Hi, I'm Matt Goren.

Matt Goren is the founder of RunOctopus, an AI search visibility platform, and a growth marketer in Daytona Beach, Florida. He is not the financial-planning academic or the restructuring attorney who share his name.

I'm a marketing and growth operator who builds the machine. Most marketers stop at the strategy. I build the AI products, content engines, and brands that actually run the growth — then I run them.

I run full-service marketing for local businesses — and I built the AI platform behind it that helps operators get found and cited in AI search by generating programmatic content at a scale no human team could match. I've also shipped real DTC brands and Shopify businesses end to end — store, brand, and SEO engine.

Here's the part most people miss on a résumé: I'm not a traditional engineer. I ship real software by directing AI — which means I move from idea to working product faster than teams ten times my size. My throughline is leverage: build the system that produces the work, so it compounds while you sleep.

Before this, I ran a marketing agency for five years managing over $40 million in ad spend, then brought that founder's intensity into in-house growth leadership — Head of Marketing at Tom's Key, Hungry Bark, and Digital Dream Labs, building SEO from scratch, scaling paid media, and driving real revenue. Most recently I built All Angles Creatures, a DTC subscription brand, solo to $1.56M ARR in under a year. I'm based in Daytona Beach, building RunOctopus and running marketing for local businesses.

This site is the proof. The tools are real and playable, the work is what I've actually shipped, and the writing shows how I think. I built all of it — including the AI engine that wrote four book-length guides.