Strategic Advisory for the Future of Marketing Services
Dome Consulting helps private equity firms and independent agency owners evaluate, strengthen, transform, and create value in modern marketing services businesses.
Led by Doug Dome, Dome Consulting brings seasoned operator judgment to a sector being reshaped by artificial intelligence, consolidation, changing client expectations, and new value-creation models. From private-equity diligence and post-close strategy to agency growth, AI readiness, recapitalization, and board-level advisory, the firm helps leaders make smarter decisions at critical moments. Doug’s background includes leading Fusion92 through more than 300% revenue growth and private-equity integration, founding and selling Dome Communications, and launching Core7 to explore an early AI-driven marketing platform model.
40+ years of marketing and agency leadership
Award-winning
Founder of Core7 and Dome Communications
7 acquisitions integrated in 5 years
Private-equity integration and board experience
Former President, Fusion92
16 years teaching at the University of Chicago Graham School
Featured White Paper
The Autonomous Marketing Era
Artificial intelligence is not just adding efficiency to agency workflows. It is changing the structure of the marketing services industry itself, from agency economics and talent models to service delivery, competitive advantage, and enterprise value. This paper offers a practical perspective for private equity firms, agency owners, and industry leaders seeking to understand what comes next. It also advances a central idea from Doug’s long-running point of view: that the most valuable asset a modern brand or agency may increasingly be its autonomous marketing intelligence system.
A Paradigm Shift for the Marketing Services Industry
Who We Serve
Private Equity Firms
Commercial perspective and operating judgment for evaluating marketing-services investments, assessing management teams, pressure-testing growth assumptions, and supporting value creation in a changing sector.
Independent Agency Owners
Practical strategic support for growth, positioning, AI readiness, recapitalization, succession planning, and exit preparation.
Investment & Diligence Advisory
Assess market position, service mix, differentiation, leadership strength, AI readiness, integration issues, and enterprise-value potential.
What We Do
Agency Growth & Transformation
Help agencies sharpen positioning, modernize operations, evolve service models, and prepare for what the business needs to become next.
Board & Strategic Advisory
Provide experienced outside perspective to investors, founders, and executive teams navigating growth, change, or strategic transition.
Why Dome Consulting
The marketing services sector is entering a new era. AI, consolidation, shifting client expectations, performance pressure, and changing talent economics are redefining what a valuable agency looks like. Dome Consulting brings a point of view shaped by actual operating experience across those shifts. Doug has built and sold an agency, led a PE-integrated marketing transformation company, overseen acquisitions, created an early AI marketing venture, and advised founders, executives, and boards. That combination helps bridge investor priorities with operator realities in a way few advisors can.
An Early View of Autonomous Marketing
Long before generative AI became a mainstream business topic, Doug was focused on a more fundamental question: what happens when marketing becomes too data-rich, too fast-moving, and too complex for human decision-making alone to keep pace?
In 2014, he founded Core7 around a simple premise: the future of marketing would require a platform that could continuously ingest data, predict outcomes, and optimize campaigns across channels by engineering automated decisions throughout the ecosystem. Core7 was conceived as a marketing intelligence platform built to connect data, analytics, strategy, creative, engagement, measurement, and automation in a continuous learning loop. At the center of that vision was Doug’s concept of the Marketing Master Algorithm℠ — a decision engine designed to turn data into action with increasing speed, intelligence, and precision.
Though Core7 did not secure the capital needed to reach full commercialization, the venture anticipated a direction the industry is only now beginning to fully embrace. That same perspective now shapes Dome Consulting’s work with investors and agency leaders preparing for the next era of marketing services.