Springfield, Missouri
Drew Owen
Founder, CodeWrd
8 years
Leading digital marketing teams
$100M+
In MLB contracts negotiated
60+
Athletes represented
30+
AI digital employees inside CodeWrd
I'm Drew Owen, founder of CodeWrd.
I started in financial services. That's where I learned how a real financial foundation gets built, how to manage risk, and how to protect assets when the worst case lands. It's also where I learned to think in branches, not straight lines.
From there I became an MLBPA Certified Agent. Sixty-plus athletes. More than a hundred million dollars in contracts negotiated. Rooms full of billion-dollar franchises and brand partners like Nike, Under Armour, and New Balance. The job taught me high-stakes negotiation from the broker's seat: finding the win-win between players and teams without compromising what my client actually came for. Fast pace. Quick decisions. Real money on the table.
Then eight years on the digital side, leading growth teams through every major shift in how technology touched the modern business. Watching waves arrive. Watching companies ride them. Watching many struggle to survive. AI is the biggest wave yet, and the question I help businesses answer now is the one nobody gets to dodge: what does AI actually look like for you today, where is it going, and how fast do you need to move.
In 2026 I completed executive AI programs at MIT and Harvard. The conclusion was the same in every room: the way decisions get made inside a company is changing faster than the people making them.
CodeWrd is the answer I built. Different industries, same work underneath: helping smart people make better decisions.
certifications
MIT Professional Education
Executive Training in AI
2026
Harvard
Data Science Program, Applied Agentic AI For Business
2026
core expertise
AI Strategy & Implementation
Digital Marketing Strategy
Change Management
Executive Education (MIT, Harvard, 2026)
career journey
CURRENT
Founder, CodeWrd
AI strategy for enterprise leaders—cutting through hype, driving real decisions.
2017 – 2025
Digital Marketing Executive
Led sales and operations, guiding businesses through disruption and rapid change.
2010 – 2017
MLBPA Certified Agent
Represented 60+ players. $100M+ in contracts and brand deals.
EARLY CAREER
Financial Services
Stockbroker at Merrill Lynch. Registered Investment Advisor.
The operating system inside the company
Most companies are still trying to figure out where AI fits. CodeWrd was built with AI as the architecture from day one.
The CodeWrd OS runs on an AI staff. Directors managing strategists across every department. Creative. Marketing. Sales. Product. Engineering. Operations. They run alongside the human team, not instead of it.
That same architecture is the future of business. CodeWrd helps companies get there with AI Solutions across the spectrum.
Complete AI operating systems for companies rebuilding from the ground up. Custom apps that plug into the software you already run. Strategy consulting for executive teams figuring out what to build first.
CodeWrd's reach extends beyond what we build internally. We're curating a vetted ecosystem of elite AI partners, and we're selective about who joins. Every partnership is exclusive, non-competing, and built on a shared view of what AI should actually do for a company. Two decades of high-stakes relationship building taught us how to vet at this level.
Our anchor is Takt, led by Adhitya Raghavan (Harvard Business School MBA) and Will Zunker (MIT PhD). Paired with CodeWrd's executive AI programs at MIT and Harvard, we share a clear methodology for serving businesses in 2026 and beyond. Built for impact today and the years ahead.
When a client need calls for a specialist outside our walls, we make the connection. The right answer matters more than who delivers it.
AI today is louder than it is clear. Tomorrow it will be quieter, embedded in places we don't yet think to look. The companies that come through this strongest aren't the fastest. They're the ones with a real plan: a clear view of where AI is going, an honest read of where they stand today, and a path that evolves the business without breaking what works.
That's the work CodeWrd does. For businesses, professionals, and service industries that want a partner who understands what's coming as deeply as they do.
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