by appointment · one client per month

An honest, outside read on your digital strategy — from someone with nothing to sell you.

Office Hours is a month of direct, personal work with one client at a time — culminating in a written, independent Diagnosis of where your digital efforts actually stand.

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Comenius University · Tomatoes.sk

Prof D

Office Hours
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Is this you?

Every engagement starts the same way: something's nagging at you, and no one around you can give you a straight answer.

The Isolated Decision-Maker

You run the show, and no one around you can give you a straight answer about digital — everyone advising you has a stake in what you decide.

Your agency wants to keep the account. Your team wants to look good. Your board wants confidence, not doubt. You want one honest, informed opinion from someone with nothing to sell you.

→ Here's what a month together looks like

The Vendor Doubter

Something feels off with your digital results, but you can't tell if it's your team, your agency, or the market.

You've asked the obvious questions and gotten reasonable-sounding answers. You still don't quite believe them — and you don't want to fire anyone on a hunch.

→ Here's what a month together looks like

The Digital Laggard

You know your company hasn't kept up — and part of you is starting to worry it's too late to catch up.

Competitors who used to be behind you are visibly ahead now. Every "transformation" pitch you've heard sounds like it's selling you something. You want a realistic, unglamorous read on what matters first.

→ Here's what a month together looks like

The New Leader / Big Bet

You've just taken on the role — or you're about to commit serious budget — and you need a credible outside view first.

Whatever you decide next, someone — a board, an investor, a CEO — is going to ask why. You want a perspective that isn't just your own team telling you what you want to hear.

→ Here's what a month together looks like

None of the above

If you've read this far and something still made you think "I should talk to him" — trust that. Not every situation fits a headline. Reach out, and we'll figure out together whether Office Hours is the right fit.

The offer

Office Hours with Prof D

One client · One month · One Diagnosis

Only one engagement runs at a time. That's not a marketing trick — it's the only way to actually give a company my full attention for a month.

Week 1 — Immersion

Getting inside it

  • Kickoff session with you and your leadership team
  • Access to current strategy, dashboards, reporting, and vendor materials
  • Short conversations with the people who actually run digital day-to-day
Weeks 2–3 — Working Sessions

Pressure-testing it

  • 2–3 structured working calls to dig into what's really driving — or not driving — results
  • Informal access to me as questions come up — this is a relationship, not a survey
Week 4 — The Diagnosis

Handing it over

  • A written strategic assessment — what's working, what isn't, and why, in plain language
  • A prioritized set of recommendations: what to do first, second, and what to explicitly not do yet
  • A live readout with your leadership or board
Afterward

A free 30-day follow-up call to see what's landed and what's stuck — and an open door as a sounding board going forward. Office Hours ends; the relationship doesn't.

One honest note

Where I stand

I also co-founded Tomatoes.sk, a performance marketing agency. If part of your Diagnosis is "you need outside execution help," I'll tell you plainly — and you're free to take that recommendation to Tomatoes, to another agency, or to build it in-house. My job in Office Hours is the diagnosis, not the sale.

Portrait — Prof D On file
  • Google, 2004–2016 (Dublin & Bratislava)
  • Co-founder, Tomatoes.sk
  • Teaches digital marketing, Comenius University
  • Married to a dermatologist
  • Father of five, two dogs
About Prof D

My career started at Google in Dublin in 2004, on the small international team handling the company's early growth across Central and Eastern Europe. A few years later I moved back to Bratislava to help open Google's own Slovak office (2011–2013), and later returned once more as a Senior Digital Advisor (2015–2016) — this time advising companies directly on digital strategy, agency selection, and campaign launches. Alongside that arc, I co-founded Tomatoes.sk — now a 20-person performance marketing team with 15 years in the market, working long-term with brands like Generali, Slido, and others across insurance, automotive, and travel. I also teach digital marketing at Comenius University.

Office Hours, in a way, picks up where that Google advisory work left off — just independent of any platform this time.

Office Hours grew out of a simple observation: a lot of the CEOs and CMOs I talk to don't need another pitch. They need one honest, informed conversation with someone who isn't trying to sell them anything in the room.

I'm not a prolific writer or a stage performer — my work has always been closer conversations, not louder ones. Office Hours is built around that: a month of direct attention, not a course or a newsletter. Outside of work, I'm kept honest by a dermatologist wife, five kids, and two dogs — so I know what it looks like when someone's stretched thin and still trying to make the right call.

Next step

Apply for the next opening

One short form. I read every one personally, and I'll follow up directly — whether or not it's the right fit yet.

Apply for Office Hours
Applications reviewed monthly · one engagement at a time