Neuralpartners

The founders shared an origin at Dealer.com, a Burlington startup that became a major digital marketing platform in automotive retail before its billion-dollar acquisition. Each founder has more than 15 years of experience across product, agency, operations, or related disciplines.

Founding disciplines

• Product and Engineering: AI-powered marketing technology, research and development, and large-scale media management.
• Agency and Commerce: Large-scale ecommerce programs for retail, direct-to-consumer, and enterprise brands.
• Operations and Client Success: Managed digital services spanning SEO, content, social, and paid media, along with operational leadership at an automotive AI company.

Scott Blodgett is identified as Co-Founder and CPO. He leads product, engineering, and go-to-market and is based in Vermont. The other two co-founders currently prefer to remain unnamed while they hold senior roles elsewhere.

What the company is building

Neural Partners combines agency expertise with technology infrastructure for a commerce environment in which AI agents research, filter options, and make recommendations before people see a brand.

The company serves clients nationwide while operating from Vermont. It describes itself as both a services business and a technology platform: client work generates intelligence, and the platform turns that intelligence into improved infrastructure.

Neural Partners is growing intentionally and looks for practitioners with real depth rather than generalists.

What it builds

• AI-ready websites: Fast sites with online booking, click-to-call, and schema markup for service and service-area information.
• 24/7 AI booking agent: An agent that answers, qualifies, and books jobs on the website and over the phone.
• Speed-to-lead text-back: Instant text messages for missed calls and new leads, followed by automated follow-up until the customer books or says no.
• Review and reputation engine: Automated review requests after jobs to support reputation, map visibility, and AI recommendations.
• Local and AI search: Clean local data, optimized service-area pages, and machine-readable signals for map results and AI answers.
• Unified customer and job data: A shared source of truth for leads, jobs, and follow-up, with dashboards and reporting.

The system is built for trade-specific needs such as service areas, dispatch, emergency calls, seasonal demand, and high-consideration projects. It connects with existing scheduling, CRM, and phone tools rather than requiring a business to replace them.

Speed-to-lead and missed-call text-back can work when they go live, while local and AI search visibility builds over weeks. Reporting focuses on calls, booked jobs, and revenue rather than clicks alone.

Full-service offering

Neural Partners provides founder-led AI and digital marketing services through three tracks:

• AI and Digital Experiences: websites, content, organic search visibility, and growth-funnel development.
• Performance Marketing: paid acquisition, retention through email and SMS, lifecycle marketing, and attribution.
• Innovation and Tech Advisory: strategy, AI adoption, and team enablement.

AI and Digital Experiences

Standalone offerings include:

• Website Management: routine updates, uptime monitoring, sitemap reindexing, SEO checks, and priority support.
• Content and Creative: human-edited, AI-assisted editorial, product copy, social, email, and landing-page content.
• AI and Search Optimization: schema, knowledge graph, local pages, and conversion design across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

The Growth Marketing bundle combines these offerings with full-funnel strategy, conversion-rate optimization, lifecycle automation, and weekly experimentation.

Performance Marketing

Standalone offerings include:

• Paid Advertising: Google, Meta, and display campaigns managed through campaign structure, creative testing, bid strategy, conversion tracking, CAC, and ROAS.
• 1:1 Personalized Marketing: email, SMS, retention, lifecycle journeys, and AI-scaled creative.

The Performance Marketing bundle combines paid advertising and personalized marketing with omnichannel strategy, unified messaging, cross-channel attribution, and a shared campaign calendar.

Innovation and Tech Advisory

• Strategic Planning: facilitated strategy sessions, 12-month roadmaps, OKR design, and ongoing advisory access.
• AI and Technology: readiness audits, tool-stack evaluation, workflow design, and implementation advisory.
• Learning and Development: custom AI and modern marketing training, role-specific tracks, and post-training coaching.

Point solutions can be selected individually; clients do not have to begin with a bundle. Services use flat monthly retainers per tier, with no per-task billing or premium-support add-on.

