
Shubham V. Garg
Mechanical engineer turned marketer turned AI systems builder.
Shubham V. Garg is an AI systems builder and growth leader with an 11-year career that spans enterprise sales, marketing leadership, and AI-powered production systems. His journey started with a mechanical engineering degree and 50 cold calls a day selling software. Somewhere between the rejections and the small wins, he realized most businesses don't fail because they can't sell. They fail because marketing, sales, and operations don't talk to each other. That gap became the foundation for everything he builds today.
The first chapter of Shubham V. Garg's career was rooted in enterprise sales. As a sales development representative at Automation Anywhere, he spoke to executives at companies like Tesla, Samsung, Facebook, and FedEx. He then joined LinkedIn in a pioneering global role, becoming the first person worldwide to hold a dedicated Sales Development Support Specialist position, working across all three of LinkedIn's business lines simultaneously. These formative years sharpened a deep understanding of discovery, qualification, and how large organizations actually make buying decisions.
The second chapter was marketing leadership. At iCG Pay, he was hired as a lead content creator and promoted to Head of Marketing within 18 months. He scaled blog traffic by 50x in six months, managed the full HubSpot CMS migration, trained sales teams on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and ran Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, ABM campaigns, webinars, and email sequences. It was here that the intersection of content, automation, and measurable growth became clear.
The third chapter is building. In 2025, Shubham V. Garg founded The Toolkit Co. to design AI-first production systems for businesses that need to scale output without scaling headcount. The founding story is straightforward: after years of watching teams drown in repetitive deliverables, he built proprietary AI skill systems that encode editorial judgment, brand voice, and quality gates into repeatable workflows. These systems now power operations for restaurants, hospitality brands, service businesses, coaches, and creators across the US, Canada, Australia, and India.
The results speak for themselves. As AI Systems and Production Lead for a top US restaurant consulting firm, Shubham V. Garg scaled client throughput from 6 to 15 clients per cohort in just three months, a 2.5x increase with no additional team members. He simultaneously manages end-to-end delivery across 30+ restaurant and hospitality clients, producing the deliverable volume of a mid-sized agency as a single operator backed by purpose-built AI systems.
Today, this growth leader continues to expand the boundaries of what one person can build. Beyond client work, he designed and developed a custom logistics management platform from scratch for a 25-year-old family business, replacing 90% of manual processes. He is also building an AI coaching practice to help creators and coaches implement the same systems thinking that powers his own work. For Shubham V. Garg, the skill was never coding or marketing or sales in isolation. It was always about figuring things out and building systems that do the work.
"I started my career dialing 50 cold calls a day. Now I build the systems that do the selling."
Professional Strengths
AI-First Thinking
I don't bolt AI onto existing workflows. I design workflows that are AI-native from the ground up. I understand the gap between 'using AI' and 'getting reliable, high-quality results with AI at scale,' and that gap is where all my value lives.
Systems Over Tasks
I don't do work. I build systems that do work. If I do something twice, I'm already thinking about how to encode it into a repeatable workflow. It's not about working harder. It's about building smarter.
Editorial Judgment & Taste
AI generates. I decide what's good enough to ship. Years of writing (starting from 2,000 words a day in college) and working under exacting editorial standards have trained my eye for voice, positioning quality, and the difference between 'technically correct' and 'actually compelling.'
Speed Under Real Pressure
15+ clients per cohort. 3-week rolling production cycles. 1,000+ comments per month. 5 brand strategy documents in a single day. I've built a rhythm for operating under sustained, real-world production pressure without quality dropping.
Sales DNA
I started in cold calling. I've sold enterprise software to C-suite executives at some of the largest companies in the world. I understand objections, discovery, qualification, and closing. That sales intuition informs everything I build on the marketing side.
Global, Cross-Timezone Reliability
I work with clients across the US, Canada, Australia, and India. Producing while others sleep, coordinating during overlap windows, and ensuring deliverables move faster than they would with a co-located team.
Mindset
The human side behind the systems.
