For agency owners
Put agents to work.Keep more of each retainer.
I work with you and your team to put agents to work on your own client jobs, with people briefing, reviewing and deciding. Agencies working this way can deliver more per person, making it harder to compete with them on price.
Alongside 100+ client engagements.
A few teams I’ve worked with:
Your team’s time
You sell hours or retainers, but much of your team’s time goes on the work around delivery: research, reports, pitches and account support. That isn’t their fault. They haven’t yet seen agents do that work while people keep the decisions.
But an agency that puts agents to work every day can deliver more per person and keep more of each retainer. That changes what it can charge and how quickly it can deliver. The pressure reaches beyond production into SEO, marketing, sales and support, so waiting gives competitors the chance to find those gains first.
That’s why I work alongside you and your team on your own jobs. My agents build products, research and handle SEO, marketing, sales and support every day, keeping me involved in decisions about revenue, customers and growth. I do this myself, so we work through the briefs, reviews and decisions your agency needs to operate this way. A tool on its own won’t do that.
Where agents fit
Where your team’s hours can go further
- 01
Delivery
Agents research, draft and build client work. Your team decides the brief, checks the work and approves what ships.
- 02
Client reporting
Agents pull the figures and draft reports. Your team checks the findings and decides what to recommend to the client.
- 03
Sales and proposals
Agents research prospects and draft pitches and proposals. You decide who to pursue, what to promise and what to charge.
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Support
Agents prepare answers to client questions. Your team decides which replies are ready and which need a conversation.
Work that’s live
See the method in work that’s live
The Vouchernaut and Benson rebuilds show how I turn briefs and reviews into shipped work: fifteen live products in 22 days for Vouchernaut, and a full SaaS platform with a launch campaign in under a fortnight for Benson.
Publishing & commerceVouchernautRead well. Shop well. A shopping and editorial business with its own browser extension.vouchernaut.com
Discount attribution & marginBensonSee which discount extensions take the last click, test the cost and keep your margin.trybenson.com
- Live products in the Vouchernaut rebuild
- Days for the Vouchernaut rebuild
- Specs for the Benson rebuild
- Commits in the Benson rebuild in under a fortnight
From clients
What working together was like.
Each review links to the profile it was left on, so you can check it.
Doug was incredible to work with. He operated quickly & efficiently, and even proposed ways to improve the feature to exceed our expectations. 10/10!
Allison NultyHead of Product, ContraDoug is a pro. I'd hire him again for any future marketing & technology initiatives.
Brian TigheHead of Technology, The Motley FoolSmart, fast, and trustworthy.
Shelby StevensFounder, Snacker.ai — Techstars alumni
Learn, Build and Run
Learn the way of working. Put it into practice. Keep it running.
I can teach you and your team, build towards one agreed outcome, or work alongside you to keep agents doing the work every day.
- learn
Learn how I work
We use your agency’s own work to practise briefing agents, reviewing what comes back and deciding what is ready for a client.
£2,500 a day - build
Put me and agents on your outcome
I build towards one agreed outcome for your agency in ten business days, with the scope agreed in writing.
£20,000 fixed - run
Work this way every week
I work with you four days a week to keep agents delivering, review their work and decide what your agency tackles next.
£35,000 a month, three-month minimum
Your starting point
Not ready for a call? Start with your agency’s work.
Take the two-minute agent scorecard to see where agents could take work off your team’s hands, and where people still need to decide.
How do features or client deliverables get made?
If you need me to work under your agency’s name, we agree that in writing before the work starts, along with how confidential client work is handled. Bring any client restrictions to the first call so we can see what’s possible.
No. The work starts with knowing the job well enough to brief an agent and judge what comes back. I handle any code we need, so your team can concentrate on the briefs and the reviews.
We start with the tools your team already uses and the work you need done. From there, we decide where agents fit and what needs to change. I’m helping you establish a way of working, so the tools follow the job.
Their work changes: less time producing every draft or report by hand, more time briefing, reviewing and working with clients. If fewer hours are needed, you’ll need to decide what that means for capacity and roles. I won’t pretend that decision disappears; it’s part of the conversation with your team.
Learn is a day using your own business. Build is ten business days for one agreed outcome, with the scope agreed in writing. How quickly that changes your agency’s hours or margins depends on the job and how your team adopts the work. We can discuss a useful first outcome on the free call.
A job to start with
Which job would you hand over first?
Book a free 30-minute first call. Bring one job that takes too much of your team’s time, and we’ll talk through what agents could do and what your people would still decide.