Friendship With Benefits

Partner with us to make beautiful creatives — under your name, on your timeline, with no strings attached.

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Not Every Relationship Needs a Contract

Sometimes you do not need an agency. You need hands — a team that can take a brief, make something genuinely good, and hand it back in your file structure with your name on it. That is what this is: creative and production capacity you can borrow when you have won more than you can staff, when a discipline is missing, or when there is one project worth doing properly and no reason to sign a year to get it done.

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White-Label Creative

Work delivered under your brand — unbranded files, your naming conventions, and no claim to the credit unless you offer it.

We can join client calls as part of your team, or stay entirely invisible and deal only with you. Files arrive structured the way your team works rather than the way ours does, and nothing appears in our portfolio or on our social without your written permission. Your client relationship stays yours; we are simply where some of the work got made.

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Overflow & Capacity Support

For the month you won three pitches at once — extra hands without a hiring process for a spike that lasts six weeks.

Hiring against a temporary peak is how agencies end up over-staffed the following quarter, and turning work away is how they lose the client for the year after. We absorb the surge instead: usually starting within a week, sometimes days, working to your existing process rather than importing ours. When the peak passes, it simply stops — no notice period, no awkward conversation.

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Project Collaboration

One brief, one scope, one price — for when there is a single thing worth doing well and no appetite for a retainer.

Brand identity, a campaign, a website, a film, a packaging range. We scope it, quote it before starting, and deliver it. Most of these relationships begin here, which is as it should be: one real project tells both sides more about whether this works than any amount of credentials, and there is no commitment waiting on the other side of it.

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Retained Design & Production

Reserved monthly capacity for partners with a steady flow — cheaper per unit, and first in the queue.

Where work arrives predictably, a retainer beats project-by-project on both cost and speed: we hold capacity for you, scheduling stops being a negotiation every time something lands, and the team stays familiar with your clients and standards rather than relearning them each brief. We are explicit about what the retainer covers and what sits outside it, so nobody is surprised at invoicing.

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Pitch Support

Helping you win it — concepts, decks and mockups produced to the standard the pitch deserves, on the timeline pitches actually run to.

Pitches arrive with impossible deadlines and no spare capacity, which is exactly when creative quality slips and the pitch is lost on the thing you could most have controlled. We build the creative work, the visualisations and the presentation design so your team can concentrate on the argument. Terms for pitch work are agreed upfront, including what happens if you win.

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Common Questions

Partnership FAQs

Who is this for?

Agencies that have won more than they can staff, studios missing a discipline they do not want to hire for permanently, in-house brand teams without enough hands, and founders who need proper creative for one project rather than a retainer. If you need good work made and do not need a full agency relationship to get it, this is the arrangement.

Do you work white-label under our brand?

Yes, and it is the most common version of this. Files are delivered unbranded and in your naming conventions, we join client calls as part of your team if that helps or stay entirely invisible if it does not, and we do not claim the work publicly or in our portfolio without your written permission. Your client never needs to know we exist.

What can you actually take on?

Brand identity and design systems, campaign creative and adaptations, packaging and print, web and application design and build, film and video production, social content at volume, and presentation and pitch design. Where something falls outside what we do well, we will say so rather than accepting the brief and quietly learning on your project.

How fast can you start?

For overflow work, usually within a week — sometimes days if it is a discipline we have capacity in. That is the whole point of the arrangement: you should not have to run a hiring process to absorb a spike that lasts six weeks. For larger ongoing engagements we scope properly first, because starting fast on the wrong understanding costs more than starting a week later.

How does pricing work?

Project rates for defined scopes, and monthly retainers where the flow of work is steady and you want reserved capacity. Retainers are cheaper per unit and get priority in scheduling. We quote before starting rather than billing open-ended hours, and where a scope is genuinely unknowable we say that too instead of inventing a number that gets revised upward later.

Who owns the work?

You do, on final payment — full transfer of files, source assets and rights, so you can pass them to your client with nothing withheld. There is no licensing arrangement where we retain rights to work you paid for, and no editable-source-file upsell. That would make us a liability in your relationship with your client, which defeats the purpose.

How do we communicate on a project?

One point of contact on our side, working in whatever your team already uses rather than asking you to adopt our tools. For white-label work we adapt to your process, your file structures and your review cycles — the arrangement only works if we reduce coordination load rather than adding another system for you to manage.

What if we only have one project?

That is fine, and it is where most of these relationships start. One project with no commitment attached is the sensible way to find out whether working together is any good, and we would rather you test us on something real than sign something long before either side knows. Plenty of these stay one-offs, and that is a perfectly good outcome.

Brief. Build. Hand Over.

Your Name On Our Work

Got a specific project for us? Send it over. No pitch process, no minimum commitment, no onboarding deck — just tell us what needs making and when you need it, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

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Advertising is the aftertaste of a good story. So, Thumbpin weaves a unique tale for your brand punched together with design and production.

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