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Finance / Lending
Full-funnel rebuild — site + ads + AI
Full-funnel digital marketing for Westlake Village businesses — SEO, paid ads, content, and AI automation built as one connected system. Project-based, not a $5,000+/month retainer. You own everything we build.
The quick answer
Thrive Media runs full-funnel digital marketing for Westlake Village businesses — site, SEO, paid ads, content, and AI follow-up as one integrated system. We serve Westlake from our Thousand Oaks studio, 10 minutes east on the 101. Project-based pricing, no retainer. $35M+ generated across 500+ businesses.
Key takeaways
Thrive Media serves Westlake Village from its Thousand Oaks studio, 10 minutes east via the 101 — effectively a hyperlocal full-funnel option.
One team across site, SEO, paid social, paid search, content, and AI follow-up.
Project-based pricing instead of the $5,000–$15,000/month retainer model common in the Westlake / Calabasas corridor.
Heavy local experience in financial services, professional services, luxury real estate, medical, and high-end home services — the verticals that anchor Westlake.
AI follow-up agent included on every funnel — leads contacted inside 60 seconds, which closes the gap on high-intent / high-ticket inbound.
Selected work
Multi-channel marketing systems — site, SEO, paid social, paid search, and AI follow-up — built and handed over.

Finance / Lending
Full-funnel rebuild — site + ads + AI

Roofing · Contractor
SEO + paid social + lead routing

Real Estate
3.6x ROAS multi-channel

Real Estate Investing · SaaS
Content engine + paid distribution

SaaS · B2B
Site + landing pages + automation

SaaS · Real Estate Tech
Full marketing stack from scratch
Ready to see what we'd build for your business?
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"Thrive Media built our entire site and AI lead system in under a week. We went from manually following up with leads 6–8 hours later to having them called back in under 3 minutes. Conversion is up and our team focuses on closing, not chasing."
Justin C.
Real Estate Investor
"We needed a site fast and couldn't afford to wait 3 months for an agency. Thrive had our roofing company live in 72 hours. The site loads faster than anything we had before and we're getting more calls from Google."
Sterling C.
Roofing Company Owner
"I've worked with three agencies in the last two years. Thrive Media is the only one that delivered what they promised, on time, at the price quoted. The AI follow-up agent alone paid for the entire project in the first month."
Chris L.
Entrepreneur
Join 500+ businesses that chose Thrive Media
Start Your ProjectMost agencies do one thing. We build the website, run the SEO, manage the paid ads, write the content, and stand up the AI follow-up — as one integrated system, not five vendors stitched together.
Project-based pricing. No $3,000–$10,000/month retainer. You scope what you need, we ship it, you own it.
Every campaign we run is paired with an AI follow-up agent that contacts leads inside 60 seconds — the single biggest reason our funnels outperform.
We report on revenue, pipeline, and cost per acquisition — not impressions or rankings. If a channel isn't earning, we shut it down.
Site, ad accounts, audiences, content, automations, AI agents — all yours. No proprietary platform lock-in.
Over a decade of full-funnel work across home services, real estate, e-commerce, professional services, and AI-native startups.
Ready to see what we can build?
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Schedule a CallHow it works
Week 1
Channel-by-channel audit of site, SEO, ads, analytics, and follow-up. We map where the revenue leak is before we touch a budget.
Week 2–3
Site fixes, landing pages, ad creative, SEO foundations, and AI follow-up agent stood up in parallel.
Week 4
Campaigns live, tracking verified, dashboards delivered. First optimization pass inside 7 days of launch.
Month 2+
Weekly performance review. Budget shifted to winning channels. New creative and content angles added as data accumulates.
Week 1
Channel-by-channel audit of site, SEO, ads, analytics, and follow-up. We map where the revenue leak is before we touch a budget.
Week 2–3
Site fixes, landing pages, ad creative, SEO foundations, and AI follow-up agent stood up in parallel.
Week 4
