Agency · Earned media, made deliberate

The consultancy
behind the bylines.

Twelve years of placing considered brands in the rooms — and on the pages — that move them. Public relations, brand development, social, content, and influencer programs. Run by partners. Capped at the cohort the partners can actually pitch.

Active brands52
Earned media · 2025$48.2M
Tier-1 placements · 2025146
Average tenure3.4 yrs
01 · Brands on the books · 2014—2026
Ardene
AirSculpt
Xcite Technologies
Fika
MDRN
White Dahlia Design
Morrisseau
AWE Contracts
Cybertino
02 · The disciplines

Six rooms,
one consultancy.

The agency is six disciplines that can be hired alone, but which work best together — because the editor that placed your founder profile is the same editor your social calendar is feeding, and the photographer shooting the brand book is the one who shoots the day-one feed.

Discipline №01

Earned media, first.

Public Relations

Tier-1 placements, founder profiles, product reviews, columns, broadcast. Every pitch comes from a partner — never an assistant — and every campaign is built around the two or three editors who'd actually move your business if they wrote it.

  • Founder & brand profiles
  • Product reviews
  • Op-eds & columns
  • Broadcast & podcast
Discipline №02

The narrative, named.

Brand Development

We write the story before we pitch it. Positioning, voice, messaging architecture, naming, founder narrative. The deliverable looks like a bound editorial brief, not a slide deck — because that's how the press is going to read it back to you.

  • Positioning & voice
  • Messaging architecture
  • Naming & re-naming
  • Founder narrative
Discipline №03

A feed with a brief.

Social Media

Strategy, content, community, and paid amplification on the platforms your audience is actually on. We treat a brand's feed like a publication — with an editorial calendar, a masthead, and a quiet point of view that doesn't change every Tuesday.

  • Editorial calendar
  • Content production
  • Community management
  • Paid amplification
Discipline №04

Original stories.

Content & Editorial

Long-form writing, photography, short film, and the supporting editorial that turns a launch into a feature. Made by writers and directors who file for the same magazines our PR partners pitch — so the content reads like it belongs there.

  • Long-form & longreads
  • Photography & still life
  • Short film & motion
  • Brand books
Discipline №05

Creators that move.

Influencer Programs

We don't run influencer mailers. We build creator programs the way we build talent careers — selectively, in writing, around the two or three people who'd recommend the product to a friend even if you weren't paying them. Often, those people are already on our roster.

  • Creator selection
  • Brief & contracts
  • Production support
  • Performance reads
Discipline №06

Launches that land.

Digital & Launch

Site, story, sequence — the digital surfaces a brand needs the day a campaign goes live. We build the launch micro-site, the editorial seeding, the press kit, the embargo, and the day-one feed in one sequence. Run by the partner who pitched the headline.

  • Launch microsites
  • Press kits & embargoes
  • Editorial seeding
  • Day-one feed
03 · Selected work

Three from the desk.

Three programs from the active roster — chosen because the path from first pitch to final placement is the part most worth showing.

Case №01
Web3 · AI
Cybertino

Founder profile,
Vogue Canada.

An eleven-month build to a tier-1 founder profile in Vogue Canada — the first time the magazine had covered a Web3 founder editorially. The placement opened doors at Globe Style, FASHION, and BNN Bloomberg in the same quarter.

TenureSince 2024
PlacementVogue Canada · Issue №46
Spinoff coverage11 outlets · 90 days
Earned media$3.4M
Case №02
Food & Beverage
Fika

A national
rebrand.

Repositioning a beloved coffee brand from a Toronto café chain into a Canadian wellness label. We wrote the new narrative, ran the messaging architecture, and placed the relaunch in The Globe & Mail — the day before retail expansion was announced.

TenureSince 2022
Lead placementThe Globe & Mail · Report on Business
Channels involvedPR · Brand · Social · Content
OutcomeRetail expansion 2x
Case №03
Lifestyle
MDRN

Quiet luxury,
loud results.

A three-year program of editorial-first placements that took a Toronto lifestyle label from local press to The Cut, ELLE Canada, and a recurring column in FASHION Magazine. Run partner-led, with no paid placements at any point in the program.

TenureSince 2023
Tier-1 hits9 placements · 18 months
RecurringFASHION column · monthly
Earned media · 2025$2.1M
04 · Press wall · last six months

Where the bylines landed.

A rolling cut of the placements partners have closed for active brands — refreshed monthly, never embellished.

Vogue Canada
Cybertino
Founder profile
Apr 2026
The Globe & Mail
Fika
Report on Business · feature
Mar 2026
The Cut
MDRN
Brand profile
Mar 2026
ELLE Canada
AirSculpt
Editor's column
Feb 2026
FASHION Magazine
Ardene
Quarterly column
Feb 2026
Toronto Life
Morrisseau
Cultural essay
Feb 2026
BNN Bloomberg
Xcite Technologies
On-camera feature
Jan 2026
CBC The National
Xcite Technologies
Broadcast segment
Jan 2026
Report on Business
AWE Contracts
Founder profile
Jan 2026
BlogTO
White Dahlia Design
Designer feature
Dec 2025
The Kit
MDRN
Editor's pick
Dec 2025
Sharp Magazine
Cybertino
Founder Q&A
Nov 2025
05 · How we work

The way we pitch.

RULE 01

Partners pitch.

Founder-level relationships are not handed to coordinators. The person who closes you is the person calling the editor on your behalf — every pitch, every cycle, every time.

RULE 02

Earn the placement.

No paid placements. No guaranteed press. If the merits aren't there, we'll tell you what we'd need to change before we'd send a single email.

RULE 03

The journalist is the client.

Editors pay our bills the way our brands do — they pay us in trust. We protect that more carefully than anything else on the brief.

RULE 04

Twelve, never thirteen.

The agency caps active brands at the number our partners can pitch personally. When the cap is hit, we open a waitlist instead of dropping the standard.

Begin a brief

If the launch is worth its position
we'd like to read it.

Send the launch, the round, the relaunch, the rebrand, the founder profile. We read everything that comes in, and we'll come back inside two business days with whether the merits are there — and what we'd recommend if they are.