Embedded retainer
A small senior team operating inside the company, on a fixed monthly fee. The most common shape. Usually multi-year.
Services
Four practices. One studio.
We do strategy, performance, editorial, and creative under one roof — because the answer to a real business problem rarely sits inside one discipline.
01 / Strategy
Brand & positioning.
Decide what to say before you decide where to say it.
Most marketing problems are positioning problems wearing a channel costume. Before we touch a media plan, we make sure the brand can defend its own sentence: who it is for, what it stands against, and why a real person should care.
Engagements in this practice usually include a written narrative, a messaging architecture that scales across audiences and channels, naming and verbal identity where relevant, and a brief that the rest of the company can use without us in the room.
Typical outputs: positioning narrative, messaging architecture, naming, verbal identity guidelines, audience segmentation, competitive teardown.
02 / Acquisition
Performance media.
Paid that compounds, not paid that leaks.
The boring truth of performance media is that most accounts are losing money on creative they haven’t questioned in months, audiences they inherited, and an attribution model that flatters the most expensive channel.
We run paid social, paid search, programmatic, affiliate, and influencer programs end-to-end — with disciplined creative testing, LTV-aware bidding, and the kind of incrementality work that turns marketing spend into a defensible asset rather than a renewable expense.
Typical outputs: channel architecture, creative testing program, LTV/payback modelling, incrementality testing, weekly operating cadence, affiliate & partnership programs.
03 / Content
Editorial & owned channels.
Owned is the only channel that pays you back.
Paid media stops the day you stop paying for it. Owned channels — long-form publishing, a real newsletter, organic search, AI-citation footprint — keep working for years on the same one-time investment. They are also, increasingly, the only durable answer to a paid-acquisition market that gets more expensive every quarter.
We build editorial programs end-to-end: positioning the publication, hiring or training the writers, shipping the work, and instrumenting it so the studio can defend the spend with numbers.
Typical outputs: editorial strategy, publication architecture, long-form content programs, newsletter design and operations, organic-search and AI-citation strategy, distribution.
04 / Creative
Production & craft.
Work made for the channel it ships to.
The biggest waste in creative production isn’t budget — it’s assets made for one channel and retrofitted to five others. We produce design, motion, photography, and copy with the channel in mind from the first frame, on the same operating cadence as the media that ships it.
The studio runs an in-house production team supplemented by a small bench of long-term collaborators. We are not a holding-company production house; we make a small amount of work, very carefully.
Typical outputs: identity systems, paid creative, lifecycle and email design, motion and video, art direction, copywriting, photography direction.
Engagement models
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Three ways we work.
Defined engagement
A scoped piece of work with a clear deliverable and a fixed price — a positioning rebuild, a paid-media diagnostic, an editorial launch.
Advisory
A standing relationship with the founder or marketing lead. Light-touch, written, on call for the harder problems.
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