Adam DeGraide
For nearly three decades Adam DeGraide has built and sold technology companies that helped thousands of small businesses compete with the giants, and produced records that chart alongside them.
Honestas · LacertusRight now
Three companies and two bands. Different audiences, same habit: give the underdog better tools and better songs.
Founder · Producer
Artists Developing Astonishing Music. A rotating collective, led by Adam and Dameon Aranda, writing hard rock about the video game characters we grew up with, played dead seriously.
Label · Producer since 2006
The band behind “Sweep the Leg,” the Karate Kid reunion video made with William Zabka years before Cobra Kai. It passed 20 million views. Six records later, the new album Bored is ten songs about ten board games.
Founder
The all-in-one music business platform for independent artists: EPK creator, fan relationship management, email and social, merch, and a media library. Adam founded it to help artists make great music, build lasting fans, and have fun doing it.
artistresults.com
Founder · CEO
AI-powered business software and digital marketing for small businesses: CRM, reputation, payments, SEO and paid media in one system, so local companies can compete with the big-box players and win.
anthemsoftware.com
Founder
Mobile games that are fun, inspiring and quietly educational. The first title, Find, Serve & Keep, is a match-3 restaurant adventure built on Adam's playbook for growing a business. Out October 2026.
bambamtastic.comSince 1997
Four companies built from scratch, each one serving an industry the big players overlooked.
His first company, founded in Providence, Rhode Island, helped car dealers use the internet to sell more cars. It grew to more than 1,800 dealership clients and 150 employees.
Acquired by ADP · 2006
Digital marketing for independent insurance agencies, serving more than 5,000 agency users. Ranked on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies three years in a row.
Inc. 500 · 3 consecutive years · Acquired
An independent label created to produce and release music from unknown artists, including No More Kings, Dirt Poor Robins, Aranda and Soular, along with work on the Academy Award–nominated short film Most.
“Sweep the Leg” · 20M+ views
A complete web, practice-management, CRM and marketing platform that helped medical practices around the world find, serve and keep more patients. Inc. 500 three years running.
Inc. 500 · 3 consecutive years · Acquired by PatientNow · 2020
After selling Crystal Clear, Adam founded Anthem Software to give small businesses the same tools the big-box chains use: a CRM, marketing platform and hands-on consulting in one system, so local companies can compete with national brands and win. He also started BamBamTastic Games, a mobile game studio for Apple and Android, whose first title, Find, Serve & Keep, turns his playbook for building a business into a match-3 restaurant game. Alongside Anthem he launched the David vs Goliath podcast, interviewing small-business owners about how they use technology to beat much larger competitors.
His first solo album: Adam on piano and acoustic guitar with a world-class string quartet. The same year, Apex Rising Pt. 1 launched the A.D.A.M. Music Project, and his children's book The Adventures of Jackson was published.
“Punch Out,” featuring Aranda, climbed to No. 33 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, with adds at more than 30 US rock stations. The A.D.A.M. Music Project now releases a new song every five weeks.
Billboard Mainstream Rock · #33
Everything learned from building marketing platforms for car dealers, insurance agents, doctors and small businesses, now built for independent musicians.
Discography
Before Cobra Kai
Astonish Entertainment teamed up with William Zabka and the original cast of The Karate Kid for a No More Kings video that passed 20 million views in 2007.
In the press & on stage
“Get Social: Bringing Your Business Up to Speed.”
“How to Build Healthy, Profitable Relationships with Your Customers.”
“Astonish Helps Small Insurance Agencies Move Out of the Ice Age.”
Keynote speaker on sales, marketing and entrepreneurship, and a regular columnist for Rough Notes Magazine.
Beyond the boardroom
The bedtime story Adam told his children for 26 years, now an illustrated book about a young field mouse who gets lost and finds his way home.
Buy the bookFifty-two short videos on faith and life lessons, from Ronald Reagan to Ricky Bobby. The series drew around 18,000 views per episode on Facebook.
Watch on YouTube
Commissioned in 2020 for a family that has its own story to tell. Honesty, strength, grace and truth. Adam is husband to Krystle and the proud father of four.
