Marketing Automation for Restaurants
Every table filled, on autopilot.
Self-host free, or hosted from $9/mo
10 Marketing Agents, 3 Ways to Run Them
Articles
Drafts SEO-grounded articles from your real menu, cuisine, and location.
SEO
Real crawl-based audit, real fixes.
GEO
Real citation-gap check against live web search.
Site Crawl
Multi-page crawl, duplicate-content detection.
Drafts replies to relevant local and food threads.
X
Post and thread drafts in your voice.
Professional post drafts, tuned for the format.
GitHub
SEO fixes as a reviewable PR draft.
Hacker News
Pitch drafts for relevant threads.
Leads
Real leads, real local businesses, real outreach.
Why Marlo
Why restaurants run Marlo
Marketing automation for restaurants is not a nice-to-have — it's how independent kitchens compete with chains that have entire marketing departments.
Marketing always loses to the dinner rush
As an owner-operator you're running the floor, the kitchen, and the books. Every busy week, marketing gets deprioritized — local search rankings, reviews, and foot traffic quietly flatline. Marlo keeps your online presence moving even during your busiest service.
Hiring doesn't scale at your margins
A social media manager, a local SEO consultant, and a content writer cost $4,000+/mo before you see a single extra reservation. Marlo runs the same playbook self-hosted, for the cost of your own API keys — no recruiting, no ramp-up.
The local content treadmill never stops
Menu updates, seasonal specials, event announcements, neighborhood guides — local SEO demands a constant content stream while competitors nearby are already publishing. The Articles Agent drafts from your real menu and location, so the treadmill runs without you on it.
Diners moved to AI-mediated search
Diners increasingly ask AI assistants for restaurant recommendations before they ever check a map app. The GEO Agent runs a real, deterministic citation-gap check so you know whether you actually show up.
Marlo runs your marketing so you can run your kitchen
Connect your site. Marlo reads it, and its agents start drafting — across every channel that matters for restaurants.
SEO Agent
Finds real technical issues — meta tags, headings, redirect chains, robots.txt — and drafts fixes.
GEO Agent
Checks whether your restaurant actually shows up in real live search results diners would run.
GitHub Agent
Turns SEO findings into a complete, reviewable pull-request draft — no ticket required.
Reddit Agent
Drafts replies for local subreddits and food threads, grounded in your real menu and location.
X Agent
Drafts post and thread ideas in your voice, ready for you to refine and post.
LinkedIn Agent
Drafts professional posts tuned for LinkedIn's format — useful for catering and events outreach.
Articles Agent
Menu highlights, seasonal specials, and neighborhood content, drafted from your real site — not generic prompts.
Site Crawl Agent
Crawls beyond the homepage and flags near-duplicate content across your menu pages.
Google Search Console
Uses your real search data to find local ranking opportunities.
Google Analytics
Connects to GA4 to surface what's working and where to focus next.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES
What a marketing system like this looks like in practice
Marlo is early — these are illustrative scenarios showing what lean teams could achieve, not real customer results (yet).
How it works
From URL to running marketing, self-hosted
No onboarding project, no learning curve. Connect your keys and Marlo starts drafting the same day.
- 1
Connect your URL and keys
Paste your restaurant's website address and connect your own LLM + integration keys. Marlo reads your menu, cuisine, and location in minutes.
- 2
Run the first audits
The SEO Agent crawls your site and the GEO Agent runs its citation-gap check — both real, both in seconds.
- 3
Review daily drafts
Agents draft articles, Reddit replies, LinkedIn and X posts on demand — grounded in your real menu and neighborhood.
- 4
Approve and ship
Nothing goes live without you. Review each draft, then publish, post, or open the pull request yourself.
Marlo vs. the alternatives
Not just another marketing tool
Most marketing automation falls into one of two traps: too complex to set up, or too narrow to matter. Marlo covers the core functions — self-hosted, not another SaaS bill.
vs. a paid all-in-one platform
Paid platforms are built for marketing teams. Marlo is built for owner-operators who don't have one yet. Self-hosted, your own keys — not a per-seat bill.
vs. a local SEO agency retainer
An agency costs $800–$3,000+/mo and needs briefing and review cycles. Marlo's SEO Agent runs a real crawl-based audit on demand.
vs. hiring a social media manager
A good social media manager costs $1,500–4,000/mo and needs management. Marlo needs a URL and your own API keys.
vs. doing it yourself
You could. But the treadmill doesn't stop between shifts. Marlo's agents draft while you run the restaurant.
