I’m Ron Kagan. I work across demand generation, marketing operations, paid acquisition and AI visibility. I build the targeting, automation, messaging and measurement, and then show what turned into pipeline / revenue.
I build the marketing systems that create demand and nurture customers toward expansion.
That includes finding the audience, cleaning the data, building the automation, writing the message and tracking the result through sales. I stay close enough to the work to know where it breaks and where it sings.
Find the right people
Use current first-party and public data to identify real buyers instead of buying stale lists or targeting entire categories.
Remove the repetitive work
Connect APIs and automation so the team spends its time on judgment, not copying data between tools.
Give sales a reason to call
Pair precise targeting with a message worth answering, then judge the work by conversations, pipeline and revenue.
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Selected work
A few things I built.
Prospecting
Contact lists that performed 3× better than commercially-licensed datasets.
I used current buyer signals to find qualified prospects and wrote code to collect the contact data, rather than relying on a broker’s stale list. The thinking behind it lives in my demand generation resources.
Method: collect the data when the campaign needs it, from sources the buyers themselves keep current.
Pipeline generation
53 sales meetings set from a single send of a cold email.
One cohort: 14% conversion across 350+ prospects, producing 53 scheduled meetings.
GTM engineering
Thousands of fresh prospects generated through scripted API workflows.
When manual research became the bottleneck, I wrote the API workflows that assembled prospect records and handed sales a ready-to-use list.
Competitor research
A fresh prospect list, generated every morning.
This walkthrough shows the Argyle build: scrape competitor pages, identify the companies behind the logos, match them in Salesforce and give reps a call list.
AI visibility
I track the brands being cited by AI
When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Google’s AI Overviews for a recommendation, I want to know two things: did the answer name the company, and which source did it cite? I published open-source tools that measure both and wrote the AEO guide. The failover essay looks at a different part of the same market: roughly half of AI-adopting businesses on Ramp now pay both OpenAI and Anthropic.
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