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LinkedIn content strategy for AI-native agency advisors: how a New York exited agency founder reached 159 founders in one month
We read the reactions on 13 posts from a New York exited agency founder who now helps agencies scale with AI. 469 people, 159 founders and CEOs. Here is what brings buyers, what brings peers, and the 5 posts we'd publish next.
Max Sawyer · Netwarm··12 min read
The creator in this case studyA New York exited agency founder who now helps agencies scale with AI
Followers43,829
Posts~3 a week
SellsAI roadmaps, live sessions and programs that help agency owners rebuild their agency as an AI-native business
PeriodSep 29 – Oct 29
Ideal client: agency owners and service-business founders who want more revenue without adding headcount.The challenge: The founder sold an agency in October and now teaches agency owners to rebuild theirs with AI. Software founders, AI builders and consultants react too. Which posts reach the agency owners who would actually sign up?
Key takeaways
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1 in 3 readers is a founder or CEO.159 of the 469 people who reacted in a month run a company. Half of them run a software, AI or tech company; agency and studio founders are about 1 in 6.
Scaling playbooks win.Posts on how to scale an agency with AI reach about 6x more founders per post than step-by-step workflow breakdowns: 27.7 against 4.7.
A small core keeps coming back.4 founders reacted to 3 or more of the 13 posts. One of them reacted to 5.
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Who actually reads you, and what the LinkedIn algorithm changed
The founder posts about three times a week on one question: how an agency grows with AI instead of headcount. Scaling playbooks, step-by-step workflows (proposals, onboarding, delivery), giveaways and live sessions, and a few hot takes on AI. 13 posts between 29 September and 29 October, the month the agency was sold.
The LinkedIn algorithm shows a post first to people who already engage with the author, then to people like them. So the question isn't how many people react. It's who: the agency owners the founder wants to work with, or other builders selling to the same owners.
13posts read
469people who reacted
159founders and CEOs
4founders back 3+ times
Audience by roleThe 469 people who reacted, by roleFree
Founders and CEOs159 · 33.9%
AI consultants, builders and creators35 · 7.5%
Everyone else275 · 58.6%
A third of the audience runs a company. But most of those founders run software, AI and tech companies. Agency and studio founders, the people the founder sells to, are about 1 in 6 of them.
AI consultants and automation builders are a smaller group (7.5%). They read for the systems, and many sell to the same agency owners.
SeniorityAll people who reactedFree
Founder, owner, C-level41.4%
Director, VP4.7%
Manager6.8%
Independent4.3%
Other42.9%
IndustriesFounders onlyNetwarm
Software, AI and tech companies50.9%
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Most creators judge a post by its reactions. A creator who sells to agency owners should judge it by who reacted.
We tagged each of the 13 posts by topic, then measured the share of founders and CEOs among the people who reacted, and how many each post reached.
Your topicsWhat your 13 posts were aboutFree
13posts
Agency scaling playbooks3
Step-by-step AI workflows3
Giveaways and live sessions3
AI hot takes3
The exit story1
Topics that attract foundersShare of each topic’s reactions from foundersNetwarm
Agency scaling playbooks40.1%
AI hot takes32.1%
Step-by-step AI workflows30.4%
Giveaways and live sessions27.8%
The exit story25.0%
One topic reaches 6x more founders per post than another. See which.See which topics
Agency scaling playbooks bring the highest share of founders (40.1%) and about 6x more founders per post than step-by-step workflows: 27.7 against 4.7.
Posts that brought the most foundersShare of founders in each post’s reactions1 of 5 open
#1You can scale an agency to $500K/month without a massive team40%
#2Most agencies will get killed by AI: what I'd do from scratch40.9%
#3The 34-page playbook on scaling to $5M and getting acquired31.6%
#4The acquisition announcement25%
#5If you actually want to master AI, here's the playbook23.7%
For comparison, the post that offered a 90-minute walkthrough of the same revenue jump reached 1 founder, 8.3% of its reactions.
These rules come from what worked on the founder's own profile, and from the best-performing posts by agency founders and AI agency builders on LinkedIn over the last 3 months.
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Put the result in line one, the changes after it. “$500K/month without a massive team” tells an agency owner what they get before they read how. The five changes that follow are the proof.On this profile: the $500K/month post reached 40 founders and CEOs, the most of any post.
Write the “if I started today” plan. An exited founder saying what they'd do from scratch is the post an agency owner saves. Keep it to five steps, each one a decision, not a tool.On this profile: the “start from scratch” plan reached 36 founders, 40.9% of its reactions.
Give them the document, not a session. A playbook they can keep reaches more agency owners than an invitation to a webinar. Offer it in the comments, so the people who want it raise their hand where the founder can see them.On this profile: the 34-page playbook post reached 31 founders and drew 377 comments. The four posts built around a webinar, a live session or a recorded walkthrough reached between 1 and 7.
Name the shift agency owners are watching. “Micro agencies”, “modern sweatshops”, “AI-native”: a name they can repeat makes the post travel to other owners.Across the niche: the micro agencies post drew 478 likes and 106 comments.
