One seat per market
They work with one company per category in each city. Your leads are never split with the shop down the street, because they don't take the shop down the street.
Home / AI Marketing
The marketing firm we recommend
The growth firm that takes one company per trade, per city.
When our clients ask who should run their marketing, we send them to OwnersFirm. They build AI-driven marketing and software for owner-led companies. Your site, your search ranking, your CRM and your leads, all owned by you, not rented. And once your seat is filled, your competitors wait.
No checkout. No calendar link. You apply, they check your market, and if the seat is open an envelope ships.
Why owners pick OwnersFirm
Three things most agencies won't promise you.
You own the machine
Stop paying rent on someone else's software. Your site, your CRM, your data and your tools are built for how your crews actually work, and they stay yours.
Found on Google and in AI answers
Customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI answers who to call. OwnersFirm builds for both classic search and AI search, so the answer is you.
What they build
Everything that turns a search into a signed job.
Websites that sell
Fast, local, built to turn a visit into a call, a booked estimate or a form fill.
SEO and AI search
Ranking on Google and getting cited when people ask an AI who's best in town.
Your own CRM
A command center built around your business, replacing the CRM you rent today.
Lead funnels and follow-up
Every lead answered, followed up and tracked, so nothing goes cold.
Market recon
A full read on your competitors: who ranks, who's fast, who shows up in AI answers, and where you win.
A fractional CMO
A senior marketing lead on your side who sets the plan and owns the numbers.
Meet the founder
Run by an operator, not an agency.
Jacob Ochs
Founder, OwnersFirm · St. Louis
- U.S. Marine Corps veteran
- Former Boeing engineer
- Founded Marketing by Magnet in 2022
- Built Magnet Pro, a software business now earning six figures in net revenue
- Tested the playbook with about $31K of his own ad money before charging anyone
Every channel gets run on Jacob's own business first. If it doesn't work there, you never see it.
01
Operate before we sell
Every tactic is proven on Jacob's own software business before it touches yours.
02
Show the receipts
No number without its source, the platform it came from and how many days of data are behind it.
03
Say no often
They turn down clients they don't believe in. That's why the wins are real.
04
Exclusive both ways
Your competitors can't hire them in your market, and they won't work against you anywhere you compete.
05
Software does the heavy lifting
Their own tools do the volume work. People handle the thinking, the offer and the call.
Client success stories
Real owners. Real numbers.
Roofing · St. Louis
Keys Roofing runs on software it owns.
A premium St. Louis roofer was paying rent on somebody else's CRM. OwnersFirm replaced it with a command center built around how their crews actually work: smart-glasses inspections that draft their own estimates, a door-knock canvasser built on county data, gutter-cleaning subscriptions that bring in monthly revenue, and QuickBooks wired straight in.
9 daysfrom first build to off the rented CRM
18modules live in their command center
5–10 mininspections, down from 30–45 plus write-up
Owned CRMSmart-glasses inspectionsDoor-knock canvasserGutter subscriptionsQuickBooks
Water treatment · St. Charles & St. Louis
Jones Air & Water went from paper to found money.
A family water treatment company serving St. Louis and St. Charles since 1995 was running service renewals off paper records. OwnersFirm moved them onto their own digital CRM and found the renewals that had been slipping through the cracks. Then they built a "type in your town, see what's in your water" tool that makes Jones the local water expert online.
+35%top-line revenue growth
1995family-owned and serving since
OwnedCRM that replaced the paper records
Owned CRMRenewal trackingWater quality lookupLocal SEO
Healthcare · St. Louis & St. Charles
Brain Recovery Centers had patients looking before the doors opened.
A new brain-health clinic opening in the St. Louis area needed patients ready on day one. OwnersFirm had it covered before opening day: an education-first website, a steady stream of articles teaching Google and AI search who they are, an online consult funnel, local radio and in-clinic screens with QR codes. Then they watched the data every week and fixed the weak spots.
1,346local visitors in a single week
5xarticles published daily, about 60 up to 300
Day onemarketing live before the first patient walked in
WebsiteSEO + AI searchConsult funnelRadioIn-clinic QR screensWeekly data review
"OwnersFirm generated our first inbound lead within 24 hours of going live. It was the first time that contact form had ever been filled since I bought the business. My honest reaction was simple: well done, that's impressive."Dave Jansen · Owner, Homewatch CareGivers
24 hours
from go-live to the first inbound lead
"I recommend OwnersFirm to any owner who wants more of the right leads."
What market recon finds
Before they build, they find where you win.
Every engagement starts with a read on your market using live data: rankings, site speed, AI visibility, reviews and social. Two examples, with names left out.
5 competitors
Five local operators audited side by side across 8 tools in one pass. The owner saw who held the #1 Google spot, how thin the whole market was in AI answers, and the top five moves to take the lead.
23.7 seconds
That's how long the practice's site took to fully load on a phone, where most patients search. A great practice was invisible to anyone in a hurry. Now they know exactly what to fix first.
How you get a seat
Invitations exist on paper.
Apply
Tell them who you are, what you run and where. It takes a few minutes.
Seat check
They check whether your category and market are still open, and whether the numbers make sense.
The envelope
If your seat is open, a FedEx envelope ships with your name on it and the password inside.
Build
Your site, your search and your software go live, owned by you.
Why we recommend them
They bring the customers. We get your team ready for them.
OwnersFirm
Fills your pipeline: found on Google and in AI answers, every lead followed up, on software you own.
[AI]LABS
[AI]LABS
Gets your people working on day one with the assistant they like, and hires the right person for the right seat as you grow.
Your seat might still be open.
One company per trade, per city. When it's filled, your competitors wait. Find out if yours is available.