Consultancy is for the stage before anything gets made. You know something needs to change about the brand, the website or the marketing, and the useful question is what to do first and what to leave alone.
We have worked across national and international brands, and in sectors we had never touched before. In both cases the value came from asking better questions rather than from arriving with an answer, and from being willing to say that the problem is not the one you were briefed on.
It usually takes the shape of a short, structured piece of work: interviews with your people, a look at what is actually happening in the numbers, a review of what you are producing and what your competitors claim, then a written recommendation with an order to it. Sometimes that recommendation is that you need a supplier rather than a strategy, and we will say so.
We also do this on a retained basis where a business needs senior marketing judgement occasionally rather than a full time hire, and to support in house teams who need capacity or a second opinion rather than an agency.
Tell us what you are trying to decide. If it is something we can answer in one conversation, we will do that and not charge you for it.
