One agency for SEO, one for paid, one for social, a freelancer for automations, a consultant for AI. Five invoices, five calendars, zero ownership when anything breaks.
Engine replaces all five. One team runs nodes 01, 02 and 03 as one bill: strategy, content, distribution, agents, automations, the lot. One Monday meeting. One written ops plan. The founder stops being the integrator.
Five vendors compete for budget and blame each other. Engine is one team with one P&L. When something breaks, one person owns the fix.