Best-in-class tools

The company describes itself as vendor selective rather than vendor agnostic. It chooses tools for capability first and identifies Klaviyo for email and lifecycle marketing, Stripe for payments, and Anthropic's Claude for AI.

Transparent AI use

Neural Partners says every AI system it deploys has human oversight. It discloses when AI assists with content creation and identifies AI interactions, such as conversations with Sasha, as AI. It also says it honors privacy signals, minimizes data collection, and does not use AI to circumvent people's data choices.

The company states that it does not use dark patterns, fake reviews or testimonials, AI presented as human, or consequential decisions without a person in the loop.

People

Neural Partners is developing the Neural AI Relief Fund, intended to provide compensation, transition support, and retraining for people affected by AI-related displacement. The fund is described as being in active development, with formal plans on the roadmap. The company also says it is building ownership structures so people who build Neural Partners can have a stake in its future.

Planet

The company operates remotely, prioritizes energy-efficient infrastructure, and makes deliberate choices about the footprint of the systems it builds and runs. It says a reforestation giving program is in progress with environmental partners and acknowledges that its environmental impact has not been solved.

Long-term focus

Neural Partners says it is building for durable client outcomes, a team proud of its work, and infrastructure that remains relevant over time. It describes long-term usefulness—not an exit—as its primary objective.

• Humans set direction, make judgment calls, and own taste and other responsibilities that require human judgment.
• Agents handle execution, pattern recognition, and work that scales.

Operating principles

1. Divide and conquer: Decisions are owned by whoever is best positioned to make them, with an emphasis on autonomy and clear ownership.
2. Think big and stay grounded: The company holds a five-year vision alongside a six-month roadmap.
3. AI as accelerant, not accessory: Agentic coding and automated workflows are treated as core infrastructure.
4. Agency and technology as one: Neural Labs generates client intelligence while Neural Core turns it into better infrastructure.

Agents at Neural Partners have names, roles, domains, inboxes, Slack channels, API keys, and creation dates. They communicate asynchronously through pi-bridge, an inter-session protocol built for agent coordination, and can use UX feedback tooling to gather synthetic-user feedback before features ship.

Working values

• Practitioner-first mindset: Build from real experience and work with best-in-class partners.
• Human judgment, machine execution: Deliberately assign work between people and AI as trust is earned.
• Radical transparency: Share context, communicate openly, and apply the same standard internally and with clients.
• Prove, then scale: Ship real work, learn from it, and avoid premature scaling.

The company describes its operating model as remote, flexible, and focused on outcomes rather than presence. It emphasizes ownership, few meetings, limited management layers, and execution over process.

Marketing infrastructure

Neural Core transforms fragmented data, inconsistent schemas, and siloed inventory into structured, machine-readable systems. Capabilities include:

• Structured product schemas using JSON-LD and API-first approaches
• Real-time inventory and pricing feeds
• Multi-source data normalization
• First-party data architecture
• Privacy-native pipelines
• Cross-platform attribution
• AWS-native, enterprise-grade infrastructure

Unified intelligence

The platform combines machine execution with human direction through:

• Human-directed AI orchestration
• Predictive performance modeling
• Audience segmentation and intent signals
• Automated campaign optimization
• Creative and competitive intelligence
• Transparent, explainable outputs

Insights and reporting

Neural Core separates human, agent, and AI-assisted sessions and reports conversion, revenue, and behavior by source. Reporting features include a unified storefront dashboard, AI traffic attribution, agent performance breakdowns, search and zero-result analytics, sales and ROI reporting, and exportable, shareable, scheduled reports.

Partners and protocols

Neural Partners states that it has shipped more than 50 custom MCP tools. Neural Core includes a protocol-ready commerce layer, a vector knowledge base, and real-time market-intelligence APIs. Its stated protocol direction is MCP today, with ACP and A2A next.

Neural Partners also maintains field guides on the agentic protocol landscape, agentic commerce protocols, agent payment rails, MCP, A2A, interoperability, and WebMCP.