Founder & Managing DirectorRowan Barlow
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.
53.2707° N, 9.0568° W
Headland is a marketing and venture group. We work with global brands like Semrush, SAP and Cisco — and build and operate a portfolio of companies of our own.
Scroll to exploreA.Clients
Trusted by
global names.
From search software to enterprise technology to national tourism — some of the world's best-known brands work with Headland Group.
2,000+Projects delivered
5Owned & operated ventures
2015Building & operating since
B.Work with us
You're in
good company.
Join them. You get the same team that global brands trust, backed by a group that builds and runs companies of its own. Tell us what you're going after.
C.The Portfolio
We don't just advise.
We operate.
Five companies the group owns and operates — software, hospitality and media. Each one is a live test bed for the methods we bring to client work.
D.What we do
We build.
We grow.
Full stack, end to end — from the first line of code to the last mile of growth. AI-native from the ground up, built for where the internet is going, not where it's been.
01
Build
Products, platforms, websites and AI systems — engineered by the same team that ships our own companies.
Web & productAI agentsAutomationBrand
02
Grow
Search, paid and AI discovery that compounds — the same engine we use to grow our own ventures.
SEO & AI searchPaid mediaContent at scaleStrategy
E.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.
F.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.
53.2707° N, 9.0568° W
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.