Features

What the AI CMO
does.

Blackbox is an AI CMO for small businesses and the agencies that run them. It writes the plan, fills the month, proposes every change with its reasoning, and nothing goes live until you approve.

New to the category? Read AI marketing tools for small business: what each kind does, and who makes the call.

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Strategy

A one-page plan for every brand and market

The start of any small business marketing strategy is a plan you can read in a minute. Your AI CMO drafts one per brand and market: what you sell and to whom, why you, where you show up, the three moves this quarter and how you will know by day 90. You answer what only you know, then approve.

  • It asks only what it can’t find out: what a typical sale is worth
  • Every line says whether it was measured or assumed
  • Download it as a pitch deck or a full strategy

Read: A marketing plan for a small business: five answers and a check, on one page

Plan

The month, on one calendar

Small business social media management shouldn’t mean five tabs. Plan puts the month on one calendar per brand: posts drafted from your site, campaigns, the CMO’s dated suggestions and follow-ups on your leads.

  • Posts, campaigns, suggestions and follow-ups together
  • Each suggestion lands on the day it matters, with its reasons
  • Approve from the calendar

Read: Small business marketing ideas: four weeks, in the order that works

Suggestions

One change at a time, with the reasons

The AI CMO reads every connected channel side by side and suggests one change: what will change, why, and a four-week estimate against doing nothing. Approve it, change the amount, snooze or dismiss. Nothing goes live until you say yes.

  • Budget, pause, resume and new-campaign suggestions for small business advertising
  • A four-week estimate with a likely range, shown only when it beats doing nothing
  • Applies on Meta, Google, TikTok, Snapchat or LinkedIn, and most changes can be undone from the card
Track record

The CMO’s own track record

A receipt lands on the card after seven days. Then each approved change is graded week by week for four weeks, against its estimate and against doing nothing. The misses count too.

  • Inside the range, beat doing nothing, typical miss
  • Week-by-week marks for every approved change
  • Per brand, or across every brand you run
Campaigns

From a brief to campaigns you approve

Describe the campaign, pick the channels and one total daily budget. The AI CMO reads your site, splits the budget across ad accounts and drafts each campaign — native lead forms included. New campaigns are created paused, so nothing spends until you turn it on.

  • Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and LinkedIn
  • Understands “for 2 weeks” or “until end of June” and shows the dates first
  • One budget, split across accounts with the reasoning shown
Leads

Every lead form, one queue, nothing dropped

Small business lead generation ends where the follow-up starts. Blackbox pulls the leads from every lead form on your connected Meta and LinkedIn accounts, including forms you made before Blackbox, and checks for new ones every ten minutes.

  • A queue ordered by what needs doing today
  • A board by status, and notes from each person on your team
  • Where each lead came from: platform, campaign and form
  • Follow-ups land on the calendar
Content: ideas

Ideas from your own website

Studio reads your site — or a page, a topic or product photos you give it — and suggests posts grounded in what you actually sell, best fit first.

  • From your website, a pasted page, a topic or product photos
  • Three angles for every topic
  • Ranked by how closely each fits your product
Content: the post

The post, made for you

Pick an idea and approve a short brief. Studio writes a 5–8 slide carousel or a single post on your brand’s template — pictures and caption included — in about 30 seconds.

  • Your colours, fonts and logo on every slide
  • Edit the words, reorder slides, re-roll a picture
  • Download the images any time
Content: on the calendar

On the calendar, at the right time

Pick a date and time in your workspace’s time zone and it goes out then. The calendar shows everything scheduled and published, by day.

  • Scheduled in your workspace’s time zone
  • Month and agenda views
  • Or launch the post as an ad
Organic tips

What to post more of, and less of

Connect Instagram and TikTok and Blackbox reads how each post did. It suggests what to make more of, what to swap out and how often to post. Approving plans the posts — it never posts for you.

  • Instagram and TikTok accounts
  • More of what works, less of what doesn’t, a steady cadence
  • Nothing is posted without you
Boost a post

Boost a post that’s already working

When a post is doing better than usual, Blackbox suggests boosting it. You set the daily budget and the number of days, approve it, and it runs as an ad — then stops by itself.

  • You choose the daily budget and how many days
  • A reach estimate before you approve
  • Stops by itself when the days are up
Ask

Ask about any brand, or any card

Open a chat on a brand to dig into every channel it runs, or on a single recommendation to question it. From a card’s chat, the agent can propose a change you apply when you say so — and undo.

  • “Compare channels” or “Show current metrics”
  • “Why is cost per lead rising on this campaign?”
  • Proposals from a card’s chat, applied when you say so
Report

Dashboards from a plain-English question

Type what you want to see about a brand. Each answer arrives as a draft chart you keep or discard, then arrange by dragging.

  • Bar, line, pie, table or a single number
  • Export to PDF or PowerPoint, with your logo
  • Share a read-only link
Integrations

Exactly what Blackbox does with each channel

Seven channels, and a straight answer for each about what your AI CMO reads and what it can change.

Ad platforms

  • Meta Ads
    • Reads data
    • Recommends
    • Applies on approval
    • Creates campaigns
    • Lead forms
  • Google Ads
    • Reads data
    • Recommends
    • Applies on approval
  • TikTok Ads
    • Reads data
    • Recommends
    • Applies on approval
    • Creates campaigns
  • Snapchat Ads
    • Reads data
    • Recommends
    • Applies on approval
    • Creates campaigns
  • LinkedIn Ads
    • Reads data
    • Recommends
    • Applies on approval
    • Creates campaigns
    • Lead forms

Organic

  • Instagram
    • Reads data
    • Organic tips
  • TikTok
    • Reads data
    • Organic tips
  • Google Search Console
    • Reads data
  • Sign in with each platform
  • 30 days of history on first sync
  • Refreshes every hour
  • Lead forms: every form on your connected Meta and LinkedIn accounts, including ones made before Blackbox, checked every ten minutes

Also in every workspace

Automatic checks

The agent looks again whenever spend, click-through or budget moves — or when you press Check again.

Weekly note

A short summary of the week for any brand, written from your real numbers, whenever you ask for it.

Brands and access

Invite teammates as Admin or Member, and choose which brands each person can see.

Brand knowledge

Upload PDFs, decks, Word files, images and CSVs for a brand, then search them in one place.

You approve every change

Nothing reaches an ad account until a person says yes.

Your data stays yours

Every query is scoped to your own workspace. No other company on Blackbox can see your accounts.

Next step

When you’re ready to go bigger

Start with your AI CMO. When you want results without the work, have it managed by Blackbox: the same AI CMO, run by our team, in the same workspace you already use, with nothing hidden.

See Managed by Blackbox on pricing

See it on your accounts

Book a 45-minute demo. We’ll connect a live account and walk through what your AI CMO would propose first.