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AI agents for marketing teams in restaurants
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents work the apps your restaurant marketing team already uses, from writing every caption and offer at the last minute to drafts that wait for your approval.
Restaurant marketers get back the hours lost to captions, offers, list tidying, and stitching reports together.
AI Employees for Restaurants Marketing in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
- Your Google listing never looks abandonedA weekly post, fresh dish photos and the current offer are drafted so the profile stays alive without a rota.
- The feed keeps pace with the specials boardCaptions and next-day posts are drafted from your dish photos and queued in Buffer for your approval.
- Quiet nights get an offer before they happenThe agent spots a thin night in the bookings sheet and drafts the email or text offer for your sign-off.
- Seasonal peaks are planned six weeks outValentine's, Mother's Day and the December party run each get a brief, a checklist and drafted copy early.
- You know which campaign filled the roomBookings by source and promo redemptions are tied to the POS and landed in one Monday digest.
- Built around your restaurantThese are examples. Build a custom agent for any marketing job you repeat, from wine dinner promos to menu launches.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Restaurants Marketing team's day.
Where the hours go
The specials change daily, so the caption gets written at 4pm from a phone photo, or skipped, and the feed goes quiet in exactly the weeks you most need it.
An agent drafts the caption from the dish photo and the chef's note and queues the week's posts in Buffer, so you approve in one pass instead of writing between services.
The newsletter goes out when someone finds an hour, quiet Tuesdays stay quiet, and the birthday list sits in a sheet nobody has opened since spring.
An agent drafts the newsletter, the birthday sends and the quiet-night offer from your own sheets, checks consent on the list, and waits for your sign-off.
Valentine's, Mother's Day and the December party season arrive with five weeks' notice and a scramble for photos, copy and listing updates.
An agent builds the brief, the copy and a dated checklist six weeks ahead, so the campaign is a review job rather than a panic.
Nobody can say whether the Instagram post, the newsletter or the Google offer filled Saturday, because the numbers sit in four dashboards and a POS.
An agent pulls bookings by source and promo redemptions from the POS into one Monday digest, so you decide what to repeat with the facts in front of you.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Restaurants Marketing agents
Some of the apps for your Restaurants Marketing team
Some of the marketing apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
When the chef or a server drops a photo into the shared Drive folder, the agent reads the filename and the chef's note, drafts a caption for Instagram and a short post for the Google listing, and queues both for approval. The draft appears in Slack within about a minute of the photo arriving.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Social content210 min / weekWriting captions between services
Someone photographs the special at 4pm, writes a caption on a phone, forgets the tags, and posts it after the rush, or skips the day when the kitchen is slammed.
Social content Agent0 minAgent drafts and queues the weekAn agent drafts each caption from the dish photo and the chef's note and queues the week's posts in Buffer, so you approve a batch in one pass.
- Email and SMS club180 min / weekSending the newsletter when there is time
The newsletter goes out whenever someone finds an hour, quiet Tuesdays stay quiet, and the birthday list sits in a sheet nobody has opened for months.
Email and SMS club Agent0 minAgent drafts sends and checks consentAn agent drafts the newsletter, the birthday and quiet-night sends from your sheets, checks each contact's opt-in, and holds the sends for sign-off.
- Google listing90 min / weekUpdating the listing when someone remembers
Photos are a year old, the offer text is out of date, and nobody has posted since the summer menu, so searchers see a restaurant that looks half shut.
Google listing Agent0 minAgent keeps the listing currentAn agent drafts a weekly post, selects new dish photos and updates the offer text, held for your approval, then logs the listing's numbers.
- Seasonal campaigns150 min / weekPlanning Valentine's five weeks out
Photos, page copy, the email sequence and the offer are all chased at once, and a missing piece is only noticed the week before the date.
Seasonal campaigns Agent0 minAgent builds the pack six weeks aheadAn agent drafts the brief, the copy and a dated checklist six weeks early and posts what is still missing each Monday, so the team reviews rather than rushes.
- Attribution and spend180 min / weekGuessing which campaign filled Saturday
Numbers sit in Google Ads, Instagram, Mailchimp and the POS, and nobody has time to line them up, so the next offer is chosen by gut feeling.
Attribution and spend Agent0 minAgent writes the Monday digestAn agent ties bookings by source and promo redemptions to the POS and watches ad spend against budget, so you decide what to repeat with the facts in front of you.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
An agent working in your restaurant's name in public only earns trust if you stay in control. Actionist is built so every post and offer waits for you, spend stays your decision, and guest lists respect consent.
Captions, listing posts, newsletters and texts are drafted and queued. Nothing goes live or reaches a guest unless you widen that autonomy yourself.
The agent drafts the offer and shows the numbers. A person chooses the discount, the dates and the budget, and approves any change before it takes effect.
Each send list is checked against the recorded opt-in, and anything unclear is left off for a person to decide. The agent flags the gap, it does not guess.
Lists, photos and campaign results are encrypted and never used to train any model, and every action is logged. Self-host on a VPS if you need to.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my restaurant marketing team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with a marketing agent for my restaurant?
How do I make customised AI agents for how our restaurant markets itself?
How quickly can I set up a restaurant marketing agent?
Where do our guest lists, photos and campaign results live, and are they used to train AI models?
Our booking platform and ad dashboards have no API we can use. Can the agent still read the numbers?
Will the agent post or send anything to guests without me seeing it first?
Does it check consent before emailing or texting guests?
Can it promise more covers or fill quiet nights?
See an agent draft the week's posts and the Monday marketing digest
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent turn a dish photo into a caption and a Google post, then pull bookings by source into one digest, end to end.