I'm Darrell Jelks. I served in the Army, drove trucks, and worked my way toward something of my own — Compound Digital Group. I built CDG on a simple idea: every small business deserves the same marketing systems that big companies use, without the big-company price tag or complexity.

I know what it's like to be underestimated, to have to prove yourself twice as hard just to get in the room. That's exactly why I do this work. Small business owners are the backbone of communities like Seattle's, and too many of them get overlooked by agencies chasing bigger accounts — or worse, drowned in jargon and inflated invoices just to make simple things sound complicated. Marketing doesn't need to be complicated, and it shouldn't cost like it is. That's exactly why CDG exists.

I don't do buzzwords, and I don't do guesswork. Your business gets my full attention, my full standard, and the same discipline I learned carrying real responsibility — because a missed lead or an ignored review is a real loss to a real person, not just a number on a dashboard.

When you work with me, you're not funding somebody else's growth — you're building your own, with someone who's invested in seeing you win.