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DO YOU PARTICIPATE IN UNPAID PITCHES OR COMPETITIONS?

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No. We charge for paid pitch work and decline speculative competitions. A short paid discovery is the alternative.

Our pitch policy

We do not participate in unpaid pitches, speculative concept rounds, or open competitions. Speculative work undervalues the industry and produces worse outcomes — pitch deliverables are rushed, narrow, and disconnected from the real problem.

What we do instead

  • Paid discovery — a 1–2 week scoped engagement where we work with you on a problem, deliver real artefacts, and decide together if a larger project is the right next step
  • Capability conversations — free 30-minute calls to walk through past work relevant to your brief
  • Paid pitch work — for invited RFPs where the brief is genuinely commercial, billed at a flat fee disclosed upfront

Why this matters to you

When a studio gives you free pitch work, you are seeing what unpaid output looks like. The paid work is different.

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