Run Digital is Quinn Thurman and Brian Julkunnen, and the people they hired to do the work themselves. Not middle managers. Not offshore fulfillment. Marketers who went to school for this and spent their careers getting good at it. Everything below is the operating system we actually run on, published in full, because you should know how a partner thinks before you hire one.
Most agencies sell you a senior team and staff you with a junior one. You will meet both of us, and you will keep meeting us.
Quinn Thurman
Co-founder & CEOQuinn runs the business and sits closest to the people who hire us. If you take a call with Run, it is usually Quinn on the other end, and he is the one who will tell you when the honest answer is that we are not the right fit.
He came up through in-house marketing and the agency side both, which is how he ended up with strong opinions about what a client should never have to pay for.
Brian Julkunnen
Co-founder & CTOBrian owns the technical half. The tracking that has to be right before any number means anything, the builds, the integrations, the automation that quietly does the work nobody wants to do twice.
It is the reason we can hand you accounts and assets that keep working after we are gone. Somebody has to build it that way on purpose.
Quinn and Brian come from thirty years of combined marketing experience, in-house, in the agency space, and everything in between. They had seen what it takes to go to market. They had also seen what a lot of agencies were actually delivering. The two did not match up.
So they set out to build a better mousetrap: in-house marketing at an agency price. How does that scale? everyone asked. By hiring marketers. Not middle managers, not overseas fulfillers, but skilled people who went to school for this and spent their own careers honing the technical craft.
That is still the whole idea. It is why we do not use contracts, why the assets we build stay in your accounts, and why you can fire us any month you like.
Two sentences we hold everything else against. If a decision does not serve these, it does not get made.
Honest, good work for people, and treating our own people honestly and well. Your business is our business. That is not a slogan about synergy, it is the reason we will tell you to spend less when spending less is right.
The digital team you would build yourself, if you had the time and could solve the harder problems. Not a vendor you brief. A partner who owns the outcome with you.
Every agency claims to be different. These are the three things we will put in writing and let you hold us to.
A standing meeting cadence, real project management, and deliverables with dates on them. You always know what is being worked on, what shipped, and what slipped.
You decide if we earn our seat at your table every month.
No boilerplate package applied to your business because it fit the last one. If you ask for something specific, the answer is usually yes, and it is built for you rather than pulled off a shelf.
You are not handed to a sales guy, then a customer success rep, then an account manager who relays your question to someone who can answer it.
You talk to marketers. The ones doing the work.
Most agencies put values on a wall and forget them by Tuesday. These five decide who we hire, who we keep, and how the work gets done when nobody is watching.
We ask the question everyone else skipped. The second why, then the third, the one that finds the actual problem instead of the obvious one. Nobody here has finished learning, and the day someone thinks they have is the day the work gets worse.
Critique is cheap. Anyone can name what is broken. We come to the table with a fix, make the call and move. Indecision is still a decision, it is just the expensive one, and it is nearly always someone else who pays for it.
You own your work the way you would own it if your name were on the sign out front. That means the quality, the deadline, and the honest update the moment it slips. Autonomy here is not a perk, it is what accountability earns you.
We are called Run for a reason. Done matters, but done this week beats done eventually, and a client feels the difference every time. Speed is a service we give them, never a shortcut we take around the work.
People are the product and the process. Every number on this site came from a person who cared about it. We put people ahead of tasks, we would rather be relatable than impressive, and we hire for that before we hire for a resume.
Every partner we take on walks the same path, and we publish it so you can hold us to it. Discover is the audit and the honest read on whether we can help. Build is tracking, pipeline and assets, in your accounts. Run is the work in market. Refine is where the flywheel starts paying, because the channels compound instead of resetting.
There is no contract at the end of it. You decide if we earn our seat at your table every month.
We are proud of our roots. With SEO at the helm, we knew there was real search volume around the byproduct of marketing: lead generation. So with an exact match domain in mind, we went with RunLeadGen.
Then the partners changed. Ecommerce, non-profits, businesses whose primary goal had very little to do with leads, all getting full stack marketing from a company with “lead gen” in its name. It confused people, fairly. Digital was the word that actually conveyed the skillset.
Same team, same values, a name that finally matches the work.
Book a demo and we will tell you what we would do, what we think it can produce, and what it costs. If we are not the right partner for where you are, that is what the call will say.