The Engineer Who Figured It Out
I have a B.Tech in Automotive Engineering. I never wrote a line of code in school. Now I build full web applications and AI production systems. The through-line isn't technical skill. It's the refusal to let "I don't know how" be the end of the conversation.
Builder's Patience
I wrote content for $0.60 per article for three and a half years while putting myself through college. I spent years in SDR roles learning the fundamentals of sales before ever touching marketing strategy. I don't rush transitions because the foundation matters more than the timeline.
Radical Honesty
I don't romanticize the grind. Building something is messy, involving scope creep, burnout, bad weeks, and moments where you question whether any of it is worth it. I talk about these things openly. The people who pretend it's all smooth sailing are either lying or not pushing hard enough.
Comfort With Contradiction
I can be tired of the industry and excited about a new project in the same day. I can believe in what I'm building and doubt myself at midnight. I don't need things to resolve neatly to keep moving forward. This is what makes my work feel human instead of performed.
Journey
Cold calls to AI systems. 11 years of building, selling, and figuring things out.
Founder & CEO
The Toolkit Co.
AI-powered marketing operations, brand strategy systems, and production automation for global clients across the US, Canada, Australia, and India. Building proprietary AI skill systems and developing an AI coaching offering for creators and coaches.
AI Systems & Production Lead
Restaurant Scaling System (US)
Built proprietary AI skill systems powering every major client deliverable. Scaled client throughput from ~6 to 15+ clients/month in 3 months (2.5x), no team size increase. Managing end-to-end delivery across 30+ restaurant and hospitality clients simultaneously.
VP of Digital Transformation
Shree Shyam Logistics
Designed and built a custom logistics management platform from scratch (React, Supabase). Shipment tracking, billing, quotations, truck and driver management, compliance. Replaced 90% of manual processes. Building toward a SaaS product for the logistics SME segment.
Director & Co-Founder
Growth Network Partnership / Market Me More
Account management, branding, and strategic marketing at GNP. Co-founded Market Me More, running operations, budgets, CRM systems, financial modeling, and the full design-to-delivery pipeline.
Lead Content Creator to Head of Marketing
iCG Pay (iCheckGateway)
Scaled blog traffic 50x in 6 months. Managed HubSpot CMS adoption, updated 50+ legacy blogs, created 100+ new posts. Trained sales on LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Promoted to Head of Marketing within 18 months. Ran Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, webinars, ABM campaigns, and email sequences.
Inside Sales Representative
Vymo
Enterprise sales to banking, financial services, and insurance clients. Discovery calls, product demonstrations, ABM approach, and multi-stakeholder presentations.
Sales Development Support Specialist
Pilot role: first person globally in this dedicated position. Worked across all three LinkedIn business lines simultaneously (Talent, Learning, Sales Solutions). Qualified leads from major marketing campaigns for the Indian territory.
Sales Development Representative
Automation Anywhere
Generated MQLs for enterprise RPA solutions. Spoke to executives at Facebook, Tesla, FedEx, Samsung, and Mylan. Only pre-sales person in the entire organization to join field visits for live technical demonstrations.
SDR Intern
LeadSquared
Generated outbound leads for a CRM and marketing automation SaaS company across US, UK, and Indian markets.
B.Tech Automotive Engineering
SRM IST Chennai
Mechanical engineering degree. Simultaneously worked as a freelance content writer, producing 2,000-5,000 words per day for 3.5 years, funding day-to-day expenses entirely through writing income.
Certifications
28 professional certifications across marketing, sales, SEO, and automation.
HubSpot Academy
Email Marketing, Social Media (I & II), Inbound Marketing, Inbound Sales, Digital Marketing, Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Content Marketing, SEO
Semrush
Local SEO Essentials, Backlink Management, Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis
LinkedIn Learning
Sales Navigator, Talent Sourcing, Managing Office Politics, Energy Management, Teaching with LinkedIn Learning
Automation Anywhere
Advanced Certification v10.0 & v11.0, plus Certificate of Appreciation from EVP-IMEA