Marketing Leader and Advisor

The tools changed. People didn't.

I build marketing and media programs that use AI to move faster and see further, grounded in the one thing no model can automate: understanding what actually makes a person stop, care, and buy.

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Portrait of Dan Monarko
20+
years in performance marketing, brand, and media
Every ad is a conversation with one person who did not ask to be interrupted.

I've spent more than 20 years in media and growth, from partner at an agency to senior leadership at a larger one, with CPG brands at the center of most of it. The technology has changed beyond recognition in that time. The buyer hasn't. People still decide with their gut and justify with their head. They still buy from brands that seem to get them.

AI makes me faster at everything around that moment. Pulling 31 months of data into a clear story. Spotting the broken pixel, the junk traffic source, the lead that never reached sales. Testing more ideas than a team could test by hand.

But the strategy starts with a human question, and it always will: what does this person want, what's in their way, and why should they believe us? Get that right and the machines amplify it. Get it wrong and they amplify that too.

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AI + Human

AI-powered. Human-led. In that order of importance.

I design AI workflows for marketing teams around a deliberate rule: human point of view lives in its own space and never gets quietly blended into the machine's reasoning. The AI does the heavy lifting. People make the calls. That's not a limitation. It's the design.

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