Creative & technology studio Bristol, UK USA, UK & Europe

We make mission-led organisations powerful.

Brand, strategy, and the technical systems underneath. Top to bottom strategic analysis of your oranisation: strategy, methods, technical architecture, AI compatibility, and the heart to care about your mission while we do it.

01 / Brand & content

Voice, identity, photography, and the monthly rhythm of publishing that keeps it alive.

02 / Strategy & systems

CRM, automation, data and AI where it earns its place, plus the governance underneath.

03 / Partnership

Both, retained, over years. A small number of organisations at a time, on purpose.

What we do

One studio for the story and the machinery.

Agencies hand you a brand and leave. Consultancies hand you a system and leave. We do both and stay, which is the only way the two ever line up.

01

Brand, narrative & content

What you sound like, what you look like, and what goes out every week without anyone on your team dreading it.

  • Brand voice and messaging
  • Photography and art direction
  • Social strategy and monthly batches
  • Blog, newsletter and campaign copy
02

Strategy & systems

The machinery behind the work: audited, simplified, documented, and handed over in a state your team can actually own.

  • CRM and operations audits
  • Automation and integration builds
  • Consent, data protection and registers
  • AI where it removes work, not where it looks good
03

Retained partnership

A monthly rhythm across both disciplines, scoped in writing, reported on every month, and reviewed together each quarter.

  • Momentum, Growth or Partnership tier
  • Named deliverables, not vague hours
  • Written monthly report to the board
  • Everything documented and portable
Selected work
Christian Education  ·  Swindon  ·  2026

Thirty years of operations, finally written down.

Christian Education supports Christian schools and home-educating families across the UK and Europe, and has done for thirty years. Fourteen people run a curriculum, a qualification, an annual convention, a summer camp and a shop, across a software estate that had grown a layer at a time since the nineties.

We were brought in on the Momentum tier for six months, with a brief that ran from brand and content to the plumbing. The first job was not to change anything. It was to map what was actually there: every system, every automation, every place data entered or left the organisation, and to freeze a written baseline so that future change could be measured rather than argued about.

From that map came the work: a consent and data-protection system with a central register, a shop migration with the finance sync rebuilt so the accounts stay the single source of truth, legacy automations formally retired rather than quietly abandoned, and a social presence restarted across three channels with the client approving every batch before it goes out. Alongside it, a library of AI process templates so the team can do the next round of this themselves.

Everything lands as documentation the organisation keeps. An automation register, an operating guide, a written report each month, and a final handover that does not depend on us being in the room.

Results are reported, not estimated. Baselines were frozen at the start of the engagement and the first measured outcomes publish with the final report.
30
Years of operations mapped
14
Staff supported
6
Month engagement
25
Documented findings
30
Baseline measures frozen
11
AI process templates
Client
Christian Education. Curriculum, qualifications and support for Christian schools and home-educating families, UK and Europe.
Tier
Momentum. Six months, fixed fee, outcomes-based scope.
Creative
Social relaunch across three channels, four content pillars, monthly approved batches. Blog and newsletter restart.
Systems
Estate audit and frozen baseline. Consent system and register. E-commerce migration with a native finance sync. Legacy automations retired. Security hardening.
Handover
Automation register, operating guides, monthly written reports, final report.
Engagements

Three tiers. We meet you where you are.

Every engagement is a written scope with named deliverables and a fixed monthly fee. Ask what it costs and you will get a number, not a discovery process.

Start here

Growth

Momentum with the strategy and systems brought forward: deeper automation, more content, and a shared plan reviewed together each quarter.

Most partners

Partnership

An embedded, multi-year engagement across brand, full-stack technology, strategy and operations. For organisations ready to change how the whole thing runs, not just how it looks.

The long view

Transformation

A targeted rebuild of your technical architecture, strengthening your foundations in data, security, and AI value. For organisations in need of real cahnge with a hard deadlines and enterprise-level funding.

How we work

Building your mission with our expertise.

01

Every month should leave you with more free time.

If a deliverable adds to your workload, we built it wrong. We measure our own work by what comes off your plate, not by what appears on ours.

02

You own everything, in writing.

Registers, operating guides, credentials, documentation. No dependency on us, no dashboard you have to learn, nothing that stops working the month after we do.

03

We report what happened, not what we hope happened.

Baselines get frozen before work starts. If a number is not measured yet, we say so. If something did not work, that goes in the monthly report too.

04

We take on very few partners.

Small studio, long strategic relationships, and real value. Helping you build.

The studio

Small, deliberate, built for the long view.

Founder & Managing Director

Sophie Cundy

Creative direction, brand and photography

Sophie founded the studio after more than a decade of professional photography across Dallas and, more recently, the Cotswolds. Her instinct is documentary: attentive to the in-between moments that do not stage well but tend to be the ones people remember.

She holds creative direction across every engagement, owns the client relationship, and sets the standard the work is held to.

In-house

Creative direction, brand, photography, content and social strategy, led from the studio.

Strategic partners

Senior strategy and technology advisors who work alongside the studio on engagements needing deeper systems, data or AI work.

Delivery network

Trusted specialists for platform and portal engineering, scoped and managed by the studio so you hold one relationship, not several.

We work mostly with mission-led organisations: You focus on the people, and we help build your strategy and infrastructure. Faith-based non-profits, values-led businesses, churches or schools. The throughline is people who care about what they are building and need a studio to deliver excellence.

Let's get to work

Tell us what you are trying to change.

We take on a small number of new partners each year. Two sentences is plenty to start with: who you are, and what is not working. You will get a reply from Sophie, not a form response.