
Marketing automation for social enterprises
You have to sell like a business and explain your mission like a charity, usually with a team of three. Maggie, your AI CMO, writes posts for your customers, buyers and supporters on your website and channels, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
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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nextidal.com
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storaitelling.com
theheatpumps.co.uk
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Why social enterprises struggle to keep their marketing going
Running the café, the workshop or the service comes first, then the funding reports, then the people you support. Marketing gets whatever is left.
Two audiences, one small team
Shoppers want to know what you sell and why it's good. Corporate buyers, councils and funders want to know what difference you make. Writing for both, every week, is more than one person can do.
Competing with bigger brands on price
Your coffee, catering or cleaning service may cost a little more because it pays fairly or trains people. If customers never hear why, they simply see the price.
Impact stories need care
The people you employ or support deserve to be described with dignity, and some don't want to be named at all. That takes time to get right, so stories often go untold.
Social value buyers can't find you
Organisations looking for social enterprise suppliers search and check LinkedIn first. A website that hasn't changed in a year doesn't make the shortlist.

The Christmas catering season starts in six weeks, and your posts for customers and buyers are already queued.
It's Monday. You run a catering social enterprise that trains people leaving the care system as chefs. Christmas office lunches start in six weeks, a funder's report is due on Friday, and your Instagram last posted a photo from the summer fair.
You enter your website into cmo.so. Maggie reads it and writes your brand profile: office lunches and event catering, the training kitchen and what trainees learn, the local businesses and councils who order from you, and the warm, straight-talking way your head chef talks about food. You correct one thing: trainees are never named or pictured without their agreement, and you add that to your house rules.
By Tuesday the drafts are waiting, each with a picture in your brand's look: a blog post on choosing Christmas catering that does some good, a LinkedIn post for office managers and procurement teams on how buying from you supports social value goals, a Google Business offer for early festive bookings with a button to your order page, and an Instagram post about what a week in the training kitchen looks like. You approve three and soften one line in the fourth so it sounds like your chef.
The posts go out at the times you set for each channel, and each comes back with its link. While you're writing the funder's report, Maggie is planning the next topics, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which posts bring people to your site.
Marketing that sells and explains why it matters
Each of those problems has an answer, and you still decide what goes out under your name.
Posts for customers and for buyers
One idea becomes a post for each channel in its own style: product and service posts for customers on Instagram and Facebook (in beta), social value posts for corporate and public sector buyers on LinkedIn.
Every channelYour mission on your website
Blog posts on what you do, why it matters and how buying from you helps, written for Google and for AI answers. Published to your WordPress or WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix or Webflow site, or any site through the cmo.so API.
Blog on autopilotStories told with care
Add house rules to your brand profile, such as never naming the people you support, and Maggie writes within them. You approve every post before it goes out.
Brand profileFound by local customers
Regular Google Business posts keep your café, shop or service visible nearby, with offers, events such as an open day, and buttons that take people straight to you.
Google BusinessPlanned around your busy seasons
Christmas orders, summer events, tender deadlines and your annual impact report. Posts are written and queued ahead, so they keep going out while you're busy.
Seasonal scheduleApprove between everything else
By default nothing goes out until you approve it. Swipe through drafts in the iPhone app or at app.cmo.so, and add trustees or staff in Me → Team.
Approvals and teamYour marketing team, in your pocket
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From your website to a month of posts in four steps
Enter your website
Maggie reads it and drafts your brand profile in minutes.
Check your profile
Correct your products and mission, add your house rules and choose the channels you want.
Review the drafts
Your first week of posts arrives with pictures. Approve, edit or skip each one.
Let them go out
Approved posts go out at each channel's times and every one comes back with its link.
Why not just…
The usual ways social enterprises try to get their message out, and where each one runs out.
…ask a volunteer to do social media?
Volunteers are generous, but they come and go, and posting stops when they do. Maggie keeps your brand profile and your schedule, whoever is helping this year.
…hope for pro bono help from an agency?
Pro bono projects are welcome, but they usually cover a campaign, not every week. Maggie writes and publishes every week from £15 a month.
