FOR FOUNDER-LED BUSINESSES / AI + AUTOMATION MARKETING
Marketing changed.Most agencies didn't.They're still selling you 2010.
SEO retainers. Ad management. A monthly report nobody reads. That playbook comes from a world before AI could research your market, write your follow-up and update your CRM while you sleep. The businesses pulling ahead run marketing as one connected system. Four minutes tells you how close you are.
Free. Your score and first three moves appear instantly, with no email gate or sales call waiting at the end.
5.0 GOOGLE RATING · 10+ YRS MARKETING SYSTEMS
MARKETING SYSTEM / LIVE DIAGNOSTIC
SIGNAL
CRM
AUTOMATION
AI LAYER
58/100
SYSTEM LEVEL
Connected
Strong components. Weak handoffs.
72
64
59
41
53
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Primary constraintLead follow-up depends on manual handoffs.
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WHERE THE NEXT PLAYBOOK IS BEING WRITTEN
GOOGLE I/O · ATTENDED
APPLE WWDC · ATTENDED
WAIC SHANGHAI · ATTENDED
ALIBABA.COM · INTERVIEWED THE PRESIDENT ON AI
Adam Stewart attends major AI events, speaks with the people building what comes next, then turns what he learns into marketing systems founder-led businesses can actually run.
GOOGLE I/OOn the ground where the new AI stack launches.OPENAI APAC / CREATOR WORKSHOPRunning a creator workshop for the OpenAI APAC team.ALIBABA.COM / COCREATE 2025Interviewing the President about AI and commerce.
5.0GOOGLE RATING
20+VERIFIED REVIEWS
106PUBLISHED ARTICLES
10+YRS MARKETING SYSTEMS
SELECTED PLATFORM EXPERIENCE
Technology we build with
Connected according to the job, the data and the human checks the workflow needs.
OpenAI
Anthropic
Zapier
ElevenLabs
HubSpot
Gemini
THE SHIFT
Around 2023 the ground moved. Most agencies kept selling the old map.
THE 2010 PLAYBOOK
WHAT THEY'RE STILL SELLING
A monthly SEO retainer and a ranking report
“We'll manage your ads” for 15% of spend
Leads dropped into a spreadsheet, chased when someone remembers
A shiny new tool recommendation every quarter
Hours on the invoice for work software now does in minutes
THE SYSTEM ERA
WHAT ACTUALLY WINS NOW
Research and creative loops that learn from every campaign
Follow-up that reaches a lead in minutes, day or night
A CRM that updates itself and stays true
AI doing the repeatable work, humans making the judgement calls
One dashboard that tells you what's really working
The distance between those two columns is the distance between you and whoever owns your market in 24 months. Closing it has nothing to do with buying more tools. It's a sequence, and it starts with knowing your constraint. The scorecard hands you yours in 4 minutes.
THE DIAGNOSTIC
Find the constraint before you spend another dollar.
Fifteen blunt questions across the five systems that decide whether AI gives you leverage or just more logins. Most founders finish in four minutes and can name their biggest leak by the end. Answer honestly. The score only helps if it's true.
A SCORECARD, NOT A SERVICE LIST
Start with the system. Then build only what matters.
01 /
SCORE
See the whole growth system
Fifteen questions measure data, acquisition, conversion, follow-up and AI maturity in one view. You'll know where you stand in 4 minutes.
02 /
DESIGN
Find the highest-value constraint
Every system has one handoff or missing loop that limits everything downstream. We find it, name it, and fix that first.
03 /
BUILD
Install a working system
Connect the workflow, train the team, define the human checks, measure the outcome. Then move to the next constraint.
WHAT DIGITAL BOND BUILDS
Marketing that behaves like an operating system.
Strategy and implementation across the full customer journey, with AI where it earns its place and a human wherever judgement matters.
01 / ACQUIRE
AI-assisted acquisition
Positioning sharp enough to cut, research at machine speed, and a creative loop that gets smarter with every campaign instead of louder.
When the scorecard finds the gap, the Lab is where you close it.
AI Systems Lab is where founders and their teams turn the next useful workflow into a real, governed system, with direct implementation guidance from Adam. You bring your actual business context. You leave with a workflow your team can run next week, without hiring an agency to run it for you.
BUILD ONE HIGH-VALUE SYSTEMUSE YOUR REAL BUSINESS CONTEXTLEAVE WITH A REPEATABLE WORKFLOW
Built for founder-led businesses doing $1M+ with a team of 3 to 20.
BUILD MAPAI SYSTEMS LAB
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INPUTScorecard constraint
02
DESIGNWorkflow + governance
03
BUILDWorking AI system
OUTPUTA workflow your team can run next week.
PROOF
A decade of receipts. A new operating model.
Digital Bond has spent 10+ years building marketing systems for Australian businesses. The tools changed. The standard didn't.
10+
YEARS IN THE WORK
Building acquisition, CRM and automation systems before the AI wave, then rebuilding the operating model for what came next.
ON THE RECORD SINCE THE SEO DAYS
“He analyses our whole site and gives a host of advice and free tools to help improve Google rankings and traffic. Very professional, quick to reply and honest.”
“Adam has been instrumental in helping us build our online retail store’s audience. He is fast, knowledgeable and really easy to work with.”
“I have worked with Adam for several years and have been very impressed with his professionalism, ability to get leads and get results.”
ADAM STEWART / APPLE WWDC
ADAM STEWART / FOUNDER
Marketing experience, rebuilt for the AI era.
Adam Stewart is an Australian marketer and AI creator. For over a decade he's built acquisition, CRM and automation systems for businesses that need marketing to run without a big team behind it. These days you'll find him at Google I/O, Apple WWDC and WAIC in Shanghai, or interviewing the President of Alibaba.com about where AI is actually heading. Digital Bond is where that intel becomes working systems. AI Systems Lab is where you learn to build them yourself.
Good. Take the scorecard and show them your constraint. If they can fix it, keep them. If they go quiet, you've learned something for free.
“We're not technical.”
The scorecard needs zero technical knowledge, and the Lab exists precisely so your existing team can run these systems without an engineer on payroll.
“Is this just a funnel to a sales call?”
No call is waiting at the end. The score is free and ungated, most people should join the Lab rather than hire Adam, and he only takes a handful of scorecard reviews each month.
START WITH THE CONSTRAINT
Score the system. Then build the advantage.
Four minutes. Fifteen questions. One clear constraint to fix first. You'll leave knowing more about your marketing than most agencies tell you after a paid audit.