Fictional example
How restaurants could use Marlo
“We self-host Marlo alongside our reservation system. The SEO Agent catches things our old checklist never did, and it keeps our menu pages from competing with each other in search.”
Antonio Marchetti
Owner, fictional restaurant example
“As a small team with no marketing hire, the Articles Agent drafting from our actual menu and neighborhood — not generic prompts — is what makes it usable.”
Grace Kim
General Manager, fictional restaurant example
“The GEO Agent's citation check is honest about what it does and doesn't check. That's rare, and it's why we trust the numbers before a menu launch.”
Marisol Peña
Marketing lead, fictional restaurant example
Pricing
Three ways to run Marlo
Self-host it for free, let us host it and cover the AI cost, or host it with us and bring your own model key. Same 10 agents, every tier.
Self-Hosted
Run it yourself, own everything.
- All 10 agents — Articles, SEO, GEO, Site Crawl, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Hacker News, Leads
- Bring your own LLM key — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Your data stays in your own database, never on a server we control
- AGPL-licensed — audit the code, modify it, run it forever
Hosted, Built-In Models
We host it, we cover the AI model cost.
- All 10 agents, fully hosted — nothing to install or maintain
- Built-in AI models included — no LLM API key required
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Automatic updates, managed infrastructure
- Cancel anytime
Hosted, Your Own Key
We host it, you bring your own model key.
- All 10 agents, fully hosted — nothing to install or maintain
- Bring your own LLM key — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- You pay your model provider directly — this fee covers hosting only
- Bring your own integration keys — GA4, GSC, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed, Tavily, Places
- Cancel anytime
Got questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Marlo is a team of specialized AI marketing agents — Articles, SEO, GEO, Site Crawl, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Hacker News — that work together to grow your brand. Each agent runs its own Research → Execution → Publish loop: it researches your product and audience, produces the work (drafts, audits, outreach, fixes), and hands it to you for review.
Marlo offers three ways to run it. Self-host it yourself for $0, forever, using your own API keys. Or let us host it — either with built-in AI models included ($29/mo), or hosted with you bringing your own LLM key ($9/mo, hosting only). No hidden fees on any tier.
Point it at your domain and it runs a real crawl over HTTP — meta tags, heading structure, Open Graph tags, redirect chains, robots.txt compliance, and server timing. It pulls in real Core Web Vitals from Google PageSpeed Insights when you connect a key, so every finding is grounded in your actual site, not guesswork.
The Reddit agent drafts genuinely useful replies in your voice, grounded in your real project context. Live thread discovery via the real Reddit API isn't wired up yet — it currently runs against sample threads for demo purposes, clearly disclosed in the UI, with real integration on the roadmap.
GEO is Generative Engine Optimization — checking whether your brand shows up when people search the modern, AI-mediated web instead of typing a classic Google query. Marlo's GEO agent runs a real, deterministic 3-query citation-gap check via Tavily's live search API — not an LLM's opinion.
The SEO Agent's first audit and the GEO Agent's first citation check both run in seconds, since they're real crawls and real searches against your live site — not a multi-day onboarding. Content agents (Articles, X, LinkedIn) draft on demand whenever you give them a topic.
No — every agent defaults to drafting for your review. The GitHub Agent drafts a complete, reviewable pull-request proposal but doesn't open it automatically. The X Agent can post for real if you connect your own X API credentials; without them, it's draft-only like the rest.
An LLM API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) to power the agents, plus whichever integration keys you want to connect — Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Gmail, GitHub, PageSpeed Insights, and Tavily are all live today. Everything is stored in your own local database.
- Products:
- Marlo AI CMO
- Industries:
- RestaurantsSaaSEcommerceProfessional Services
- Goal:
- Grow Organic TrafficAutomate Marketing Execution
- Metrics:
- Organic TrafficKeyword RankingsCitation Coverage