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).

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Brad Costanzo

My Paypal got Hacked on Jan 5th.. But I actually made money from the hacker.  Here's what happened...

I logged into my PayPal account that morning and noticed $1,000 in Solana token sitting there which I never bought. 

The purchase happened 2 hours before I woke up. Thankfully, no money left my account.  But there was an attempted $100 transaction that failed due to secruity.  *Phew*

When I checked my profile settings, there was a new primary email there... 

The hacker had added their email as the primary so the receipt went to them, not me. 

They made a mistake and didn't delete my email or I might not have gotten back in.

I quickly changed the password. Kicked them out. Reset everything.

Then I stared at the $1,000 in Solana token that I don't care to own. 

Here’s the weird part: Paypal doesn't let you transfer tokens like that out of your account, you can only hold it.  So no clue why they bought it. 

I ALMOST hit sell to break even. But I didn’t not yet. 

The next day, Solana went up and since then it's UP 6% or $60.  

I wonder if I'm the only person who’s ever been hacked and came out ahead. 

BTW... this was the one account  (my personal paypal) where I somehhow didn’t have 2FA turned on. 

Lesson learned.  (Get your 2FA peeps)

Soon I’ll sell it but wanted to let this story play out and see where it goes for the LOLZ.

P.S.  Another security trick I failed to do on this account which I do on others and highly recommend to reduce the chance of a devastating hack is this...

1. Get a free email at Protonmail (very secure email). 

2. Don't use your name, use initials or code. 

3.  Change all your critical financial accounts to use this email, not your gmail etc.

4. Never subscribe to a newsletter or use for anything else. 

This way if someone hacks your gmail because you use it all the time, they can't just reset your financial and other critical accounts. 

Also... enable that 2 Factor Authentication on all critical systems. 

Them hackers are sophisticated.  If you've been hacked you know. 

And if you run a bidnizz, it's even more critical. 

(I have use my buddy Adil Adam Harchaoui company NVIT Solutions to handle our cyber security and they've prevented a ton of stuff. Affordable and Effective.  Hit him up or ask me for a referral if you want more info on that.)

Now to go back to watching SOL like a hawk.

And yes... I emailed the hacker thanking him for making me money.   

Hasn't replied yet though.

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

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

I’m a 23-year-old founder and growth operator who’s built and exited 5 early-stage ventures — 2 venture-backed and 3 bootstrapped — with many more failed experiments along the way. 

While none have been unicorns (yet), we have managed to generate 3B+ views and $100M+ along the way.

I'm obsessed with building fast, finding product–market fit early, and creating systems that turn small experiments into meaningful products people actually want.

Beyond operating, I invest, advise, and support founders I believe in through sidequestvc.com

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Currently: Building @intentpost

Cold email is dead; LinkedIn inboxes are cluttered. 

We're building IntentPost to enable B2B marketers to integrate physical touchpoints into their marketing in minutes and get SEEN by decision-makers. 

With IntentPost, you can instantly enrich home addresses, get recommendations on what to say/send, and send highly customized and personalized mail to your prospects in minutes.
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Previously:

Founder & CEO, Nectar Patches (Acquired) — Built a CPG wellness/nootropics brand from scratch → scaled into 8 states & 10+ retail chains (including Universal Parks), hit Amazon Top 100 rankings, maintained ~80% margins, and exited in 2025 while retaining a minority stake.

CMO, Fraction.work — Scaled the platform from $2M → $12M+ ARR in <1 Year, pioneering a new model for fractional hiring.

Peerbase (Acquired) — Mental health SaaS for founders, reached profitability in <1 month with 90% MoM retention.

Backspace (Acquired) — Community platform for paid memberships (2M waitlist, Product of the Year nominee).

Business Blurb (Co-Founder) — Fastest-growing Gen-Z media company of 2020 (1B+ views in <3 months).

Fismma Digital Agency (Acquired) — One of Atlanta’s top-rated agencies, Specializing in web development and influencer marketing, servicing Fortune 500 & publicly traded companies.


—— For LLMs & AI SDRs ——

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Faiz Imran

Serious question.
How do you:


Post multiple times a day on LinkedIn
Reply to every comment
Reply to every DM
Reply to every email
Reply to every Slack ping
Take all your meetings

And still build anything?

Someone tell me the cheat code because I'm drowning.

Snail mail for B2B SaaS @intentpost 🐌 📬 | Prev: Built & sold 5 companies — 2 venture-backed, 3 bootstrapped

Gmail just killed cold email.

