Growthmode

A digital marketing platform and growth agency that puts technology, AI and automation at the forefront. 

Built by a highly experienced team of entrepreneurs and academics with strong backgrounds in AI, marketing and enterprise SaaS, our aim is to help modern marketing teams keep up with the pace of change through accessible technology and data-driven strategic marketing services. 

Products and services include:

- Data-driven growth marketing services
- AI and automation development platform
- SaaS growth marketing platform

Talk to us if you're looking for:

- Ways of unlocking rapid growth, when you've already tried traditional channels
- Support in navigating and implementing AI to support your marketing
- More accessible, simplicity-focused technology tools to manage your growth

CEO & Founder

Alvius

Groundbreaking recruitment technology platform.

Early Investor and Advisor

Umi Digital

Digital marketing agency focused on the hospitality sector.

Co-Founder, Board Member

Firedrop

Generative AI startup on a mission to automate design.

Launched the world's first automated website builder in 2017, using highly innovative proprietary AI technology to generate website designs witout templates.

Pivoted to enterprise design automation, ultimately delivering multi-million dollar design automation and AI transformation projects for multinational FMCGs in the area of packaging design and ad creatives.

Founder & CEO

Likeminded Media

Online dating portfolio company featuring popular niche sites for redheads, plus-sized people and more. Grew from 0 to 50,000 subscribers entirely organically.

Alterity

Software development agency. Sold the business after 18 months.

Founder & Managing Director

Integral Search

Headhunting senior consultants in the risk management sector.

Head of Risk Management Search

Imprint Plc

Headhunting senior consultants in the accounting and management consultancy space.

Executive Search Consultant

Omnia Music

An online music platform focused on discovery of unsigned artists. Grew from infancy to over 4,000 registered artists and over 3 million visits a month.

With over 20 years of visionary leadership in AI, marketing, and enterprise SaaS, I am deeply passionate about driving innovation and growth. As the CEO and founder of Growthmode, my mission is to empower modern marketing teams to thrive in this era of rapid technological change by offering accessible tech and data-driven strategic marketing support, equipping teams with the necessary tools and insights for rapid growth and AI integration.

My journey includes co-founding several successful startups, notably a generative AI company that spearheaded multi-million dollar AI projects before the era of ChatGPT.

At Growthmode, I lead a highly experienced team of entrepreneurs, marketers, creatives and academics with backgrounds in AI, marketing, and enterprise SaaS. We are building a digital marketing platform and growth agency that puts technology, AI, and automation at the forefront. Our goal is to help businesses do 30% more.

Beyond Growthmode, I lend my expertise as an advisor and mentor to early-stage startups and entrepreneurs.

Marc Crouch

Alex Bainbridge

Autoura

Autoura is a digital experience platform for real world experiences.

We use new forms of urban mobility (such as electric scooters, shared bikes & robotaxis) to operate real world experiences using AI tour guides

Digital Tourism Think Tank

Focussed on vehicle based tourism including micromobility, road trips & autonomous vehicles. Available for consulting work via DTTT

Technology & Data Strategist (Consultant)

TourCMS (Travel UCD Ltd)

Bootstrapped TourCMS from zero through to several hundred million USD of local tour transactions annually. Defined (and developed) cross-industry APIs that created new opportunities for local tour / experience providers.

Proud to have enabled distribution for Gray Line, the largest sightseeing company in the world, one of TourCMS's core clients taken on under my leadership.

CEO / CTO / Core developer. Sold October 2015

CEO, CTO & Founder

Andbook

Hotel reservation system for business travellers - founded by Hilton, Accor and Le Meridien.

Head of Web design & Development

Focussed on building an AI tour guide platform that ultimately will be embedded in tourism & hospitality autonomous vehicles

Publications
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Published 7 white papers (Latest: Autonomous Vehicles & Digital Experience Platforms - https://www.autoura.com/docs/Autoura-DXP.pdf)
Editor of Cyborguide
Blogging about in destination technology for DestinationCTO 
Previously written extensively for tnooz (now Phocuswire)

Contracting
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Lead technology & ecommerce projects for..... (in the early days of bootstrapping TourCMS)
Travel City Direct / XL Leisure Group (6 months)
FirstChoice (18 months)
FlyBmi (via Euro RSCG) (6 months)

Awards
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2016 - TourCMS technology powering Gray Line to win the Expedia EPIC award. TourCMS was first company to connect to Expedia Local Expert and played a key part in the specification of their API
2013 - Gray Line Champion Award - awarded to me individually when CEO of TourCMS
2005 - BIMA (Most prestigious digital awards in the UK) - Best Travel Website - Project Managed FlyBMI.com redesign for agency Euro RSCG

Autoura is a digital experience platform for real world experiences.

We use new forms of urban mobility (such as electric scooters, shared bikes & robotaxis) to operate real world experiences.

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Alex Bainbridge

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