Show the whole agency on one page. Owners want to see how the pieces connect: sales, onboarding, delivery, who signs off. One page beats five posts on single tools.Across the niche: the one-page AI design agency drew 277 likes.
Do the money math in four lines. Agency owners decide with numbers: clients, price, headcount, margin. Show the calculation, not the principle.Across the niche: the price-raise math drew 582 likes and 98 comments.
When founders read: the best time to post on LinkedIn for AI-native agency advisors
We compared the share of founders and CEOs by the day each post was published. 10 of the 13 posts went out at 8 a.m. Eastern, so there is no hour to compare.
Share of founders by posting dayAmong the people who reacted to each postFree
31.6%
Mon
33.3%
Tue
27.9%
Wed
37.6%
Thu
33.1%
Fri
Thursday brought the highest share of founders, 37.6%, and Wednesday the lowest, 27.9%. Thursday and Friday each brought 50 founders in total.
Keep the 8 a.m. Eastern slot. Put the scaling playbooks and the giveaways on Thursdays, and the shorter posts on Wednesdays.
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5 posts ready to publish to target founders
Each post follows the rules above, in the founder's voice. Swap in your own numbers before posting: the real figures from the agency are what make them land.
1Ready to postStep-by-step system
The company brain, built in 5 stepsRules 1 and 5: the result first, then the whole build in order. Modelled on Eric Siu's company brain post.
Hook
We 3X'd revenue with the same team. The first thing we built wasn't an automation.It was a company brain.Before it, our client knowledge lived in Slack. Our processes lived in Notion. The context lived in people's heads.Every AI tool we tried started from zero.Here's the 5-step build I'd do again tomorrow.(bookmark for later)1/ One folder per client> The contract, the proposal, the call transcripts
> Brand guidelines and approved examples
> Every piece of feedback, with the date2/ The agency playbook next to it> Your onboarding checklist
> Your scope rules
> Examples of great briefs and great work3/ Skills that read both> Proposals, onboarding, delivery, QA
> Each one has a defined sequence and a human sign-off4/ Write back after every job> Approved work and feedback go into the client folder
> The next brief starts with more context, not less5/ Fix it once> When AI gets something wrong, correct the source file
> Not the promptThis is the step most agencies skip.AI is only as useful as the context it has.Build the brain first. The automations get easy after that.
Visual · Single imageA simple diagram: one client folder and the agency playbook in the middle, four skills around them, an arrow back from “approved work”.Check before postingUse the real folder structure from the agency. Keep tool names to the ones the team actually used.
What I'd do with a 10-person agency on MondayRule 2: the “if I started today” plan, five decisions. Modelled on the “Most agencies will get killed by AI” post.
Hook
If I took over a 10-person agency on Monday, here's what I'd change first.I built and sold a $5M agency. Most of what got us there came down to a few decisions.1/ Freeze hiring for 90 days.Not to save money. To find out which work AI can take before you add payroll.2/ Map one week of the team's time.→ Reporting
→ Follow-ups
→ Account updates
→ Briefs and first draftsThe repeat work is the first target.3/ Productize one workflow.Pick the thing clients already pay for and you deliver differently every time. Standardize it. Then put AI on it with a human review.4/ Sell the outcome.Not hours. Not a retainer. A result the client can check.5/ Take the founder out of the sales process.Proposals, scoping and onboarding run as a system. The founder reviews, not writes.None of this needs a new team.It needs the team you have, with the busywork removed.What would you change first?
Visual · Text onlyNo image. The five numbered steps carry the post.Check before postingMake sure the 90-day hiring freeze matches what you'd really advise. Use your own first step if it's different.
Same team, 3x the revenueRule 6: the money math in four lines. Modelled on Nicholas Kirchner's price-raise post.
Hook
$100K/month. Same team. $300K/month.Here's what changed, and what didn't.What didn't change:→ The team
→ The office
→ The founder's hoursWhat changed:→ We found the ONE bottleneck holding the business back
→ We gave AI the context it needed with a company brain
→ Delivery stopped depending on one person
→ Sales booked qualified calls, not just more callsThe old agency math:More clients = more people = more overhead.Revenue grows. Margins shrink. The founder babysits.The new math:More clients = more systems.Revenue per person goes up. Every new client makes the next one easier to deliver.Most agency owners think they have a growth problem.They have a revenue-per-person problem.Divide last month's revenue by your headcount. What's the number?
Visual · Single imageTwo bars side by side: revenue at $100K and $300K a month, with the same row of team icons under both.Check before postingUse the real before and after figures and the real timeline. Add the time it took if you can share it.
My whole agency on one pageRule 5: sales, onboarding and delivery as one system on one page. Modelled on Adrian Kuleszo's one-page AI design agency.
