Sharpening our skills since 1999

Performance isn't our promise. It's our platform.

Strategy, creativity, and technology are table stakes. What makes us different is Rhythm: the AI-native platform we built to measure brand sentiment, benchmark competitors, and pinpoint opportunity before we ever launch a campaign. It's how we turn marketing from a cost center into a measured asset.

Complimentary Brand Audit

See how your company stacks up.

We'll audit your brand's presence, benchmark it against competitors, and provide a prioritized roadmap forward.

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RhythmSM, solutions that transform business.

Rhycom developed Rhythm, an AI-native, data-centric platform that helps companies measure brand sentiment, benchmark competitors, and identify opportunities in their marketplaces. It also provides ongoing performance measurement for all marketing strategies and individual tactics.

01

Preserve

We capture your best attributes: your voice, your differentiators, your people. Our work respects your brand.

02

Transform

We review your strategy, goals, and tactics; using strategy, creativity and technology to improve processes and performance.

03

Amplify

We improve marketing performance by continually measuring performance to optimize outcomes.

Solutions that show their work.

Rhycom sits at the leading edge of marketing and advertising, where strategy meets digital precision. We fuse deep strategic thinking with powerful digital tools, including AI, CRM, deep data intelligence, audience targeting, attribution, and real-time context analysis, to solve our clients' toughest business challenges and drive measurable growth.

Every solution is built on Rhythm, our intelligence platform.

You aren't hiring an agency.
You're hiring a team.

Marketing is what we do. Your success is why we do it. Meet the leadership team that will actually run your account, not a pitch team you never see again.

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Rick Rhyner is the Founder and President of Rhycom, a marketing agency he has led for more than 27 years with a singular focus: driving client success. With experience across every facet of marketing and advertising, Rick has worked with a diverse portfolio of organizations, including Commerce Bank, Quest Diagnostics, ADM, Kansas City Sports Commission, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Wells Fargo, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, UMB, and many others.

Rick Rhyner

Founder & President

Keeps the whole agency pointed at one thing: your success.

Pam brings more than 25 years of paid media experience for brands from Coca-Cola to the Kansas City Chiefs, pairing sharp strategy with a genuine love of negotiation. She once sold her house to garage-sale shoppers and threw in six months of free storage and two plane tickets to Europe.

Pam Williams

VP, Media

Gets your message to the right audience at the right time.

Phil leads client relationships and creative at Rhycom, pairing brand strategy with creative built to perform. He keeps the work anchored to each client's goals and grounded in strategy, audience insight, and measurable results, connecting brands with the customers who matter most.

Phil Bressler

VP, Client & Creative

Positions your brand to connect with the customers who matter.

Grant leads technology and innovation at Rhycom, building the systems and data infrastructure the agency's work runs on. He turns scattered marketing data from every channel into one clear, measurable picture teams can act on, so performance is something you can see rather than guess at.

Grant Gordon

VP, Technology & Innovation

Builds the technology that makes your performance measurable.

The industry has reinvented itself again and again since 1999. We're still here.
1999
The dot-com boom
Brands scrambled onto the web. Rhycom opened its doors.
Early 2000s
Search engines
Search became an algorithm and an auction. We learned both fast.
Mid 2000s
Social and mobile
Facebook opened and the iPhone shipped. We made brands talk.
2010s
TV changed forever
Cable gave way to streaming. We planned and measured it all.
2025
AI answer engines
Search started answering, not listing. We built Rhythm.
Today
Positioned for what's next
Every channel has changed. Our one goal never has: your success.

We don't succeed unless you do.

Every engagement is measured. Let's talk about what that would look like for your brand.