Accelerated Intelligence AI

Deliver cutting-edge consulting and Artificial Intelligence advisory to businesses who need to expand their company's innovation capabilities and turn their human resources into superhuman resources by expertly leveraging technology ethically and efficiently. We are business-focused and tech-enabled.

Founder & CEO

Costanzo Marketing Group

Business owners and executives sometimes get stuck trying to grow their profits, get more customers in the door and expand their business.  That's when they work with me.

I create new profit centers for them using overlooked opportunities, hidden assets, underutilized relationships and  revenue sources.

Costanzo Capital

Private Equity, Angel, A-round and Acquisitions. Investments include holdings in media, publishing, e-commerce and real estate, cannabis and satellite launch technology.

Most investments involve indepth growth advisory.  Currently looking to invest in or acquire companies that have plateaued or are struggling financially and would like a quick turn around. 

What we do: 
1. Financial & Operational Triage: Quickly assessing how to stabilize the business.
2. Growth Lever Activation: Finding appropriate growth levers from sales & marketing to improve topline performance.
3. Financial Engineering to get the most from the bottomline.
4. Increase Shareholder Value which may involve systemization or bolt-on acquisitions of competitive or complementary businesses.

If you would like a second opinion on whether your company might be a good fit for us, please reach out

Principal

Bacon Wrapped Business Podcast

"Sizzling hot business advice guaranteed to make you fat... Profits!" 

This is my weekly talk show for business owners, marketing execs and entrepreneurs to listen in as I give my best advice and invite guest experts to reveal their best "bacon wrapped business-strategies" with listeners.

Free on iTunes at http://baconwrappedbusiness.com/itunes

Or visit the blog at http://baconwrappedbusiness.com

Podcast Host

Brandetize

Brandetize is a world renown marketing and brand development agency focused on elevating brands and driving monetization. 

My work centers on finding innovative solutions to their client's performance and driving revenue using proven yet unique methods.   Currently working with the Brian Tracy International account to spur growth and impact.

Chief AI Officer & Head of Strategy

RealEstateInvestor.com

I guided the marketing team and company to grow and acquire new clients for the service and SaaS business by deploying marketing campaigns and improving the effectiveness of lead generation and sales.

Strategic Advisor

Otomo

Otomo is revolutionizing the way people budget and save money with AI: Automated Intelligence.

Advisor

Frank Shamrock, Inc.

Advise and facilitate on Frank "The Legend" Shamrock's (5x UFC Champion) personal brand platform and business development with multiple portfolio companies

Strategic Marketing Partner

Jesse Itzler

Advised and directed marketing initiatives and platform growth for NYT Bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Jesse Itzler. Generated tens of thousands of new leads and helped facilitate multiple live events.

Strategic Marketing Consultant

Real Estate Worldwide

I worked with the company to facilitate growth using all channels including social, content, PR, biz dev, as well as more strategic future moves for the company such as potential funding that will accelerate growth.

Helping companies embrace AI in their business to accelerate revenue, productivity, creativity and employee retention resulting in Super-Human Resources. AI Keynote Speaker | Automation Consulting | Growth Advisory

"Brad is one of the foremost authorities in the US on ChatGPT and AI for business" - Brian Tracy 

"If you're stuck and you feel like you got to make the next leap with AI in your business you should call Brad.  I'm going back and radically shifting what I do because of Brad" - Jack Canfield

"Brad Costanzo has a unique superpower to collect and recall profitable strategies that apply across industries and to connect and build the right relationships for his clients." -Brian Horn, Forbes...

"Brad is a constant source of relevant, thought-provoking ideas with a ton of knowledge on all things marketing, business development, and entrepreneurship. Just a couple of his connections and strategies helped us bring in an extra $50,000+ this year. I highly recommend Brad as a consultant to anyone that's looking to grow their business"
-Andrew Pawlak, CEO Leadpops. 

In my career I have started, run, acquired and exited multiple businesses and served many amazing clients as an advisor, consultant, coach and mentor.  

My clients refer to me as a “catalyst" who can "see around corners" and spot the non-obvious but simple business opportunities that create leverage and most importantly results.

I’m proud to help business leaders make bold strategic moves that improve profits and raise valuations through innovation, marketing and lateral thinking strategies.

I started adopting Artificial Intelligence in my business before ChatGPT was all the rage and have now helped to revolutionize the workflow of my clients by showing them how to use AI to unlock unprecedented innovation and productivity. 

As a keynote speaker on AI and Innovation, I'm proud to help businesses and Human Resources create Superhuman Resources by using Artificial Intelligence & strategic business practices

Do you or your team need a crash course on AI or an AI-powered innovation sprint, DM me. 

I invite you to learn more at ►► https://acceleratedintelligence.ai

And if you'd like to get ahold of me for any reason (including a second opinion on your marketing strategy or to book me to speak at your next event, simply shoot me a message).

Learn more at 
►► https://www.bradcostanzo.com

Brad Costanzo

Stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real results from your AI investments. 

