First to mind.
First to find.
We build Fame and Fortune for B2B scale-ups. Senior thinking, AI-native. Two Outcomes. One System.
SEE HOW IT WORKS“You can make a wild duck tame, but you can never make a tame duck wild again.”
That warning came from Søren Kierkegaard. Thomas J. Watson Sr. — the man who dragged IBM into the computer age — made it his mantra. He knew that once you domesticate original thinkers by forcing them into rigid structures, the wildness is gone. You can’t get it back.
The same is true in B2B marketing. Billable hours reward slow. Junior teams learn on your budget. Opaque retainers remove accountability. Creative becomes safe. Nobody gets fired for vanilla. The model doesn’t just tolerate boring — it manufactures it. Systematically. Every time.
Boring B2B marketing isn’t just a creative problem. It’s also a structural one.We fixed both.
We stripped out the layers — the juniors, the timesheets, the safe plays — and replaced them with something that makes interesting work the norm, not the exception. AI as the operating system. Senior thinking on every account. Published pricing. Productised services. A continuous loop that gets smarter every cycle.
We build Fame and Fortune — not hours. Fame: first to mind. Fortune: first to find.
We exist for the founders and CMOs who are tired of paying for process and getting none of the progress. The ones who want to be famous in their market — not just present in it.
Wild Ducks. Never Tame.
HOW WE GROW BRANDS
Most agencies build Fame or Fortune. We run both as a continuous loop — where every cycle compounds on the last, and every piece of work makes the next one sharper.
paid for itself.
Most agencies are structurally broken. They sell hours when clients need outcomes. They hire juniors to pad headcount. They move slowly because their business model rewards slow.
Dave Connor — our Senior Growth Strategist — spent years inside that machine, building and selling a digital agency to a global advertising network, co-founding a SaaS company backed by Enterprise Ireland as a High Potential Start-Up, and learning a harder lesson when a third venture failed.
Wild Ducks is what that full arc produces. Senior growth strategy from someone who has built, sold, and started again — paired with senior content capability to execute it. Fifteen years across photography, video production, and AI-native content tools.
Senior expertise only. No juniors learning on your account. AI handles production, research, and analysis. Humans handle strategy, relationships, and taste. The model isn’t a pitch. It’s a position.
If you’re a B2B founder or CMO who’s done paying for activity — this is different.
YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
There are two reasons most B2B scale-ups stay invisible. Buyers don’t think of them. Or buyers can’t find them. Most companies have both problems and one theory about which one matters more.
Fame is the first. Being first to mind. When your buyers have a problem you solve — and they will, eventually — your name should already be in their head. Not because they googled you that morning. Because you’ve been building the kind of presence that sticks: positioning that cuts through, content that travels, a point of view worth remembering.
Fortune is the second. Being first to find. When those same buyers start looking — in Google, in ChatGPT, in Perplexity — you need to be impossible to miss.
We build both. The Flyway is the system that connects them: a continuous loop of positioning, content, and AI search visibility that builds compounding advantage over time.
Most engagements start with The Flyover — a diagnostic audit that maps your Fame and Fortune gaps before any budget is committed to fixing them.
Two things. Most agencies promise one or neither.
Fame is being first to mind. When your buyer has a problem you solve — and they will, eventually — your name is already in their head. Content that travels. Positioning that cuts through. A point of view worth remembering.
Fortune is being first to find. When that same buyer starts looking — on Google, on LinkedIn, in ChatGPT — you’re already there. Visible, prominent, impossible to miss.
Here’s what most B2B companies get wrong: they chase Fortune without Fame. They spend almost everything talking to the 5% of buyers who are already in market — and ignore the 95% who aren’t there yet but will be.
The Flyway builds both. That’s the only thing worth building.
Most marketing looks like a project. Brief in, campaign out, repeat. The Flyway isn’t that.
It’s a continuous operating loop — Call, Tune, Fly, Bank — where each stage feeds the next. The insight from Month 1 sharpens the content in Month 3. The visibility data from Month 4 refines the positioning in Month 6. Every cycle compounds the last.