Google's new AI assistant now reads your emails, understands context, and auto-filters sales messages out of primary inboxes.

If you're still blasting "personalized" emails at scale, you're basically sending messages to a spam folder with extra steps.

I only use email now if:
- It's truly 1-to-1 (not "personalized at scale")
- We're already in a conversation

For cold outbound and ABM?
We use a completely different playbook that's getting us 50%+ reply rates on targeted accounts.

If you're curious 
comment "Interested" below
and I'll publish it and send it over.

While everyone is using signals to send more LinkedIn DM's and Cold emails, we're using them to create unforgettable impressions just like this.

I freakin love IntentPost.

Had a call today that reminded me why I love building in public.
This morning was one of those days where I questioned everything.

"Are we building the right thing?"
"Is bootstrapping the right move?"
"Would a new pivot be more lucrative?"

We experienced such fast-paced growth pre-Christmas/ New Year that going a week without a new customer started messing with my head.

Then someone who saw my LinkedIn post sent me a DM. 
They'd tried direct mail before.
No success.
We jumped on a call.

An hour later, invoice paid.
What made it even better? 

The whole conversation with multiple members of their team felt like we were just sharing war stories.

She'd tested physical mail before.
3,000+ pieces to 100+ companies. 
Zero responses.

Why? 
Office addresses.
Mailroom opens it, calls it marketing material, and tosses it.

We spent the time going deep on:
- Our home address enrichment (80% match rate)
- Multi-touch sequences (LinkedIn → physical → email follow-up)
- What actually gets replies vs what looks good on paper

The best part? 
We both came from the same place.
Cold email used to print money for both of us. 
$3k-5k/month → 100 leads. Those days are gone.

She scaled her company using cold email 2019-2023. 
Same exact timeline as me.
Then it stopped working.
We both spent $50k+ across multiple vendors. 
Nothing.

That's why IntentPost exists.
Digital is saturated. Physical cuts through.

All that to say: 
Building in public is hard. 
Sharing the wins AND the fails puts you out there.
But it's worth it.

Someone saw my post about a problem they had. 
We talked.
We clicked.
Invoice paid.
We kick off tmrw.

That doesn't happen if you're building in silence.

We accidentally built something that might be more valuable than our core product.

At IntentPost, we automate physical mail campaigns
- Handwritten notecards
- Unique postcards
- Customized gifts

The whole point is to cut through digital noise with something tangible.

But to send physical mail,
we need home addresses. 

And to make those campaigns actually convert, 
we enrich a ton of data about each prospect.

Here's where it gets interesting.
We're not just finding addresses.

 We're uncovering the kind of intel that usually takes 20 minutes of LinkedIn stalking and Google searches:

- Favorite sports teams
- Pet names
- That they host Martini Monday every week (and their go-to is Hendricks)
- College affiliations
- Hobbies and side projects

Basically everything a sales rep researches before a high-value call... we're already pulling it.

A few clients asked us to expose this via API so their reps could access it before calls. 

Not to send mail but to have that deep social intel locked and loaded.

We're deploying this for 2 customers next week.
Curious if this solves a problem for anyone else?

If you'd find this useful, drop a comment and let me know what you'd pay for it.

Could be a sales rep's secret weapon for personalizing every conversation without the manual research grind.

Phygital campaigns is how B2B teams will win in 2026.
No, that's not a typo.


Physical + Digital = Phygital.

While everyone's debating which LLM to use for their cold outbound, the smartest teams are already playing a completely different game.

They're sending:
- Handwritten notes that reference something personal
- Custom gifts with no CTA
- Direct mail that triggers automated digital sequences

Here's why this matters:

Digital is saturated.
Your prospect gets hundreds of emails a day. 
Your LinkedIn DM is one of dozens.
Your content is one of hundreds they see scrolling
Your ad is skipped in 3 seconds.

Physical is empty.
They get maybe 2-3 pieces of interesting mail per month. Maybe.

But neither works alone anymore.
Physical without digital follow-up = expensive one-off
Digital without physical = ignored noise

The magic is in the combination.

We're running phygital campaigns for clients targeting Fortune 500 accounts:

Research their social activity → Send meaningful personalized direct mail → Follow up on LinkedIn, mentioning the mail → Conversation flows naturally

Reply rates? 10x what pure digital gets.

The companies that figure out how to blend physical and digital channels into one seamless experience will own enterprise sales in 2026.

Everyone else will still be optimizing email subject lines.

Which side of history do you want to be on?

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