For independent performance, growth & creative agencies (15–100 people)
We rebuild the workflows where agencies leak margin — pitch decks, QBRs, brief intake, performance commentary, approval flows. Audit-first. Working prototype on your real data in weeks. Not a retainer, not a workshop deck.
Bring one workflow. Leave with a yes/no on whether it can pay back in six weeks.
One pitch · 27 hours RFP-to-ship · 47 min of senior time
Manual cycle: 5 days, 8h of senior assembly, deadline always tight. With maxodev: 27 hours start-to-ship, 47 minutes of senior time, buffer to spare. Click through one pitch as it unfolds.
Pitch to Northwind Capital — RFP-2026-114
Example workflows
These aren't products on a price list. They're examples of what an audit-first rebuild looks like — built end-to-end on the client's real data, with metrics agreed before we start. We've also shipped automations for client onboarding, scope creep tracking, creative testing, competitor research, AM assistance and meeting-to-task routing. If your bench is leaking somewhere else, that's what the audit is for.
How a pilot looks
Audit-first. We don't sell a retainer. We sell a 6–8-week experiment with metrics agreed on day one — and walk away if the numbers don't move.
We sit with one workflow end-to-end. Real briefs, real decks, real reviewers. Output: a written audit and a go/no-go for a prototype.
Working prototype on your real data. No mockups. By the end of week 3 the senior reviewer is using it on a live piece of work.
Roll into one team, one client portfolio or one pitch cycle. We measure the metrics that matter — senior hours, throughput, win rate.
Pilot review. Numbers on the table. Roll out wider, kill it, or fold the lessons into a different workflow. No long-term retainer locks.
Who builds it
A senior pair, not an agency. We do the audit, the prototype and the pilot ourselves — no offshore handoff, no junior staff learning on your data. The cost of a pilot is roughly one month of a senior in-house AI hire, and you get a working system at the end of it.
Andrew Bulgakov
Co-founder & CTO
10+ years building production AI systems — retrieval, agents, and the brittle glue between LLMs and real workflows. Has shipped automation pipelines used by enterprise procurement and operations teams. Turns “wouldn't it be cool if” into “shipped on Tuesday”.
Alex Hrechenko
Co-founder & Strategy
8 years across engineering, product and agency partnerships. Scoped 40+ AI workflows for B2B and agency teams — and walked away from twice as many that wouldn't pay back the budget. Believes senior afternoons are the most strategic thing AI can hand back to an agency.
Field notes · agencies
Client names redacted under NDA. We share anonymized workflow screenshots and before/after artefacts on the audit call.
Senior strategists writing QBR bullet points instead of running accounts.
Senior creatives doing 8 hours of deck assembly per pitch, every week.
Briefs sitting in inboxes for a week before scope is agreed.
Multi-market campaigns dying in 8 rounds of scattered Frame.io feedback.
Senior strategists losing 2 days a week to Monday commentary write-ups.
If your team can name the two workflows that hurt most, the audit is short.
Book the audit →Who we work with
Half the value of audit-first is saying no fast. Here's exactly who this is for — and who should pick a different shop.
What it costs
No retainers. No headcount-based billing. Every engagement is scoped to one workflow with a number we send before you commit.
20-min margin audit
Free
One workflow walked end-to-end on a call. Honest yes/no on whether an AI rebuild can pay back in six weeks.
1-week paid audit
Low five figures
Written audit, data assessment, scoped pilot proposal with a fixed price. Fully credited toward the pilot if you proceed.
4–8 week pilot
Fixed price
One workflow shipped on your real data, with the success metric agreed on day one. Walk away if the numbers don't move.
After the pilot
No retainer
Roll wider, kill it, or hand it to your team. No headcount minimums, no monthly lock, no ongoing fee.
Questions we get a lot
ChatGPT saves a junior three minutes drafting an email. We rebuild the eight-hour task itself — the senior workflow underneath. A prompt template lives inside a person's head; a workflow we ship lives inside your pitch process, your warehouse, your approval chain.
If you're getting marginal time savings from off-the-shelf tools, the leak is upstream: in how briefs arrive, how decks get assembled, how reports get written. That's what we audit.
No — and we won't take on engagements where that's the goal. The point is the opposite: senior time stops disappearing into assembly, juniors stop being review-bottlenecked, the agency does more pitches and better work, not the same amount with fewer people.
Every workflow we ship has explicit human-in-the-loop review steps. Senior judgement is the moat we're protecting, not replacing.
That's the normal case. Every agency we've worked with has the same shape: a Drive that's a graveyard, a Notion that's half-stale, a Frame.io with two years of feedback nobody can find. We don't make you clean it first.
Week 1 audit includes a data audit. We tell you what's usable, what's noise, and exactly how much cleanup the workflow actually needs (often less than you'd guess).
EU-resident infra by default, US-resident on request. We use enterprise model endpoints (no training on your data), private vector stores, and SOC2-aligned vendors. Per-client data isolation is the default, not an upsell.
If your largest client has a specific GDPR or DPA requirement, send it over before the audit. We've answered the standard ones.
Summary is in the pricing section above. Pilot pricing scales with workflow complexity, not headcount — we send a specific number after the 20-min call or after the 1-week audit, with a hard scope and a metric.
No retainers, no ongoing minimum.
At 100+ people with internal AI engineering you probably should — and we'll tell you so during the audit. Below that, the math doesn't work: a senior AI engineer is a £180k+ salary and a 6-month hiring slog before they ship anything agency-shaped.
We're a two-person shipping team specialised in agency workflows. You get the equivalent of a senior pair for the cost of a pilot, and we hand you a working system at the end.
One audit · one workflow · no retainer
Bring one workflow that's eating senior time. We map it end-to-end and tell you honestly whether an AI rebuild pays back in six weeks — or whether the leak is somewhere else. No deck, no pitch, no follow-up unless you ask.