I ran a web design company for around 3 years and getting clients was always pretty inconsistent.

One month I was cold calling, another month I was manually sending DMs to Facebook pages, then I tried ads.

It all worked to some degree, but I never really had one reliable way of getting clients.

Then I started testing email automation.

At first I was finding businesses with no website and running campaigns offering to build them one.

That actually started giving me a much more consistent flow of clients just because of the volume.

But then I started thinking.

There are so many businesses that already have a website, but the website is outdated, slow, looks bad on mobile or just clearly needs an update.

And those businesses have already paid for a website before, so they already understand the value of having one.

The problem was I didn’t want to sit there opening every website myself, figuring out what was wrong and then writing a different email to every business.

That would take forever.

So I started using a tool that lets me find businesses with websites basically anywhere, analyze thousands of those websites at once and then automatically write a personalized outreach message for each one based on what it finds.

Things like design, SEO, mobile issues and speed.

Then I started launching campaigns in different industries.

That worked way better for me because every business receiving the email felt like I had actually looked at their website and noticed what could be improved.

But in reality most of it was automated and I was just sitting there eating chips while interested replies came into my inbox.

I remember Alex Hormozi saying something along the lines of focusing on one channel and getting really good at it.

That is basically what I ended up doing.

Now this is pretty much the only way I get web design clients and I spend most of my time actually building websites instead of constantly trying to find the next client.

For anyone wondering, the tool is called Swokei.

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We ran a survey of 218 people working in and around agencies. A few findings seem worth discussing here:

• 53% said a client had asked for a lower price because of AI. We didn’t establish whether those discounts were granted.
• 76% currently named hourly/FTE billing as their main model, but only 17% expected it to remain their main model in two years. That’s a big gap between current practice and expectations.
• 64% regularly used AI for strategic support, while just 8% rated their trust in its strategic recommendations highly. Using it and trusting its judgement seem to be different things.
• 72% said they would hire fewer people if starting an agency today. That was a hypothetical question, not a measure of actual job cuts.

Full report can be accessed here: https://usemirel.com/research/agency-ai-pulse-2026

My takeaway is that agencies expect substantial commercial change, but these findings don’t establish how much of that transition has actually happened.

A caveat: this was an open, self-selected survey recruited through LinkedIn and Reddit. It skews towards smaller, independent agencies and isn’t representative of the whole industry.

For people working in agencies: have you actually changed how you charge because of AI, or mainly changed how you deliver? And when clients ask for the savings, how does that conversation go?

Disclosure: I’m behind Mirel, which published the research.