Nate Parsons
Technology advisor & agency growth coach
For 15+ years I've helped executives and agencies make confident technology and growth decisions — practical, independent guidance from someone who's been in the trenches and built a business from scratch.
Trusted by leaders at CrossFit · Brookings · MacArthur Foundation · Associated Press · the United Nations
Technology Expertise & Agency Growth Coaching
I'm Nate Parsons. For 15+ years I've helped executives cut through technology decisions and helped small agencies grow — practical, independent guidance from someone who's been in the trenches and built a business from scratch.
Trusted by leaders at CrossFit · Brookings · MacArthur Foundation · Associated Press · the United Nations
From plan to platform to insight — I help you architect, connect, and engineer your marketing & data stack so it drives revenue, not just dashboards.
One-on-one coaching for small agencies past year one — build a reliable sales pipeline, make your CRM actually save you time, and grow with less stress. From someone who bootstrapped an agency to 15+ people and helped others scale to 200.
Jul 29, 2026
Somewhere in your organization, an analyst just shipped a beautiful new dashboard. It'll get a burst of attention this week, then join the graveyard of tabs nobody opens. I've watched this exact pattern play out at company after company: real BI budget down the drain.
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Jul 28, 2026
I bought a NAS on sale in the middle of a global RAM shortage, with hard drive prices spiking right along with it. Every retailer's listing page had become a minefield: shady third-party sellers, drives marked "refurbished" that were clearly just use
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Jun 24, 2026
There's a beautiful public dashboard tracking one of the most important development efforts on Earth. Anyone can look at it. Almost nobody can actually use it. It turns out though, that changing that is easier and cheaper than it's ever been. Don't let yourself be locked out from great public source data & research!
ReadI've spent 15+ years as a software architect and growth consultant — and I bootstrapped my own agency, ParsonsTKO, from scratch to 15+ people, sustaining it for over a decade. Along the way I've advised some of the most impactful organizations in the US and beyond: CrossFit, the Brookings Institution, the MacArthur Foundation, the Associated Press, and the United Nations.
I want to share what I've learned with you.
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