The System · How One Strategist Delivers a Department
One person accountable. Seventeen agents doing the grind.
Break Away is a one-principal firm with a roster of purpose-built AI agents behind it. Each agent has a single job, a standard it has to hit, and a human who owns the outcome. Here's who does what for a medical practice, a manufacturer, a contractor or a law firm, and who signs off on all of it.
Principal · Fractional CMO
Marc Atnipp
Thirty-plus years in B2B sales and marketing, more than 200 industrial companies, 17 years partnering with FDI Creative, a couple of businesses of his own and a college football podcast. Marc sets the strategy, decides what gets built and what doesn't, reviews the plan and owns the number. He's the person you text. More about him →
Why a system instead of a staff
An agency bills you for the hours of the people doing the repetitive work: research, drafts, posts, reports, follow-up. We run that work on agents built for each job, so what you're paying for is the strategy, the judgment and the output, not the headcount. The standard is the same one Marc would put his own name on, and the work is reviewed against it before it ships.
Meet the system
Seventeen purpose-built agents, each with one job. Tap a card for the longer version of what it does for your company.
Reese
Research Agent
Finds what is true about a market, a competitor, or an audience before anyone spends a dollar. Cites everything.
More about Reese
Before we touch your profile, Reese reads the market. For a practice that means which surgeons ChatGPT and Google name for "orthopaedic surgeon near The Woodlands," what the top three are doing with reviews and pages, and which patient questions nobody has answered yet. Every finding comes with a source link, so if a number looks off you can check it in ten seconds.
She hands Sloan three headline numbers and one recommended next move, not a forty-page binder. If she can't back something up, it doesn't go in. She also re-runs the market read when something shifts, like a competitor launching a new site or a storm that changes what people are searching.
Max
Client Setup Agent
Runs the setup sprint. Gets us into GBP, Analytics, Search Console and the socials, builds what the client is missing, and does not stop until the checklist is green.
More about Max
Max runs your first week. He asks for access to your Google Business Profile, Analytics, Search Console and social pages, walks you through the two-click invites, and keeps a checklist that stays red until every item is connected. If you don't have a Search Console property or a Facebook page, he builds one.
Most owners can't say who holds the login to the website, the Google Business Profile or the LinkedIn page a former employee set up. Max finds out, helps you recover it, and doesn't move on until the checklist is green. Nothing goes out under your name until the access is right.
Piper
Planning Agent
Turns research into a dated 90-day plan with owners and milestones. Keeps the calendar honest.
More about Piper
Piper takes the research and Sloan's strategy and turns them into a dated 90-day plan: what goes live in which week, who owns it, and what counts as done. For an orthopaedic practice that means the sports-injury content lands before the fall season, not after it.
Every milestone has a name next to it, either an agent or Marc, and a date. You can read the plan in five minutes and know what you are getting this month. When the season or the priorities change, she redraws it and tells you what moved and why.
Sloan
Strategy Agent
Decides what not to do. Positions the offer, picks channels, sets the bet.
More about Sloan
Sloan's job is deciding what not to do. A twelve-person machine shop doesn't need a podcast, a TikTok account and a Google Ads budget. It needs capability pages engineers can cite, a LinkedIn presence for the people who sell, and a quote form that gets answered in minutes. Sloan picks the channels, sets the bet, and writes down why.
He runs rarely, at onboarding and when something material changes, and that is on purpose. One good decision up front saves months of busywork. Marc reads the strategy brief before anything else gets built.
Cole
Copywriting Agent
Writes in the client's voice, three ways, and tells you which one he'd ship.
More about Cole
Every post, review reply and page intro starts as three versions in your voice: a plain one, a punchy one, a warmer one. Cole marks the one he would publish and says why. If you talk like an engineer who has been on the shop floor for twenty years, the copy sounds like that, not like a brochure.
He works from your own words: your reviews, your website, the way you describe a job on the phone. Nothing he writes goes live until Marc has read it, and when your voice and our house style disagree, your voice wins.
Ted
Testing Agent
A/B tests everything that goes out. Calls a winner only when the math says so.
More about Ted
When Cole writes two versions of a review request or a page headline, Ted runs them against each other. He won't call a winner on a hunch. He uses a proper significance test and waits until there are enough calls, clicks or replies for the result to mean something.
For a small shop the honest answer is often "not enough data yet," and Ted says that instead of guessing. When he does call a winner, he writes up what changed and what to do with it, so the better version becomes the default.
Cara
Conversion Agent
Watches landing pages, forms and calls-to-action. Proposes the change, shows the expected lift.
More about Cara
Cara looks at what happens after someone lands on your site. Does the phone number work as a tap on a phone? Does the form ask for seven things when it needs three? Does the emergency page say "call now" or bury it under a paragraph about your history? She finds one thing to change at a time.
She brings Marc a proposed change and an expected lift, not a redesign. On an industrial site that is usually a request-a-quote button above the fold and a form with half the fields; on a practice site it's the consult request that doesn't make a patient hunt for it. You see the before and after, and nothing changes on your site without approval.
Gabe
Google Business Profile Specialist
Rebuilds and runs the profile: categories, services, photos, Q&A, weekly posts. Where the phone calls come from.
