For independent performance, growth & creative agencies (15-100 people)
Senior teams were hired to think. Sundays are for formatting decks.
We rebuild the workflows where agencies leak margin: pitch decks, QBRs, brief intake, performance commentary, approval flows. Audit-first. Working prototype on your real data in weeks. Not a retainer, not a workshop deck.
One agency week · before / after Manual cycle With maxodev
Tue
Pitch deck assembly
Before
8 h
After
45 min
↳ 7h 15m back to senior
Wed
Brief intake & scoping
Before
3 d
After
90 min
↳ 22h 30m back to senior
Thu
Client QBR draft
Before
6 h
After
by 8am
↳ 5h 15m back to senior
Fri
Performance commentary
Before
16 h
After
3 h
↳ 13 h back to senior
One pitch · 27 hours RFP-to-ship · 47 min of senior time
Pitches that used to need a week. Done before lunch tomorrow.
Manual cycle: 5 days, 8h of senior assembly, deadline always tight. With maxodev: 27 hours start-to-ship, 47 minutes of senior time, buffer to spare. Click through one pitch as it unfolds.
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Pitch to Northwind Capital · RFP-2026-114
RFP received · intake engine triggered · senior unblocked
Senior strategist · in meeting · 0 min spent
T+0h0 min seniorT+2h12 min seniorT+7h38 min seniorT+26h47 min senior
Six example rebuilds. Your real workflow could be the seventh.
These aren't products on a price list. They're examples of what an audit-first rebuild looks like, built end-to-end on the client's real data, with metrics agreed before we start. We've also shipped automations for client onboarding, scope creep tracking, creative testing, competitor research, AM assistance and meeting-to-task routing. If your bench is leaking somewhere else, that's what the audit is for.
Pitch engine
4-week pilot
First-draft pitch decks from your own case studies.
Tone-aware draft from your last 100+ decks
Sector-tagged case retrieval, no generic boilerplate
Slides API export, ready for senior review
8 h→45 minper deck
Lead-gen engine
running live at maxodev
A cold base of thousands, qualified and personalised for cents.
Scores every company against your ICP, evidence kept per verdict
Drafts a 9-step LinkedIn + email sequence; you approve every send
≈1¢ per company qualified; copy models run only on tiers you pick
20 min→<1 minper company
QBR & reporting engine
6-week pilot
Client narratives drafted from the warehouse, not from memory.
Looker / BigQuery → 12-slide draft with citations
Tone profile per client account
Strategists edit, don't write
6 h→28 minper QBR
Brief & scope engine
8-week pilot
Intake that turns any brief into a scoping doc in 90 minutes.
Requirements + risk extracted from Word / PDF / email
Effort estimates calibrated on your own timesheets
Routed to discipline leads with 2-3 confirm questions each
3 d→90 minper brief
Performance pulse engine
4-week pilot
Anomaly response that beats your Slack reply time.
24/7 watch on CPA, ROAS, CTR and pace across every ad platform
Every alert ships a root-cause hypothesis and a next action
Catches Monday's 7am spike before the client's Friday email
2-3 d→<20 minto detect
Launch & delivery QA
4-week pilot
Campaign launches that pass pre-flight before the client sees them.
Pre-flight against your own checklist: tracking, UTMs, budgets, geo, specs
Launch pack assembled from the brief: structure, copy, tracking sheet
First-72-hours watch, so mistakes surface before the client's email
1-2 d→2 hper launch
First quick win · fixed scope · $490
The Pipeline Sprint. Your first win, inside a week.
Every agency has the same gap: next month's pipeline. Before you commit to anything bigger, buy the smallest thing we sell, and judge us on the artifact, not the pitch.
What lands in your inbox, five working days after the call
500-1,000 companies from your target market, scraped and scored A/B/C against your ICP, with the evidence behind every verdict, not just a number.
10-20 ready-to-send personalised sequences (9-step LinkedIn + email) for your A-tier, written against each company's actual site, in your voice.
Run through our production engine, the same system in the field notes below. Delivered as CSV + a live walkthrough of the control panel it ran in.
Your ICP, your list, yours to keep. Nothing is sent to anyone. Sequences ship as drafts. If the output isn't obviously worth 10× the price, we'll say so ourselves, and the pilot conversation ends there.
Scoped on the same 20-min audit call: bring your ICP, leave with a delivery date.
Working prototype in weeks. Pilot decides whether it pays.
Audit-first. We sell a 6-8-week experiment with metrics agreed on day one, and we walk away if the numbers don't move. The audit decides 80% of the outcome: agency AI projects rarely fail at the build; they fail by automating the wrong workflow.
Week 1
Audit
We sit with one workflow end-to-end. Real briefs, real decks, real reviewers. Output: a written audit and a go/no-go for a prototype.
Weeks 2-3
Prototype
Working prototype on your real data. No mockups. By the end of week 3 the senior reviewer is using it on a live piece of work.
Weeks 4-6
Pilot
Roll into one team, one client portfolio or one pitch cycle. We measure the metrics that matter: senior hours, throughput, win rate.
