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Product · 360 marketing agencies

A CRM for 360 marketing agencies

Above, the agency. Inside, the account.

An agency CRM with two levels: the whole portfolio—which accounts are doing well, how much recurring fee there is, who you're talking to even if they're not a client yet—and, inside each account, its brand book, its campaigns, its pieces, its agents and its margin. When you enter a client, the tool switches its entire context. Even its colour.

Status today Prototype

A clickable prototype with dummy data and nothing saved behind it. The relationship part comes from the engine and is built; the rest is designed. The next step is a pilot with three accounts.

Who it's for
Independent agencies running several brands at once
Base
The relationship engine
What happens today

Three things people say quietly.

  1. Sending one brand's piece to another brand's client.

    An agency works for six brands at once, and most costly mistakes are born right there: mixing one up with another because the tool can't tell them apart.

  2. ‘This account is going badly’ is a corridor feeling.

    Until the client calls to leave. Conversations, deliverables, approvals and hours sit in four places and nobody adds them up.

  3. The fee is known. The margin, hardly ever.

    The fee is what's charged; the margin is what's left after the hours actually put in. It's the number that decides whether a renewal is negotiated with data or given away.

The idea

Above is what matters to the client. Below, what matters to the agency. And they never mix without saying so.

It's the rule that builds the ten screens of an account. The colour change when you enter a client isn't aesthetics: it's the cheapest context signal there is. Client approval goes out to the person's thread, on the channel they use, and comes back into the workflow with a date and a name. Account health is calculated, not guessed. Margin appears next to the fee. And power dialling has its own quota: the lead going cold, the proposal about to expire and the renewal arriving unprepared—three things already paid for, dealt with in forty minutes.

What's included

Every module, with its status.

Not everything here exists in the same way. Each piece carries the status it's in today, with the same criterion we use in a proposal: what hasn't run isn't presented as proven.

Built
Built and working; not yet running with a client.
Designed
Exists as a prototype or as a manual process; not as software in production.

Above: the agency

The whole portfolio, and the conversation with prospects and clients in the same inbox.

  • Portfolio and account health Which accounts are doing well and which are going cold, and why. Designed
  • Shared inbox Prospect and client are the same people on the same channels; the only difference is whether there's a contract. Built
  • Telephony and power dialling The queues the system suggests: what's going cold, what's expiring, what needs preparing. Built
  • Sales pipeline What comes in through the form and through LinkedIn, with an owner. Designed

Inside: the account

Everything tied to someone specific. Switching account switches agents.

  • Account file Who the company is, who decides—the committee, not one person—and its business objectives. Designed
  • Brand book One long page with an index, read like a design system. Changing a rule changes what the agent generates tomorrow. Designed
  • Campaigns Each one hangs off a client objective. The one that hangs off none shows. Designed
  • Content A database, not a board: it keeps what was used, what was discarded and why it was discarded. Designed
  • Account agents Trained on the brand book, the history, the results and the rejected pieces. Designed
  • Talent and influencers The whole journey of a collaboration, with usage rights next to the talent fee. Designed
  • Client approval A workflow step that goes out to the person's thread and comes back with a date and a name. Designed
  • Performance How far the client has come and how much of that progress goes through the agency's hands. Designed
What it doesn't do

Said before you ask.

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Prototype · 360 marketing agencies

See the prototype in a session.

One hour, using three of your accounts as examples. By the end you'll know whether it's worth building.