Eco-friendly products on white: glass refill jars, a bamboo toothbrush, beeswax wraps, a wooden dish brush and a cotton tote bag
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Marketing automation for eco-friendly brands

Your customers read the label, ask where things come from and notice vague promises. Maggie, your AI CMO, writes specific, honest posts about your materials, refills and packaging for your shop, blog and social channels, and you approve every one.

Free to start · No credit card · 30 free posts

Used by 600+ users and trusted by teams at

  • aeglesriphal.com
  • moonlakespa.com
  • shop.theteagroup.com
  • clo100.com
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  • mymorez.com
  • nextidal.com
  • otisapp.com
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  • theheatpumps.co.uk
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  • imaintain.uk
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Sound familiar?

Why eco-friendly brands struggle to keep their marketing going

You started the brand to make better products, not to write content calendars. Between sourcing, packing orders and answering customers, the stories behind your products rarely get told.

One vague claim undoes years of trust

“Eco”, “natural” and “planet-friendly” sound good in a hurry, but your customers have learned to distrust them. Every green claim needs to say exactly what you mean, and that takes time to write.

The story is longer than a product page

Why your refills use aluminium, how your supplier treats its workers, how to compost the packaging. Customers want to know, but a product description has room for two sentences.

Big brands are buying the green searches

Supermarkets and large household brands now sell their own eco ranges and outspend you on ads. A small brand needs useful guides that people find and AI answers quote.

Plastic Free July comes round fast

Earth Day, Plastic Free July, Zero Waste Week, Christmas gifting. The moments your customers care about most arrive while you're busy with restocks, and the posts get written too late.

A small brand's packing table with refill jars, kraft boxes and paper tape, and a phone showing post cards waiting for approval
Your week with Maggie

Plastic Free July starts in three weeks, and your posts are already drafted.

It's the middle of June. Your new refill pouches have just landed, the warehouse shelves are full of glass jars, and you've realised Plastic Free July is three weeks away with nothing planned.

You enter your shop's website into cmo.so. Maggie reads it and writes your brand profile: refillable cleaning products, plastic-free bathroom basics, your refill scheme, the customers who are trying to cut waste one swap at a time, and your friendly, no-lecturing voice. You correct one thing: your pouches are recyclable through a return scheme, not at the kerbside.

On Tuesday the drafts are waiting, each with a picture in your brand's look: a blog post on five easy bathroom swaps, a guide to how your refill scheme works, an Instagram post about the new pouches and a LinkedIn post for cafés and offices looking for refillable supplies. Your house rule about green claims has flagged one line that said “zero waste” and suggested a more precise wording.

You approve them from your phone while packing orders. The posts go out at the times you set for each channel, each comes back with its link to your shop, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which swap guides people are finding.

What you get with Maggie

Marketing as careful about claims as you are about materials

Each of those problems has an answer, and you still decide what goes out under your brand's name.

Swap guides that lead to your shop

Posts on simple swaps, how to use refills, how to care for and repair what you sell, written for Google and for AI answers. Published to your Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix or Webflow shop, or any site through the cmo.so API.

Blog on autopilot

Specific claims, not slogans

Your brand profile records what's true: materials, certifications you actually hold, how packaging is disposed of. Add a house rule against vague green claims and Content Policy Guard holds a post that breaks it. These are AI suggestions, not legal or compliance advice.

House rules

Planned around the green calendar

Earth Day, Plastic Free July, Zero Waste Week, back to school, Christmas gifting. Topics are planned and queued ahead, so posts keep going out while you restock.

Seasonal schedule

Your brand, understood

Enter your website and Maggie builds your brand profile: products, customers, what sets you apart from the big eco ranges, competitors and voice. Every post and picture starts from it.

Brand profile

One product story, every channel

A new refill becomes a blog post, a LinkedIn post for cafés, offices and stockists, and Instagram, Facebook or TikTok posts for shoppers (in beta), each in its own style.

Every channel

Approve between orders

By default nothing goes out until you approve it. Read drafts in the iPhone app or at app.cmo.so, edit a line, skip a post, or pause a channel while a product is out of stock.

Approvals
Inside the app

Your marketing team, in your pocket

Real screens from the cmo.so app on iPhone.

The cmo.so app home screen: monthly posts, website health scores and an AI visibility chartAsk Maggie: a chat where Maggie reviews 30 days of SEO and AI visibilityConnect your social accounts: LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTokMaggie prepared your plan: look, voice, writing style and posting frequencyWrite a post once for LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook and Instagram
How it works

From your shop to a season of honest posts in four steps

  1. Enter your website

    Maggie reads it and drafts your brand profile in minutes.

  2. Check your profile

    Correct your materials and claims, add your house rules and choose your channels.

  3. Review the drafts

    Your first week of posts arrives with pictures. Approve, edit or skip each one.

  4. Let them go out

    Approved posts go out at each channel's times and every one comes back with its link.

Your other options

Why not just…

The usual ways eco-friendly brands try to grow, and where each one runs out.

…sell through marketplaces and eco gift sites?

They bring orders, but they take a share and the customer remembers the marketplace. Guides on your own website bring people who buy from you again and join your refill scheme.

…rely on influencer gifting?

Sending free products to creators can work, but each post is gone in a day and you don't control what's said. Your own blog keeps answering questions for months.

…pay a content agency?

SEO and content agencies often cost around £1,000 a month, which is a lot of stock for a small brand. Maggie writes and publishes every week from £15 a month.