Week 7+
Decision
Pilot review. Numbers on the table. Roll out wider, kill it, or fold the lessons into a different workflow. No long-term retainer locks.
Two founders. Strategy and engineering, same room.
A senior pair, not an agency. We do the audit, the prototype and the pilot ourselves: no offshore handoff, no junior staff learning on your data. The cost of a pilot is roughly one month of a senior in-house AI hire, and you get a working system at the end of it.
Andrew Bulgakov
Co-founder & CTO
10+ years building production AI systems: retrieval, agents, and the brittle glue between LLMs and real workflows. Has shipped automation pipelines used by enterprise procurement and operations teams. Turns “wouldn't it be cool if” into “shipped on Tuesday”.
Retrieval & RAGAgentsProduction MLData infra
Alex Hrechenko
Co-founder & Strategy
8 years across engineering, product and agency partnerships. Scoped 40+ AI workflows for B2B and agency teams, and walked away from twice as many that wouldn't pay back the budget. Believes senior afternoons are the most strategic thing AI can hand back to an agency.
Half the value of audit-first is saying no fast. Here's exactly who this is for, and who should pick a different shop.
✓ Fit
15-100 people. Independent or PE-backed agency.
EU, UK or US. We work in your business hours.
Doing real client work: performance, creative, content, integrated, production.
Margin pressure is real and you can name the two workflows that hurt most.
Leadership wants AI to free senior time, not to replace junior hires.
Willing to put real briefs, decks and reports into a 1-week audit.
✕ Not a fit
Looking for generic AI advice or a chatbot demo.
Sub-15 people: not enough volume to justify a build yet.
Want a ChatGPT prompt training day or a workshop deck.
Looking for a slide presentation about AI, not a working prototype.
Not willing to share real workflow artefacts during the audit.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Audit fee credited to the pilot.
No retainers. No headcount-based billing. Every engagement is scoped to one workflow with a number we send before you commit.
20-min margin audit
Free
One workflow walked end-to-end on a call. Honest yes/no on whether an AI rebuild can pay back in six weeks.
1-week paid audit
Low five figures
Written audit, data assessment, scoped pilot proposal with a fixed price. Fully credited toward the pilot if you proceed.
4-8 week pilot
Fixed price
One workflow shipped on your real data, with the success metric agreed on day one. Walk away if the numbers don't move.
After the pilot
No retainer
Roll wider, kill it, or hand it to your team. No headcount minimums, no monthly lock, no ongoing fee.
Real answers, not deflections.
We already tried ChatGPT and a few AI tools. How is this different?
ChatGPT saves a junior three minutes drafting an email. We rebuild the eight-hour task itself, the senior workflow underneath. A prompt template lives inside a person's head; a workflow we ship lives inside your pitch process, your warehouse, your approval chain.
If you're getting marginal time savings from off-the-shelf tools, the leak is upstream: in how briefs arrive, how decks get assembled, how reports get written. That's what we audit.
Will this replace our junior team?
No, and we won't take on engagements where that's the goal. The point is the opposite: senior time stops disappearing into assembly, juniors stop being review-bottlenecked, the agency does more pitches and better work, not the same amount with fewer people.
Every workflow we ship has explicit human-in-the-loop review steps. Senior judgement is the moat we're protecting, not replacing.
Our data is messy and lives across Drive, Notion, Frame.io, three CRMs. Will that work?
That's the normal case. Every agency we've worked with has the same shape: a Drive that's a graveyard, a Notion that's half-stale, a Frame.io with two years of feedback nobody can find. We don't make you clean it first.
Week 1 audit includes a data audit. We tell you what's usable, what's noise, and exactly how much cleanup the workflow actually needs (often less than you'd guess).
What about IP, client data, GDPR, US data residency?
EU-resident infra by default, US-resident on request. We use enterprise model endpoints (no training on your data), private vector stores, and SOC2-aligned vendors. Per-client data isolation is the default, not an upsell.
If your largest client has a specific GDPR or DPA requirement, send it over before the audit. We've answered the standard ones.
What does this cost?
Summary is in the pricing section above. Pilot pricing scales with workflow complexity, not headcount. We send a specific number after the 20-min call or after the 1-week audit, with a hard scope and a metric.
No retainers, no ongoing minimum.
Why not just hire an AI engineer in-house?
At 100+ people with internal AI engineering you probably should, and we'll tell you so during the audit. Below that, the math doesn't work: a senior AI engineer is a £180k+ salary and a 6-month hiring slog before they ship anything agency-shaped.
We're a two-person shipping team specialised in agency workflows. You get the equivalent of a senior pair for the cost of a pilot, and we hand you a working system at the end.
Book a 20-minute margin audit.
Bring one workflow that's eating senior time. We map it end-to-end and tell you honestly whether an AI rebuild pays back in six weeks, or whether the leak is somewhere else. No deck, no pitch, no follow-up unless you ask.
You name one workflow eating senior time.
We map the current path, volume and senior hours.
You get an honest answer on whether it can pay back in six weeks.
If not, we say no and tell you where the leak probably is.