/about adology

Built the way marketing teams actually work.

The best marketers we’ve worked with all do the same thing. They watch everything: competitors, creators, conversations, the whole category. They turn that into signals, signals into bets, and bets into decisions. Adology does the watching, so your expertise goes further.

/the shift

Marketing got faster. The decisions didn’t get easier.

Where we were

Production was the bottleneck.

Briefs took weeks and concepts were scarce. Now generation is effectively free.

Where we are now

More content, fewer clear answers.

Which angle, which hook, what to scale, what to cut? Ten times the inputs, the same hours in the day.

Where Adology fits

Intelligence under every call.

Adology watches your market and turns it into evidence-backed work, so every decision starts from a stronger foundation.

James Donner

/the founding story

“When ChatGPT shipped, I thought competitive intelligence was solved. Then I watched smart marketers still doing the work by hand, because generic AI couldn’t see what their category was actually doing this week. We built Adology so the best marketers don’t just get faster. They get sharper.”

James DonnerCo-Founder & CEO

/what we’re building

Not a dashboard. Not a generator. Creative intelligence.

We aren’t a dashboard, a generator with a brand-voice slider, or a custom GPT pointed at your strategy deck. Adology watches your live market and turns it into finished work, and it gets sharper every time you use it.

  1. 01It watches

    Your category, competitors, culture, creators and customers, continuously.

  2. 02It makes the call

    Specific, evidence-backed recommendations you can check.

  3. 03It learns

    From the market and from what you make, so the next call starts smarter.

/the team

We’ve all felt the problem from different angles.

Agency operations, machine learning, synthetic audience modeling, marketing strategy and content intelligence.

James Donner

James Donner

Co-Founder & CEO

Built, ran and sold Decoded Advertising before starting Adology, after years of watching great teams work from three-month-old competitive reads and briefs built on instinct.

Addie

Addie

Chief Science Officer

Leads synthetic audience modeling: calibrated AI audiences that react to a creative idea before it ships, so teams can pressure-test concepts without burning budget.

Tom Lyons

Tom Lyons

Chief Commercial Officer

A CMO and agency veteran with multiple exits, who has built and led marketing teams across sports, social and consumer brands. He knows the pressure our customers are under.

Charlene Rex-Waller

Charlene Rex-Waller

Chief Marketing Officer

Runs marketing strategy, messaging and go-to-market, after a career building brands and growth engines from scratch for early-stage companies.

/why this matters to us

We started Adology because the best marketers we knew were running on intuition and screenshots, and they deserved intelligence backed by evidence.

James, Addie, Tom and Charlene

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