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Credentials

HARPP

Complexity Made Simple.

A strategic creative partner.
We turn ideas into action for organisations that shape the world.

The problem

Complex organisations rarely have too little to say.

Usually, they have too much.

Too much expertise to distil.

Too many audiences.

Too many priorities.

Too many versions of the story.

The problem isn't the thinking.

It's joining the dots.

Strategy says one thing.

Marketing says another.

Sales translates it again.

Content adds another version.

That's where we come in.

We find the idea that makes everything else make sense.

Then we put it to work.

We specialise in complexity.

Not categories.

Complex offers.
Multiple audiences.
Deep expertise.
High stakes.
Long decisions.

Industries

These are the types of industries we're currently working with.

Different worlds. Same job.

Aerospace + aviation
Professional services
Finance + wealth
Healthcare
Technology + telecoms
Infrastructure + utilities
Automotive + mobility

How we do it.

01

Strategic clarity

Find the idea.

We get to the heart of the problem and work out what really matters.

  • The audience.
  • The tension.
  • The opportunity.
  • The position to take.
  • The idea everything else can build from.

This can include proposition, positioning, audience strategy, narrative, messaging, offer architecture and brand strategy.

02

Creative storytelling

Make the idea matter.

We turn the strategic idea into something people can understand, remember and care about.

Not creativity added after the strategy.

Creativity that makes the strategy stronger.

This can include campaigns, content, narratives, leadership communications, films, reports, sales stories and brand expression.

03

Practical activation

Put the idea to work.

An idea only has value when people use it.

We build the tools, systems, content and plans that take it out of the presentation and into the organisation and the market.

This can include activation plans, playbooks, toolkits, sales enablement, internal communications, launch plans and ongoing strategic and creative support.

This is not about making important things simplistic.

It is about identifying what matters most and organising everything else around it.

Focused. Then fast.

Get under the skin of it.

Find what actually matters.

Make it clear.

Make it useful.

Less process. More progress.

The proof

Some examples of recent work.

Some recent production projects

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Linklaters

Linklaters

From

A global firm with deep expertise, multiple practices, markets, innovations and proof points — but no simple way of connecting them into one distinctive story about why Linklaters is different.

To

Built Differently.

Put to work

A strategic lens for the firm story, people, content, social and communications.

Ontic

From

A complex process for taking on an aerospace product line: transferring knowledge, tooling, data and inventory; establishing production; protecting customer supply; becoming the OEM of record; then improving and sustaining the line for decades.

Put to work

One framework now shaping messaging, case studies, sales tools, internal communications and campaigns.

To

Ontic LIFT

Ontic product lifecycle transition

Ontic

One of the "Big Four" global professional services firm

From

One week. Senior leaders from around the world. Multiple business priorities, perspectives and conversations — and a brief to capture enough useful material to feed social, web and internal communications long after the event was over.

To

A simple content system designed to get more from every conversation.

One week of access30+ pieces
01Leadership films
02Interviews
03Social cut-downs
04Photography
05Quote cards
06Internal comms
07Web stories
08Event highlights

Put to work

30+ pieces of content from one week of access.

Motorfinity

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From

A genuinely valuable offer — significant new-car savings for people who serve — wrapped in eligibility, manufacturer relationships, finance, access and support.

And one fundamental challenge:

If the saving sounds too good to be true, how do you make people trust it?

To

Make the saving believable.

Put to work

One clearer proposition carried into messaging, website, communications and sales.

Arcadia Aviation

Arcadia Aviation

From

A highly personal private aviation service whose identity didn't yet express the quality, discretion and individuality of the experience it delivered.

To

A brand as personal as the service behind it.

Put to work

Identity, website, content, social and the physical client experience.

The people

Small by design. Senior by default.

The people in the room are the people doing the work.

No layers of account management.

No strategy handed down the line.