STRATEGY FROM RESEARCH
Reliable
Growth for
Digital Agencies
We craft market-defining strategies for digital service firms based on proprietary industry-leading research.
We Craft
Market Defining Strategies
Reduce Risk
Strategy Review
An outside review of your shop’s strategy to identify risks and ensure it matches your goals and that it’s implementable with your current resources.
Build sustainable growth
Comprehensive Growth Evaluation
Implement a data-driven growth strategy. We work with your team to analyze your firm, identify areas of strength, candidly evaluate weaknesses, document where you are today, uncover where you want to go, and chart a course to get there.
Don’t go it alone
Embedded Strategist
Ever wish you could copy yourself? Want someone to chat business with who understands your perspective and can offer more? An embedded strategist works like a fractional CFO or CMO but for strategy-related activities.
Enhanced by
Industry Leading Research
We source the best inputs in the industry. Our primary research covers 30,000+ digital marketing and digital service firms across 100+ countries. This research is integral to how we view your industry. It allows us to maintain that “informed outsider” perspective that is so valuable to our clients. When possible, we package that information and perspective into resources that help digital shop owners make better decisions.
Our research includes data from over
digital shops.
Latest Insights

The Factory – Consultancy Continuum
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Agency Roles, Goals & Structure
Getting the right people in the right seats allows owners and partners to focus their energy on more strategic questions vs. putting out that day’s fire. That additional strategic bandwidth can make all the difference when the market gets choppy.

Financial Metrics for Marketing Agencies
Monitoring the right metrics can make growing a digital agency significantly easier. By regularly monitoring them, and asking the right questions, they can reveal where you should focus your team.
Work With The Best
We work with management teams who are building the future. From digital marketing agencies implementing the latest AI, to dev shops that manipulate vast quantities of data and content, to martech firms making it simple to fully automate brand artwork generation. The firms we work with live on the cutting edge.
Digital Marketing Agencies
“Promethean provided an excellent outside perspective and analysis on our merger project. We would happily recommend them!”
Digital Service Firms
“Working with Nick was stress-free. Promethean brings experience and thoughtful insights to every meeting and deliverable. Highly recommend.”
Martech Companies
“Their no-nonsense approach and accurate assessment of market potential provided our board with crucial insights for our strategic roadmap. Smart templates require smart data, which is what Promethean Research delivered.”
Helping Digital Agencies Do More of Their Best
Most of the time clients are already doing amazing work. The most common issue is a lack of bandwidth to work on their businesses. Our core services revolve around providing information, resources, and tools to allow clients to grow and do more of what they do best.
Solve your most complex strategic challenges
Get an informed outside perspective
Achieve reliable and efficient growth
Building Reliable Growth Engines
Our core services are designed to unlock efficient rapid growth for digital shops.
Comprehensive Growth Evaluation
From the initial market research through implementation, we work with management teams to drive reliable value creation. We work with your team to analyze your firm, identify areas of strength, candidly evaluate weaknesses, document where you are today, uncover where you want to go, and chart a course to get there.
Repeatable Revenue Generation
Internal Discovery
Benchmark Analysis
Market Research
Competitive Landscape Analysis
Profit Maximization
How Can We Help?
From Comprehensive growth evaluations, to strategic positioning, to custom market intelligence, and everything in between.