The People

Who's Behind Stage30.

Stage30 has named authors. That is the point. The methodology that asks brands to be verifiable practices it first.

John Otto Barbush

Co-Founder · Writer

An award-winning copywriter with three decades in advertising.

He has built social and 360 campaigns for Honda, Discovery Channel, VH-1, Shark Week, and Hilti. At RPA he built and led a 25-person social creative team from the ground up. He earned the creative director title and chose to stay in the work.

He has judged the Webby and Addy awards. His work has won at Cannes, Clio, One Show, Webby, Shorty, OMMA, and J.D. Power. He built Stage30 to give brands a way to be resolved by AI, not just ranked by search. Resolution is a creative problem before it is a technical one.

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Luis Emilio Ramirez

Co-Founder · Designer

An experienced art director with thirty-plus years in advertising. He led visual campaigns at RPA for Honda, Pioneer, Pentax, VH-1, and Hilti.

He art-directed the Honda.com redesign in the mid-'90s. It won a One Show Gold Pencil and a Clio, and held the number one J.D. Power spot for six straight years.

At Cast Iron LA he leads art direction, design systems, and the AI infrastructure, with custom workflows built on Claude and Adobe Creative Cloud. He teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

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Stage30 is a methodology by Cast Iron LA. U.S. trademark application serial no. 99719523, published for opposition 1 September 2026. Patent pending.

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