More about Gabe
Gabe rebuilds and runs your Google Business Profile: primary and secondary categories, every service you actually sell, photos, Q&A and a weekly post. For most companies this is where the phone calls come from, so it gets the most attention of anything we touch.
He fixes the boring things that cost calls: wrong hours, a duplicate listing, a category that says "contractor" when you are a practice. Edits and posts go through Marc first, and the profile stays yours. We are a manager on it, you are the owner.
Sam
Social Media Manager
Runs the posting calendar from the plan. Drafts, schedules, reports.
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Sam runs the posting calendar the plan calls for on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. He drafts around work you actually did: a finished project, a surgeon's clip, a photo from the shop floor, a line about the problem the customer brought you, posted the same week.
Drafts land in front of Marc before anything is scheduled. Sam doesn't invent jobs or drop in stock photos of a crew that isn't yours, and if there is nothing new to post he says so instead of filling the calendar. You get a short report on what people actually engaged with.
Rae
Reviews & Reputation Agent
Asks for reviews the right way, drafts every reply in the owner's voice, flags the ones that need a human.
More about Rae
Rae asks for reviews the way that works: a link sent right after the project ships or the follow-up visit ends, while the customer still remembers why they were glad they called. She drafts a reply to every review in your voice, with the job mentioned, so the replies don't read like a template.
A bad review, or anything that sounds like a dispute, never gets an automatic reply. Rae flags it for you and Marc with a draft if it helps. Replies are a trust signal to Google and to AI assistants, and they are the part shops skip when they are busy.
Gus
Google Ads Specialist
Builds and tunes search campaigns. Kills what does not convert.
More about Gus
When a client wants paid search on top of the organic work, Gus builds it: high-intent searches like "electropolishing services Texas," tight service-area targeting, call extensions, and a budget ceiling set before the first click.
He works from written kill rules. A keyword that spends without producing calls gets paused, not nursed. Nothing is spent without Marc approving the budget first, and you see cost per call in plain numbers rather than a page of impressions.
Nora
Newsletter Agent
One email a week per client, on time, with a working unsubscribe.
More about Nora
Nora sends one email a week per client at most. For a practice that is a short note to past patients and referring physicians: a recovery tip, a seasonal reminder, a new procedure. For a manufacturer, a note to past buyers about a capability they may not know you have. Every email carries a working one-click unsubscribe and follows CAN-SPAM rules.
Past customers are the cheapest work you will ever book, and most companies never email them. Nora turns it into a habit without turning it into spam. Marc approves every send before it goes out.
Skye
SMS Agent
Short, compliant, opted-in texts. Never more than the client agreed to.
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Skye writes short texts to customers who opted in to hear from you, and only those people: a reminder that a seminar is this week, a note that consult openings are available. She never sends more in a month than the client agreed to.
Texting comes with strict rules on consent, timing and opt-outs, and the penalties are real. Skye checks every message against a compliance checklist before it reaches Marc, and Marc approves it before it goes out.
Pat
Podcast Producer
Script, voice, mix, publish. Reads the article so the client does not have to.
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Pat turns an approved article into a short audio episode. He writes the script from the article, generates the voice, mixes it, and publishes it. The "how long does electropolishing take" article becomes something a buyer can listen to on the drive to the plant.
It is one more way to use content you have already approved, not a place for new claims. Pat reuses the approved text, so what is said out loud matches what is on your site. Not every client needs a podcast; he works when it fits the plan.
Sage
SEO / AEO Specialist
Gets clients found on Google and cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
More about Sage
Sage is the one who gets you found on Google and cited by AI assistants. On a concierge engagement that means schema and FAQ blocks installed on your site, your top service or capability pages rewritten answer-first, and new pages for the questions and markets you are not covering yet.
Every month Sage checks 20 prompts across Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, like "who is the best practice near me" in your town, and reports how often you are named. That is your AI mention share. It goes up when your site and profile give the models something clear to quote.
Remy
Reporting Agent
Pulls the numbers, builds the two-page monthly report, and says what we are fixing next. No vanity metrics.
More about Remy
Remy pulls the numbers and builds the two-page monthly report: your search visibility by market, your AI mention share, what shipped, and the one thing we are fixing next. It is the report you will actually read. The How We Work page shows what is in it.
No vanity metrics. If calls went up he says by how many and from where. If the map didn't move he says that and what we are changing. Marc reads every report before it reaches you.
Iris
Graphic Design Agent
Makes the pictures the posts need: on-brand, real-looking, no stock-photo smiles. Uses the client's own photos first and Grok when there are none.
More about Iris
Every post needs a picture, and nothing gives away a lazy company page faster than a stock photo of a smiling man in a spotless hard hat. Iris looks through the photos you have already sent us first: your facility, your people, the project you finished last week. If one fits the post, that is the one we use.
When there is nothing that fits, she generates an image with xAI's Grok and holds it to a strict rulebook: real equipment, real settings and hands at work, your brand colors, no text baked into the picture, no other company's logo, no fake customers and no made-up before-and-afters. If you'd rather we never use generated images, say so and she won't. Marc reviews every picture next to its post before anything goes live.
These agents are AI systems run by Break Away AI Strategies under human supervision.
These agents are AI systems run by Break Away AI Strategies under human supervision.