A foundation in search
Infintech’s founder biography traces Brian’s SEO work to 2000.
View sourceTHE FOUNDING TEAM
Co-founder & CEO
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Strategy that reaches the whole business.
Search, paid demand, intake and automation. Brian connects the pieces around the work your business needs to book.
NEW ORLEANS / STRATEGY & EXECUTION
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Brian HongMAGISTER DIGITAL AI
BUSINESS FIRSTOne connected plan.
2000Search beginnings
2008Infintech founded
2026Magister co-founded
THE BACKGROUND
Built through businesses. Refined through the work.
Brian founded Infintech Designs in New Orleans in 2008. His work now spans search, web design, automation and business data. At Magister, his responsibility is to bring those disciplines into a coherent business plan.
Infintech Designs
Brian founded the New Orleans digital marketing and web design company.
View sourceSharing the work
The SEO Rockstars archive lists his presentation on AI voice sales calls.
View sourceMagister Digital
Co-founded Magister with Michael Merlino and Dimitry Morgan.
Meet the teamTHE PROFESSIONAL THREAD
Different disciplines. Connected perspective.
The companies behind Brian’s experience connect search, automation and data. Each has its own role.
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THE APPROACH
People. Process. Then automation.
Brian’s public interviews put capable people and repeatable work ahead of adding another tool. Explore how that sequence translates into a working plan.
People. Process. A connected operation.
An operating sequence that connects responsibility, execution and review. Select a stage to explore the sequence.
People
Make ownership clear
Start with who owns the work, who makes the decisions and where the team needs support.
Review and feedback inform the next pass through the sequence.
Explore the ideas in Brian’s Management Blueprint conversation.
WHERE THE EXPERIENCE FITS
See the whole picture. Set the right priorities.
Explore the Magister disciplines connected to Brian’s role. The engagement defines the work, the responsibilities and the measurement.
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SEARCHCONTENTLOCALDISCOVERY
Search & discovery
Connect technical foundations, useful content and local visibility to the way customers find a business.
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ENQUIRYQUALIFYSCHEDULEHUMAN
Intake & automation
Give an enquiry a clear path through qualification, scheduling and a human handoff.
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WEBSITECAMPAIGNSOPERATIONSONE PLAN
Joined-up strategy
Make the website, campaigns and operating team work toward the same business priorities.
Explore the serviceIN HIS OWN WORDS
Hear the thinking.
Meet the operator.
Original conversations about search, teams and making automation useful inside a business.
Watch the interviewMANAGEMENT BLUEPRINT / AUGUST 10, 2026
People and process before AI.
Brian joins Steve Preda to discuss building teams, documenting work and putting automation in context.
Original episode & publisher
Open the conversationDIGITAL DOMINANCE / AUGUST 19, 2026
Connect discovery to follow-up.
A conversation with Jeffro about qualification, scheduling and making the human handoff part of the design.
Original podcast episode
From Mike’s original photo archive.
BEFORE MAGISTER
Already
in the room.
The relationship predates the agency. This photograph captures Brian and Mike together in 2023, years before Magister’s founding.
2023
More from Mike’s archive SEO Rockstars
The organizer’s archive lists Brian’s bonus presentation on AI voice sales calls.
Explore the event archiveWORK WITH THE FOUNDERS
A clear role.
A connected team.
Start with the business problem. Agree the scope, the team and the responsibilities before work begins.
Brian Hong
Co-founder & CEO
Michael Merlino
Co-founder, Strategy & AI systems
Dimitry Morgan
Co-founder, Head of paid mediaBring the problem.
Build the next step.
Personal involvement, deliverables and fees are defined in the engagement scope.