Left Brain Work
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Left Brain · The Technical Stack
“… We are the priests of the Temples of Syrinx. Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.”Rush
Right Brain · The Creative Stack
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”Maya Angelou
Résumé
Adam R. Cagle
AI Systems Builder & Enablement Lead25-Year Lead CopywriterProduction AI Agents & Brand Voice Systems
Builder and writer. Twenty-five years as co-founder, Managing Director, and Lead Copywriter of Agency689: sixty-plus brands, every pitch, every campaign, and the copy itself. Now shipping production AI through Agentic689: agents, enablement systems, and brand-voice governance in daily client use, every system prompt and white paper written solo.
Campaign copy, brand voice systems, messaging frameworks, tone guides, naming, brand books, editorial standards, persona documents.
Claude, GPT, and Gemini model families, Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, MCP/FastMCP, custom GPTs, ChatGPT Apps, prompt engineering, RAG, Qdrant, evaluation loops, human-in-the-loop governance.
REST APIs built and integrated, OAuth 2.0, Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, Node.js, React, PHP, WordPress, GitHub, Vercel, Cloudflare, Render, Supabase, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Stripe, Zapier, n8n.
Prompt and agent libraries, playbooks, training, change management, new-business pitches, proposals, client management, team leadership; Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion.
Production systems across LLMs, RAG, agent orchestration, and MCP. Built Singularity SEO, an AI-managed search platform in production, and open-source agents for market intelligence, book marketing, and satellite terrain analysis. Ships products, not slides.
Voice architecture as a system: tone guides, messaging frameworks, brand books, and governance that keep a brand distinct across channels, teams, and AI-assisted workflows. Voices that scale without going flat.
Prompt and agent libraries, role-based playbooks, guardrails, and human-review gates that move teams from AI curiosity to daily use. Moved wary client teams from resistance to routine use, cutting first-draft time by roughly half.
Twenty-five years leading every new-business pitch: strategy, proposals, and presentations that won and held sixty-plus accounts. Teams up to fifteen. Client relationships at owner, board, and C-level, many held a decade-plus.
Agentic689 · Sister Studio to Agency689 · 2024 to Present
Sister studio to Agency689. Production AI agents, enablement systems, and SEO/AIO tools.
Agency689, Inc. · Co-Founder · Bend, OR & California · 2001 to Present
Bend, OR & California. Full-service identity, branding, and launch studio.
DGWB Advertising · Orange County, CA · 1998 to 2001
First wave of agency digital. Led the interactive practice: copy, delivery, technology translation, and new-business pitches.
Ad Club (multiple) and Webby (multiple) awards for copywriting. Netty Award for the Sunset Marquis website.
Academy of Art, San Francisco. Design and Art Direction.
Autism Research Project. Board member. Published author and white-paper writer on shipped AI systems.