They say "AI is transforming everything. AI will 10X your productivity. AI is the future."

But 92% of companies trying to use AI are failing to see meaningful returns according to data from Nvidia.

Let me say that differently: for every dollar businesses are spending on AI tools, software, and consultants, most are getting pennies back in actual business value.

But the 8% who ARE winning with AI aren't doing it because they're smarter or have bigger budgets. They're following a different playbook, one that actually works for businesses like yours.

I'm going to break down the four things successful companies do differently, stripped of all the technical jargon and corporate-speak.

AI-Powered Growth Advisor for founders, creators and innovative organizations. Entertaining Educator and International AI Keynote Speaker. BradCostanzo.com

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Stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real results from your AI investments They say "AI is transforming everything. AI will 10X your productivit

Open article: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Actually Succeeding with AI by Brad Costanzo • 9 min read

The Small Business Owner's Guide to Actually Succeeding with AI

It's no secret that AI touches every aspect of your business (and that can be a bit overwhelming... but it doesn't have to be). 

The key is to find the current bottlenecks in your workflow and seek to improve one at a time.

Here's a more interactive view of this image if you want to play with it. 

https://lnkd.in/g3P6uTpD

The Productivity Paradox when getting your employees to use AI can be dangerous.  Here's what it is and how to avoid it.

Watch the youtube video here (less than 3 minutes long) https://lnkd.in/gwhVFSd5 

Moral:  If you're trying to create a culture of innovation and AI usage at your company make sure you understand this aspect of employee psychology first. 

And if you're looking to have someone train your team, my DM's are open

fraction.work

Chief Marketing Officer

Peerbase

(Acquired) Founder & CEO

Backspace

CLIQ

Social Media Startup Focused Around Groups

Team involved: 

Grant Cardone
Carlos Boozer
Russ the rapper
Amara Thompson 
+ many more

Chief Of Marketing & Advisor

Business Blurb

Co-Founder

Fismma Digital Agency (Acquired)

Atlanta's Top Rated Full-Service Digital Agency Servicing Fortune 500 & Publicly Traded Companies.

Project Manager

Everscent

(Acquired) Founder

5x Founder, 4 successful exits. Working on some new things 👨‍🔬 🧪

Currently: 👨‍🔬🧪

Previously:

CMO of "Fraction" streamlining fractional work, alongside Praveen Ghanta (Bootstrapped 0-5M ARR < 2 years)

Founded & Exited "Peerbase" the venture-backed mental health startup, combining peer support groups with professional coaching to help entrepreneurs, creatives, and executives stay accountable, mastermind, and accelerate their growth with professionally facilitated weekly sessions. 

Founded & Exited "Backspace" the venture-backed community platform allowing creators to build, monetize, and run their online communities all in one place. (Nominated for product of the year and millions on the waitlist pre-launch)

Founded & Exited "Fismma Digital Agency" which grew to be one of Atlanta's top-rated digital agencies working with fortune 500 and publicly traded clients & specializing in web development, social media marketing, and influencer marketing. 

Co-founded & Exited "Business Blurb" known as the fastest-growing Gen-Z media company of 2020. (1B views in 3 months)

Founded & Exited  "Everscent" the scent releasing apparatus that kept you smelling great all day. 

CMO behind a variety of social media and tech-based startups including "CLIQ"

Built & ran a network of millions of followers across a handful of social media platforms.

Faiz Imran

Meta just pushed an update that affects all marketers.

If you run Meta ads, you’ve probably already felt this.

- Campaigns that worked for months suddenly tanking.

- Creatives dropping dead faster than ever

- CPMs skyrocketing

It’s not your content.
It’s not your targeting.
It’s not you.

It’s Meta’s new backend update.
Here’s what they quietly pushed live:

Andromeda - The gatekeeper. It scans millions of ads instantly and decides which ones even get a chance to be shown. If your creative doesn’t stand out, you don’t make the cut.

Meta GEM - The brain. Meta’s biggest AI model ever for ads. It decides who sees your ads.

Meta Lattice - The connector. It shares learnings across Instagram, Facebook, and placements so the system gets smarter even when it has less data on a user.

Sequence Learning - Instead of seeing isolated clicks, Meta now analyzes the specific order, timing, and context of a user’s actions and predicts future behavior.

This changes everything.

Interest stacking? Dead.
Manual placements? Dead.
Audience hacks you learned in 2022? Dead.

The advertisers winning right now have already adapted their setup.

I’ve been testing what actually works post-update.

Comment “META” and I’ll send you the updated playbook.

Genuinely curious how many marketers even know this happened

Founder @intentpost 📬 | Prev: Built & sold 5 companies — 2 venture-backed, 3 bootstrapped

Founder dilemma:
We have a dozen perfect-fit clients in our pipeline right now (and climbing). But we're completely maxed out.

We're doing whatever we can to keep moving, but I'm starting to hallucinate worse than GPT on calls now.

Between servicing current customers, building the product they need, and closing our raise, my co-founder and I are stretched way too thin.

