The system your
agency runs on.
Scouts build the skills. Team uses them safely. You keep what's private private. Bundled free with every Ads to AI team membership.
- 3
- Roles
- ~44
- Skills shipped
- from €1,199
- Owner + 2 Scouts
Most agencies hit the same wall trying AI.
Agency Brain fixes the pattern by giving the whole team one shared workspace, with the right level of access for each role.
- 01One person on the team gets good at Claude.
- 02The rest of the team can't see how it fits their workflow.
- 03The skills that one person builds sit unused.
- 04Six months later: “we tried AI, it didn't stick.”
A shared workspace on your agency's own GitHub.
Every team member runs Claude Code, Cowork or any other Claude client against the same brain. The Agency Brain menu-bar app, on Mac and Windows, keeps everyone's local copy in sync about every minute.
It comes loaded with the skills an agency actually needs: account audits, monthly client reviews, client briefs. Each one is a working starting point your team adjusts to how your agency runs.
Three roles. Three levels of access.
Each role has the right permissions enforced through the Agency Brain app. Nobody on your team can accidentally break what someone else built.
Owner
Runs the agency. Keeps what's private.
You decide who's on the team and how the agency works. Your private stuff (money, salaries, internal plans) lives somewhere only you can see it. Everything else is shared with the team.
Full access · Private docs · Sets the rules
Scout
Builds the skills the team uses.
Scouts are the people you pay for. They're full Ads to AI members who build and improve the skills everyone else relies on: account audits, monthly client reviews, client briefs. A scout builds a skill on Monday and the whole team can use it on Tuesday, without learning anything new.
Builds skills · The paid seat
Team
Uses the skills. Can't break anything.
Team members get the app only (no Ads to AI content) and they're free up to your tier's cap. They use the skills the scouts have built and work in their own space. They can't accidentally break a skill, and they can't see anything you've kept private.
Uses skills · App only · Safe by default
Up and running in three steps.
Set up your agency
Create your agency, then install Agency Brain, the little app that keeps everyone's copy in sync. Takes about five minutes, and nobody needs to know what git is.
Tell it about your agency
Chat to the app and add your context: how your agency works, who your clients are, who's on the team. Now everyone's Claude knows your business.
Your team gets to work
Everyone works from the same brain with the same skills. The work gets more consistent, and the skills keep getting better the more your team uses them.
Skills are junior employees that get better with feedback.
Every skill in your agency brain has a maturity field: draft, live or trusted. Scouts ship a skill as draft while iterating. Once it works end-to-end they promote it to live. After enough successful runs in real client work they mark it trusted.
Team members flag issues the moment they spot them. The scout reviews and ships a fix. The skill set improves week by week, the same way a junior employee improves with feedback.
What stays private stays private.
Your agency repo is private on GitHub. Agency Brain uses a scoped GitHub App token per team. Each member's Claude session operates with that member's own permissions and no more. An agent never gets more access than the person running it.
Owner-only documents (financials, salaries, internal strategy) live in a separate private repo only the Owner can access. The team brain is shared. Your owner brain is yours.
The brain your agency runs on is already trusted.
Agency Brain is built on the same 8020brain hundreds of marketers and agency owners use every day. Here's what they say about it.
“This brain is amazing. Any time I see someone online talking about an AI skill or a GitHub repo, I run it past the brain, and I've basically got it set up already, and more advanced. Extremely rarely is it something that's not here already.”
“Mike deserves all the praise and then some. Others calling it AIOS or Agentic OS are shipping essentially stripped-down versions of the brain months later.”
“I run everything the LinkedIn crowd is hyping through the 8020brain. Besides one or two things over the last six months, Mike has built something special, and it's let me develop something so far in front of the slop that's out there.”
“The number of times it comes back to me and says, “relax, you've already got something better.” Very impressive, Mike.”
“Two new clients signed up this week, all from providing so much value. I'm so grateful I jumped on board just over 12 months ago and put the hours of foundation in.”
“It's been four months since I joined and started using the Brain, and I can't imagine working the old way anymore.”
You only pay for scouts. The whole team is included.
Scouts are full Ads to AI members who build skills. Team members get the app only, free up to your tier's cap. Bundled free with every Ads to AI team membership.
Owner + 2 Scouts
Founders adding their first hires. Up to 10 team members.
Start with this packWant your team up to speed faster?
Optional 2.5-hour workshops, focused on the role. Scouts learn to build skills, team learns to use them in client work. Virtual by default. In-person available worldwide (price on application).
Scout Workshop
2.5 hours, virtual. Scouts get comfortable building the skills the team uses.
Buy workshopTeam Workshop
2.5 hours, virtual. Team gets comfortable using the skills scouts build.
Buy workshopOnce you check out, I'll email within 24 hours to confirm dates and send joining instructions. Want something tailored to your agency's stack? Book a discovery call for a custom quote.
Not sure which tier fits? Let's talk.
Book a 15-minute discovery call. We'll work through how your agency runs, which tier makes sense, and whether a tailored workshop built around your actual accounts and clients is worth it.
“This was way more than we were expecting. We thought we'd learn how to build an automation, instead we walked away with two fully working automations that are going to save us a huge amount of time. I'm blown away.”
Common questions.
Do I need to be technical?
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No. Agency Brain installs from a DMG (Mac) or EXE (Windows) and runs in the menu bar. Team members work in Claude Code or Cowork the same way they would on their own. The only person who needs to think about repos and GitHub is the Owner, briefly, at setup.
How is this different from a shared Notion or Google Drive?
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Notion and Drive store files. Agency Brain stores files AND the AI skills that work on those files. A scout writes a skill called client-monthly-review, and from that moment every team member can run it against any client's data and get a consistent output. Notion can't do that. Drive can't do that.
What happens if someone leaves?
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Their access is revoked through GitHub. Everything they built stays in the agency brain because every commit was synced through the team repo. Skills, client context, decisions, history. Nothing evaporates when someone leaves.
Is my client data safe?
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Your agency repo is private on GitHub. Agency Brain uses a scoped GitHub App token per team. Each member's agent operates with that member's permissions and no more. Owner-only documents live in a separate private repo only the Owner has access to.
What if a team member already uses ChatGPT?
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Good. The brain is shared knowledge and shared skills, it does not replace people's preferred AI tool. The skills built by your scouts run inside Claude because that is where the brain lives. Mixed-tool teams work fine.
What is in the V1 launch versus later?
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Live now: the 3-role install flow, the agency portal at agency.ads2ai.com, Agency Brain on Mac and Windows, ~44 skills, three workshop options. Coming in V1.1: the persistent team-member home skill, automated department filtering, the one-click owner-private repo template, and native notifications when scouts ship new skills.
Already set up? Get the app.
Agency Brain runs in the menu bar on Mac and Windows and keeps everyone's copy in sync. Anyone can download it. You need a verified seat to use it.
Get the whole agency
on one brain.
Three minutes to create your agency.
Five minutes to install Agency Brain.
After that, every team member's brain knows how your agency works.