It began in a converted shed in Austin, Texas. A whiteboard, a few chairs, and hours of ideation about how marketing could be smarter, faster, and more intellectually grounded.
Inside the 500 Rockets
marketing think tank ●
We're a marketing think tank and digital agency built around one belief: businesses win when their best ideas are given space to grow.
At 500 Rockets, we combine intellectual rigor with hands-on execution to design repeatable marketing systems that solve real business problems — not just make noise.
Explore our work
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● About us
Who we are
500 Rockets is a strategic marketing think tank built for founders, leaders, and organizations that need deep, structured thinking — not quick hacks. We blend research, psychology, persuasion, and practical execution to create systems that scale.
Every tool, idea, and solution we build is designed to help teams think clearer, operate smarter, and grow faster.
As startups kept knocking, the patterns became clear: businesses needed systems, not scattered tactics. This became the backbone of what eventually evolved into the 500 Rockets Think Tank.
What started as a mini-lab for new marketing ideas grew into a full think tank and digital agency dedicated to building repeatable answers to real business problems.
How it started
Good ideas rarely arrive fully formed. 500 Rockets grew organically — first as a place to think, then as a place to build.
500 Rockets is a strategic marketing think tank built for founders, leaders, and organizations that need deep, structured thinking — not quick hacks. We blend research, psychology, persuasion, and practical execution to create systems that scale.
Every tool, idea, and solution we build is designed to help teams think clearer, operate smarter, and grow faster.
● The think-tank team
Meet the team
Meet our founders, and some of our fellows. Lot of brain power zipping around in these hallways.
Matthew Brutsché
CEO, 500 Rockets Digital Agency.
Co-founder, 500 Rockets Marketing Think Tank.
Dr. Dan French
Master Rhetorician & Persuasion Strategist.
Co-founder, 500 Rockets Marketing Think Tank.
● Our approach
We build marketing systems anchored on four core principles:
- Clarity over noise
The right ideas executed well beat high-volume tactics.
- Repeatable solutions
Systems that scale, not one-off campaigns.
- Intellectual rigor
Strategy grounded in psychology, research, and real-world results.
- Persuasive storytelling
Messaging that moves people and markets.
