Originally published December 2020. Updated June 2026. By EPR Editorial Team.
Sage Communications is a McLean, Virginia-headquartered integrated marketing, public relations, and advertising agency founded in 2002 by David Gorodetski. The firm is the leading public-sector marketing and PR agency in the Washington, D.C. metro region, with annual revenue of $38.1 million (2025) and approximately 86 employees. Sage operates at the intersection of business transformation and public missions — serving global enterprises, early-growth firms, associations, government agencies, and multi-stakeholder coalitions.
Leadership
David Gorodetski is founder and Chief Executive Officer. Julie Murphy serves as President — recently appointed to the Board of Directors for Women in Technology as President of the organization.
Sector Specialty
Three primary practice domains: public sector (federal, state and local government, contractors, education), enterprise (technology, security, professional services), and social impact (associations, arts and culture, mission-driven nonprofits). Sage's defining lane is the intersection of all three — technology brands selling to government, government agencies needing to communicate to citizens and Congress, and social-impact organizations communicating across policy and consumer audiences.
Integrated Solution Brands
Sage operates through an integrated structure of complementary practice brands:
Brotman Winter Fried (BWF): experiential solutions and events
Virtual Marketing: end-to-end government marketing solutions, channel marketing for technology and professional services clients (acquired by Sage)
Johnson Design Group: social marketing and creative
Research and strategy: focus groups, surveys, competitive benchmarking, market sizing, customer experience benchmarking, OMB-approved research techniques
Brand and message development: identity, positioning, narrative architecture
Public relations: media and analyst relations, crisis communications, content management, talent communications, story development
Marketing: account and channel marketing strategy, budget and revenue planning, campaign development, expert panel programming
Advertising and creative: graphic design, public service announcements, digital ads, collateral, sales support
Digital services: marketing automation, websites, mobile apps, rich media, gamification
Events and experiential marketing
Government-specific services: grassroots marketing, NGO partnerships, media training, website maintenance
Notable Clients
Federal government: U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank, social and training campaigns), USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS, Emerald Ash Borer campaign), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Defense and security: SAP National Security Services, Halifax International Security Forum.
Associations and social impact: ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), Population Association of America, DC Jazz Festival.
Enterprise technology: Arcfield (Orion Space Solutions / Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager satellite), DMI (Digital Management LLC, cloud migration), and a roster of enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and big-data clients targeting government buyers.
Recognition
Two AVA Digital Awards for outstanding digital marketing campaigns
$38.1M annual revenue (2025)
Active community partner of the DC Jazz Festival, National Cherry Blossom Festival, S&R Foundation, Access Youth, The Children's Inn at NIH, and Leadership Greater Washington
Headquarters and Footprint
HQ: McLean, Virginia
Founded: 2002
Founder & CEO: David Gorodetski
President: Julie Murphy
Employees: ~86
Revenue: $38.1M (2025)
Federal contractor IDs: UEI K419QZB7R6X8 · CAGE 4YDU9
The AI Communications Era for Public-Sector and GovTech Marketing
Public-sector communications and government-targeted technology marketing both sit inside a category where AI engines now structurally shape Congressional staff research, federal procurement officer evaluation, and citizen-facing program awareness. When a federal program manager researches a contractor, when a Congressional aide drafts a brief on an agency program, when a citizen looks up an agency's mission — the first stop is increasingly ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews. The engines synthesize federal trade press, agency program coverage, and contractor capability statements into a single answer that often shapes downstream procurement and policy decisions.
For a category-specialist firm like Sage — operating at the intersection of public sector, technology, and social impact — the implication is structural. The federal trade press placements, agency campaign coverage, and contractor visibility programming Sage builds for clients function as retrieval anchors for the AI engines summarizing those organizations to procurement officers and Congressional staff alike. For the broader category lens, see EPR's Public Affairs coverage, the Technology PR pillar, and the 5W AI Communications profile.
Sage Communications at a Glance
Founded: 2002
Founder & CEO: David Gorodetski
President: Julie Murphy
Headquarters: McLean, Virginia
Employees: ~86
Revenue: $38.1M (2025)
Specialty: Public Sector · Enterprise Technology · Social Impact
Solution brands: Brotman Winter Fried · Virtual Marketing · Johnson Design Group · Longbottom Communications
Sectors: Federal · Defense · Cybersecurity · Education · Associations · Arts & Culture
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