prepares marketing based on what you want done and brings it to you for review, so you don’t have to plan, draft, or manage the work yourself. Your role is to approve what goes live, not to build it from scratch.
See Zylo run marketing for
your business
Drop your business URL to preview what Zylo would create — and how it would keep running your marketing every week.