Good work doesn’t speak for itself. Let’s make it impossible to ignore.

Every day your message is unclear or hard to find, supporters go somewhere else. We fix the messaging, the website, and the marketing so the right people understand you, find you, and act.

15 minutes. 3 clear fixes. Yours to keep, whether you hire us or not.

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Websites we’ve built

A few recent sites we’ve designed and built for schools, nonprofits, churches, research groups, and arts organizations, each one set up to be found, measured, and marketed.

These are just a few.

Tell us what kind of organization you are, and we’ll show you work like yours.

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Marketing that moves the mission forward.

You may be launching something new, trying to reach more of the right people, explaining a complex program, or rethinking a website your organization has outgrown. We connect marketing strategy with the digital marketing, writing, design, and technology needed to move the work forward.

Marketing Strategy + Digital Marketing

Get your message in front of the people who should hear it. We build the marketing strategy, then run the digital channels that carry it: search, email, social, and paid campaigns, with clear measurement so you know what’s working and what to do next.

  • Marketing strategy & planning
  • SEO
  • Google Ad Grants
  • Email marketing
  • Social media
  • Analytics & reporting
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AI should raise the standard of the work.

AI can expand what a small team can create. We use it to support research, sharpen marketing and content, prototype, and improve workflows. The standard stays the same: accurate, useful work that sounds like you and deserves your audience’s attention.

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  • Start with a real problem.

    Begin with the task: making research usable, reducing repetitive work, or helping a team create better content. Then decide whether AI is useful.

  • Keep your voice and your standards.

    Question the output. Check the facts. Bring subject expertise, editorial judgment, and design care to the result. Generic filler doesn’t earn a place just because it was quick to generate.

  • Stay accountable for what you make.

    A person owns the final work. That includes knowing when AI helps, when it gets in the way, and when to start again.

Small by design. Involved from the start.

You work directly with Amanda and Duke. We care about the work, and we get to know the people behind it. Clients come to us for what we can create together, and the relationships often grow well beyond the project.

Amanda Kuhn

Amanda Kuhn

Co-founder, marketing strategy and communications

Amanda sees the big picture and helps make it clear to everyone else. She brings strategy, communication design, and a knack for understanding people to the work. Around here, we call her the client’s best friend: someone who listens closely, thinks things through with you, and cares about where you’re headed.

Duke Gray

Duke Gray

Co-founder, digital marketing, design and technology

Duke turns ideas into things people can use. A creator, implementer, and resident tech nerd, he brings digital marketing, design, and technology together to build websites, campaigns, and practical tools. He enjoys figuring out how to make something work, and making it feel good to use.

Help with a project. Support beyond it.

Bring us a defined challenge, or bring us in alongside your team for ongoing marketing strategy, digital marketing, and communications support. We shape the scope around the work and your capacity.

Amanda Kuhn leading a team session in front of a flip chart titled Stronger Teams

Speaking + consulting

We build the people who carry the message.

Communication training and team development, from inside a communications firm. Most agencies hand you a deliverable. Amanda Kuhn leads workshops, retreats, and sessions on communication, team dynamics, and leadership, so the strategy we build with you is one your staff can actually deliver.

  • 01
    Team training + retreats

    DiSC assessments and facilitation, communication styles, team dynamics, conflict resolution, and change management.

  • 02
    Brand + messaging workshops

    Get your whole staff saying the same thing, the same way.

  • 03
    Strategy + facilitation

    Planning sessions and board and committee work that end in decisions, not notes.

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    Speaking

    Conferences, staff development days, and association events.

Rooms we work in

  • Higher education
  • Educator-workforce nonprofits
  • Denominational staff teams
  • Healthcare
  • Local boards

How we get started

  1. Talk through the challenge.

    What are you trying to accomplish? Who needs to understand it? What is getting in the way?

  2. Agree on a useful scope.

    Identify the priorities, deliverables, responsibilities, and timing before the work begins.

  3. Bring thinking and making together.

    Develop the work with your input, refine it, and plan for how your team will use and maintain it.

Starting something good?

A new organization, program, or initiative may need a focused website or a few well-made essentials. Spark is our option for a smaller website with a clearly defined scope and the marketing basics in place. We can also help with a launch page, messaging, a launch campaign, or a focused communications project. The scope is smaller; the care stays the same.

Stop being the best-kept secret in your field.

Marketing that isn’t reaching the right people. A website that no longer fits. A report that needs an audience. Questions about where AI belongs. Tell us what you’re working through, even if you haven’t settled on a brief.

Start with a 15-minute conversation about your priorities and whether we’re a fit. If you prefer email, share a little about your organization, what you need, and any timing you have in mind.