Hi, I'm Rory.

Over the past decade, I have moved from working inside established commercial systems, to scaling fast ones, to building without much scaffolding at all.

At AB InBev I learnt how large budgets, agencies and sales teams work around one commercial plan. At Deliveroo and Heura I helped scale marketplaces, markets and revenue. I then co-founded Honeycomb, took a foodservice data product to paying pilots, and now run a 6-property short-term-rental business while building the tools behind its growth and operations.

I am most useful when the opportunity is credible but the growth motion is not yet repeatable. I can move between the customer, commercial model, data, workflow, product and implementation, then work with the right experts to turn that ambiguity into a system people actually use.

I am looking for a senior growth, new-markets or commercial-transformation mandate with a clear result to own, real authority and a team to build around it.

Rory Russell

Selected work

Stella ArtoisAB InBev

One national plan. Six specialist agencies.

£6m

Portfolio

+9%

Volume

+2.3pt

Brand KPI

AB InBev scale proof

Stella Artois national activation

A £6m national activation portfolio connecting major sponsorships, six agencies, media, experiential work, retail and sales execution.

Commercial leadershipAgency orchestrationNational activation

Explore the campaign

Growth control planeSynthetic

Applications

7,482

Activated

1,811

Orders

37.4k

Deliveroo systems work

Rider Growth Control Plane

An interactive, synthetic reconstruction of the planning system I used to connect marketing spend to active supply and marketplace output.

Growth analyticsBudget planningInteractive case study

Run a scenario

honeycomb100 restaurants
Search matcha, oat milk or burrata
RestaurantSitesEvidence
WatchHouse19Source ↗
Ottolenghi9Source ↗
Grind14Source ↗

Founder rebuild experiment

Honeycomb rebuild

A measured rebuild of Honeycomb's first visible value moment using 100 public restaurant records and source-backed menu evidence.

Founder storyData provenanceAI rebuild

Explore the experiment

Revenue Decision LabSynthetic

Decide. Track. Learn.

Current

£214

Decision

£199

Outcome

72h

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Live operating system

Revenue Decision Lab

A closed-loop pricing system that turns recommendations into human decisions, tracked experiments and reusable evidence.

Revenue managementDecision ledgerHuman approval

Try the decision lab

A bright Lisbon apartment used in the Airbnb Listing Audit Studio

Listing score

87 / 100

Flagship work

Airbnb Listing Audit Studio

A public tool that scores listing quality and AI search readiness, then turns the diagnosis into clear, prioritised fixes.

AI auditScoring systemPublic product

Open the studio

Operator morning control board for a short-term rental portfolio

Flagship work

Operator for STR operations

A review-first operating system for guest messaging, turnovers, revenue, maintenance, compliance and owner reporting.

Agent workflowsHuman approvalInteractive demo

Explore Operator

Learn Eilidh sailing simulator showing the yacht under sail

Interactive learning project

Learn Eilidh

A bilingual sailing simulator built around a procedural 3D model of a 1931 Alfred Mylne cutter.

Three.jsSailing physicsEnglish + French

Try the simulator

AL Audit Tracker public portfolio demo

Open repositories

Selected code

Public builds covering lead prioritisation, listing audits, operator systems and AI talent operations.

PythonTypeScriptWorkflow design

Browse GitHub

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