Episode for startups

Run your startup’s website and marketing without a large team.

Manage your website, content, campaigns, SEO and conversion work in Episode. It is your web marketing stack, compressed into one system for a lean team.

Website and CMSCampaigns and SEOAnalytics and experiments
Startup workspace
Live

Website + CMS

Your home base

Campaign pages + forms

Capture demand

SEO + articles

Compound discovery

Personalisation + ABM

Speak to every account

Analytics + experiments

Learn and improve

01Build
02Launch
03Learn
04Improve

A practical startup progression

Build a presence; find, capture and convert demand.

Start with the work your company needs now. Add research, campaigns and optimization as demand grows.

01

Establish your presence

Build your website and manage its pages in the CMS.

02

Find demand

Research search opportunities; publish useful articles and SEO landing pages.

03

Capture demand

Launch campaign pages, collect leads with forms and send them to your existing tools.

04

Learn what converts

Use analytics and heatmaps to see which sources, messages and page sections drive action.

05

Scale what works

Test improvements with experiments; create page variations and relevant ABM experiences.

Website, CMS and articles

Manage the site and its content in the same system.

Update website pages, publish articles and create SEO landing pages from Episode. Use search research to identify an opportunity; then turn it into content without moving to a separate publishing workflow.

Startup jobs in Episode

Use the same workflow for each new priority.

Launch a product

Go from a launch brief to a product page, announcement article and lead-capture flow.

Product page + announcement article

Test your positioning

Create focused variations for different audiences, messages and offers.

Page variants + experiments

Capture a waitlist

Publish a branded sign-up page; send each submission to the tools your team uses.

Forms + lead delivery

Run paid campaigns

Match each ad to a dedicated page; read conversion performance while the campaign runs.

Campaign pages + conversion analytics

Publish for SEO

Turn search opportunities into landing pages and CMS articles that follow your brand.

CMS + search research

Personalise key pages

Adapt key pages for target accounts with relevant messages, offers and proof.

ABM + audience-specific pages

Build. Launch. Learn. Improve.

One workflow from idea to improvement.

Use the same four steps for a website update, article, campaign page or experiment.

01

Build

Start with your brand, audience and goal. Use AI creation and Studio editing to shape the page or article.

02

Launch

Connect a form or integration; publish to your domain and direct the right audience to it.

03

Learn

Read analytics and heatmaps to understand traffic, visitor behaviour and conversion.

04

Improve

Use Takes, experiments and Episode Agent recommendations to test the next version.

Episode in practice

From search opportunity to tested improvement.

A founder or small marketing team can complete the full workflow in Episode.

01

Find an opportunity

Use SEO research to identify a question or search topic your company can address.

02

Build the answer

Create an article or landing page in the CMS; edit it in Studio and keep it on brand.

03

Launch and capture

Publish the page, add a form and deliver new leads through a connected integration.

04

Learn from visits

Check analytics and heatmaps to see how people arrive, what they read and where they act.

05

Improve the page

Test a new message, layout or offer with a variation or experiment.

Build. Launch. Learn. Improve.

Start with the page your startup needs now.

Build it in Episode; publish it, learn from visitor behaviour and test the next improvement.