Business systems consulting
Operations, advocacy campaigns, product and process upgrades for companies that need clarity without theme-park web fluff.
Adbongo Group LLC · since 2007
Advocacy Launchpad for business systems that last.
Nearly twenty years of consulting across industries. We help founders and operators upgrade the legal, social, financial, and technical layers of their organizations—especially digital and decentralized ones.
Now open
Reinstated and open for work. Adbongo Group LLC has been reinstated with the Secretary of State. Managing partner Baba John completed a Juris Doctor through a partnership arrangement with the family firm coyotelegal.com and recently externed with ixian.tech, an international legal engineering practice. While bar results are pending, Adbongo continues what it has always sold: practical consulting to upgrade your business systems.
This site provides business and educational information only—not legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is formed by contacting us. See our website disclaimer.
What we sell
Digital organization design
R&D for DAOs and mission-driven entities: governance patterns, membership flows, and documentation that matches how you actually operate.
AI agents & interfaces
Agent workflows, web3-facing surfaces, and deployable front ends when your roadmap needs them—not hype for its own sake.
Open-activity infrastructure
Hands-on experience running RSS3 / open-information tooling as social-layer R&D for digital organizations.
About Adbongo
2007
Founded as an advocacy and consulting practice (“Ad” as advertising)—nearly two decades of client work.
2011
Certified B Corp by B Lab—a third-party impact audit verifying social and environmental performance (community benefit beyond standard corporate requirements). Covered on CSRwire in Jan 2012.
2017
Smart dumpster R&D—hardware and data concepts built around a proof of recycle thesis for resource economies.
2022+
Impact DAO / Superfluid / Gnosis experiments and Golden Age Advocacy writing; Launchpad and digital-org tooling.
2024
Legal Technology Certificate — National Society for Legal Technology
(Verify on Credly →
2025–26
Juris Doctor, ixian.tech externship, company reinstatement—consulting continues while bar results are pending.
B Corp certification · third-party verified
In 2011 B Lab certified Adbongo after reviewing governance, workers, community, and environmental metrics. That independent assessment confirmed practices aimed at benefiting people and planet—not only profit. CSRwire published the announcement (Jan 3, 2012): Texas’ newest B Corporation, with a goal of helping more Texas businesses certify.
Legal Technology Certificate
Issued by the National Society for Legal Technology (NSLT). Verified digital badge on Credly.
Selected work
Zero Waste Business Accelerator
Adbongo’s accelerator for regenerative and zero-waste enterprises—strategy, branding, and market development.
Mesa Ranch · organic business development
Organic / regenerative business development systems for land-based enterprise.
Civic ecology · business ecosystems
Designing business ecosystems that treat communities and resources as living systems—not extractive silos.
Cause marketing & brand identity
Campaigns, logos, and collateral for mission-driven brands—SMU art direction roots, agency delivery.
Permaculture & reuse systems
Certified permaculture design (PRI) applied to reuse, zero-waste advocacy, and smart dumpster / proof-of-recycle R&D.
Coyote Legal · family firm
Brand and systems support for the family legal practice; later JD path and supervised practice partnership.
Austin Art and Music Partnership
Creative partnership branding and event-facing identity for arts and music collaboration.
American Construction Benefits Group
Early startup immersion—marketing and design under mentorship that shaped Adbongo’s entrepreneurial model.
Websites & events
Client web surfaces and event systems across advertising, advocacy, and community launches.
What clients & partners say
Jake Perry
“What an amazing experience working with John. In just a few months, he has transformed our culture, upgraded our marketing collateral, recast our branding, and built our team to scale. If you give John the resources to market, he will accomplish all of your goals and bring your business success. Thanks!”
Justin Godsey
“If you are looking to achieve sustainability and enter the dimension of Zero Waste, John is a living example that can guide you through the portal. He has a vast knowledge base and is very understanding of the various components necessary to achieve Zero Waste goals. I would highly recommend him for any individual or business that is motivated to achieve a new standard in the way we live and do business.”
Joel Ausanka
“John is passionate and driven by the goals of zero waste. A bright-eyed visionary who is definitely on a mission.”
Daniel Shane Cleary
“When you look at the human civilization in a timeline according to intelligent evolution John is ahead of his time. His language and inventions are vital to the new economy and preservation of this fantastic nation and all carbon foot print creators. With Johns ethics integrated into traditional business models sustainability and growth can be achieved.”
Mitch Fine
“John has a process that is unique and effective to allow ‘cause-based’ businesses of all kinds to drive results to their ‘triple’ bottom line. He genuinely cares about your business and results and functions as if he has been an organic member of your team for years. He works with integrity and will be honest and direct with you, which is a far cry from ‘business as usual’. He is highly creative—at times, he seems to be an artist as well as a marketing guru. I hired him to support my marketing efforts with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and his deliverables were of the highest quality. I feel that I received excellent value for my investment in him. His support and guidance allowed me to build an effective and resonating brand presence, which grew my business and overall success tremendously.”
