Stay Social

What Stay Social does

Stay Social (legal name: Stay Social Marketing & AI) is a privately held marketing and AI agency founded in 2011 by Corey MacVicar and headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company serves Canadian small and mid-sized businesses — spanning solo professionals, small teams, and brokerages/brands — with five interconnected service lines: Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, and Reputation & Reach. Each service line is delivered through one of two models: the Hub, a $99/month self-serve platform where clients drive their own marketing with AI assistance, or the Studio, a managed offering from $299/month per line where Stay Social's team executes on the client's behalf.

The underlying technology stack is built on third-party frontier models (Claude and GPT) wrapped in a proprietary multi-agent architecture. Four named AI agents — Lev (Chief of Staff), Quill (Content Lead), Forge (Systems Architect), and Scout (Research & Intelligence) — operate as persistent team members with defined roles, decision logic, and escalation paths, governed by a "philosophy binding" framework that constrains output to client-specific brand voice and business rules. The platform supports text, video, audio (voice AI), and structured data workflows, with custom sites and AI agents financed over 24 months and ownership (code and character files) transferring to the client at month 24.

The business model is recurring subscription across both Hub and Studio tiers, with tiered pricing within each service line (e.g., Social at $499/$999/$1,499/month), loyalty stacking discounts of 10–20% for multi-line bundling, and 17% savings on annual prepayment. A Premiere Partner Pricing channel arrangement with Premiere Mortgage Centre extends distribution into the financial services vertical. The operating footprint is a three-person team plus four AI agents, with no external funding disclosed and no revenue figures publicly available.

Name

Stay Social

Legal name

Stay Social Marketing & AI

Website

https://staysocial.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stay Social is a Halifax-based marketing and AI agency serving Canadian SMBs with five service lines (Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, Reputation & Reach) delivered through a $99/mo self-serve Hub or a managed Studio offering from $299/mo per line.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Marketing Services

NAICS

Advertising Agencies (541810)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Social Media & Community Management (BPAFAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Paid Social Advertising (BPAFACAB)

Keywords

• Digital marketing services
• AI marketing platform
• Managed marketing agency
• Social media management
• AI voice agents

Headquarters

HQ city

Halifax

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hub Subscription (DIY): Monthly subscription for self-serve platform access. All five marketing lines in one login with AI assistance. Individual tools available à la carte.
2. Studio Services (Managed): Done-for-you managed services across five lines: Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, Reputation & Reach. Tiered pricing (One, Team, Brand) with loyalty discounts for stacking multiple lines (10-20% off).
3. 24-Month Financed Builds: Custom websites and AI agent builds financed over 24 months. Code/character ownership transfers at month 24. Post-24 optional care plans maintain deliverables.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Stay Social is a marketing and AI agency that delivers five integrated service lines — Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, and Reputation & Reach — through two delivery modes: a self-serve Hub platform ($99/mo) where the customer drives their own marketing with AI assistance, and a managed Studio service (from $299/mo per line) where the Stay Social team executes on the client's behalf using human staff and named AI agents (Lev, Quill, Forge, Scout). Custom websites and AI agent builds are financed over 24 months with ownership transferring to the client at month 24.

Product overview

Stay Social is a marketing and AI agency offering five interconnected service lines (Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, and Reputation & Reach) delivered through two distinct models: The Hub (a DIY platform at $99/month) for self-managed marketing with AI assistance, and The Studio (managed services starting at $299/month per line) for human team execution augmented by AI agents. The five service lines cover social media management, email marketing, website development, AI-powered receptionist/phone handling, and reputation management. All services integrate AI throughout, with custom AI agents (Lev, Quill, Forge, Scout) providing content generation, research, systems architecture, and strategic coordination. Custom sites and AI agents transfer to client ownership at month 24 of financing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Hub: DIY platform offering all five service lines (Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, Reputation & Reach) in one login for $99/mo. Users drive their own marketing with AI assistance.
• The Studio
• Lev
• Quill
• Forge
• Scout

