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Aaron James Grando

Technologist   ·   Product Manager   ·   AI Strategist   ·   Creative Agency Veteran

Hey, I'm Aaron. For the last fifteen years I've been building tech-forward digital creative for some of the world’s most unforgettable consumer brands at RTO+P / Mod Op, in always-sunny Philadelphia, PA.

In 2025, I became a founding member of Mod Op's Innovations Team and assumed a new product leadership role as VP, Creative Innovation – responsible for translating frontier AI technology into new agency capabilities and concepts that make teams faster, smarter and more creative.

What I'm Building

Mod Chat In-house LLM chat interface with advanced tool calling and retreival capabilities.
Providing the team with the latest AI models and tools.

Brand Agents Brand-aligned AI agents that support agency teams, clients, and apps.
100+ client and prospect Brand Agents deployed and in use.

Nexus Context Collaboration Platform for Mod Op's app ecosystem.
Responsible and secure org-wide AI context engineering and visibility.

Mod Heat Audience-aware realtime trend tracker and idea factory, powered by Brand Agents.
Using AI to perform a task too dangerous for humans: staying on top of the news.

Audience Lab Synthetic audience modeling and creative pretesting grounded with real human data.
Strategic toolkit for understanding and engaging brand audiences.

Selected Clients

And many more.