About

Built for businesses
who take growth seriously.

Critical Marketing is a full-service digital marketing agency run by a leadership team that has built, marketed, and operated real businesses. We work with companies across the United States.

Our story

We are not just an agency.
We are an extension of your team.

We started Critical Marketing because we got tired of watching small and mid-market businesses get sold "marketing strategy" that was really just a recycled slide deck with their logo dropped in.

So we built something different. A tightly-held team, real accountability, transparent reporting, and the operator-level discipline you would get if you hired a marketing director in-house.

The work product is held to a higher standard. Every dollar of ad spend gets traced. Every retainer comes with a real plan, not a default service tier.

We are growing on word of mouth from clients who got results. That is the only growth strategy that actually compounds.

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Values

What Critical means to us.

01

Flexibility

Tailored solutions for the unique needs of every client. We never force a square peg into a round hole, even when the playbook says we should.

02

Transparency

Open and honest with clients, partners, and teams. No black boxes. No hidden retainers. Real reports, real numbers, real conversations.

03

Ingenuity

We push past the template playbook. New tools, new channels, new tactics, whatever the campaign needs. The default approach is rarely the right one.

Leadership team

Meet the people
running it.

Dean Gunsolus

Dean Gunsolus

Visionary & Founder

Richard Baker

Richard Baker

Operations

Tristan Addi

Tristan Addi

Creative & Strategy

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Let's work together.

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