Seattle - AI automation - performance marketing

Gordon Brown builds growth systems that actually make it into production.

Founder and product operator working across AI agents, ad tech, paid media, and client onboarding systems. I turn ambiguous funnel problems into tested products, working automations, and measurable revenue.

Gordon Brown

Current focus

AI-first agency operations, paid acquisition, and the product work between them.

Gordon is Head of AI at HelloAgencyAI, founder of The Contractors Marketing, and founder and product lead of Magnolia Online. His work sits at the intersection of media buying, search monetization, workflow automation, and practical AI.

$27M+ lifetime ad revenue built through Magnolia Online products
12 yrs building and operating performance ad products
40% conversion rate sustained through scoring, routing, and funnel testing

What he is building

Systems for agencies, contractors, and ad products.

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HelloAgencyAI

AgencyAI automation for onboarding, campaign setup, tracking consistency, and the repetitive work that slows down marketing teams.

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The Contractors Marketing

Lead generation for home service contractors through Google Ads, Meta ads, conversion-focused landing pages, call tracking, and form tracking.

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Magnolia Online

Performance ad products that converted low-intent inventory into high-intent search, including email-to-search and social-to-search products.

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Operating style

Product judgment with builder speed.

01

Ad experiences from query to booked job

Creative, landing-page UX, routing, pricing, attribution, and reporting designed as one measurable funnel.

02

AI automation that removes manual setup

Agents and plugins for repeatable client onboarding, campaign creation, CRM setup, tracking QA, and deployment checks.

03

Experimentation with a revenue scoreboard

A/B tests, multivariate tests, quality signals, and conversion analysis tied to ROAS, yield, and lead quality.

04

Cross-functional product leadership

PRDs, product narratives, roadmap planning, engineering collaboration, analytics, creative direction, and team leadership.

Proof points

The pattern: ship, measure, improve, repeat.

$12M

email-to-search product launched from concept to profit at Magnolia Online

$15M

social-to-search product revenue built through paid media and funnel optimization

$13M

email-to-Yahoo business owned at ReachMobi, with cost reductions and data-exchange growth

2,000+

domains managed through bulk systems that improved speed and market response at OBMedia