…write it with ChatGPT?

It reaches for “eco” and “sustainable” in every paragraph, and you still have to brief it, check it, make the picture and post it. Maggie remembers your brand and your house rules and posts on schedule.

Pricing

Cut the £5,900/mo marketing bill to £15/mo

Everything a marketing team does, done by Maggie.

What needs doingWithout cmo.soWith cmo.so
Full-time marketing hire£3,000/moIncluded
SEO and AI search (GEO) agency£1,000/moIncluded
Content writer, AI-assisted£500/moIncluded
Social media manager, freelance£800/moIncluded
Designed pictures for every post£300/moIncluded
SEO and GEO softwareRank tracking, site audits, AI visibility£250/moIncluded
AI writing and image tools£50/moIncluded
Working hoursOffice hours24/7
Total per month£5,900+From £15/mo

Typical UK costs for a small business in 2026, with AI already cutting freelance rates. Estimates only; your own quotes will vary.

Founding member pricingLock in these prices for good.For the first 500 members, until 1 January 2027.
72days left
FreeTry it out
£0forever
No card needed
  • 5 social posts, 30 once verified
  • 15 Maggie messages a day
  • Upgrade any time
Start free
AirGetting started
£15/mo
Lowest paid plan
  • 2 posts a day
  • 60 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Air
MaxSeveral channels
£45/mo
£75Save 40%
  • 24 posts a day
  • 300 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Max
UltraBusy teams
£65/mo
£115Save 43%
  • 48 posts a day
  • 600 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Ultra
EliteAgencies, many brands
£105/mo
£195Save 46%
  • 96 posts a day
  • 1,000 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Elite

Per website, billed monthly. Blog and social posts share one allowance; your best plan sets how much you can talk to Maggie across all your websites.

Questions eco-friendly brands ask

Marketing automation for eco-friendly brands: your questions

Still unsure?

What is marketing automation for eco-friendly brands?

It's software that does the repeating work of marketing a sustainable brand: planning topics around the green calendar, writing blog and social posts about your products, making pictures and publishing them on schedule.

With cmo.so, Maggie does all of it from your shop's website, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

How do eco-friendly brands get more customers online?

Eco-friendly brands get more customers online by answering the questions careful shoppers ask: what a product is made of, how to use and dispose of it, and why it's a better swap.

Maggie writes those guides and posts every week, links them to your products, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which ones bring people to your shop.

How much does marketing automation cost for an eco-friendly brand?

There's a free plan with no card needed. Paid plans are per website and billed monthly: Air at £15 a month covers two posts a day, which suits most small brands, and Pro at £45 a month suits a growing brand posting on several channels.

Founding members get lower prices for good on every plan until 1 January 2027. You can cancel any time.

Which channels should eco-friendly brands start with?

Most start with their own blog, because swap guides and how-tos keep bringing shoppers to the shop, plus Instagram or TikTok (in beta) for showing products in use.

LinkedIn suits brands that sell to cafés, offices, hotels or stockists, and Google Business suits a refill shop with a physical counter. Each channel has its own posting times and queue.

How do we avoid greenwashing in AI-written posts?

You avoid it by giving the AI only true, specific facts and checking every post. Your brand profile records your real materials and certifications, and you can add a house rule against vague claims such as “eco” or “zero waste” without evidence.

Content Policy Guard then holds a post that breaks your rules as a draft with a suggested rewrite. These are AI suggestions, not legal or compliance advice, and your brand stays responsible for what it publishes.

Is it safe to let AI post for our brand?

It is, because nothing goes out until you approve it. Approvals are on by default, and you can keep them on for every channel or let a channel you trust run on autopilot.

Social channels connect through each platform's official sign-in, so cmo.so never sees your passwords, and cmo.so never sells or rents your data.

Will cmo.so change our prices or stock?

No, cmo.so never changes your products, prices or stock. Maggie writes and publishes posts, and links them to the products you sell.

So a guide to plastic-free cleaning can send readers straight to your refills.

Can it write about our suppliers and materials?

It can, from what's on your website and what you add to your brand profile, such as where your cotton is grown or how your refills are made.

Maggie doesn't invent sourcing details, and you check every post, so the story stays accurate.

Can cmo.so help us sell to shops and businesses too?

It can help them find and understand you. Maggie writes LinkedIn posts for stockists, cafés, offices and hotels about your trade range, minimum orders and how refills work at scale.

It doesn't send emails or handle orders, so enquiries still come to you through your website.

What kind of posts will Maggie write for an eco brand?

Expect swap guides, care and repair tips, explainers on materials and packaging, refill how-tos, behind-the-scenes posts about suppliers, and seasonal posts for moments such as Plastic Free July.

Each post gets a picture in your brand's look, and Maggie learns from your edits.

Which shops does it work with?

cmo.so publishes to Shopify, WordPress (including WooCommerce), Wix and Webflow, and to any other website through the cmo.so API.

Each post is reported back with its link once it's live.

Does it help us appear in AI answers?

Posts are written to be clear and quotable, which helps Google's AI answers and assistants such as ChatGPT recommend your products accurately.

AI visibility in cmo.so shows how Google's AI answers mention your brand, so you can see what to write about next.

Ready when you are

Tell your products' story properly, every week

Enter your website. Your brand profile and first week of posts are ready in minutes, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

  • Free plan, no card needed
  • You approve every post
  • Cancel any time

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