Founder & Managing DirectorRowan Stainsby
Founder of Headland and the creator behind Income Stream Surfers. Rowan sets the group's direction across search, AI and venture — translating frontier technology into durable growth.
The Group
A marketing and venture group built on a simple idea: the best way to grow a business is to have grown your own.
N 53°Our story
Headland started as a search and performance shop that quietly outgrew the label. Along the way we stopped only advising clients and started building businesses of our own: an AI SEO platform, a booking and revenue platform for estates, a corporate retreat, a media channel followed by builders worldwide.
Every one of those ventures runs on the same playbook we bring to partners. So when we recommend a channel, a stack or a strategy, it isn't theory — it's something we've already proven on our own balance sheet.
The name says it. A headland is a vantage point — high ground that looks out over the open sea. It's where we work from, and what we offer: the perspective to see further, and the craft to get you there.
D.How we work
Four bearings we
never drift from.
Bearing 01
We operate, not just advise.
Every recommendation we make has been tested on our own balance sheet first. We own and run a portfolio of growth businesses — so the playbook is proven before it reaches you.
Bearing 02
AI is a tool, not a pitch.
We have deep, working fluency with frontier models and have built our own AI products on them. We use that leverage quietly, in service of the result — never as a buzzword.
Bearing 03
Design earns trust.
Craft is not decoration. The way a brand looks, moves and reads is the first proof of how it will perform. We hold every surface to that standard.
Bearing 04
Success is the only metric.
We measure ourselves on our partners' outcomes — revenue, rankings, reach — and structure engagements so our incentives sit on the same side of the table as yours.
E.Leadership
The people who
hold the helm.
Founder & Managing Director
Partner & Head of DeliveryHamish Davison
Hamish leads delivery across the group — engineering, operations and the systems that keep high-craft work shipping on time, every time, for clients and ventures alike.
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Whether you need a single discipline or a partner to run the whole voyage — start the conversation. We reply to every serious enquiry within a working day.