I help brands eliminate operational bloat by deploying context-aware AI agents that replace high-cost, repetitive workflows with intelligent, modular systems.

Here’s what that looks like in practice:
☑️ $52,000/month in savings unlocked for a $1.5M/month DTC brand, by replacing:
☑️ 55+ hrs/mo in ad setup tasks with a Google Ads Playbook Agent
☑️ 60+ hrs/mo in reporting with a Snapshot-to-Strategy Companion
☑️ 50+ hrs/mo in comment scraping with a Creative Mining Bot
☑️ 40+ hrs/mo in UGC scripting with a Copy Blueprint Generator
☑️ 35+ hrs/mo in ticket triage with a Support Classifier

Plus hidden delays, review rounds, and QA.

These agents aren’t chatbots or experimental tools—they’re production-ready automations that plug directly into marketing, media, and ops teams to drive measurable ROI.

Most brands at scale suffer from the same hidden inefficiencies: bloated campaign workflows, fragmented creative processes, endless manual reporting, and decision paralysis due to siloed data. 

I build systems that solve those problems at the root—using LLMs, workflow automation, and business-first design.

My edge is clarity.

I know how to translate technical capability into business value—and I only build systems that ship fast, get used, and deliver results.

You don’t need more headcount.

You need systems that do the work, so your team can focus on thinking, creating, and scaling.

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Daryl Klingaman

Here's a quick update on HyreDay in 2025:

   • Crossed $1MM ARR in our first full year in business, representing more than 100% growth YoY

   • Grew from 18 to 53 team members

   • Our average client has 2.5 people hired through us—meaning they keep coming back because it's working

What matters more: Our most tenured team member just hit 20 months with us. In this industry, that's significant. Not because people don't stay, but because placements are usually quick, haphazard, with not enough vetting of both the candidate and the company. It has to be the perfect match for both and that's where we invest our time.

We maintain one of the lowest markups and highest client satisfaction rates in the space. Business textbooks would tell us we're doing it wrong. But the reason we do it is simple: we actually know how to hire marketers & drive perfect matches. Not just source resumes—hire the right ones. And that means team members retain. And that's where we make our money, playing the long game.

The best part of this job? Our team members consistently give great feedback about the companies they work for. There are a lot of exceptional businesses out there creating real opportunities for people across the world. We just help make the right connections.

2026: More of the same, but 1% better every day.

  Daryl Klingaman 

Hiring The Best Digital Marketers For You | 5x Inc. 5000 Executive | 2x Best Company Best Places To Work | 2019 Comparably’s Best Marketing Dept Leader | Cold Cereal Connoisseur

So many people are posting that they’re doing it bigger than ever in 2026. 

“Big changes coming 👀” 

Aggressivley adopting AI. 

Revamping offers. Etc.

After growing headcount from 18 at the start of 2025 to more than 50 at the end of the year, I’m excited to keep doing more of what we’ve been doing. And seeking 1% better every day.

But no major revamps. No “watch what’s coming in 2026”.

Just doing what we do, and a little more, a little better as we go.

Too many businesses die because they chase new ideas all the time rather than spend enough time doing the core business ridiculously well, consistently, long enough for it to succeed.

This is a hard truth of hiring offshore marketers:

You get what you pay for.

The cost of living overseas is definitely less...

But a good rule of thumb is more like $3 to $1.

So, paying someone $5/hour?

That's like hiring someone who makes $15/hour in the US.

There is some incredible (senior) marketing talent around the world...

But you do still need to pay for it.

Still working on a 2025 year end update because I'm probably overthinking how much to share and always worry that in sharing progress and wins there's a stench of lacking humility...

But a thought and realization I've had as I've reflected on the progress we've made in 2025, our first full year in business:

2026 will be the year I exceed my prior personal best income years & the value of my own equity in any given company. There's still work to do, but we're getting really dang close.

In less than two years. Think about that.

So if you're delaying starting something of your own -- stop waiting. Get started. Your first business might not be the thing that sticks, but it gets you one step closer.

My daughter wanted to listen to Allstar by Smashmouth on her Echo last night while I was putting her to bed.

That was one of the first CDs I owned and played on my boombox around a similar age to her.

Technology has changed, but the world's not all that different after all these year.

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