What we're building

Our own ventures

The best way to know whether marketing works is to have to make it work for yourself, with your own money. So we build our own companies here in Santa Barbara — and two of them are already open to clients.

The portfolio

01 EventVault A media company that uses events and content to grow an audience — then uses that audience to promote events and groups, and to connect sponsors with the people they are trying to reach. Live 02 Caffeine POS A point of sale and inventory management system, in beta with a small group of clients. Designed to be the easiest way to sell in-person. In beta 03 SantaBarbarians Santa Barbara from the viewpoint of the people that live here. In development 04 FilmDrops Human curated film discovery. A website and an app. Incubating 05 BowlSongs Sound healing with Crystal Alchemy Singing Bowls. Incubating 06 DoCheckRepeat The app we run the studio on — every project, every deadline, every client. Even our finances. Built for ourselves first. Internal tool

Why a marketing agency builds its own things

Because it is the same muscle. Every venture here needed a brand, a website, a launch, an audience and a reason to exist — the exact work clients hire us for. Building our own means we are not describing something we read about.

Two of these appeared on a Caffeine Group business card in Atlanta twenty years ago. Some ideas take a while.