Business Development Agency for Creative Studios

When you lose touch with your relationships, you become one of the five studios pitching.

We build reconnection systems that put creative studios in conversations months before the brief, without hiring a business development lead or chasing people down.

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Clients

Current + past partners

Puddle Creative
Spear Strategy
Ghost Robot
Team Bubbly
elementiQ
RaffertyWeiss Media
Paperwhite Studio
BX Studio
Barrel
Driver Digital

Current state

01The problem

You built your studio on relationships. Then the conversations stopped.

Three common reasons.

  1. 01

    The work takes over.

    Delivery fills the week, and reaching out is the first thing to slip.

  2. 02

    People fade from memory.

    They’re still in your inbox, but nothing brings them back to mind.

  3. 03

    Reaching out feels like chasing.

    Without a real reason to write, a note feels like pestering.

02The reframe

It’s not a timing problem. It’s a trust problem.

When you lose touch, the brief reaches you cold. You become one of five studios pitching, compared on price, compromised on margins, and asked to prove you can deliver.

And watching for the right moment won’t fix it because by the time you learn about a new hire or product launch, they could already be talking to the studios they trust.

03Our point of view

Show up consistently, with value.

Trust is built months before the brief.

  1. 01

    Stay close.

    Keep in regular, human contact with the people who already trust you.

  2. 02

    Provide value.

    Every email carries a personalized and helpful message.

  3. 03

    Be there first.

    When a need starts to form, you’re already in the conversation.

Benefits

Win work, and on better terms.

01

Low competition

Sometimes, there’s only one or two other studios involved. Sometimes, you are the only partner they think of. Either way, you skip the bidding process altogether.

02

Higher margins

The project fits what you do best, and your process is already tuned for this kind of client. You can charge more, and keep more of what you charge.

03

The upper hand

They come to you as the expert, not as one of the few studios. That puts you in the stronger position when it’s time to talk price, and makes you far more likely to win.

Services

A full-fledged managed service.

Service 01Relationship strategy & process design

  1. 01

    Unique cluster targeting

    We surface unique clusters in your network, like a team you once worked with that has since spread across new companies.

  2. 02

    Account-based targeting

    We decide which accounts to pursue, and focus on relationships that are worth more.

  3. 03

    Key account reporting

    A weekly report on who we picked and why, and how your key accounts are moving.

  4. 04

    Quarterly relationship review

    Each quarter we review your key accounts with you and set the focus for the next one.

Service 02Relationship reactivation

  1. 01

    Context integration

    We connect to your Gmail, Google calendar, and notetaker altogether and extract summaries and key data points that are used for your daily digests.

  2. 02

    Relationship identification

    We find the real person behind every address, even after a job change, and the relationships worth reconnecting.

  3. 03

    Signals tracking

    Job changes, promotions, new roles, company news, LinkedIn posts and website visits, tracked for every relationship.

  4. 04

    Contact picking

    Each weekday, we pick the three people worth talking to now, and tell you why.

  5. 05

    Email drafting

    We draft an email in your voice alongside every contact we suggest, ready to send from your own inbox in five minutes.

Service 03Relationship management & nurturing

  1. 01

    Daily outreach tracking

    Every reconnection sent and every reply, tracked day by day, so momentum never slips.

  2. 02

    Regular snapshots

    Weekly, monthly and quarterly: who you reached, who replied, meetings booked and what’s converting.

  3. 03

    Follow-up digests

    Live threads that need a nudge, surfaced with the follow-up already drafted.

  4. 04

    Client dashboard

    Who to contact, who to follow up with, conversations started and your accounts, live in one place.

Service 04Inbox health management

  1. 01

    Sending policies monitoring

    SPF, DKIM and DMARC are being monitored at all times, so the infrastructure actually trusts your emails.

  2. 02

    Regular testing

    Spam placement tests, and domain and IP reputation checks.

  3. 03

    Email warm-up tracking

    Ensure a good inbox reputation so your emails don’t land in spam.

Who you work with

Relationship strategist

Set the strategy: why this person, why not others, why now.

Account manager

Runs the weekly report and quarterly relationship review, alongside relationship strategist.

