AGM — Attention Grabbing Media

About the agency

The agency that rebuilt itself first

Attention Grabbing Media — AGM — has spent close to a decade helping businesses grab attention. When AI arrived, we didn’t sell the revolution. We ran it on our own company, in public, and published the receipts.

The story

From 2016 to the AI era

Even my agency, Attention Grabbing Media, cannot operate the same way. We are transforming our offers, how we're delivering services. We are in the middle of a major transition from the old-school marketing game — yes, it's old school — to the new marketing game, with AI as part of every single thing we do.
Manuel SuarezCEO strategy session, July 2, 2026

Manuel Suarez founded Attention Grabbing Media in Florida in 2016, on a conviction the industry hadn’t caught up to yet: attention is the most valuable asset in business, and the companies that learn to grab it — ethically, consistently, at scale — win.

The proof came from doing, not pitching. AGM built the marketing machine behind a family of owner-operated brands — a multi-language audience operation that posted 22,000,000 YouTube views in a single month as recently as February 2026 — and grew into a bilingual team of roughly 100 specialists working with names like Nancy Cartwright, Daymond John, Jason Fladlien, Tom Cummins, and Cesar Millan, whose Better Dog Supplements brand Manuel leads today. Along the way came the ClickFunnels Two Comma Club award and ManyChat’s Top Performing Agency recognition — both photographed below.

Then AI arrived, and AGM made the decision most agencies are still avoiding: rebuild your own company before you sell the rebuild. Starting in 2025, AGM became its own first client — daily AI briefs instead of status meetings, reporting that repairs itself, and grounded AI sales agents built to say only what the business knows to be true.

In 2026 the receipts went public. Two zero-hallucination AI sales agents went live in production within one week of each other — metabolismo.com on July 7 and betterdogsupplements.com on July 9 — both open URLs anyone can talk to. The AI Transformation portal reached 275 members (July 2026). And this site, like every number on it, ships with its dates attached.

That is what we now build for clients: AI-operated marketing systems with creative humans in the driver’s seat — and proof you can open, not promises you have to take on faith.

Getting attention for a powerful message and powerful content, leading to the monetization of this attention, is my personal obsession and is our main superpower at the Attention Grabbing Media marketing agency.
Manuel SuarezIn his own words, September 2023
High drone angle over the AGM building rooftop and sign, greenery behind
Largo, Florida

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The Partners

An operator and an institution

Manuel Suarez, CEO & Founder

Manuel Suarez

CEO & Founder

The operator: builds the machine, runs it on his own brands first.

Tom Cummins, Partner & Board Advisor

Tom Cummins

Partner & Board Advisor

The institution: four decades of building companies that last.

One agency, two languages

English y español

AGM operates fully bilingually — strategy, creative, media, and AI agents in both English and Spanish. The first production agent we shipped speaks Spanish.

Largo, Florida — Tampa Bay · 1-888-280-3339

The building

215-A, Largo, Florida

The headquarters on the Tampa Bay side of Florida — a working floor, two studios, and the murals the team actually lives with. Photographed as it is.

Aerial view of the AGM Marketing Agency building with its rooftop sign, palm trees behind
The headquarters — Largo, Florida
AGM reception: backlit cube-logo wall in navy behind a marble-and-walnut desk on a marbled epoxy floor
Reception
Lobby seating nook with white chairs on the marbled floor
The lobby
Open office floor with rows of white standing desks and iMacs
The open floor
Conference room with a 3D AGM cube logo and Attention Grabbing Media lettering on the wall
The conference room
LED-lit coffee bar over a blue epoxy floor
The coffee bar
Game lounge with a comic-style ninja mural, foosball table, dartboard, and a chessboard on the coffee table
The game lounge
Lounge couch beneath the ninja-character brand mural
The lounge
The AGM Ninja Lab production studio lit in purple
The Ninja Lab studio
In-house green-screen video studio with lights and camera rigs
The green-screen stage, 2023
Low-angle close-up of the AGM Marketing Agency sign against a blue sky
215-A — Largo, Florida

What we run on

In our own words

Ninjas don't operate based on SCHEDULES — they operate based on RESULTS.
The AGM Core ValuesMarketing Magic, 2023
I want BUILDERS around me. I want ARTISTS around me. I want people who look at a process and say, 'I can build a loop for that.'
Manuel SuarezAll-staff briefing, June 29, 2026
We use AI for leverage, but we use people for connection.
Manuel SuarezPodcast notes, June 23, 2026
I'm not having AI respond for me. Never have, and never will. I am the mind, I'm the spirit, I'm the director. The moment that I allow AI to direct for me, that's the moment I dehumanize myself.
Manuel SuarezCEO strategy session, June 18, 2026

The team

Our team of AI engineers, builders, marketers, designers, and creative people.

