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14th Jul 2025

Why Most Marketing Agencies Aren’t Ready for AI (And How to Fix Your Tech Stack Before It Costs You Clients)

Episode Summary:

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In this eye-opening solo episode, Jordan Ross, founder of 8 Figure Agency, breaks down a critical and often overlooked issue holding agencies back from true AI integration: schema and tech stack structure. While everyone is excited about AI, almost no agencies are prepared to implement it at scale—and the result is costly mistakes, hallucinations, and wasted time. Jordan shares how his team builds “agentic solutions” for agencies, the role of structured databases, and why relying solely on GenAI will leave you exposed.

⏱️ Chapters:

– Why 99% of agencies are not AI-ready

– What is an AI brain and how it's built

– Agentic solutions and workflow automation

– The myth of being “tech stack ready”

– Schema: the missing piece in your AI transition

– Why GenAI isn’t enough

– Cost, hallucinations, and why shortcuts fail

– The danger of unstructured data

– Who this applies to and how to get started


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About the Podcast

How to Scale an 8 Figure Agency 🚀
Strategy and AI consulting for 6–7 figure agencies to help them scale to 8 figures.
Welcome to How to Scale an 8-Figure Agency, the show where I break down the exact operational, financial, and AI-driven systems that today’s top marketing agencies use to scale past seven figures — without burning out or getting trapped in fulfillment.

Every week, we go deep into:
• AI consulting for marketing agencies
• Operational infrastructure that actually scales
• Building automations, workflows, and agent-based systems
• Hiring and training world-class teams
• Improving margins, capacity, and client LTV
• Turning your agency into an 8-figure operation that runs without you

If you’re a founder stuck in the weeds, capped by systems, or wondering how to integrate AI into your agency the right way… this podcast is your blueprint.

I’m Jordan Ross — founder of 8 Figure Agency and the person behind hundreds of successful agency scale-ups — and this is where we turn chaos into clarity, and CEOs into true operators.

Let’s get into it.

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