Relationship engineer

Keep your strategy, context and signals connected and accurate.

Copywriter

Write each suggested email in your digests, from the context we have.

Email specialist

Look after your inbox health and sending reputation.

Your commitment

15 minutes a day

Each day, you review the three contacts we suggest, edit anything that doesn’t sound like you, and reach out using your own inbox.

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Case studies

Real conversations that start months before the brief.

No pitching. No price war.

In brief

In 2017 she hired the Client for a product video, then the emails stopped. VeraOps first suggested her in December 2025, while she was at a major entertainment company, and again in March 2026, when she became VP Marketing at a major science museum. Eleven days after the Client’s note, they were invited into a private, NDA-only RFP, three months before she announced the exhibition on LinkedIn. The museum pushed the project back in June, then came back in September ready to move forward.

How it unfolded

  1. Dec 3, 2025VeraOpsFirst suggests her, while she is at a major entertainment company.
  2. Mar 30, 2026VeraOpsFlags her again after her move to VP Marketing at a major science museum.
  3. Apr 3The Client sends the suggested note. She replies in 23 minutes.
  4. Apr 14The brief: a private, NDA-only RFP for an early-stage project built around a widely known IP.
  5. May 29Pitch to the museum team.
  6. Jun 25The museum pushes the project back by a few quarters.
  7. Jul 7She announces on LinkedIn that she is leading the exhibition.
  8. Sep 21She comes back to the Client with the full details and asks to move forward.
  9. Oct 23Photography and retouching added. Revised to $67K.
  10. Nov 9Kick-off call.
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Pricing

Start with an audit, then a complete build-out.

Step one · audit
$2,000

One-time.

  • Context integration: Gmail, Google calendar, and notetaker
  • Relationship identification: the people worth reconnecting with
  • Cluster and account mapping: your unique clusters and key accounts
  • Signals check: who in your network has a recent reason to hear from you
  • A full report of what we found, and whether the next step fits
Step two · system building
$1,500 a month

Minimum commitment of 12 months.

  • Relationship strategy: cluster and account targeting, a weekly key account report, and a quarterly relationship review
  • Relationship reactivation: three contacts every weekday, with signals, context and a drafted email
  • Relationship management: follow-up digests, daily outreach tracking, snapshots and a live client dashboard
  • Inbox health: sending policies monitored, spam and reputation tests, and warm-up tracking
  • Your team of five, with an account manager as your main contact
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Testimonials

In their words.

“VeraOps gave me an easy way to get back in touch with people I’d worked with and respected but had fallen out of touch with over time. It’s become a meaningful way to stay intentional about relationships and keep strong connections active.”
Frank Siringo
Frank Siringo
Director / Producer / Partner · Team Bubbly, NY
“VeraOps helped me reconnect with people I genuinely wanted to talk to but had simply lost touch with over time. It’s a simple idea, executed thoughtfully, and it’s already changed how I approach business development.”
Mark DePace
Mark DePace
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer · Ghost Robot, NY
“It’s so easy to create and maintain this habit. Instead of scratching my head and trying to remember my highest-impact network, it’s surfaced to me daily in a super easy and digestible way. That’s more than half the battle right there.”
David Yassky
David Yassky
Principal and Co-Founder · Driver Digital, NY
“I used Relationship Digest too! Beyond surfacing lapsed contacts it smartly focuses on a small number of them, so you keep the follow-up motion manageable.”
Todd Griffin
Todd Griffin
Director of Engagement · BX Studio, NY

Right fit

Why should you let us build your reconnection system?

  • Because you may be tired of competing on price and margins.
  • Because you want to be the first studio your clients think of.
  • Because you want a real business development motion without relying on your business developer.

We’re a small team that works only with creative studio founders, and treats your relationships like our own. You focus on the work. We keep the conversations going in the background.

Why shouldn’t you work with us?

  • If you’re just starting out.
  • If you’re not ready to invest in long-term relationship building.
  • If you’re not using Google Workspace.

This only works if you show up for the conversations. We find who to talk to, explain why now and draft every note. All you have to do is have the conversation. We take care of everything before it.

Be in the conversation before the brief.

No price war. No micromanaging.
Just a client who already trusts you.

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