Work with Christopher
I work with a small number of independent agencies on an ongoing monthly basis — technology strategy, vendor selection, and implementation oversight. No paid placement, no rip-and-replace, and no pretending you need a big budget to get moving.
What the engagement covers
Not a project with an end date and a final invoice. A standing arrangement, so the thinking keeps up with the agency.
A plan that survives contact with your week.
A standing monthly call where we look at what's actually happening in the agency — not a theory deck. You leave each call knowing the one or two things worth doing next, in what order, and who owns them.
Advice nobody paid for.
Shortlists built from what your agency actually needs, with honest notes on who each vendor suits and who it doesn't. I take no paid placement and no referral fees from vendors, so the only thing shaping the recommendation is your situation.
Someone on your side of the table.
The part that quietly eats agencies alive: the migration, the integrations, the vendor who says 'almost done'. I sit between you and the project — checking what's really been delivered, and keeping your core system untouched while everything else gets faster around it.
Not a monthly invoice and then silence.
Direct access between sessions for the thing that comes up on a Tuesday — a vendor email you want a second read on, a quote about whether a tool is worth the pilot, a producer who's about to buy something on their own.
How it starts
A few details about your agency — size, lines, what you run today, and the challenge that's eating your week. Two minutes, and it tells me whether I can honestly help.
No pitch deck. We go through what you're dealing with and I tell you straight whether an ongoing engagement makes sense — or whether the free tools and a single vendor are all you need.
A short written plan: what to fix first, what to buy, what to assemble from the lab, and what to deliberately leave alone for now. Yours whether or not we keep working together.
A standing call, a roadmap that stays current, and someone checking that the things you paid for are actually doing what the vendor said they would.
Who this works for
Who it isn't for
The one promise
I don't sell software, and no vendor has ever paid for a place on this site.
That's not a tagline — it's the only reason a shortlist from me is worth anything. If I tell you to buy something, it's because it fits your agency. If I tell you to hold off, that answer costs nobody anything but a month.
Straight answers
No. The vendor directory is independent and nothing on it is paid placement. That's the whole reason the advice is worth anything — if a vendor is on the shortlist, it's because it fits, not because of an arrangement.
No, and I'd push back hard if a vendor told you that you did. The approach here keeps your system of record untouched and adds speed around it — the integration blueprint covers how that works.
Small agencies are who this was built for. Most of the value in the first month is subtracting things — stopping a duplicate tool, fixing one workflow that drains hours — rather than buying anything.
Say so in the inquiry. Plenty of conversations end with 'book this vendor, skip that one, and use the free lab module for the rest' — and the score, Matchmaker and directory are free to use without talking to me at all.
Yes. Every module, the blueprint, the guides and the growth prompts are free to take and use. The engagement is for the part a PDF can't do: deciding, sequencing, and getting it actually landed.
Start here
A few details about your agency and the challenge you're carrying. I read every inquiry personally and reply within a couple of business days — including to tell you when an engagement isn't the right answer.
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