Kevin Donovan · glitchaudit.co

SOMETHING
HAS BEEN
RUNNING YOUR
DECISIONS.
IT HAS A NAME.

The same prehistoric hardware running every boardroom, every creative brief and every bad decision you've watched yourself make — has been running without a manual.

Until now.

For Business Owners Awareness Seeker Over Thinker
Does Any Of This Sound Familiar?
Business Owner

Why is your business working hard and staying flat — and why can't you see what's blocking it from the inside?

Ad Agency

Why is your best creative technically competent but not breaking through — and why does the brief never quite explain what's missing?

Over Thinker

Why do you keep having the same argument with yourself — and why does knowing better never seem to make you do better?

Entrepreneur / Startup

Why does knowing exactly what your business needs to do and actually doing it feel like two completely different things?

Awareness Seeker

Why does the relief you find in seminars, books and practices always seem to fade — and why does the same pattern keep returning?

The name creates distance. The distance is where the freedom lives.

For Business Owners

THE REVENUE
GLITCH

Most businesses don't have a marketing problem. They have a glitch problem — invisible structural patterns running underneath every decision, every promotion, every quarter that underperforms without an obvious reason.

The Blockbuster Syndrome hits retail. The Build It They Will Come Loop hits startups. The Superior Vendor Glitch hits professional services. The Numbers Blindness Loop hits manufacturers. The Corner Office Glitch hits leadership teams.

The machine doesn't care what industry you're in.

You don't have bad instincts. You have proximity blindness — you're too close to your own business to see the structural patterns running it. That's not incompetence. That's physics.

The Books
Glimpses vs Glitches for the Business Owner

For the Business Owner

Amazon → Paperback & Kindle
The Complete Glitch Glossary

The Complete Glitch Glossary

Amazon → Paperback & Kindle
Free Download
Free Glitch Glossary Entry Set One

The Glitch Glossary — Entry Set One

Seven named programs. The ones running your business before you even know they're running. Free.

Get the Free Glossary →

Instant download. No signup required.

Looking for a deeper engagement? →
Revenue Stability Session™
$1,500 · 90 Minutes
A surgical diagnostic for business owners who need clarity fast. Three to five structural revenue leaks identified. One live correction installed during the session. Three prioritized stabilizers you can implement within 14 days.

Not a rebrand. Not a 90-day commitment. Not a pile of theory. Clarity and immediate correction. That's it.
  • 3–5 structural revenue leaks identified
  • One live correction installed during the session
  • 3 prioritized stabilizers for the next 14 days
  • Immediate action steps — no fluff

The Stability Session fixes leaks.

Book a Revenue Stability Session →
Revenue Architecture Blueprint™
$3,500 — $7,500 · 90 Days
For business owners ready to stop patching leaks and install permanent structure. Full revenue architecture across five layers — positioning clarity, offer and pricing restructure, conversion mechanics, retention engineering, and a 90-day campaign system that creates predictable rhythm instead of reactive chaos.
  • Occasion ownership & emotional positioning clarity
  • Offer, pricing & margin architecture
  • 90-day campaign sequencing
  • Retention engineering & KPI framework

The Blueprint installs structure.

Weekend Workshop
Coming Soon · Join the List
A full weekend immersion for business owners ready to see the programs running their decisions — and install the corrections that actually hold. Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. Norfolk, Virginia and future locations.
  • Friday evening — the machine introduced
  • Saturday — the programs named and mapped
  • Sunday — corrections installed and taken home
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Request a Revenue Glitch Session
For The Awareness Seeker

THE GLIMPSE
YOU'VE BEEN
LOOKING FOR

You've felt it. The moment after the argument when you wondered where that came from. The decision you almost made and then didn't — and felt the quiet relief of the almost. The morning when everything felt clean and possible before the noise came back.

Those weren't accidents. Those were Glimpses — the awareness that has always been underneath the machine surfacing briefly before the program started running again.

This is the framework that finally names what you've been seeing.

The Books
Glimpses vs Glitches for the Awareness Seeker

For the Awareness Seeker

Amazon → Paperback & Kindle
Glimpses vs Glitches for the Awareness Seeker Workbook

The Companion Workbook

Amazon → Paperback
Free Download
The Awareness Seeker Field Guide

The Awareness Seeker's Field Guide

The key Glimpse moments from the book distilled into a free field guide. Not explanation. Recognition.

Get the Free Field Guide →

Instant download. No signup required.

