● Growth marketing collective
We started in 2016 as two freelancers sharing a desk and one client. Nine years later we are five, still in one room, and still the people who pick up the phone. Growing past that would mean selling you a team you never met.
Thirty minutes, and you leave knowing whether we are right for the job.
Strategy, design and engineering sit at the same table, which is the whole argument for staying small. Nobody writes a brief for somebody they have not met, and nothing gets thrown over a wall because there is no wall to throw it over.
Written down in 2019 after an engagement that went badly for reasons that were entirely ours. They have cost us work since, and kept every client we wanted.
The price goes in writing before the second call, and it does not move because the scope grew by a paragraph. If we misjudged the work, that is our cost to carry — quoting low and invoicing high is how agencies lose the clients they liked.
There is a live URL from the first Monday, and it is ugly for a while. Monthly reveals are theatre: they hide the decisions you would have argued with, and by the time you see them they are expensive to change.
Source, design files, ad accounts and a written decision log, all in your name from the start. If the next change does not need us, we have done the job. Lock-in is a business model, not a service.
Five people can hold two engagements properly. A third would mean somebody you have never met doing the part you cared about most, so we book the calendar out instead and tell you when the next window opens.
Four of us are on the tools every day; the fifth keeps the studio running so the other four can be. Nobody here is a placeholder for a junior you meet after signing.
Deliberately slow growth. Every step below is a year we chose not to hire faster than we could train.
First call is all four of us on the tools, not a salesperson. Thirty minutes, and you leave knowing whether we are right for the job.