Two operators.
Twelve years.
One quiet rule.
Why we
started Milo.
In 2014, the Canadian PR scene was dominated by two extremes: enterprise agencies that treated their boutique clients like loss-leaders, and one-woman shops that couldn't scale past their first big launch. We started Milo to be the thing in between. Twelve years later, the gap is bigger, not smaller. So we kept building.
The story we tell ourselves about Milo's founding is simple: we kept watching brands chase headlines that didn't matter to anyone — including the journalists who were supposedly writing them. So we built a firm around a different question: what coverage would actually move your business? Then we'd go get that.
The story is true. It's also incomplete. The longer answer is that we'd both worked at agencies where the assistants pitched and the partners closed, and the work suffered every time. We thought a small firm could just have its partners do the pitching. Twelve years and 50+ brands later, we still do.
What we've built since 2014 isn't a bigger version of the original idea. It's the same idea with three more rooms attached to it. The talent house came in 2018, when we kept booking the same five faces and decided we should manage them ourselves. Alpha House came in 2024, when we got tired of paying other event producers to do campus activations badly. Wellness Reset followed in 2025 because the wellness press deserved a room of their own. The platform — Milo OS — came in 2025, when our clients kept asking for a single place to see all their coverage and we couldn't recommend a tool that didn't email them PDFs.
Every expansion was the same logic: a thing our clients needed, that we'd have to keep cobbling together unless we just owned it. That's the firm. That's the shape it takes. The four houses on the homepage aren't a marketing structure — they're the actual rooms in our actual building, and we walk between them every week.
Twelve years,
five rooms.
Milo opens in Toronto.
Vogue cover for a Canadian client.
The roster begins with three.
Bilingual, bicoastal, by request.
First edition. UofT. 12 brands.
Two more rooms in the building.
The shape settles.
How we work.
Partners pitch.
Founder-level relationships are not handed off to assistants. The person who closes you is the person who calls editors on your behalf. Always.
Earn the placement.
No paid placements. No guaranteed press. If we can't get you in on the merits, we'll tell you the merits aren't there yet — and what we'd need to change.
The journalist is the client.
Editors pay our bills the same way our brands do — they just pay us in trust. We protect that more carefully than we protect anything else.
Twelve, never thirteen.
For every room we run — the agency, the roster, Alpha House, Wellness Reset, the platform beta — we cap the cohort. Quality scales by adding rooms, not by adding chairs.