Personal One on One Sessions
Contact for Pricing
For individuals ready to go deeper than a book can take them. A personal session built around your specific loops, your specific programs, your specific life.

Pricing is individual. If you are doing well and can pay a fair rate — we will agree on one. If you are genuinely stuck and struggling financially — that conversation is worth having too. The work matters more than the rate.
  • Your specific Mechanical Mind programs identified
  • The loops running your decisions named
  • The one question applied to your specific situation
  • A path forward that is yours — not generic
Book a Personal Session →
Weekend Workshop
Coming Soon · Join the List
Friday to Sunday. A room of people who recognize themselves in the framework. Arrive fully inside the machine. Leave with the awareness to step outside it — and the tools to do it again on your own.

Not a seminar. Not a motivation weekend. An experience.
  • Friday evening — the machine introduced
  • Saturday — the programs named and felt
  • Sunday — the Glimpse practiced and taken home
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For The Over Thinker

YOU CAN'T
THINK YOUR
WAY OUT.

You already know this isn't working. The meditation. The journaling. The productivity systems. The morning routines that held for two weeks and then quietly stopped.

Here you are again. Same loop. Same 2am spiral. Same argument with yourself that never reaches a verdict.

This isn't a discipline problem. This isn't a character flaw. This is two million year old hardware running a program that has no off switch — until you can see it clearly enough to step outside it.

The thinker and the thought are not the same thing. One of them is you.

The Books
Glimpses vs Glitches for the Over Thinker

For the Over Thinker

Amazon → Paperback & Kindle
Glimpses vs Glitches for the Over Thinker Workbook

The Companion Workbook

Amazon → Paperback
Free Download
Why You Can't Think Your Way Out PDF

Why You Can't Think Your Way Out

The guide for the Over Thinker who has tried everything. Names the mechanism underneath the loop — not just the symptom.

Get the Free Guide →

Instant download. No signup required.

Online Course
$197 · Self Paced
Awareness vs Thoughts — the complete online experience. Eight guided modules taking you from seeing the thought for the first time to living from the other side of it.

Includes the Over Thinker Workbook as a downloadable companion. Built for the person who wants to go deeper than the book on their own schedule.
  • Eight guided video modules
  • Downloadable workbook included
  • The Pilot Light identified and named
  • The loops mapped and stepped outside
  • Lifetime access

Currently in development · Join the early access list.

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Personal One on One Sessions
Contact for Pricing
For the Over Thinker ready to work through their specific loops with direct support. Pricing is individual and based on where you are — financially and otherwise. The work matters more than the rate.
  • Your specific loops named and mapped
  • The Pilot Light identified in your own experience
  • The one question applied to your situation
  • Direct support — not a program, a conversation
Book a Personal Session →
Weekend Workshop
Coming Soon · Join the List
Friday to Sunday. Arrive as an Over Thinker. Leave with the awareness that the thinker and the thought were never the same thing — and the lived experience of what that actually feels like.

Not a seminar. Not a technique. An experience of the other side.
  • Friday evening — the loop named and felt
  • Saturday — the programs seen clearly
  • Sunday — the Glimpse practiced and taken home
Notify Me When It Launches →
For Ad Agencies

THE GLITCH
DIAGNOSTIC

The same prehistoric survival programs that kept humans alive two million years ago are running inside every viewer who sees your creative. When your hooks accidentally trigger the wrong circuits — the status alarm, the tribal threat response, the verification loop — they scroll before your message lands.

A Glitch Audit identifies exactly where your creative is losing the biological battle — and how to fix it.

  • Full review of video hooks, narrative structure and CTA positioning
  • Identification of specific biological disengagement triggers
  • Written diagnostic with actionable fixes
  • Veteran Producer's perspective — 300+ national campaigns
Campaign Diagnostic
$950 / audit
Full written audit of your video creative. Identify the glitches costing you engagement. Delivered within 5 business days. Ideal for mid-sized agencies — one decision maker, no committee required.
Creative Team Review
$2,500 — $3,500
Full diagnostic plus live presentation to your creative team. Collaborative deep-dive into campaign strategy, hooks, and biological engagement architecture. For larger agencies and high-stakes campaigns.
On-Site Consulting
$1,500+ / day
Extended on-site engagement. Pre-production strategy, campaign auditing, and creative team training in the Mechanical Mind framework.
Request an Audit
Speaking & Podcasts

THE MECHANICAL
MIND ON STAGE

Available for keynotes, podcast interviews, panels, and agency offsites. Kevin brings 25 years of front-row access to human biological programming — and the framework that finally names what's been running all along.

