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Marketing Agency50–100 employees

Inc. 5000

Inc. 5000 #422 + revenue doubled

How a marketing agency doubled revenue and made the Inc. 5000

50-100-employee marketing agency. Sales team buried in pitch deck production, content team at capacity, growth stalling. Agency placed 422nd on the 2025 Inc. 5000 after the rebuild.

Inc. 5000 No. 422: TNT Growth, 2025 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies (Josh Stylianou, MD)Inc. 5000Nº422U S A2025AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATECOMPANIES

Official ranking

No. 422 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Same playbook applied here.

Pitch decks

15 minutes each

Sales team freed to sell

Revenue

Doubled

Sales velocity unlocked

Content output

10x volume

Same headcount

Recognition

Inc. 5000

Revenue growth recognised

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  • Inc 5000#422
  • 100+brands
  • £152M+delivered
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The Challenge

Growth was stalling. The sales team was spending four hours building every pitch deck, manually pulling case studies, tailoring slides, formatting proposals that all followed the same structure but had to be rebuilt from scratch each time. That meant fewer outreach conversations, fewer proposals out the door, and revenue left on the table every week. Content production was bottlenecked. The team needed a constant stream of SEO content, campaign assets, and client material, but creative was at capacity and hiring wasn’t fast enough. The newsletter was manual. Client acquisition couldn’t scale because the team was buried in production, not selling.

The Turning Point

They’d bought AI tools. Usage died after two weeks. The tools weren’t the problem, nobody had rebuilt the workflows to actually use them where it mattered: in the sales process and content engine.

What We Built

We built Close the Deal first, an AI pitch deck builder that cut proposal creation from four hours to fifteen minutes. The sales team went from a handful of proposals a week to generating them on demand. Their time shifted from building slides to having conversations and closing deals. Then Get Found, a full SEO and GEO content engine that 10x’d content output without adding headcount. AI handled the volume, humans handled the strategy. We built the newsletter system. Created creative automation workflows for the repetitive production work. Then Get the Meeting, with the sales team freed from admin, they could actually do outreach at scale. Revenue doubled. The agency made the Inc. 5000.

The Hard Part

The biggest risk was the sales team dismissing the deck tool as too generic. We built it around their actual proposal structure and their real case studies, not a template. When they saw it produce a client-ready deck in fifteen minutes that would have taken an afternoon, resistance disappeared overnight.

What we built

  • AI pitch deck builder: proposal creation 4 hours to 15 minutes, sales team freed to sell
  • SEO + GEO content engine: output 10x without adding headcount
  • Newsletter system + creative-automation workflows for the repetitive production work
  • Outreach scaled once the sales team had time to do it

Before vs After

Metric

Before

After

Pitch decks

Sales team freed to sell

4 hours each
15 minutes each

Revenue

Sales velocity unlocked

Growth stalling
Doubled

Content output

Same headcount

Team at capacity
10x volume

Recognition

Revenue growth recognised

Strong agency
Inc. 5000

The thing that surprised them

The pitch deck builder produced its first client-ready deck in 15 minutes. The sales team's resistance disappeared the same afternoon. They asked when we could automate the rest.

Honest read

Generic templates would have flopped. The deck tool only worked because it was built around their actual proposal structure and their real case studies. Off-the-shelf would have been worse than nothing.

The deck tool alone changed how fast we could move. But the real shift was that our sales team went back to selling instead of building slides. Revenue doubled because they finally had the time to close.

Managing Director

Inc. 5000 marketing agency

Why It Compounds

Close the Deal + Get Found + Get the Meeting. The pitch deck builder gave the sales team their time back. The content engine gave the agency authority and inbound. The newsletter system kept prospects warm. Revenue doubled because every part of the engine was finally working together, not because any single tool was magic, but because the system compounded.

Inc. 5000 No. 422: TNT Growth, 2025 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies (Josh Stylianou, MD)Inc. 5000Nº422U S A2025AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING PRIVATECOMPANIES

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