Client demands, tight deadlines, and the ever-evolving landscape of tools and tactics. These are the things that shout the loudest in the agency world.
Mission: Purple
Operations & Project Management Consultants
Fractional Operations for your business
Helping agencies reduce delivery chaos, protect profit, and scale sustainably through confident forecasting, accurate capacity planning, and best-practice project management.
It's our mission to get you to that purple patch of operational excellence.
Process & workflow consulting
Every team has room for improvement. Whether you want to become more efficient in delivery, improve reporting, or just get some standard processes and templates in place, we can help.
Interim Operations lead
Set your business up to deliver more quickly and efficiently. Define, control, measure, optimise - we'll put in place processes and tools that will drive tangible business outcomes.
Project management
Need a complex project set-up, planned and delivered? We offer experienced project, programme and resource management. Maternity / paternity cover. Full- or part-time.
[Their] dedication to developing and implementing best-practice processes significantly improved efficiency and effectiveness across multiple areas of the business
Aimée
Agent3
Kate plays a critical role in keeping operations and programmes running smoothly, efficiently and effectively. It is easy to take this for granted - because you know that Kate is at the controls and you have complete trust in her abilities
Shaun
The Craft Consulting
Working with Kate has been a genuinely valuable experience; her recommendations were both practical and insightful. The process gave us a clearer view of our operations and a solid foundation to start making real improvements
Jennifer
Sharp Ahead
Articles
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Marginal gains
31/03/2025
Continuous improvement. What every business should be striving for.
Meal planning day in our household.
Crawl, walk, run
16/03/2025
I'm a big fan of breaking big tasks down into little, more manageable ones. I think most project managers are.
There are plenty of external pressures on marketing and advertising agencies in the current climate. Client budgets are shrinking; competition is growing; AI seems to be all but taking over.