The approach

Content Is Not
A Lead Machine

It is how a trades business stops being a stranger. Here is the thinking underneath everything we do, what the work actually looks like, and who it is genuinely not for.

The thinking

Why This Works

Three things are true at once, and most agencies only sell you the third.

01

People hire the name they already know

Nobody wakes up needing a roofer. They need one suddenly, under stress, and then they pick from whatever is already in their head. Everything that happens before that moment is the actual competition, and most trades businesses do not compete there at all.

Being seen for six months costs less than fighting for the click on the day.

02

Familiarity is what beats price

When two quotes are close, the deciding factor is almost never the number. It is which business feels like less of a risk. Someone who has watched you explain your own work for three months has already decided you are competent before you open your mouth.

You are not buying attention. You are buying the benefit of the doubt.

03

Organic is the cheapest ad testing there is

Running paid without knowing what resonates is expensive guessing. Post the same idea five ways for free first, find the one people actually sit through, then put money behind that one. The creative arrives pre-validated.

This is the part that pays for the rest of it.

The work

What We Actually Do

Not a retainer with a vague deliverable. Five specific things.

Step one

We build the architecture first

Before a camera comes out we map the pillars, formats and angles for your specific trade. This is the part everyone skips, and it is why most trades content dies in week three with nothing left to say. The same map is free on this site if you would rather build it yourself.

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Step two

One shoot day a month, on a real job

We come to a job you were doing anyway. Four hours, a shot list built off the architecture, no studio and no script. You keep working and we film around you. That single day is enough footage for four to six weeks if it is shot against a structure instead of freestyled.

Step three

We cut, caption and post every day

Edited to the hook, captioned so it works on mute, and pushed to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts on a fixed schedule. Daily beats good early on, because you are looking for a pattern in what holds attention, and you cannot read a pattern off four posts.

Step four

We hand the winners back as ad creative

Every month the clips that earned attention organically get cut into ad formats and handed over ready to run. You are never guessing at creative, and you never pay to find out an idea does not work.

Step five

We tell you what is landing, plainly

A short monthly read: which angles held attention, which pillar is carrying, what we are cutting and what we are doubling. No dashboard you have to learn, and no vanity number dressed up as a result.

Fit

Who We Work With

We take a small number at a time, so this matters more than it usually would.

This works when

  • Somebody in the business is willing to talk, even if they would rather not be famous
  • You have an opinion about how the work should be done, and it annoys you when it is done badly
  • There is room to take more work, or you are hiring to make room
  • You are prepared to show the middle of a job, not only the finished photo
  • The person reading this is the one who decides what gets spent
  • You can give it six months before deciding whether it worked

This does not work when

  • Nobody will go near a camera and nobody wants the work filmed either
  • You are already flat out and have no intention of growing
  • You want a number of booked jobs per post guaranteed in writing
  • Every clip has to go through an approvals chain before it can post
  • The plan is to try it for one month and see
  • You want us to post stock footage with your logo over it

If the right column describes you, we would genuinely rather tell you now. The questionnaire exists for that reason, and a fair number of people who fill it in get a no back.

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Take The Plan, With Or Without Us

The content architecture tool gives you the same map we start every client on. It is free, it takes eight questions, and there is no call attached to it.

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Or read the questions we always get, back on the main page.