Notes · Industry · Agency

A notebook for the work, the industry, and what is catching my eye

Why these notes exist. Observations on agencies, local businesses, AI, tools, employment, and the problems that keep showing up in the work.

Service pages are for what we do. They are not a good place for the rest of it - the things that catch your eye, the patterns that keep repeating, and the opinions you only trust after you have seen them play out a few times.

This is that place.

I have spent twenty years working for agencies, in agencies, and with agencies. The useful material often never makes it onto a capabilities page. A hiring pattern that keeps going wrong. An SME site that is doing the job while a bigger brand's site is not. A tool that actually helps. A client problem that looks like design and turns out to be resourcing.

I will write about:

  • What has caught my eye - products, posts, launches, and the odd thing worth sitting with
  • Industry observations - how the work actually gets done, and where it gets stuck
  • AI - where it is useful, where it is noise, and where it creates new problems
  • Employment, teams, and how work is being put together
  • Local SMEs and businesses that do not have a marketing department
  • Agency life, from the inside and from alongside the team
  • Tools, AI or not, that are popular, new, or quietly doing the job

Some notes will be short. Some will be longer. None of them are here to fill a publishing calendar.

If you want the services behind the notes, they are on the services page. If a specific problem is sitting with you, get in touch.

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