About Lead-Lag Media®: The AI-Powered Firm Built for Financial Services Distribution
An AI-powered sales, marketing, and distribution firm built for the financial services industry — founded by Michael A. Gayed, CFA.
Founder & Publisher
Michael A. Gayed is an award-winning Investment Manager and CFA charterholder with over 15 years of experience navigating global markets. He is the publisher of The Lead-Lag Report on Substack — one of the largest financial newsletters in the world with hundreds of thousands of subscribers — and host of Lead-Lag Live, a top 1.5% podcast worldwide.
A 2x Charles H. Dow Award winner (CMT Association) and 2x NAAIM Founders Award winner, Michael’s research has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Reuters, and more. His paper “Leverage for the Long Run” won the NAAIM Founders Award.
Through Lead-Lag Media®, Michael combines deep market expertise with an extensive advisor network — and an AI engine that scales the operational work, so the team can spend its time on the relationships that actually move money.
About Lead-Lag Media®
Lead-Lag Media® is an AI-powered sales, marketing, and distribution firm built for the financial services industry. More than 80 AI agents run for our clients around the clock — drafting copy, running outreach, scheduling meetings, monitoring performance, and handling the operations that used to consume your week. The team spends that recovered time on the relationships that move money.
The conversations that move money still happen between people. That’s the model.
Two Audiences. One Engine.
Direct, AI-assisted access to a curated network of 382+ vetted independent financial advisors. The full distribution stack — curated advisor meetings, sponsored podcast episodes, dedicated email campaigns, CE-credit webinars, content marketing, and programmatic advertising — powered by an always-on AI engine so our team can focus on the introductions that move capital.
A complimentary, AI-powered marketing department. Choose one of 20 services — white-labeled market commentary, social media management, podcast booking and placement, video production and editing, SEO, GEO optimization, programmatic advertising, LinkedIn prospecting, website design, and more. The exchange: periodic access through Advisor Connect calls. Zero cost. Zero obligation to allocate.