Six disciplines

Everything digital, under one roof.

Design, build, search, media and brand — run by one team with one plan. Take a single discipline or the whole programme; the accountability does not change.

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Six, in-house01–06
01 Web Design & UI/UX Research, interface design and design systems built to be handed to engineers, not framed. 02 Web Development Fast, accessible front-ends and headless CMS builds your own team can maintain. 03 E-commerce Cross-border storefronts designed around the checkout, in multiple currencies and languages. 04 SEO & Content Technical search work, international targeting and content that earns the click. 05 Performance Marketing Paid search, paid social and marketplace media managed against contribution margin. 06 Brand & Social Identity, art direction and social content systems that survive translation.

Most clients need three of them.

These are the combinations we are asked for most often. They are starting points for a conversation, not packages with a price on them.

Combination A

New site, properly launched

Design, development and SEO together, so the new site is architected for search from the wireframe rather than audited after launch.

DesignDevelopmentSEO
Combination B

Selling into a new market

E-commerce, performance marketing and localisation. The team building the storefront and the team buying the traffic are the same team.

E-commercePaid mediaBrand
Combination C

Growth on what exists

SEO, paid media and conversion work on your current site. No rebuild until the numbers say a rebuild is the constraint.

SEOPaid mediaCRO

The same four stages, whichever services you take.

You always know which stage you are in and what comes out of it.

  1. Stage 01

    Diagnose

    Audit, interviews and analytics, ending in a written diagnosis and a prioritised plan. Useful on its own if you stop there.

  2. Stage 02

    Design

    Structure before surface. Sitemap, flows and content model first, then interface design in the browser against real copy.

  3. Stage 03

    Build

    Front-end, CMS and integrations built to performance and accessibility budgets agreed up front, on a staging URL from week one.

  4. Stage 04

    Grow

    Search, paid media and conversion work run against the numbers agreed in stage one, reported monthly in plain language.

Before you brief us.

Do we have to take everything?

No, and most clients do not. Roughly half start with a single discipline. The reason we keep all six in-house is so that when a project turns out to need a second one, you are not managing an introduction between two agencies who have never met.

How do you price?

Fixed price against a defined scope for projects and sprints; a flat monthly fee for retainers. We do not charge a percentage of media spend, and we do not publish a rate card, because a rate card either overcharges the simple jobs or underprices the hard ones.

What size of company do you usually work with?

Mid-market companies and well-funded scale-ups, typically with an in-house marketing team of two to twenty people. We are a poor fit for very early startups with no budget and for enterprises that need forty people in a room.

Can you work with our existing agencies?

Yes, and we do it regularly. We will be clear at the start about which decisions we own and which we do not, because unclear boundaries between agencies are how projects quietly stall.

What time zone do you work in?

Hong Kong time. In practice that gives us a working overlap with most of Asia-Pacific all day, with Europe in our afternoon, and with North America early in our morning. Everything is documented in writing so nothing depends on catching a call.