You're building something real — a business that pays your mortgage, feeds your family, and maybe one day becomes the thing your kids inherit. You deserve marketing that reflects the size of your ambition, not the size of your marketing budget. Tusk&Lever is a creative studio built to make that happen.
The minimum retainer at a real agency starts around $5,000 a month. For most small businesses, that's not a line item — that's a rent payment. So they told you "agencies aren't for you."
You didn't start your business to write Instagram captions at 11 p.m. You started it to do the thing you're good at. Every hour spent on marketing is an hour not running your business.
AI Overviews now sit above every search result. Organic is buried. Paid search is getting more expensive and less effective. The old playbook isn't just outdated — it's losing you money.
Tusk&Lever was built to close the gap between what small businesses can afford and what good marketing actually costs. Our studio combines award-winning creative direction with modern AI-powered production, so the thinking that used to require a 20-person agency now fits inside a small business budget.
At most agencies, your work starts with a senior pitch and ends with a junior executing it. Not here. Every piece of work — every post, every ad, every email — goes through a Creative Director with 16 years of agency experience.
AI tools write first drafts, generate video, produce imagery. But none of that matters without someone who knows what to ask for. That's what Tusk&Lever brings — the judgment to make AI output actually good, backed by real agency experience.
Pick your package, pay the same every month. Ad spend goes directly to the platforms (no markup, no games). If something changes, we talk before anything gets charged.
Tusk&Lever caps at six clients. No more. That's the real limit of what a focused studio can deliver well, and we'd rather do six businesses justice than twenty a disservice.
Every package is a complete marketing operation — not a piecemeal menu of services. You're buying an outcome: a business that looks professional, shows up where your customers are, and actually grows.
For the business that needs to stop looking amateur online. Consistent, professional presence on the platforms where your customers already are.
Ready to drive leads, not just post. One paid channel managed end-to-end, with the tracking to know what's working.
The anchor package. A real marketing operation with two paid channels, retargeting, and bi-weekly strategy calls. Where most businesses find their fit.
For the business ready to look like a real brand. Three paid channels, full-funnel retargeting, weekly strategy. Marketing that looks expensive — but isn't.
Full creative direction on retainer. Brand strategy, campaign concepting, messaging architecture — the thinking agencies charge $15K+ for. Available to two businesses at a time.
A few honest notes: Every package includes a one-time launch fee ($750–$1,500) covering setup, brand intake, and your 90-day roadmap. Ad spend is paid directly to the platforms — no markup, no middleman. 3-month minimum commitment. When the six-client roster is full, the doors close until a spot opens.
Tusk&Lever is a boutique creative studio serving small businesses that refuse to look amateur but can't justify agency pricing. We pair senior creative direction with modern AI-powered production — so the thinking that used to require a whole agency now fits inside a small business budget.
We don't chase scale. Tusk&Lever caps at six clients because that's the real ceiling of what a focused studio can do well. When we're full, we're full. When a spot opens, we're selective about who fills it.
Tell us about your business, your customers, your goals. If we're a fit for each other, we talk. No sales pressure — if Tusk&Lever isn't right for you, we'll tell you.
One intake session (90 min), a brand deep-dive, then we build your 90-day roadmap. You approve the strategy before anything ships.
Content starts shipping. Ads start running (if your tier includes them). You see everything before it goes live — approve in minutes, not meetings.
Monthly reports, strategy calls at your tier's cadence, constant optimization. When something's working, we double down. When it's not, we fix it.
Traditional agencies carry significant overhead — office space, account managers, layers of senior and junior staff. When you pay an agency, you're paying for all of that plus the actual work. Tusk&Lever is structured differently. We run a small, focused studio using modern AI-powered production for what used to require a team of five. Same quality output. Way less overhead. You pay for the work, not the building.
No, and that's intentional. You pay ad spend directly to Google, Meta, TikTok — whoever. Tusk&Lever manages it, optimizes it, and reports on it, but we never touch the money. This keeps everything clean, prevents markup games, and means you own every account and every dollar. If we ever part ways, you keep your accounts, your data, your campaigns. That's how it should be.
Yes, in either direction. Most clients start at Momentum or Growth System and upgrade as they see results. If you need to scale back temporarily, that's fine too — just give 30 days notice. The only commitment is an initial 3-month minimum so we have enough runway to prove the model works for you.
Then you go on the waitlist. Tusk&Lever caps at six clients because that's the real limit of what a focused studio can do well. When a spot opens, we reach out to the waitlist in order. Honestly, the waitlist itself is often useful — it gives us time to talk through what you'd want before we're working together.
Yes, for production. We use AI for first drafts, video generation, imagery, and automation — because it's 10x faster and, when directed well, indistinguishable from what a team of humans would make. But every piece of work gets Creative Director judgment applied to it. AI is the brush; the painting is still ours. And if you have concerns about AI-generated anything, we talk about it upfront.
Enterprise companies with complex multi-stakeholder approval processes. Businesses in heavily regulated industries where we'd need specialized legal and compliance expertise. Anyone looking for a "please make us go viral" miracle. And honestly, anyone who wants a vendor instead of a partner — Tusk&Lever works because we actually talk to each other.
Apply. We'll have a real conversation about your business, your customers, and what success would look like for you. If we don't think we can move the needle for you, we'll say so. If we do, we'll tell you exactly how. No pressure, no pitch deck theater.
You didn't come this far to blend in. Apply for a spot on the Tusk&Lever roster and let's talk about what your business could actually look like when the marketing catches up to the work you're doing.
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