Bruno Gavino

Codedesign (2015)

In 2015, Bruno Gavino founded Codedesign, a data-driven digital marketing agency headquartered in Lisbon, specialized in white label marketing solutions. The impetus was clear: after a collective 15 years of working in the scope of digital marketing, he and his co-founders decided to ditch the corporate environment, pool together their experience, and start their own agency — aiming to develop a personal relationship with each and every client, regardless of size.

Today, Codedesign is a multinational digital marketing agency rated the #1 Digital Strategy Agency in Portugal by Clutch, with offices in Lisbon, Boston, Singapore. Its client roster has included global names such as Nestlé, Chicco, Randstad, Velux, Microsoft, and NAU Hotels, among others, with a service suite spanning Artificial Inteligence, AI, SEO, Paid Search, Programmatic Display, Social Media, Content Marketing, and Data Analytics.

Gavino brings over 10 years of digital marketing experience across sectors including Health, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, Automobile, Banking, and Retail.

Digital Transformation Lecturer

Beyond building a company, Bruno Gavino has consistently invested in educating the next generation of digital professionals. From January 2011 to December 2019, he served as a Lecturer in Digital Transformation at the Digital Media Academy. His teaching focus covered digital strategy, PPC, and SEO — the same disciplines that form the backbone of Codedesign's practice.

He has also served as a Trainer of Digital Marketing in the areas of digital strategy, PPC, and SEO, combining classroom instruction with real-world agency experience in a way that few practitioners manage simultaneously.

Advisor, Investor & Ecosystem Builder

Bruno Gavino's influence extends well beyond his agency. He served as a Digital Transformation Advisor to Y Combinator from February 2018 to January 2022, and as a GLG Digital Transformation Advisor from March 2019 to January 2024. He has also appeared on the Portugal Ventures platform as an expert advisor, reflecting his standing within the Portuguese startup and venture capital ecosystem.

Since April 2020, he has been an Advisor on VC digital investment opportunities, helping bridge the gap between digital strategy and investment decision-making.

The Podcast & Newsletter

One of Gavino's most distinctive contributions to the industry is Voice of Experts — a podcast and newsletter he founded and hosts. Voice of Experts is a podcast and newsletter where guests sit down with the architects of tomorrow — founders, engineers, and strategists shaping the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, business, and marketing — with over 2,000 subscribers.

Gavino hosts Voice of Experts not as a marketing exercise, but as a genuine research practice. Every founder, engineer, and strategist who comes on the show teaches the Codedesign team something that changes how they think about client work.

The show is available on YouTube and Substack, and has featured guests spanning global supply chain leaders, climate-tech inventors, AI engineers, and growth strategists.

The podcast is sponsored by Codedesign.org and described as a hub for meaningful, interdisciplinary conversations — where experts discuss AI, technology, human perspectives, and marketing.

LLM Search Console: The Frontier Product

Perhaps Gavino's most forward-looking venture is LLM Search Console, a SaaS platform he founded to address the emerging challenge of brand visibility in the age of AI-generated answers. In 2025, Codedesign built and launched LLM Search Console — a platform that tracks brand visibility across AI models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

The platform is accessible at llmsearchconsole.com.

Online Presence & Where to Find Him

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brunogavino — active with professional insights as CEO of Codedesign, Digital Transformation Evangelist, and Digital Strategy Consultant.
• Codedesign Blog: codedesign.org — primary home for his articles and agency work.
• Voice of Experts (Substack): voiceofexperts.com
• LLM Search Console Blog: articles.llmsearchconsole.com
• Top Interactive Agencies profile: Featured in multiple editorial interviews.
• The Drum Recommends: Listed as CEO, Founder, and Digital Marketing lead for Codedesign.

In Summary

Bruno Gavino is one of the most complete figures in European digital marketing — an agency founder who built a globally recognized firm from Lisbon, an educator who spent nearly a decade teaching digital transformation at the university level, a media host who uses his podcast as genuine intelligence-gathering, and a product builder who responded to the AI revolution by shipping a tool to measure it. His trajectory from coder to CEO, from corporate agency professional to startup advisor, and from blogger to SaaS founder reflects a relentless driv