Products and services

• The Hub Unified self-serve platform offering all five Stay Social service lines (Social Planner, Email Tools, Site + Funnel Builder, Chat + Missed-Call Textback, Review Requests + Monitor) in a single login for $99/month, with AI assistance at every step. Built for owners who want to drive their own marketing.
• The Studio Full-service managed marketing delivery of the five service lines (Social, Email, Sites, Front Desk, Reputation & Reach) by the Stay Social human team augmented by AI agents, starting at $299/month per line. Clients approve while the team handles creation, posting, campaigns, and management.
• Social (Social Planner and Studio Social) Social media service line covering consistent content creation and posting. Self-serve Social Planner offers a content calendar, AI content tools, post ideas, hashtag generation, unified inbox, and analytics. Managed Studio Social delivers bespoke content, platform-native formatting, community management, and monthly reporting in three tiers ($499–$1,499/mo).
• Email (Email Tools and Email Marketing) Email marketing service line covering templates, campaigns, automation, and list management. DIY Email Tools provide an AI writer, automations, segmentation, and reporting. Managed Email Marketing includes copywriting and design, subject line testing, CRM integration, and performance reporting across three tiers ($349–$999/mo).
• Sites (Site + Funnel Builder and Custom Sites + Funnels) Website and funnel service line. DIY Site + Funnel Builder offers drag-and-drop templates, funnels, booking pages, forms, hosting, and custom domain connection. Custom Sites + Funnels is a managed custom design, build, hosting, and care service with full code ownership transferring to the client at month 24, across three tiers ($299–$799/mo).
• Front Desk (Chat + Missed-Call Textback and AI Front Desk) Front desk automation service line. DIY Chat + Missed-Call Textback offers website chat widget, automatic missed-call textback, unified inbox, after-hours auto-replies, and lead alerts. AI Front Desk delivers custom voice AI agents that answer calls, route bookings, run follow-up sequences, and integrate with CRM/calendar, with character file transfer to the client at month 24, across three tiers ($299–$999/mo).
• Reputation & Reach (Review Requests + Monitor and Reputation + Reach Management) Reputation and reach service line. DIY Review Requests + Monitor offers one-tap review requests, reputation monitoring, alerts, response templates, and rating trends. Reputation + Reach Management includes ad management, review response in brand voice, local listings management, AI-search visibility (ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AI Overviews), competitor monitoring, and quarterly strategy reports across two tiers ($399–$699/mo).

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Smith.ai: AI and human receptionist service for SMBs handling inbound calls, web chat, and appointment booking. Closest direct comparable to Stay Social's AI Front Desk line in terms of use case (lead capture, missed-call textback) and target buyer (small professional services firms).
• Vendasta: Canadian SMB-focused marketing and customer acquisition platform headquartered in Saskatoon. Vendasta offers a bundled marketplace of marketing, social, reputation, and AI tools to small businesses through channel partners — directly comparable to Stay Social's Hub + Premiere partner model.
• GoHighLevel: All-in-one white-label marketing and CRM platform aimed at agencies and SMBs, bundling funnels, email, social, reputation, AI chatbots, and voice AI in a single login at $99/mo-style entry pricing — a near-direct analogue of Stay Social's Hub offering with strong overlap on AI front desk and reputation.

Broad incumbents

• HubSpot: Broad marketing, CRM, content, and AI platform with a free-tier entry similar to the Hub's $99/mo. Overlaps with Stay Social on email, social, sites, and reputation, but at much larger scale and with a wider enterprise and partner ecosystem.
• Constant Contact: Established email and social media marketing platform for SMBs with tiered monthly subscriptions. Comparable to Stay Social's Email Tools and Social Planner entry tiers and the same target customer (small business owner self-serving marketing).
• Squarespace: Consumer and SMB website builder with integrated email, social, and AI tools. Comparable to Stay Social's Sites and Email lines and the same self-serve DIY price point for solo professionals.
• Webflow: Visual website and funnel builder popular with SMBs and agencies. Directly comparable to Stay Social's Site + Funnel Builder DIY product and Custom Sites + Funnels managed offering on the design and ownership angle.
• Mailchimp: Email-first marketing platform owned by Intuit, with adjacent social, landing page, and AI content features. Closest incumbent analogue to Stay Social's Email line and a benchmark for SMB self-serve pricing tiers.
• ActiveCampaign: Email automation and CRM platform for SMBs with AI-assisted content and increasingly bundled site/reputation features. Closest mid-market incumbent comparison for Stay Social's Email Marketing managed services and CRM integration workflows.
• Hootsuite: Long-standing social media management platform with scheduling, monitoring, and AI content tools. Overlaps directly with Stay Social's Social Planner and Studio Social line on multi-platform publishing and analytics.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StaySocialMktg
• Facebookfacebook.com/StaySocialMarketing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stay-social-marketing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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