The AI marketing team you don't have to build

In 2010, Palantir had a problem. They'd built powerful software for intelligence analysis, but their enterprise customers kept struggling to deploy it. The solution wasn't better documentation or a smoother onboarding flow; it was people. They created the Forward Deployed Engineer, a Palantir employee who embedded directly inside the customer's organization and made the software actually work, owning the outcome rather than handing off a report.

We built the same thing for marketing. If your business is ready to stop experimenting with AI and start having someone who's mastered it run it for you, hire one of Blaze's Forward Deployed Marketers. A dedicated expert, embedded in your business, who owns your results and not your to-do list.

The problem isn't access to AI. It's configuring it for your business.

Most growing companies already have serious AI investments in place. The challenge is figuring out how to configure and optimize those tools for your specific market, customers, and channels.

Finding someone to help with that job is harder than it sounds. The person you'd need combines deep AI fluency with real marketing judgment and hands-on operational experience. You can't hire a junior marketer who doesn't know AI, and you can't find a senior one who knows both and wants a part-time role. That person is rare — and probably not looking.

You need help building the system, getting it running, and ensuring it compounds over time. That's what a Forward Deployed Marketer does.

What a Forward Deployed Marketer does

A Blaze FDM is a Blaze employee embedded directly in your business. They develop your AI marketing strategy, drive initial setup across every channel, and use the best tools available to make it work.

The engagement starts with a focused strategy session where we learn your business, your channels, your goals, and what's already been tried.

From there, we develop a custom plan for your business — identifying where the highest-leverage opportunities actually exist.

Then the FDM gets to work: deploying the right tools, building workflows, and driving execution across whatever mix of organic, paid, SEO, and email your growth requires.

Because the FDM is accountable for your results rather than just for delivering a service, the strategy keeps evolving as you learn what works. You grow, rather than manage.

Why Blaze?

We didn't develop this methodology in a workshop. We proved it on ourselves.

Over the past year, a core team of five people took Blaze from zero to eight figures in ARR using AI deeply across every function: content, distribution, paid, SEO, outreach, analytics. We don't have a big marketing team — just refined playbooks, relentless iteration, and an AI stack we've spent a year building and now deploy for customers.

The FDMs who will work with you are the same people behind those results. When you work with a Blaze FDM, you get the exact playbook we used on ourselves, run by the people who wrote it.

What the engagement looks like

Every FDM engagement is custom, but the arc is consistent. The first phase is about understanding your business deeply enough to make smart decisions, getting the right tools configured and connected, and establishing the baseline everything gets measured against.

The second phase is where the real work happens: putting the strategy into motion, learning what resonates with your specific audience, and iterating until the right things are working.

By the third month, the system is running, the Learning Loop is compounding — every campaign making the next one smarter — and you have a clear picture of what's working alongside a roadmap for what comes next.

FDM Packages

Three tiers, all with a dedicated FDM and access to the full Blaze platform.

• Foundation ($10K/month) — For companies building a strong organic and content foundation. A senior strategist owns the operation so you get consistent, on-brand output every week — without the overhead of a full marketing hire.

• Growth ($15K/month) — For companies ready to add fuel to what's working. We layer in a paid channel — search or social — alongside a deeper SEO strategy, putting real spend behind the moments that convert.

• Full Stack ($20K/month) — The complete deployment: every channel, your entire AI stack configured and optimized for your organization. This is what it looks like to have a world-class marketing operation without building one.

All engagements include weekly strategic calls and a dedicated Slack channel, for companies that want a partner fully invested in their AI transformation.

Finding the right fit

Blaze offers three ways to work together, and the right one depends on how much ownership you want to hand off.

Our self-serve product is built for founders and marketers who want to stay hands-on, running a powerful AI platform themselves across every channel.

Done For You is for growing businesses that want professional marketing coverage without building a team. Your account manager handles organic social, paid social, search ads, blog, and email — consistently, on-brand, every week — with Blaze's AI stack powering the production behind the scenes. Most of our customers start here.

The FDM tier is for companies ready to go further. If you want someone to assess your entire marketing operation, identify where AI can create the most leverage for your specific business, and own the transformation at a strategic level, a Forward Deployed Marketer is the answer. The scope is broader, the relationship is deeper, and the goal isn't just coverage but a fundamentally better marketing operation than you had before.

Not sure which is right for you? An initial strategy call is a good place to figure that out. We'll ask the right questions and give you an honest recommendation, even if it's not the FDM tier.

Start compounding

The companies that pull ahead on AI won't necessarily be the ones with the biggest budgets or the most sophisticated tools. They'll be the ones who figured out how to deploy those tools so the marketing gets smarter every week, more dialed in to what their audience actually responds to, and harder for competitors to replicate.

A great FDM delivers exactly that: an AI marketing operation that keeps improving on its own, run by people who've already proven it works.

If you're ready to stop experimenting and start growing, we'd love to show you what we'd build for your business. Book a 30-minute strategy call. We'll show you real examples from companies at your stage and, at the end, tell you exactly what we'd build first for yours.