BIG NEWS.
I am now the CEO of Creme Digital, an AI Transformation Agency. Think fractional dev team meets cracked out AI-first product studio. That’s what we are. The company has been around for 6 years and I recently moved into the operator seat.
When I left beehiiv 5 months ago, I knew I wanted to go all in on AI.
Now’s the time, and later it too late.
In today’s newsletter I want to tell you why I said yes to becoming the CEO of 7-figure AI agency, and what Creme Digital can offer you and your company.
And if you want to skip all the pleasantries and book an AI audit for your company… please do 🙂
Why Now
I was beehiiv's first sales hire. I joined at $700K ARR, closed about $4M myself, and built the GTM team that scaled it past $35M ARR. I spent thousands of hours selling to everyone from two-person media brands to Fortune 500 companies in a quickly evolving ecosystem.
But in the last two years I got obsessed with optimizing my life with AI agents. The first “ah hah” moment was when I made $75,000 on a podcast I produced in only 1 hour per week.
I ran my own businesses with almost no team, all while working full time at beehiiv (a demanding startup role in fast-paced sales). I was building agents to scale where I was time constrained. I was using AI to make money before it was cool.
Some quick examples of how I’m using AI to run my life today:
I have an outreach agent booking billionaire guests every day for Moneywise, my podcast.
I have another AI agent booking local advertiser pitches for my local media company.
I have another agent that that cuts, captions and schedules podcast clips all over the internet (up to hundreds of times per week), highly produced.
I built another SEO agent that took a product from barely indexed in August to #2 on Google for its main search.
I have a legal agent who writes contract reviews in minutes, and gives me sound legal advice (I also have a real human attorney to gut check that advice periodically 😂 )
I have a morning briefing agent that reads four email inboxes and 30+ bots for me to tell me where there are agent bottlenecks so I can intervene.
I have a Chief of Staff agent that maintains all my other agents and has adopted my product and growth philosophy.
so much more… I have dozens of agentic loops learning from each other and autonomously operating with each other all day every day without my intervention.
So when I learned about Creme Digital the company, the team, and the services they offer, I was so intrigued.
What I’ve been doing for the last 2 years is exactly what Creme Digital does for its clients (but at a much more impressive scale!)
In a way, I was my own first client.
And the thought of moving into the CEO seat to take the company from where they are today to where I think they can be in 5 years was simply too good to turn down.
(Oh and we closed the largest deal in company history ~52 days after I started).
What Is Creme Digital
Creme is an AI engineering studio. We train teams on how to use AI in their organizations, and we build the agents and software to make it easier for them to do it at scale.
The team has built for 200+ brands over the last five years, from big media companies to agencies like Street Talk, which just won Digiday's award for best first-to-market strategy, to Fortune 500 media companies (including a streaming platform I’m positive you’re familiar with).
Creme Digital builds AI systems, processes, and tools that help teams do more with less.
How We Work
We start with what you have in place today. Most of you either don’t have dedicated engineers to build new tools or processes for you, or have no extra engineering bandwidth to share their focus on new projects. We spend two to three months with your execs and one or two internal "AI quarterbacks." We find what's worth automating, get them to start building in Claude Code or Codex or Cursor, then we build the first tools together, and teach them to keep going after we leave.
I'm living proof that this part works. I'm not an engineer, but you wouldn’t know that by the amount of agentic process I have running my daily life.
Once we train your team, we also own the build. If you want a full product and system built just for you, we work with you as a fractional development team. We design a process with your department heads, build the agents and the software specific to your unique scope, and train each internal team to actually use what we build.
Adoption is key. Fun new things are great but if no one uses them then who cares. We help ensure internal adoption with the new tools and processes, which is what ultimately leads to more revenue for your company.
A 5-person sales team can run like a 15-30-person team today. The tools are good right now, and most of the gap comes down to setup or admin nobody wants to do, or adoption (e.g. no one knows how to use the tools that exist already).
The companies that move fastest in the next 12 months will look like they hired a lot more people than they actually did. Everyone else will spend 2027 trying to catch up.
I want Creme Digital to be the team you can rely on to win with AI.
If you run a company and know you aren’t using AI to leverage growth and revenue the right way, reply and tell me where your team’s largest gap is. I read every reply.
Until next time,
Daniel
