
Elena Vargas
Co-Founder & CEO
Former talent director at a top 10 creator agency. Managed 200+ creators and decided there had to be a better way.
Playbook IQ started with a spreadsheet. A very large, very broken spreadsheet. Our founding team spent years managing creator talent at agencies — building rosters, pitching brands, negotiating deals. And every day, we did it with a patchwork of tools that were never designed for this work. Google Sheets for analytics. Canva for media kits. Notion for pipelines. Email for everything else.
The breaking point was a pitch gone wrong. A brand passed on a creator because the media kit showed follower numbers that were three months stale. The creator had grown 30% in that time. We lost a $28K deal because of a number in a PDF nobody remembered to update. That's when we decided the industry needed a real system — not another Notion template, not another tool bolted onto tools, but a single platform purpose-built for how talent managers actually work.
Playbook IQ is that platform. We combine real-time creator analytics, auto-updating media kits, campaign management, and genuine AI intelligence into one workspace. We built it for the managers who are tired of administrative chaos stealing time from the work that actually matters: finding the right creator for the right brand at the right moment.
We believe every creator deserves to be represented with precision, and every talent manager deserves tools that match their ambition.
Every decision we make passes through one filter: does this help creators get represented more accurately, more beautifully, and more effectively? If the answer isn’t an obvious yes, we don’t build it.
We don’t automate your judgment out of the loop. We surface the patterns, the anomalies, and the opportunities — then let you make the call. AI should make talent managers sharper, not redundant.
Ugly tools produce ugly work. Every screen, every media kit, every data visualization in Playbook IQ is designed to a standard that would make a creative director nod. Because your work deserves better than enterprise gray.

Co-Founder & CEO
Former talent director at a top 10 creator agency. Managed 200+ creators and decided there had to be a better way.

Co-Founder & CTO
Ex-Stripe engineer. Obsessed with making complex data feel simple and building systems that stay fast at scale.

Head of Product
Product leader from the intersection of media and tech. Previously built creator tools at a major social platform.

Head of Design
Former editorial designer who believes SaaS products should look as good as the magazines he used to art direct.