Building Organic Presence From Zero
First 90 days, from nothing
Impact
A standing start turned into a steady stream of content one person could keep running.
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My Role
Solo, from research through to publishing. Every step ran by hand, which is how I learned which ones were worth automating.
Problem
Autonomous had no organic presence in a crowded B2B AI market and no paid acquisition budget. Growth had to come entirely from owned content, with no team, no ad spend, and no existing audience to build on.
Process
I owned go-to-market content across LinkedIn and Instagram, solo, and did the research, scripting, shooting and editing by hand. To test whether production could scale past one person, I built a Python pipeline on FFmpeg, ElevenLabs, HeyGen, and WhisperX that automates voice, avatar rendering, captioning, and compositing. It works end to end, but it never went into production. Everything published was made by hand.
Solution
The result was a repeatable content process: one person producing consistent, on-brand video and image content with no budget and no team. Alongside it, I wrote an SEO automation script that found and resubmitted 70+ pages left unindexed by a WordPress-to-Wagtail CMS migration.
Learnings
Owning every step solo is what made the automation obvious: I only knew which parts to script because I'd felt every bottleneck by hand first. If I were scaling this again, I'd build the pipeline earlier instead of proving the manual version first.