Projects for agency founders
Sometimes you just need a specific problem solved properly by someone who has been in your shoes. Each one is scoped, priced, and delivered as a piece of work in its own right.
Problems solved properly without needing you
Some founders come to us knowing exactly what they need. The website is out of date. The positioning has drifted. A senior person needs help finding their feet. The work is clear, the scope is clear, and what's needed is someone you can trust, do the job properly.
Marketing &Â Positioning
When you're struggling to differenciate and you worry you sound too much like your competitors these projects help you.
Reworking your value proposition
Clarify what you  do, who for, and why it matters.
Competitor benchmarking
Get an honest read on whether your website is doing the job.
Running client interviews
Understand what your clients really think about your value
Refocusing your marketing
Your marketing should reflect who you are now, not who you were three years ago.
Defining your Ideal Customer Profile
Focus in on who you can help the most, what they need and what makes you appealing.
Leadership Support
Good delivery people often get promoted to management roles without ever being taught how to lead others. These projects help improve your leadership team so they lead without you having to be involved in everything.
One to one leadership mentoring
Working 121 with one of your senior people to help them lead better.
Attending leadership meetings
Joining your senior team meetings as an outside perspective. Â
Support with hiring decisions
Helping you scope the role, write the brief, and sit in on interviews.
Team structure review
Defining the right people in the right roles, and identifying skills gaps
Onboarding a new senior hire
Working with a new senior person in their first 90 days to help them land properly.
"Before working with Damian, I was essentially muddling through with common sense and close to burnout. The real win has been the shift in mindset, moving from doing everything myself to actually managing the business. Already some of the things we've implemented have had an impact on the bottom line."
Recent work
Mentoring an Ops Lead in a Design Agency
Fortnightly mentoring that tightened up processes, gave the ops lead a clearer role and improved the bottom line.
A new marketing strategy for a tech company
We defined their ideal client, sharpened their positioning and rebuilt their marketing plan, with the team agreed on who they were for.
Client research to shape positioning work
Interviews showed their clients valued something different from what the team assumed. That became the core of their positioning.
Got a specific problem to fix?
Tell me what it is in a 20-minute call and I'll tell you whether a project is the right way to fix it.