Customer Story · Financial Services

The Agentic Workforce Fueling Community Choice Credit Union's Rise in Local Engagement and Growth

A growing Iowa-based financial institution running local marketing across 20 branches with a lean team — powered by SOCi's Agentic Workforce instead of manual, agency-dependent workflows.

A member being helped at a Community Choice Credit Union branch counter
Community Choice Credit Union
Community Choice Credit Union
20 branches · Iowa-based
Case Study
+10%
increase in website clicks from Google Business Profiles
10 hrs
reduction in average review response time
3–5 hrs
saved every week — up to 260 hours annually
+345%
increase in Instagram engagement
01

The Challenge

For a small marketing team, managing the volume of daily digital tasks in a growing credit union was becoming unmangable. Every review response or listings update had to be routed through an outside agency that operated on its own timeline. The manual, post-by-post workflow for writing, approving, and publishing social content was inefficient, a situation compounded by the fact that their previous platform failed to meet their operational needs. A lot of marketing was reactive and consuming time the team didn't have to give. Community Choice needed an Agentic Workforce capable of automating review management, listings updates, and social media publishing while improving local search visibility and reducing operational burden on a lean marketing team.

02

The Solution

Community Choice Credit Union automated review management, local listings, and social media publishing with SOCi's Genius Agentic Workforce. SOCi enabled the team to respond to reviews faster, update Google Business Profiles across all branches in minutes, and schedule content in advance with agentic workflows.

By replacing manual processes and agency-dependent listings management with an Agentic Workforce, Community Choice gained real-time control over its online presence while reducing marketing workload. The team now saves 3–5 hours per week, the equivalent of reclaiming up to 260 hours annually. SOCi’s Genius Reputation Agent’s automated review responses, the Local Search Agent’s listings updates for every branch location, and SOCi’s social scheduling allow more time for strategic initiatives, branch growth, and member engagement. 

03

The Results

Since deploying the Genius Agentic Workforce that expands with the brand, Community Choice Credit Union has seen measurable improvement in the metrics that matter most for a growing community financial institution scaling local marketing with additional branches.

"This is a platform that allows us to take those more mundane repetitive tasks and automate them," Bryce said. "Set it and forget it allows more time for impactful, strategic work throughout the institution."

Result 01

Local Search

Automated listings management lifted Google Business Profile performance across every branch.

10%
Increase in Website Clicks
7%
Increase in Google Direction Requests
Result 02

Social Media Performance

Agentic scheduling and publishing drove sharp engagement gains across channels.

195%
Increase in Facebook Engagement
345%
Increase in Instagram Engagement
787%
Increase in LinkedIn Engagement
900%
Increase in LinkedIn Views
Result 03

Business Efficiency

Automation gave a lean team its calendar back.

3–5
Hours Saved Weekly
260
Hours Saved Annually (up to)
10 hrs
Faster Average Review Response
"

If we didn't have SOCi, it would take additional staff to manage marketing across our branches. Instead, we're able to automate reviews, listings, and social scheduling, saving hours every week and reinvesting that time into higher-impact projects.

Bryce Verlinden, Marketing Manager, Community Choice Credit Union
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