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If you are looking at Graphed, you probably want AI agents doing real marketing work, not another dashboard. The question is who runs them. Graphed sends engineers to build and manage agents for you. This guide is for teams that would rather run the agents themselves, and it covers what to look for in a Graphed alternative and where Growth Method fits. For the full side-by-side, read Graphed vs Growth Method.
What Graphed does well
Graphed is a small, fast-moving company: its LinkedIn page lists two to 10 employees. It started in 2025 as an AI data analyst and now leads with “Deploy AI agents for marketing”. It offers 11 channel agents, from Meta and Google Ads to cold email and Instagram DMs, built on Fivetran pipelines into its own ClickHouse warehouse, with first agents live in five business days.
For a founder with no marketing team, that is a strong offer. Engineers wire up your data, agents tune your ad accounts and run outbound, and you get dashboards on top.
Why teams look for a Graphed alternative
Graphed’s model suits some teams less well. These are the trade-offs worth weighing.
- You want to run it yourself. Graphed’s headline offer is forward-deployed engineering. If you have a marketing team, a vendor’s engineers running your agents means the learning sits with them.
- You want to see the price. Graphed does not publish prices; its homepage says pricing is “scoped to your setup”.
- You plan campaigns, not channels. Graphed’s agents optimise inside one channel each. A B2B team usually needs to decide which campaign to run next, across channels, against one goal.
- You want your data where it is. Graphed copies your data into its warehouse and runs agents on its cloud, so your stack’s centre of gravity moves to Graphed.
- You want more than two AI providers. Graphed’s subprocessor list names Anthropic and OpenAI, with no open-weight models.
What to look for in a Graphed alternative
Agents your team runs. In-house marketing has been growing for years, and AI speeds it up. The Association of National Advertisers found in-house agencies at 82% of its members in 2023:
Eighty-two percent of ANA members have an in-house agency in 2023 — up from 78 percent in 2018, 58 percent in 2013, and 42 percent in 2008. We predict penetration will eventually peak at 85 to 90 percent.
Association of National Advertisers, The Continued Rise of the In-House Agency: 2023 Edition
Context managed for you. Agents are only as good as what they know about your goal, strategy and history. Anthropic’s applied AI team puts the constraint plainly:
While some models exhibit more gentle degradation than others, this characteristic emerges across all models. Context, therefore, must be treated as a finite resource with diminishing marginal returns.
Anthropic Applied AI team, Effective context engineering for AI agents, September 2025
Look for a platform that curates that context for you, so your team never has to learn the engineering.
A learning loop. Channel optimisation makes spend efficient. A learning loop tells you what to do next:
The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. All successful startup processes should be geared to accelerate that feedback loop.
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
A composable stack. Swapping Semrush for DataForSEO, or Google Analytics for PostHog, should take minutes and leave your campaigns untouched.
Safeguards on every change. Agents that change ad accounts and websites need approvals before they act and a history of what they changed.
Growth Method: the Graphed alternative for B2B teams
Growth Method gives B2B marketing teams AI agents that run their campaigns: plan, launch and analyse, from live data, against one goal. Where Graphed builds channel agents for you, Growth Method gives your own team the agents and the system.
Your team runs it
Growth Method is self-serve. Your team owns its campaigns, history and agents, and the price is published: $150 per user per month, with AI usage passed through at cost.
Context handled for you
Every agent works from your goal, your strategy, team memory and your campaign history, and checks for duplicates before creating a campaign. Connect your tools and go.
Plan, launch, analyse, repeat
Every campaign moves through plan, launch, analyse, repeat, and each analysis feeds the next plan. That is the loop that decides what you run next.
Composable integrations
Pre-built integrations for 50+ marketing platforms connect through MCP, and you can add or remove one in minutes. Your data stays in your tools.
Safeguards built in
Approval before changes, a classifier that judges every change, campaigns that move one stage at a time, step limits and timeouts, a change history, and integration credentials kept out of every AI surface.
Not tied to one AI provider
We move agents to a better or cheaper model as models improve, without you changing anything.
Which should you choose?
Stay with Graphed if you want engineers to build and manage channel agents for you, especially for paid social and outbound. Choose Growth Method if you are a B2B marketing team that wants to run more campaigns itself and keep what it learns.
For the wider market, see our ranking of the best agentic marketing platforms.
About Growth Method
If you are weighing Graphed because you want agents doing the work, Growth Method gives that to your own team. It gives B2B marketing teams AI agents that run their campaigns: plan, launch and analyse, from your live data, against one goal, with pre-built integrations for 50+ marketing platforms.
We are on-track to deliver a 43% increase in inbound leads this year. There is no doubt the adoption of Growth Method is the primary driver behind these results.
Laura Perrott, Colt Technology Services
Get started and put your own team in charge of its agents.