We collaborate to create impact.
We bring the team the work needs and sit inside yours, side by side from day one, on the pitch, the stuck project or the new account.
Three moments to work on together
The pitch you have to win.
We work on the idea and the story with your team until it holds up in front of the client.
The project that stopped moving.
A fresh pair of eyes inside the team, a clear decision, and the next version made together.
The account that’s new to everyone.
Finding the way into an unfamiliar audience together, before the first deliverable is due.
Together, from the first day.
Our team joins yours and takes part in the real work, inside your schedule. Design thinking works as a daily habit, so that’s how we use it.
Sit at the same table
Everyone and the brief at one table, on day one. Rough is fine.
Make something early
Within days there’s something to react to: a headline on a real screen, a page you can click.
Push on it together
Critique out loud, test with the people it’s for, make the next version.
Take it to launch
In your files, on your timeline. Your agency stays in front of the client; how we’re credited is your call.
Choose how long we work together.
Pitch partner
Brief to pitch day
We collaborate to win the pitch. Our team joins yours on the concept and the story you present.
Strategy sprint
One or two weeks
We collaborate to unstick the project. Side by side until there’s a decision and a prototype your client can react to.
Co-creation session
Half a day or a full day
We collaborate to find the idea. One table, your team and ours, and a first version that goes straight into your schedule.
Embedded creative direction
One project
We collaborate to see it through. Creative direction from inside your team, from kickoff to launch.
Made in collaboration with agencies
Collaborate is new. Working this way isn’t. These projects were made inside agency teams, with the creative direction credited below.
USDA: Pigs Don’t Fly
Biosecurity guidance that became a campaign in five languages.
See the case- Client
- USDA APHIS
- Agency
- Sage Communications
- Creative direction
- Carlos Murguía
Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Latino
An identity that tells the museum’s story before the building exists.
- Client
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino
- Agency
- Meraki Communications Group · Ogilvy
- Co-creative direction
- Carlos Murguía
DC Jazz Festival
A new look every year, from one system that improvises.
- Client
- DC Jazz Festival
- Agency
- Sage Communications
- Creative direction
- Carlos Murguía
USDA: FDPIR
Two creative styles local teams choose from, in place of one federal formula.
- Client
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- Agency
- Sage Communications
- Creative direction
- Carlos Murguía
Adobe: Digital Government Index
An 80-page report that became a 15-minute meeting with a state CIO.
- Client
- Adobe
- Agency
- Sage Communications
- Creative direction
- Carlos Murguía
A team that joins yours.
Collaborate is a small senior team for agencies. The people on each project are chosen for the work, from strategy and design to content, motion and build.
Let’s collaborate.
We collaborate to make the work you can’t get wrong. Send a few lines: what you’re working on, when it’s due, where it’s stuck. We reply within two business days.