The Management Team

  • Manuel Suarez, CEO & Founder

    Manuel Suarez

    CEO & Founder

  • Tom Cummins, Partner & Board Advisor

    Tom Cummins

    Partner & Board Advisor

  • Juan Guerrero, Chief Operations Officer

    Juan Guerrero

    Chief Operations Officer

  • Rob Whitt, Director of Production

    Rob Whitt

    Director of Production

  • Dan Avila, Senior Account Manager

    Dan Avila

    Senior Account Manager

  • Alex Strijewski, Head of Establishment & Lead AI Engineer

    Alex Strijewski

    Head of Establishment & Lead AI Engineer

  • Alan Pineda, AGM team

    Alan Pineda

  • David Santos, AGM team

    David Santos

  • Diana Tirado, AGM team

    Diana Tirado

  • Dolf Ponsaran, AGM team

    Dolf Ponsaran

  • Emilio Tinoco, AGM team

    Emilio Tinoco

  • Fil Anacita, AGM team

    Fil Anacita

  • Israel Quiroz, AGM team

    Israel Quiroz

  • JC Ceneciro, AGM team

    JC Ceneciro

  • Jonald Jamora, AGM team

    Jonald Jamora

  • Josan Manulat, AGM team

    Josan Manulat

  • Julianne De Armon, AGM team

    Julianne De Armon

  • Kris Caacbay, AGM team

    Kris Caacbay

  • Lela Gregory, AGM team

    Lela Gregory

  • Mauricio Bejarano, AGM team

    Mauricio Bejarano

  • Rain Ponsaran, AGM team

    Rain Ponsaran

  • Rhianna Iverson, AGM team

    Rhianna Iverson

The full team roster

  • Abea Brandon
  • Allan Sanchez
  • Ana Karen Luna
  • Ariadna Luciano
  • Aron De La Cruz
  • Bogart Garcia
  • Carlos Mejia
  • Cedric Villarosa
  • Chris Wong
  • Chuck Villarosa
  • Constance Montenegro
  • Craig Frost
  • Cynthia Sanchez
  • Daniel Gonzalez
  • Daniel Vinay
  • Denisse Figueroa
  • Diego Arceo Romero
  • Diego Carbonell
  • Edrian Paras
  • Eduardo Flores Guerrero
  • Elizabeth Hinojosa
  • Emiliano Gordillo
  • Emily Jamora
  • Emma Acosta
  • Esteban Dilorenzo
  • Francisco Dupinet
  • Franz Catapang
  • Freddy Mendoza
  • Gabriel Suárez
  • Gabriela Hernandez
  • Gio Diaz
  • Ian Fernando Castelan
  • Ian Serna
  • Ingrid Abascal
  • Isabel Linares
  • Isaiah Chandler
  • Jayke Carranceja
  • Jean Machado
  • Jed Rigney
  • Jeremy García
  • Jimmy Stearns
  • John Manulat
  • Jonas Descalzota
  • Jonathan Fernandez
  • Jose Espinoza
  • Juan Velazquez
  • Judina Grace Lumambas Avila
  • Kalli Knoble
  • Karla Ramirez
  • Kevin Ayala
  • Lara Lorca
  • Larissa Yan
  • Leonard Ignacio
  • Lizbeth Villegas
  • Luis Ramirez
  • Luis Reyes Guerra
  • Mario Contreras
  • Mark Glasstetter
  • Martin Castellon
  • Maximiliano Suarez
  • Mayela Tamez
  • Melis Babani
  • Miguel Angel Portoni
  • Olga Páez
  • Ollie Rodriguez
  • Pamela Navarro
  • Rayleen Tilos
  • Reneé Flores
  • Rodrigo Juan
  • Rodrigo Kimura
  • Sarai Gallegos
  • Satsha Lopez
  • Sofia Quezada
  • Sol Salino
  • Stephen Eckelberry
  • Stevie Kirk
  • Tara Rosenbaum
  • Toni Grace Laniog
  • Valeria Villarreal
  • Vanessa Rivera
  • Veronica Baptista
  • Victor Mahatma
  • Waliya Moll
  • Yza Fadrillan
A Zoom gallery of AGM remote team members waving from the Philippines, Mexico, and beyond
The remote team, waving — all-hands on Zoom

The grand opening

The day the doors opened

Manuel Suarez smiling at a branded podium under the AGM logo backdrop
Grand opening of the Largo headquarters, 2021
A packed grand-opening crowd standing among the white desks and iMacs of the training floor
The office, at capacity — grand opening, 2021

Awards on file

Photographed, not claimed

An award appears on this site only when the physical evidence is on file. Anything we can’t photograph, we don’t publish.

Inc. Magazine 4× Inc. 5000 honoree — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 award, photographed

Inc. Magazine

4× Inc. 5000 honoree — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Verified against inc.com's public list records (profile: inc.com/profile/agm-marketing), listed as AGM Marketing 2.0, Largo FL. Ranked No. 438 fastest-growing company in America in 2021 with 1,117% three-year growth. Framed plaques photographed at the AGM office.

ClickFunnels Two Comma Club award, photographed

ClickFunnels

Two Comma Club

Awarded for driving over $1,000,000 through a single funnel. Plaque on file; photographed for this site.

ManyChat Top Performing Agency award, photographed

ManyChat

Top Performing Agency

Named a top performing agency by ManyChat. Award on file; photographed for this site.