Agencies
Strategy and insight support for creative agencies.
We regularly work with agencies to help support their creative process with workshops, strategic thinking, research and growth consulting.
Agency is in our blood. We understand the challenges you face in meeting client needs and expectations. We’d never claim to be the cure to all of them. But we’re good at helping out to help you do what you do even better.
Here’s some ways we can help.
Workshops
We run energising, inspiring workshop sessions tailor made for the tasks you face. Use them to shape strategy, bring audiences to life, generate creative ideas, bring together you and the client or to shape and reshape your goals as a team.
Strategic journeys
We develop tailored, step by step approaches to developing the right strategy for your project to help provide a pathway for you and the client to explore what’s needed, understand the audience and get to the right brief, together.
Growth consulting
Need to reflect on your own direction as an agency or shape your open strategy for future growth. We’ve been at the heart of driving agency growth and helping leadership teams fully unlock their potential.
Research
We can help with early stage research to shape strategy and inspire creative direction or later stage concept testing of anything from brand ideas, advertising, websites or user journeys. We’re good at collaborating with creative teams to shape stimulus and make the research process part of the creative process. Research by people who really understand creative communications.
Planning or pitch support
Struggling with resourcing on new accounts or need help with pitching? We can provide freelance support for short or medium term projects and even help to recruit the right people as the account matures.
Sparking creativity
Our workshops and strategic methodologies can be a great way to find new ideas or refresh your thinking as a team.
Aiding decision making
Creative teams can often fear creative testing research as yet another ‘critical voice’ in the mix. Research by people who understand the creative process, how communication works and use research to help creative fly.
Managing expectations
So much of agency life can be about making sure client expectations are met and that they don’t suddenly feel like they’re heading in the wrong direction. A well managed strategic process can help make sure everyone’s on the same journey.
Enhancing relationships
Above all we always remember they are YOUR clients and we’re here to support you in strengthening that relationship as you help them achieve their goals.
Finding insight
We’re big believers in early stage research that helps guide direction and make sure creative or idea development is really aligned with customer need.
Resource challenges
Things can move fast! We’ve been in that situation where things are busy than they’ve ever been then the phone rings for another pitch. Or two. If you need to extend your strategic resource quickly we can move as fast as you.
Some of our agency services
Creative Brief Review
Nail your creative brief from your client. Fine tune and existing brief to ensure your creative team get the best results.
From: £450
Insight Ignition Pack - Desk Research
Desk research to set your project on fire (in a good way). Get your project off to a great start with our insight ignition pack.
From: £800
In-depth Interviews
Want to know what key stakeholders really think about a service or product. We can ask the awkward questions avoiding you getting any egg on your face.