The founding troublemakers.
Ugh!
Erika Bockhaut
Leading Lead
With more than 20 years of experience in managing advertising and marketing spaces, Erika has collaborated, guided and advocated for complex international and local brands like FedEX, California Lottery, Air New Zealand and many others. Among the many high stakes projects she has led was the launch of the FedexCup and 3 Super Bowl spots. She drinks green tea, has five pets to support her and loves the ocean.
Grant Smith
Creative Lead
For 20+ years Grant has worked with the worlds most creative agencies, helping and leading iconic brands like AT&T, Mountain Dew, FedEx, Intel, Bud Light, Direct TV, Toyota, Chick-fil-A and Visa. He is a vidgorous advocate for consumer focused strategy and advertising. An avid storyteller, and new tech explorer, he has won every major award for creativity and effectiveness, which he doesn’t talk about. Much.
Chad Garber
Head of Production
With over 20 years experience producing award winning content for brands such as eBay, FedEx, Verizon and Walmart, Chad often spends hours rigorously testing new technologies to determine the worthwhile from the gimmicks. When Chad isn’t 100% invested in work, he’s keeping up with controversial current events preparing himself for his next family Thanksgiving.
We’re different.
In a way that’s actually different.
You pay for work. Not hours. Our process isn’t a labor intensive navel-gazing quagmire. We’re outcome focused.
Access the most experienced talent you need, only when you need us.
We know consumers and we know the most effective advertising is entertaining advertising.
We’re a woman-owned business, staffed with people who aren’t the usual thin-skinned braggards with ADHD and debilitating social anxiety who show up to meetings wearing ironic sweatshirts and wide brimmed hats.
We don’t hate advertising and aren’t endlessly trying to figure out new ways to avoid making it. We love advertising enough to make it work way better for everyone. For years advertising has become a truly awful experience for everyone, brand managers, CMO’s ad execs, creatives and consumers. There’s no reason why the process or products of advertsing need to be horribly stressful and thoroughly unenjoyable. And since few agencies are interested in creating a wholistically not terrible experience, we made one.
Let’s have a very low-stakes conversation about how we can make your advertising way less terrible and far more impactful.