◈
Keynote
The Mechanical Mind — why your audience's prehistoric hardware is the most important creative brief you've never read. For agency summits, marketing conferences, and brand leadership teams.
◉
Podcast Guest
Human OS 1.0 and the biology of consumer behavior. Why the status alarm, the tribal threat response, and the verification loop are running inside every viewer — and what to do about it.
◎
Agency Offsite
Half-day or full-day workshop. Train your creative team to see the biological programs their campaigns are triggering — and build creative that works with human hardwiring instead of against it.
Book Kevin to Speak
The Glitch Library

THE NAMED
PROGRAMS

37 named programs running most business decisions without permission. Once you can name what's running — it loses most of its authority over you. Start here first →

⟶ Read This First: The Name Is Just The Door — the most important thing to understand before reading any entry
Entry Set 01 — The Foundation Glitches
Survival
The Blockbuster Syndrome
Legacy
The Build It They Will Come Loop
Tribal Belonging
The Superior Vendor Glitch
Legacy
The Numbers Blindness Loop
Hierarchy
The Corner Office Glitch
Tribal Belonging
The Tribal Billboard Exploit
Entry Set 02 — The Customer Experience Glitches
Tribal Belonging
The Cut and Paste Empathy Glitch
Scarcity
The Bait and Switch Loop
Tribal Belonging
The Slogan Without Soul
Tribal Belonging
The Kroger Family Effect
Tribal Belonging
The Kiosk Dehumanization Glitch
Tribal Belonging
The Cannibal Contract
Scarcity
The Bottomless Trap
Entry Set 03 — The Money Glitches
Scarcity
The Revenue Vanity Trap
Scarcity
The Price Basement Glitch
Scarcity
The Incentive Flip
Scarcity
The Fat Is the Flavor
Scarcity
The Race to the Bottom Isolation
Scarcity
The Cheap Strangler
Scarcity
The Freemium Trap
Entry Set 04 — The Status Glitches
Hierarchy
The Smallest Power Glitch
Hierarchy
The Tribal Hierarchy Sabotage
Hierarchy
The Meritocracy Myth
Hierarchy
The Chosen Confusion
Tribal Belonging
The Tribal Compass
Scarcity
The Carrot Loop
Survival
The Blame Cascade
Entry Set 05 — The Builder's Glitches
Legacy
The Shiny Object Loop
Scarcity
The Sconce Mistake
Legacy
The Saturated Market Blindspot
Survival
The Helicopter Owner
Hierarchy
The Identity Hostage
Legacy
The Scale Before Foundation Glitch
Tribal Belonging
The Trust Without Structure Glitch
Survival
The Untested Dream
Survival
The Retrieval Block
Hierarchy
The Founder's Deaf Spot
Legacy · All Sets
The Seminar Merry-Go-Round

37 named programs · The Complete Glitch Glossary available on Amazon →

Get the Complete Glossary on Amazon →
25 Years. 300+ Campaigns.

THE BRIEF
ON KEVIN

A veteran Director, Producer, and Campaign Strategist who spent 25 years pulling the levers of human biology for the world's biggest brands — before he knew those levers had a name.

McDonald's Coca-Cola Intel Taco Bell Miller Lite KFC Kraft Pringles Mattel Disney Ford Hormel National Geographic Warner Brothers Showtime CBS

Agencies

BBDO Leo Burnett Foote Cone & Belding Ogilvy Deutsch LA DDB Needham Y&R
Clio Award Winner Telly Award Winner Emmy Nominated

"I wasn't just watching the machine. I was helping to run it. Now I help businesses, agencies and individuals name what's been running — and see it clearly enough to change it."

— KEVIN DONOVAN

Contact

LET'S FIND
YOUR GLITCH

Whether you're a business owner hitting the same wall, an agency whose creative isn't breaking through, or someone who has simply been asking why do I keep doing this — start here.

Campaign Diagnostics start at $950.
Creative team reviews from $2,500.
Revenue Stability Sessions $1,500.
Revenue Architecture Blueprint from $3,500.
Online Course $197.
Personal One on One Sessions — contact for pricing.
Speaking and podcast inquiries welcome.

Or reach out directly:
kevin@glitchaudit.co

YouTube → @GlimpsesvsGlitches