What You Get

• A full audit of your current marketing stack, channels, and performance data — a clear picture of exactly what you have to work with.
• A clear assessment of where AI creates immediate leverage in your specific business, not a generic framework applied to everyone.
• A prioritized roadmap ranked by impact and effort, so your team knows what to do first, second, and third.
• A 90-minute live debrief where we walk through every finding together — not a PDF sent to a folder no one opens.
• A written report you can hand directly to your team or use as a brief for any future engagement.

Who It Is For

• Brands that feel like their marketing is working but are not sure it is working as hard as it could.
• Founders preparing to scale who want to build on solid ground rather than assumptions.
• Teams that have heard a lot about AI but have not had someone honest tell them what is actually worth doing.

How It Works

• You share access to your current tools, data, and channels.
• We spend two weeks inside your marketing operation, mapping everything.
• You receive a written report and a live 90-minute debrief.
• Most clients walk away knowing exactly what to do next, in what order, and why.

What We Build

• Content and campaign workflows that cut production time significantly without diluting quality or brand voice.
• Custom GPTs trained on your brand, products, and customers — your team gets an AI that actually knows your business.
• Automation systems that connect the tools you already use, eliminating manual handoffs that slow everything down.
• Performance monitoring so you can see exactly what the system is doing and course-correct in real time.
• Full team onboarding so your people own and can build on everything we create. You are not dependent on us.

Who It Is For

• Marketing teams stretched thin who know automation is the answer but have not had the time or expertise to build it.
• Brands that have tried off-the-shelf AI tools and found them too generic to be useful for their specific operation.
• Founders who want to scale output without scaling headcount.

What It Is Not

This is not a software subscription. This is not a set of prompts and a PDF. We build custom infrastructure for your specific business. Every engagement is scoped individually because no two marketing operations are the same.

How It Works

• We start with a discovery phase: mapping your current processes, tools, and team workflows.
• We design and build the system, testing every component before handover.
• Typical build time is four to eight weeks depending on scope.
• You own everything we build. Full documentation included.

What This Looks Like in Practice

• A direct line to your strategist. Not a ticketing system, not an account manager, not a project coordinator.
• Bi-weekly strategic sessions focused on your current priorities.
• Ongoing oversight and optimization of your full marketing operation.
• Real-time input on campaigns, creative, technology decisions, and team hiring.
• Access to our full methodology, tool stack, and professional network.

Who It Is For

• Founders and CMOs who have the team to execute but need a senior AI strategist to direct the work.
• Companies at an inflection point: raising a round, entering a new market, or rebuilding after stagnation.
• Leaders who have worked with agencies before and found them too slow, too generic, and too removed from the actual work.

What Makes This Different

Most agencies operate at arm's length. They attend the kickoff, disappear for a month, and return with a deck. In Residence means we are genuinely inside your business, accountable to your results the way an employee is, with the independence and perspective an outside strategist brings.

We take on a limited number of In Residence partners at any one time. That is by design. The model only works when we can give each client the attention it requires.

How to Get Started

In Residence engagements begin with The Map. We do not take on ongoing work without first understanding where your marketing stands. This ensures the engagement is properly scoped and that the first ninety days are immediately productive.

Most marketing agencies are still running on a model designed for a different era: large teams, slow timelines, inflated retainers, and strategies that look impressive in presentations but underdeliver in practice.

AI has fundamentally changed what is possible. A lean, genuinely AI-native team can now produce better strategy, faster execution, and more measurable results than a traditional agency three times its size. Most agencies have not caught up to this. We built LYFSTYL because we had.

Our team has worked with recognized brands across music, entertainment, fashion, and technology. We built LYFSTYL to do it differently: deliberately lean, senior-led, and AI-powered from the ground up.

We work best with ambitious brands in growth mode: startups building their go-to-market engine, mid-size companies looking to scale efficiently, and enterprise teams that need to move faster than their org chart allows.

Our best engagements are with companies ready to adopt AI seriously — not as an experiment, but as a core part of how they operate. If that sounds like you, we should talk.