The options we're considering:
- Pause sales - Focus on product + current customers, reopen in 30 days
- Raise the price - Use higher pricing as a filter, only take the absolute best fits
- Hire fast - Bring on an AE or engineer immediately to create capacity
- Waitlist everyone - Keep momentum but delay onboarding by 2-4 weeks

We're seeing insane demand with everything the way it is right now. 
We don't want to say no to people who are perfect fits, we just need time to catch up. 

But we're also worried we'll fail to deliver if we keep saying yes now.

What would you do?
Genuinely curious how other founders have handled this.

This week tried to kill me.

Monday: Chipped my tooth in a client meeting. How? I bit into my paper coffee cup. Don't ask.

Tuesday: My coolant tank exploded, leaving me stranded 20 minutes before a meeting. (Sorry Jamie.)

Wednesday: We broke our entire app while trying to close an enterprise deal. Thought we lost them forever.

Thursday: We thought our app got hacked. My co-founder was spiraling. I was spiraling.

Friday: Realized they we didn't get hacked it was just
OUR FIRST ENTERPRISE CUSTOMER!!!

Amor fati. 
The chaos is the point.

If building a startup was easy, everyone would do it. 
The weeks that break you are the ones that make you.

Back to work.

It took Bryan Kim 10+ outreaches to get a conversation with Snapchat. 

And tbh it can take many more touches to land a conversation with your ICP in 2025 unless you can break through the noise. 

Anyway, Bryan, check your mailbox!

What financial advisors are sending Nvidia & OpenAI employees

Any thoughts?

IntentPost just hit 100 LinkedIn followers! 🥳

Not the biggest milestone you'll see today, but celebrating small wins matters to us.

Thanks for being part of the journey. ❤️

40 days ago, I had an amazing job, hadn't posted on LinkedIn in years, and had this itch to start building again.

In the last 22 days:
- I resigned
- Got 100,000+ views on LinkedIn
- 600+ comments, 1,000+ new followers
- Crossed $100K ARR without raising a dime

So hi 👋
My name is Faiz Imran.
I'm 23, based in Atlanta.
I've had 5 early-stage exits in media and marketing. While we haven't had any unicorns yet, those ventures drove over $100M in revenue and 3B views.

Currently building IntentPost with Riley Clubb.

The problem we're solving:
Ai SDRs destroyed trust and killed cold outbound email and DM's, making it hard to stand out and break through AI slop as a b2b business.

Over the last 2 years, while scaling Fraction from $2M to $12M ARR, I watched cold email and cold messaging completely die.

The messaging didn't change. The copy didn't change. We even spent over $60K across agencies, internal hires, and me personally testing every possible angle to revive cold outbound.

What changed? The amount of digital slop our prospects were receiving around the same topics.

So we started zigging when everyone else was zagging:
- Ran Meta ads when everyone competed on LinkedIn
- Flew to clients and took them to lunch
- Sent out-of-pocket newsletters, mail, and gifts

We found angles to break through the noise. 
That's exactly what we're building with IntentPost, but turned up a few notches.

What we do:
We help B2B companies break through the noise and create absolutely unforgettable impressions with physical mail & gifts.

Until now, physical ABM campaigns required multiple hires, annual contracts, and sometimes $25K+ in platform fees. Even then, you had to bring your own data, pay for postage and gifts, and needed a dedicated hire to execute.

Things that modern cold email platforms like Instantly.ai don't require you to do!

IntentPost lets you go from 0 to 100 with physical ABM campaigns, all in one place, by enabling you to:

-  Build lists
-  Enrich addresses (commercial and residential)
- Track intent signals
- Personalize messages, images, or gifts based on signals + data we provide
- Have your printing, handwriting, postage, and shipping covered
- Track, attribute, and follow up with a multichannel unibox
- and so much more

All at a fraction of the cost of doing it manually.

Where we're at:
We've had almost a hundred conversations over the last month, built our MVP, scaled past $100K ARR, and even landed our first few enterprise deals, all without raising a dime of outside capital.

All of this is only possible because of the support you guys have given us.
Thank you for every like, comment, and DM that helped us get here. 

Excited to keep sharing the highs and lows of building a startup in public. 
and ofc if you're interested in cutting through the noise with physical mail like the one below, let's talk.

What do you do when a complete stranger makes a 30-minute video breaking down your 4-week-old startup?

You share it.

Noah Hallett made this without ever talking to me. 
Just from watching what we're building in public.

This is better analysis than most pitch meetings I've had, and it made my entire morning!

Wild what happens when you just build transparently.

Video linked below- 
https://lnkd.in/ek_YVA_c

🚨 We're #hiring Cracked Marketers 🚨

IntentPost is growing faster than Riley Clubb & I can keep up with. 

Remote Roles: 

Head of Growth:
Help our clients launch high-performing campaigns on IntentPost

Founding Engineer:
Accelerate development for our enterprise pipeline

Interns:
Support content creation and wear many hats across the business

Shoot me a DM or check out our job listings for more info!

San Francisco, California, United States (Remote)

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