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About StoraGrow · Est. 2018

We're storage operators who got tired of bad marketing — so we built our own.

Founded in New York by people who'd actually leased units, hired managers, and watched paid-search budgets disappear without a clear answer on what worked.

2018
Founded
38+
Team across NY · Denver
500K+
AI mover conversations
14×
Inc. 5000 client honors
001 — Origin

A Syracuse facility, a $12,000 month, and a question.

In late 2017, our founding team was running storage facilities in upstate New York. One month, our paid search bill came in at $12,000 with 11 leases to show for it. Cost per lease: just over a thousand dollars.

We called the agency. They said the market was getting more competitive. They suggested we increase the budget. So we asked the obvious question:

"If a homebuyer down the street just signed a contract three weeks ago, why are we waiting for them to Google us?"

That question turned into 18 months of building. We pulled MLS data feeds, mapped them to the trade areas around our own facilities, and started experimenting with outreach — first with manual SDRs, then with email sequences, then with the early generation of AI voice agents.

By month six the cost per lease at our own properties was under $40. We knew we'd built something the rest of the industry needed.

StoraGrow launched in 2018 to make that system available to every operator who'd ever stared at a Google Ads invoice and wondered if there was a better way.

002 — How we operate

Four operating principles. Non-negotiable.

01

Operators first, marketers second

Every senior strategist on our team has either run a storage facility or worked operations at one. We talk in occupancy points and NOI, not "engagement metrics."

02

No black boxes

Every AI conversation, every ad spend, every lead source is in your dashboard. If a campaign isn't working, you'll see it before we send the report.

03

Skin in the game

We still operate facilities. Every system we sell is something we use ourselves first. If it doesn't move our occupancy, we don't ship it to clients.

04

Compliance is the floor

TCPA, CAN-SPAM, carrier guidelines, state-by-state opt-out. We invest more in compliance infrastructure than most agencies invest in software, period.

003 — The team

The people running your account — not a sales team's promise.

Every client gets a named lead and direct access to the founders. No tier-one support, no offshore handoffs, no "your account manager left, here's your new one."

MR
Co-founder · CEO

Marcus Reilly

Former operator, Reilly Self Storage (5 sites · sold 2017). Inc. 5000 honoree, 2× speaker at SSA conferences.

AC
Co-founder · CTO

Anita Chen

15 yrs ML engineering. Built our proprietary MLS-to-AI orchestration stack. Speaks NLP, dispatch, and storage rev management.

DT
VP · Client Success

Devon Tate

Former regional director at a top-10 storage REIT. Knows what asset managers actually want to see in a marketing report.

PK
Head of Paid Media

Priya Kapoor

Google Premier Partner certified. $40M+ managed in storage paid media. Obsessed with cost-per-lease, not vanity click metrics.

JL
Director · SEO

Jordan Lee

Local SEO specialist. Has ranked storage facilities #1 in 80+ markets. GBP, citations, schema, the works.

SH
Lead AI Engineer

Sam Hartwell

Builds the conversation flows behind every AI agent. Previously voice infrastructure at a Y Combinator AI startup.

NV
Compliance Officer

Nora Vasquez

Telecom compliance attorney before joining. Audits every AI script, every SMS cadence, every state-specific rule. Quarterly.

RB
Director · Web

Rachel Brennan

Designs and ships every storage site we build. Conversion-rate obsessed. Has rebuilt 60+ facility sites since joining.

+ 30 more across paid media, content, account management, and engineering across our New York and Denver offices.

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004 — Where we are

Two offices, one team.

Headquarters
Office 01

New York

Manhattan · Syracuse

Founders · Strategy · AI Engineering
Where the system was built. Still where the founders sit.
22 team members
42.6526° N · 73.7562° W
West Coast Hub
Office 02

Denver

RiNo District

Paid Media · SEO · Client Success
Mountain time team handling West Coast and Pacific clients.
16 team members
39.7392° N · 104.9903° W
005 — Recognition

Recognized by people whose opinion matters.

We measure ourselves on client outcomes — but third-party recognition is a useful sanity check.

14×

Inc. 5000 honoree clients

Across our client portfolio, 14 separate Inc. 5000 honors for fastest-growing private companies in America.

Google Premier Partner

Top-tier certification — granted to fewer than 3% of Google Partner agencies. Reviewed annually.

Meta Business Partner

Verified for performance advertising on Facebook and Instagram, with direct access to Meta's partner team.

SSA conference speakers

Self Storage Association — keynote and panel appearances on AI in self-storage marketing, 2023–2025.

Featured in industry press

Inside Self-Storage, Mini-Storage Messenger, SpareFoot Storage Beat — coverage of our AI-first marketing approach.

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