The Nest is what makes it compound. Every engagement builds an institutional knowledge base specific to your market, your buyers, and what’s working. Clients never fly the Nest — because the longer they stay, the sharper every deliverable gets.
You’re not buying a campaign. You’re building a system that gets better the longer it runs.
Not what most B2B companies think it looks like.
Interesting isn’t louder. It isn’t more content. It isn’t a rebrand or a campaign with a name. Interesting is the thing your buyer remembers when they’re not in the market — so when they are, you’re already in their head.
The work that makes a B2B company famous is the same work that makes any company famous. The category is different. The mechanics aren’t.
Your buyers aren’t just using Google anymore.
When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini a question about your category, those tools don’t return a list of links. They return an answer. If your company isn’t in the answer, you don’t exist in that search.
This is GEO — Generative Engine Optimisation. The Duck Hunt is our monthly GEO programme. We map the questions your buyers are asking across AI search engines, measure how visible you are in the answers, and systematically close the gaps. Every month you get a Visibility Scorecard.
If your buyers are searching for what you do in ChatGPT and you’re not in the answer, someone else is getting that call. That’s the Fortune gap. We close it.
Senior practitioners. Every time.
No juniors learning on your account. No account managers playing telephone between you and the people thinking. The person you speak to in the first conversation is the person doing the work.
Most agencies rotate people. Every rotation resets the clock — your market context, your buyer language, your competitive position, all re-explained to someone who wasn’t there.
Continuity isn’t a quality-of-life benefit. It’s where the compounding happens.
Most agencies built a service, then added AI to the pitch deck. We built the delivery model around AI from day one — briefs, research, production, measurement. The whole stack. That’s why we can put senior people on every account without charging senior-people rates for every hour.
The output looks the same to you. The architecture underneath is completely different.
It starts with The Flyover. Three to four weeks. We audit your Fame and Fortune position, benchmark you against your category, and deliver a SOAP — one page that shows where you are, where the gaps are, and what to prioritise.
From there, most clients move into delivery: The Migration for Fame, The Duck Hunt for Fortune, or both as the Full Growth Engine.
No lock-in contracts. If it’s not working, we’ll tell you before you do.
You’ll see movement from the first month. Fortune moves faster than Fame. AI search visibility is trackable within the first month — you get a Visibility Scorecard every month.
Fame takes longer. Not because the model is slow. Because that’s how memory works. Your buyers are only in market 5% of the time.
Every cycle builds on the last. Month six is sharper than month one. That’s not a timeline. That’s a system.
Depends where you’re starting from and what you’re trying to build.
Initial Investments
Programmes
We publish our ranges. We don’t do “let’s discuss budget on a call.”
Most engagements start with a Flyover. It’s the fastest way to know whether the bigger investment makes sense — for both of us.
Because you’re not paying for our time.
A structural engineer doesn’t charge less because they use CAD instead of a drawing board. You’re paying for the thinking, the strategy, and the quality of what arrives at the end.
Cheap AI output isn’t cheap. You pay for it in results instead of invoices.
Most companies are tame and don’t know it yet. Same positioning as their three closest competitors. Content that goes out every week and lands nowhere.
Tame is comfortable. Tame is defensible. Tame is what happens when you play it safe instead of being impossible to ignore.
Every company thinks they’re the wild duck. Most of them are the barnyard. If you’re not — get in touch.
Companies looking for a content factory. Volume without strategy, posts without positioning, activity without a point of view.
Companies that want to own the brief but outsource the execution — then approve every sentence.
Companies measuring marketing by Monday-to-Monday traffic numbers and expecting B2B awareness to behave like an e-commerce funnel.
We’re direct. If that sounds uncomfortable, we’re probably not the right fit.
Get in touch. We’ll have a 30-minute conversation. No pitch, no deck, no questions about your five-year vision. Just an honest discussion about where you are and whether we can help.
We’ll get back to you the same day.
Start with a Flyover.
No commitment. Senior-only delivery. You’ll leave with a clear strategic action plan — whether you work with us or not.
Book a Flyover conversationIf that’s you, you’ve found your team.