Marketing Therapy at SXSW
A Brunch for Leaders Who Carry the Weight
March 15, 2026
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Suerte | Austin, TX
Marketing leadership today sometimes feels like it requires a therapist on speed dial.
Revenue accountability without full control.
Growth expectations without full alignment.
Brand responsibility in a performance-driven world.
During SXSW, Pinyahta, in partnership with INK Communications Co., is hosting an intimate, invite-only brunch for marketing leaders who want to navigate the role more strategically.
Expect candid conversation, experienced perspective, and a room full of leaders who understand the weight.
Full details and featured speakers coming soon.
Pinyahta launches Spring 2026.
Pinyahta is the first platform that reveals how companies truly support marketing leadership.
Verified leaders score companies across five predictors of role success, revealing whether a company treats marketing as a true 4P function or keeps it limited to execution. All scores are fully anonymous and use a standardized Likert scale, giving you consistent, low-variability feedback you can trust.
Scores signal the realities behind expectations vs. resources, cultural respect and trust, strategic inclusion, authority and autonomy, and willingness to invest.
Insider Insights
Pinyahta gives you the inside-out view you cannot get from interviews or job descriptions.
You see fully anonymous, verified insights from real marketing leaders, combined with select external data from platforms like Crunchbase to strengthen your understanding of how a company truly operates.
This clarity helps you choose which companies to trust, which roles to pursue, and when it is time to move on.
Community Support
High signal, low noise.
Regardless of membership tier, you can compare notes with other leaders, share productive solutions, pressure test decisions, and talk honestly about the realities of GTM leadership.
Paid members gain access to experienced mentors and a curated operator marketplace.
This is where you reclaim the joy in your work.
Built by someone who has lived it.
Pinyahta was founded by Cody Gillund, a twenty year marketing leader who has served in early stage startups, high growth companies, and executive roles across the GTM function. After repeatedly seeing talented leaders misled into misaligned roles or crushed by unrealistic expectations, she recognized a pattern. Leaders were not failing. They were being set up to fail.
Pinyahta is the result of asking one simple question.
What would happen if marketing leaders finally had the truth before and during the role that defines their career?
This platform is the answer.