…hire a communications officer?
A full-time marketing hire in the UK costs around £3,000 a month before tools, which is hard to justify on tight margins. Maggie does the everyday posting, so your team can focus on the work.
…write it with ChatGPT?
You still brief it, check it, make the picture and post it yourself, and it doesn't know your mission or your house rules. Maggie remembers them and puts posts out on schedule.
Cut the £5,900/mo marketing bill to £15/mo
Everything a marketing team does, done by Maggie.
| What needs doing | Without cmo.so | With cmo.so |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time marketing hire | £3,000/mo | Included |
| SEO and AI search (GEO) agency | £1,000/mo | Included |
| Content writer, AI-assisted | £500/mo | Included |
| Social media manager, freelance | £800/mo | Included |
| Designed pictures for every post | £300/mo | Included |
| SEO and GEO softwareRank tracking, site audits, AI visibility | £250/mo | Included |
| AI writing and image tools | £50/mo | Included |
| Working hours | Office hours | 24/7 |
| 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.
- 5 social posts, 30 once verified
- 15 Maggie messages a day
- Upgrade any time
- 12 posts a day
- 150 Maggie messages a day
- All channels
- 96 posts a day
- 1,000 Maggie messages a day
- All channels
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.
Marketing automation for social enterprises: your questions
Still unsure?
What is marketing automation for social enterprises?
It's software that does the repeating work of marketing a social enterprise: planning topics, writing blog and social posts about what you sell and the difference it makes, making pictures and publishing on schedule.
With cmo.so, Maggie does all of it from your website, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
How do social enterprises get more customers online?
Social enterprises get more customers online by being clear about what they sell and why buying from them matters, posting regularly on their own website, Google Business profile and the social channels their customers use.
Maggie writes those posts every week for both shoppers and organisational buyers, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which ones bring people to your site.
How much does marketing automation cost for a social enterprise?
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 social enterprises, and Pro at £45 a month suits one 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 social enterprises start with?
It depends on who buys from you. Consumer-facing social enterprises usually start with Google Business, their own blog, and Instagram or Facebook, which are in beta.
If you sell to businesses, councils or other organisations, LinkedIn matters most, because that's where buyers and commissioners look. Each channel has its own posting times and queue.
Can it write about our impact without exaggerating?
It writes from what your website and brand profile say, and it won't invent statistics, results or stories. If you've published an impact report, posts can point readers to it.
You approve every post, and Maggie learns from your edits, so the tone stays honest and close to yours.
How does it handle stories about the people we support?
Carefully, and within your rules. Add house rules to your brand profile, such as never naming or picturing people without their agreement, and drafts follow them.
Every post is approved by you before it goes out, so nothing about a person is published without someone at your organisation checking it.
Can cmo.so help us win contracts with businesses and councils?
It helps buyers find you and understand what you offer. Maggie, your AI CMO, writes LinkedIn posts and articles for procurement teams on what you supply and the social value it brings.
cmo.so doesn't write tenders or bids, so those are still prepared by your team.
Can it help us reach funders and supporters too?
Yes, posts about your mission, your progress and your plans can be written for funders and supporters on your blog and LinkedIn.
cmo.so doesn't send email newsletters or run fundraising campaigns, so appeals still go through the tools you already use.
Will cmo.so change our shop's products or prices?
It won't touch your products or prices. Maggie writes and publishes posts; she never changes products, prices or stock in your online shop.
She can link posts to products and services, so a story can send readers straight to something they can buy.
Is it safe to let AI post for a social enterprise?
Yes, because nothing goes out until you approve it. Approvals are on by default for every channel, and you can keep them on 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.
We run a café and an online shop. Can cmo.so handle both?
Yes. If each has its own website, add both to one account and each gets its own brand profile, channels, schedule and approvals.
If they share one website, posts can be written for café visitors and online shoppers from the same brand profile.
Can my team or trustees approve posts?
Yes. In Me → Team you can add people and choose what each can see or change, using presets such as editor or manager.
So a staff member can manage the schedule while a director or trustee approves anything sensitive.
Let more people know why buying from you matters
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
