Machina

Nineteen industries

One growth engine.

Design, advertising, development, and marketing built for the sectors driving what comes next — AI, fintech, health tech, and beyond.

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Santa Clara County, California

Marketing agency in San Jose & Silicon Valley

Machina is the marketing agency for the Santa Clara County businesses the big-agency world walks past. The family company in San Jose, the contractor in Morgan Hill, the retailer in Gilroy — firms that generate real revenue and get template marketing for it. We do enterprise-grade work for them. The proof is in revenue: we took a pest control company serving Santa Clara County from $120K to $6.8M in two years, and built a SaaS go-to-market that produced $2.5M in new ARR.

$2.5Mnew ARR from a B2B SaaS go-to-market we built

The county

Santa Clara County has two economies

One holds some of the largest companies on earth and buys its marketing from agencies with offices on both coasts. The other is everyone else: the HVAC company in San Jose, the tasting room in Morgan Hill, the retailer near the Gilroy outlets, the restaurant on Castro Street in Mountain View. That second economy runs the length of the county — from Palo Alto down Highway 101 to Gilroy — and it mostly gets what's left over: template websites, boilerplate SEO, a monthly report nobody reads.

We believe the second economy deserves the standard the first one takes for granted. That is the work we do. San Jose is the largest city in Northern California, and its neighborhoods are full of family businesses that outlast the startups around them; South County is agriculture, trades, and retail that no Valley agency bothers to understand. We're based in Hollister, one county south — Gilroy and Morgan Hill are a shorter drive for us than for any agency in San Francisco.

And when the work is tech, we hold up. The $2.5M-ARR go-to-market in the proof band above was built for a B2B software platform: positioning, pipeline, and paid acquisition measured the way technical founders measure everything.

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For local and family businesses

Most of our Santa Clara County work is local: ranking for the searches your customers actually type, a Google Business Profile that wins the map pack, and a website that turns visits into calls. This is the playbook that took 101 Exterminators from $120K to $6.8M across four counties, Santa Clara included. It works the same for a plumber in San Jose as it did for pest control.

For startups and SaaS

We build go-to-market engines: positioning, landing pages, paid acquisition, and the automated pipeline behind them. The B2B SaaS platform we did this for added $2.5M in new ARR. We are not a branding shop that discovered tech last year — we report CAC and pipeline because that is what the work is measured in.

Why an agency from one county south

Because proximity to Sand Hill Road has never made an agency good at marketing a business in Gilroy. We're close enough to show up in person anywhere in the county, and far enough from the Valley's agency economy that we compete on results instead of office addresses. Start with the free audit below — it shows you exactly where your site stands before we ever get on a call.

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Run the audit we run for clients

Our free SEO audit is a working tool, not a contact form. It runs Lighthouse performance and Core Web Vitals, scores your AI visibility, and compares you against a competitor — in about a minute, on your screen.