A creative director in the room for a set number of hours a month, defined up front. Direction, judgment, and quality control across everything your team ships, without a two hundred thousand dollar line on the payroll.
A first month spent understanding the brand, the team, the calendar, and the standard the work has to clear. Ending in a written point of view on what is working and what is not.
Standing reviews on a fixed cadence. Briefs written or sharpened before work starts, feedback given in one pass rather than five, and final calls made so nothing sits waiting on a decision.
The reason to do this rather than outsource production. Your designers get directed by someone who has done the job, which is how people get better.
A monthly written summary of what shipped, what improved, and what is still in the way. If the arrangement stops being worth the fee, that document is where you will see it first.
A fractional creative director directs; production capacity is a separate arrangement. Some execution is normal inside the hours, but if the underlying need is volume rather than judgment, the monthly retainer is the honest answer and costs less.
Tell us the shape of the problem and we will tell you honestly whether the Fractional Creative Director is the right answer to it. We reply within two business days.
Prefer email? hello@ambolt.co. If we are not the right studio for this, we will say so and point you somewhere better.
Priced by hours a month, agreed up front and tracked honestly. Unused hours do not silently disappear; we resize the block instead.
How the hours work. Fixed-price engagements are scoped at a blended $100 an hour; fractional creative direction is scoped at $145 an hour, because it is senior time rather than production. The hours above are what the price is built from. We track against them and tell you where we are, and if a scope change pushes past the block we say so before the work happens rather than after.
Companies leave here looking like one company again. The same voice on the site, the deck, the ad, and the booth. Every quarter you wait is another quarter of good work going out under a brand that undersells it.