I Was Shocked by What Sean McKay (Site Hub) Said About Agencies

👉 https://vythos.tech 🤖 Vythos — The AI that knows your agency The product I’m building to give AI tools your business and client context. 📩 The Operator’s Cut — my newsletter: https://michaelcoppola.co.uk/subscribe Why Big agencies are in trouble? Sean McKay, founder of Site Hub, rebuilt his agency around AI in under two years. In this conversation: what AI actually runs at his agency today, what stays stubbornly human, and why a one-person agency will soon deliver the work of a 100-person agency. In this episode: → Why "big agencies are in trouble" — AI democratized the skills scale used to buy → The real bottleneck nobody talks about → What AI still can't do → The verification tax → What Site Hub rebuilt with AI → Why design, strategy and relationships stay human-first → Where the market is going: authority, AEO, and the agencies that win the next decade 00:00 — Intro 02:07 — What Site Hub does 03:14 — Sean's AI journey 05:35 — The context problem nobody solved 06:40 — What AI runs at Site Hub today 10:19 — Automations that actually work 11:42 — How SEO content production changed 12:44 — The verification tax 13:45 — What stays human (design, strategy, relationships) 16:08 — The frontier: unified memory + specialized agents 18:04 — How Sean keeps up with AI (his 70/20/10 rule) 19:48 — Where AI still struggles: new ideas 21:46 — Why big agencies are in trouble 23:10 — What's next: authority and AEO 24:27 — The AI theme song 🎸 26:11 — Where to find Sean Guest: Sean McKay — Founder, Site Hub 🔗 sitehub.com | smckay.com New episodes of AI Business Transformations every week — agency founders and AI operators, real numbers, including what failed. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. #AIAgents #MarketingAgency #AIBusinessTransformations