Juan Carlos Cruz
“He is great to work with and his ideas make business sense and are good for the environment.”
Benjamin Neupert
“John Bush is a good friend and a mentor. His knowledge of social media and marketing/advertising is truly remarkable. I highly recommend hiring John as a organic business development consultant.”
Margaret Donnelly
“I've been using the services of Adbongo for several years, for web development, book design, and what is its forte, business development. We're going through an exciting developmental phase with research, strategic planning, and a focus of changing the world that is sober, creative, and extremely exciting. I highly recommend this new approach to assisting business owners make a difference in their community.”
Darren Minke
“John is an excellent leader and someone who can get any size project going. He likes to think outside of the box and offer fresh perspectives and ideas to his clients.”
Texana Lane
“John Bush is a generous, reliable, and inventive individual who gives more than 100% of his time and talents. I enjoyed working with John as he created out-of-the-box (and successful) ideas to promote our restaurant business. The Adbongo team digs deep to understand your products, service, budget, and timeframe.”
Steve Heussner
“John first worked for our firm as a graphic design student intern while he attended SMU and later as the owner of Adbongo. He has developed our website and has produced a variety of advertising and promotional material for us. He is great to work with, listens, understands and delivers a quality product on time and within budget.”
Michael Plaster
“John has great intuitive senses, creative, and is open to new ideas and collaborating with new people such as myself all the while presenting a structured company and work flow.”
Chris Brickler
“John has built two websites for me in the past two years. Both have been extremely well received in terms of functionality and creativity. His ability to integrate the latest web-based technologies is very impressive.”
Josh Elbaum
“John is a visionary with the creative ability and experience to communicate those ideas while remaining personable and professional. He also has the ability to maintain his vision despite time and budget restrictions, what can I say, the man gets things done!”
Antonio Limon
“John is one of the most creative people I know, who brings a fresh perspective and down to business results orientation, that's vital in today's struggling economy. His organization depicts everything an ad / marketing firm needs to be.”
Jake Perry
“I'd recommend John to anybody selling a product looking for creative, outside the box full service advertising firm. His product will be unique and eye catching. He works 20 hour days to make sure all his clients needs are served.”
Steve B. Golab
“John is a class act with a great sense of humor, disciplined approach, and maturity to tackle complex challenges. I've seen John demonstrate leadership in very stressful situations, and I am very impressed with him. Also, he truly understands what it means to form a meaningful partnership. There is no doubt in my mind that time I have invested in building a relationship with John and the Adbongo team has paid off for my business, FG SQUARED Interactive Marketing.”
Pat Dicicco
“Personally, I could not be where I am today without John's professional work ethics, creativity and prompt attention to my needs. Most importantly is his personal encouragement, that I am on the right path. I believe it is instinctual with him…. It's not just lip service. Guys out there, I don't think John is going to work with you unless he believes you are a cut above the average person.”
Josh Weatherspoon
“John has a entrepreneurial spirit, if he wants something he will work hard to get it.”
Peter Anthony
“John is one in a million. His knowledge and expertise coupled with amazing people skills sets him apart from those who I have worked with before. I have nothing but the best to say about John.”
Doug LaRue
“John is a highly energetic young man with a eclectic personality that demands to be the life of the party. He is not afraid of Grand Ideas or outside of the box thinking. He is a social networking monster with a long furry tail to swing from the tallest trees. He dances, he sings and he gets NOTICED! John is a motivator, he pushes people to succeed beyond expectations with the skill of a diplomat.”
Strategy brief
From legacy wealth structures to digital “super trusts”
Durable capital allocation has always depended on layered structures—control, continuity, and mission. Today’s digital organizations ask the same questions with new rails: smart contracts, membership tokens, open activity graphs, and hybrid legal wrappers.
Adbongo’s Advocacy Launchpad work sits at that intersection: research and development for digital organizations, pairing social infrastructure (including our RSS3 node experiments) with practical consulting so founders can upgrade how their business systems actually run.
Long-form essays and program framing live on www.adbongo.io (Advocacy Launchpad PMA). Related ministry presence: Temple of Roots on Substack and the ministry site templeofroots.com.
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This host · RSS3 node
Network change underway. RSS3 is migrating VSL toward Ethereum and integrating DSL into the broader RSSHub stack over the coming weeks. Adbongo’s node on this host remains part of our digital-organization R&D; consulting engagements are independent of any single protocol’s roadmap.
Official announcement: The Next Stage of RSS3 · Asset portal: rss3.io/migration
Node address
0x0063951De34a75c25279cFe3C212F4855125Fd8f
Operator dashboard
Maxayauwi node view for this host (ops / status layout).
Access & upgrades
Level 1 mint hub: manifold.xyz/@divinedao
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Ready to upgrade your business systems—or explore digital-organization design with someone who has lived both the advocacy stack and the crypto stack?
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