Campaigns live, tracking verified, dashboards delivered. First optimization pass inside 7 days of launch.
Month 2+
Weekly performance review. Budget shifted to winning channels. New creative and content angles added as data accumulates.
Westlake Village is a high-ticket, high-intent market — luxury real estate, wealth management, executive coaching, concierge medical, and premium home services dominate. Buyers research carefully and won't tolerate a sloppy funnel; the marketing standard here is closer to enterprise B2B than local SMB.
Most Westlake agencies operate as boutique SEO or paid-ads shops at premium retainer pricing. We deliver the full funnel — site, SEO, paid, content, AI follow-up — under one roof at project-based pricing, which usually undercuts the bundled cost of three local specialists.
We're 10 minutes from Westlake. In-person discovery is standard for local clients.
Industries we serve in Westlake Village
Adjacent cities served
We think you should know your options. Here's an honest read of the local market.
| Agency | Delivery | Tech | AI capability | Pricing | You own it? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boutique Westlake / Calabasas agencies | Single-channel specialists | WordPress + ad mgmt | None | $5K–$15K/mo retainer | Partial |
| CaliNetworks | Channel-by-channel | WordPress + plugins | None | Monthly retainer | Partial |
| Sachs Marketing Group | Multi-channel agency | WordPress + SEO tooling | None | Month-to-month retainer | Partial |
| National Digital Marketing Firms | Templated playbooks | Off-the-shelf stack | None | $10K+/mo retainer | Limited |
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Thrive Media Recommended
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One team, every channel | Custom site + AI stack | AI follow-up agent included | Project-based (no retainer) | Yes — accounts, data, assets |
Westlake's premium retainer model exists because clients are paying for senior strategy. Thrive Media keeps the senior strategy and drops the retainer.
Every agency above has strengths worth knowing about. Several Westlake and Calabasas boutiques have deep luxury-vertical experience if a single-channel specialist — not full-funnel ownership — is the priority. The distinction is delivery model, tech stack, and AI capability — and on those dimensions, the comparison is clear.
Most agencies charge a flat monthly retainer regardless of output. We charge for the scoped work — and you keep everything.
DIY / Freelancers Stitched Together
Hidden cost
Coordination tax
Traditional Full-Service Agency
$3,000–$10,000+/mo
Retainer + % of spend
Thrive Media · Full-Funnel
Project-based
Revenue-focused.
You'll get a clear, flat quote on your first call — not after a two-week proposal process.
Questions Westlake Village businesses ask before working with us.
Several boutique Westlake agencies run single channels — primarily SEO or paid ads — at premium retainers. Thrive Media serves Westlake from Thousand Oaks (10 minutes east) and runs the entire funnel under one roof, project-based.
Local Westlake boutiques typically run $5,000–$15,000/month per channel as a retainer. Thrive Media scopes the full funnel as a project — usually below the bundled cost of two or three local specialists — and includes the AI follow-up agent.
$8,000–$25,000 covers a full-funnel build for a Westlake business (premium site, landing pages, ad creative, tracking, AI follow-up agent, content foundations). Paid spend layers on top once live. We quote flat, scoped to revenue target.
Financial and wealth management, luxury real estate, concierge medical, executive coaching, and premium home services. High-ticket / high-intent funnels are the bulk of our Westlake portfolio.
Funnels live in 2–4 weeks. Paid signal in 2–3 weeks of launch. SEO compounds over 3–6 months. We report revenue weekly from week one.
Yes — kickoffs and major reviews at the client's office in Westlake or our Thousand Oaks studio. We're 10 minutes away.
Yes — site, ad accounts, audiences, content, automations, and the AI agent are all yours. No lock-in, no proprietary platform.
Yes. Audit week is designed to preserve what's working and rebuild only what's broken — without dropping traffic or paid baselines.
Written and reviewed by Chris Lewis, Owner at Thrive Media, and Red Sherwood, Partner at Thrive Media.
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