A 30-year-old agency question set, rebuilt for how brands actually grow in 2026.
Five minutes of thinking. One call with Shayne. Three findings specific to your brand and a clear recommendation on the single highest-leverage move to make in the next 90 days.
We do not work with every brand that submits this form. We work with the ones where we know we can move the numbers. The questions below help us decide honestly, together.
First, the basics. Thirty seconds. Then the real thinking starts.
Please enter your first name.
Please enter a valid business email address (not Gmail, Yahoo, etc.).
We'll spend 15 minutes on your site before our call. A brand that's been working on its foundations gets more out of the 45 minutes we spend together.Please enter your brand name and website URL (or type "pre-launch, no website yet").
The next six questions help us find the single highest-leverage move for your brand. Most agencies pitch a retainer before they understand what you need. We diagnose first. Then we recommend only what fits.
Be honest. The more accurate your answers, the more specific our findings can be.
Please select your sector.
Rough is fine. We're looking for the shape, not the exact figure.Please select your approximate annual revenue.
Some of our best clients were pre-revenue when we started working together. Capital and intent beat trading history at this stage.
Please select your capital position.
Thanks for being honest about where you're at.
Our retainers start at £10k per month and they work hardest for brands doing £1m+ in annual revenue, because that's where the compounding kicks in fastest. If that's where you're heading and you want to arrive there with the right thinking already in hand, here are four options:
Please select one option to continue.
Please tell us a little more (at least 30 characters).
Include paid media, agency fees, tools, content, PR. Total investment, not just paid ads. Most founders underestimate their real marketing spend by 30-40%.Please select your approximate monthly marketing spend.
A quick check-in.
Our retainers typically require at least £5k-£10k/month in marketing investment to deliver the compounding returns that make the engagement worthwhile. Where are you with this?
Please select one option to continue.
Meaningful means 15%+ of revenue. Dabbling in a channel doesn't count as it working.
Please select at least one option.
Most founders name a symptom, not a cause. Pick the one that feels most broken. We'll find the underlying cause together on the call.Please select your biggest bottleneck.
This is the single most useful question for us. Even imperfect answers help us walk in prepared. (Optional — but skip it and you'll get less out of the call.)
Four quick questions on commercial context. These help us decide what to recommend to you, not whether to recommend anything at all.
You're nearly there.
Rough numbers or rough shape is fine — £, % or words all work. If you can articulate the commercial upside, you can justify the investment to solve it.Please tell us what fixing this would mean for the business (at least 20 characters).
No judgement here. We work well with marketing leaders who need to align internally as well as founders who decide solo.
Please select your decision-making role.
Be honest about where you are. Different answers route to different conversations — urgency isn't a qualification we test for.
Please select your decision timeline.
Thanks. You've just done more thinking on your brand's growth than 95% of founders do in a quarter.
Before our call I'll spend 15 minutes on your brand — your site, your AI visibility in ChatGPT and Perplexity, your paid creative if I can see it — and walk into our conversation with three findings ready. The 45 minutes we spend together will be the most useful time you've spent on marketing this quarter. See you then.
— Shayne
One thing before our call
Open ChatGPT and ask it "what are the best [your category] brands in the UK." Screenshot whatever it tells you. We'll look at it together on the call — whether your brand is mentioned, how you're described if you are, and what that means commercially. It'll take 60 seconds and it changes the shape of what we talk about.
Before our call I'll spend 15 minutes on your brand — your site, your AI visibility in ChatGPT and Perplexity, your paid creative if I can see it — and walk into our conversation with three findings ready. The 45 minutes we spend together will be the most useful time you've spent on marketing this quarter. See you then.
— Shayne