Hook
How I'd run an AI-native agency, on one page.Adding AI to single tasks only gets you so far. The real shift comes when the work connects.Here's the whole system.1/ Sales> The call gets recorded
> Claude pulls the problems, scope, timeline and budget signals
> A proposal microsite goes out in minutes, after a human check2/ Onboarding> The contract, proposal and call transcript get compared
> Gaps become questions for the account lead
> The client gets one request for missing assets and access3/ Delivery> Every brief starts from the client's context
> Agents scope and draft
> The work is reviewed against the brief before the client sees it4/ Memory> Approved work and feedback go back into the client's folder
> The next job starts smarter than the last oneWho does what:AI handles research, first drafts, reporting and follow-ups.People own strategy, client calls, judgment and the final sign-off.One system. Not twelve tools.Which of the four is the weakest in your agency right now?
Visual · Single imageA one-page map: four boxes (Sales, Onboarding, Delivery, Memory) in a loop, with the human sign-offs marked.Check before postingCheck that each step matches what the team really ran, and use your real proposal turnaround in hook C.
The Company Brain Starter KitRule 3: give them the document, not a session. Modelled on the 34-page playbook post.
Hook
I'm giving away the folder structure and the 3 skills we ran our agency on.We scaled to $3M with one salesperson.Not because we hired well. Because the system did the work around that one person.It's called the Company Brain Starter Kit.What's inside:→ The client folder template: contract, proposal, transcripts, brand, feedback
→ The proposal skill: from call transcript to scoped proposal
→ The onboarding skill: contract vs proposal vs call, with every gap flagged
→ The delivery QA skill: checks the work against the brief before the client sees it
→ Where a human signs off, at every stepIt's the starting point I'd want if I were building an agency today.Comment “BRAIN” and I'll send it over.
Visual · CarouselA 5-slide preview: the folder tree, then one slide per skill showing its steps and the human sign-off.Check before postingBuild the kit before posting. Put your Netwarm Reveal link in the reply so you can see which agency owners download it.
Free forever: unlimited scheduling through LinkedIn’s official API, with images, video and PDF carousels.
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LinkedIn lead generation: lead magnets that work to target founders
Reactions show interest. A download shows intent. The fastest way to find out which agency owners are serious is to give them something they can use tomorrow and see who takes it.
Among AI agency builders, these formats get the most requests:
Format 1The playbookThe full story of how one agency scaled, with the systems behind it, as a long document.
Format 2The skills libraryA pack of ready-to-run skills, sorted by the job each one does.
Format 3The complete systemOne shared folder plus the agents that run on it, given away whole.
Format 4The new-service playbookA service an agency can add, with the packages and what to charge.
Our pick for you: “The Company Brain Starter Kit”Built from the systems the founder already describes: the client folder, the proposal microsite skill, the onboarding skill and the delivery QA step, each with its human sign-off. Offer it on post 5, for a comment: the playbook giveaway brought 31 founders on this profile, against 1 to 7 for the posts built around a session.With a Reveal link, every person who downloads it is shown by name, with their role and how warm they are. Your first Reveal link is free.Create your free Reveal link
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From reactions to clients
Content brings founders to the profile. It doesn't say when to reach out. Most never comment, so they stay invisible, and an agency owner who read every post in October may have hired someone else by January.
On LinkedIn, the right moment to start a conversation is when someone keeps coming back. We call that Hot: 5 or more points over 90 days, where a reaction counts 1, a repost 2, a download or a reply 4.
Hot right now1 founders · not contacted yetNetwarm
1 founders are Hot. See who to message first.See who’s Hot
First messageAn opener for each Hot person, based on the posts they readNetwarm
Hi Sam, you've been reading my posts on AI-native agencies for a few weeks. Is your team freezing hires or still adding people?Hi Jordan, I saw you reacted to the company brain post. Where does your client context live today?
A first line for each of them, ready to send.See the openers
Netwarm sends nothing for you. It tells you who and when, and you write the message. It also works inside Claude and ChatGPT: ask “Who's Hot today?” and get the list.
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FAQ
Here, scaling playbooks brought the most founders: the result in line one, then five changes an agency owner can make. They reached about 6x more founders per post than step-by-step workflow breakdowns.
For this founder, Thursday brought the highest share of founders and CEOs (37.6%) and Wednesday the lowest (27.9%). Most posts went out at 8 a.m. Eastern.
This founder posts about three times a week, and 4 founders came back 3 times or more in a month. Fewer, stronger posts work when each one gives an agency owner a plan or a system to use.
Look at who reacts, not how many. Group reactions by role, measure the share of your ideal clients per post, and follow the people who keep coming back. A free Netwarm scan does this for you.
Yes. Netwarm only reads public reactions to your own posts. It never logs in as you, never asks for your password, and never messages anyone for you.
How we made this playbook
We read the public reactions on 13 posts published between 29 September and 29 October 2026, up to the first 100 on each post, and sorted the 469 people by role. Reposts of other people's posts were left out. Comments were not counted, so engagement figures are a floor.
Niche rules come from top posts by agency founders and AI agency builders over the last 3 months. Role groups are approximate, and some founders sell to the same agency owners; a Netwarm scan matches people to your own ideal client.