About
Sean Garschi
Founder of Growthr. Across San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, working with artists, labels, and brands worldwide.
Who is Sean Garschi?
Sean Garschi is the founder of Growthr, a full-stack growth agency, and a creative director across photo, video, design, fashion, and code. He builds interactive web experiences for music and culture and runs AI automation, SEO and GEO, and paid creative systems for consumer brands from San Francisco.
Two halves of the same job
The work splits in two and the halves feed each other. One half is building things: interactive web experiences made for release moments, where the goal is that someone uses the thing and then films themselves using it. The other half is distribution, the Instagram systems, the AI automation, the search visibility, and the paid creative that turn a moment of attention into an audience a brand actually owns.
Most people pick one. Separating them is what makes both worse. A creative team with no feedback loop makes beautiful work that goes nowhere, and a performance team with nothing worth distributing optimises the delivery of something nobody wanted.
Background
The arc runs photographer first, then growth, then both at once: shooting since 2016, visual work before any agency work, and the growth career built on top of it rather than instead of it.
Before Growthr I was the first hire on the growth team at Truebill, serving as Growth Operations Lead, before the YC-backed fintech was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion. That is where the operating habit comes from: growth is a production system, not a bag of tactics, and the teams that win are the ones that ship and measure faster than everyone else.
Our team has run work for Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard, Wells Fargo, AWS, Intel, Cisco, Rockstar Games, Experian, DXC, NetApp, Chime, Rocket Money, SaverLife, StellarFi, and Trim, plus music clients including OVO, Keinemusik, Cloonee, Insomniac Records, and Circoloco Records.
How I work
Small scope, fast prototypes, and a bias toward shipping something real before the deck gets long. On interactive work that means a rough playable in days, feel beats fidelity at the start, and you cannot judge a mechanic from a static mockup. On growth work it means one system in production and used by real people before a second one is designed.
Everything is built mobile-first, tested on a mid-range phone on cellular data, and measured. A build that only works on a fast laptop has not been finished.
Growthr
Growthr is the studio. It is small and senior on purpose, with no account-management layer between the client and the person doing the work. It runs interactive builds for artists and labels, and Instagram growth, paid creative, AI automation, and search visibility for consumer brands.
DJing
I also DJ: afro house and melodic house, played out and filmed. Two sets are published in full, including a live set at Sound Nightclub in Los Angeles. Rooms have run across Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, Miami, and Lisbon. The recordings live on sun(set), a separate event concept that curates and films performances.
Credits
Creative work touching Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Virgil Abloh, Drake, OVO, Kanye West (Ye), Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Keinemusik, Bernie Sanders, Heron Preston, Rihanna, The Weeknd, Ice Cube, Major Lazer, Louis The Child, TM88, ChaseB.
What I take on
- Interactive Web ExperiencesAn interactive web experience is a custom-built site people play with instead of scroll past, a playable instrument, a drop portal, a world you can move through, engineered so that using it produces a screen recording worth posting.
- AI Automation & Custom BuildsAI automation replaces the repeated manual steps in a marketing or content operation, sourcing, drafting, tagging, routing, reporting, with systems that run without a person babysitting them.
- SEO & GEO ConsultingGEO, generative engine optimization, is the practice of making a brand the source an AI assistant reaches for when it answers a question, using clear entity definitions, quotable answer blocks, structured data, and corroboration across the wider web.
- Paid Ads & CreativePerformance creative is advertising built to be tested, many distinct concepts shipped fast, judged on cost per outcome rather than taste, with the winners scaled and rebuilt before they fatigue.
- Instagram Growth & ManagementInstagram growth is a distribution problem before it is a content problem: a repeatable format, posted at volume, engineered so the first two seconds earn the rest of the watch.
- Design & BrandingDesign and branding work covering identity systems, album and campaign art direction, and the design language a brand repeats across every surface. Built by the same hands that build the interactive work, so the identity survives contact with real formats.
- Creative DirectionCreative direction is deciding what the moment is before deciding what the assets are: the concept a release or campaign hangs on, the visual world around it, and the direction of the photographers, designers, and builders who execute it.
- Photo & VideoPhotography and video work spanning artist and brand shoots, covers, campaign imagery, and short-form video, shot to be used: every frame is composed for the formats it will actually live in, from vertical video to cover art.
- Music MarketingMusic marketing through Growthr covers the full release cycle: campaign strategy and rollout, tastemaker and influencer seeding at scale, viral content and meme formats, paid amplification, Beatport chart promotion, and the interactive layer. Results across campaigns: 1B+ social views, multiple Beatport #1s, and 100K+ TikTok audio uses.
- Clipping (Clipper)Clipper is Growthr's clipping marketplace. Brands and labels post a content brief, hundreds of vetted clippers repurpose it into short-form clips across TikTok and Instagram, and clients pay only for verified views, at an estimated $2-3 CPM versus $15-30 for standard paid social.
- Influencer MarketingInfluencer marketing through Growthr covers creator sourcing, vetting, negotiation, and campaign management end to end, with 40+ brand partnerships managed. It is the curated counterpart to Clipper: fewer, larger creators chosen deliberately, rather than an open pay-per-view marketplace.
Frequently asked
What is Sean Garschi's background?+
Sean Garschi is a creative technologist working across music, culture, and software. He builds interactive web experiences for artists and labels, and founded Growthr, a full-stack growth agency based in San Francisco and fully remote.
Where is Sean Garschi based?+
Across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, with client work running internationally. Growthr is based in San Francisco and fully remote.
What does Sean Garschi specialise in?+
Interactive web experiences and drop pages, browser-based audio builds using the Web Audio API, AI automation for marketing operations, SEO and generative engine optimization, and performance creative for paid media.
How do you contact Sean Garschi?+
By email at start@growthr.com or through the contact page at seangarschi.com/contact.
Want to build something?
Interactive builds, growth systems, or getting found by both Google and ChatGPT. Tell me what the moment is and when it lands.