About

We know the right people.

KTDS is a small, well-connected Manchester agency. We put your brand in front of the creators, buyers, and retailers who actually move it, and you deal with the people doing the work, not a layer of account managers.

Kirk Thomason, founder of KTDS Kirk Thomason Founder, KTDS

Kirk's story

After years client-side and agency-side, Kirk founded KTDS to fix the disconnect he kept seeing: clients paying for senior thinking and getting junior execution, layered through three levels of account management. Direct 2 Client is the antidote. The agency is small on purpose.

We work with founders and marketing leads in beauty, fragrance, e-commerce, lifestyle, and clinics. The brands that have outgrown freelancers but do not need a thirty-person agency. Brands that want to be talked about, not algorithmically tolerated.

The model

Direct 2 Client

Most agency relationships involve at least three people between you and the person doing the work. An account director who sold you. An account manager who manages the relationship. A producer who routes work. Then the strategist, the designer, the media buyer, the editor.

KTDS removes the routing. You speak to the same person from the discovery call to the campaign post-mortem. That is not a stylistic choice. It is a structural one. Decisions land in the same conversation that surfaced them. Strategy stays connected to execution. The work moves at the speed you actually need it to move.

How we work

Four principles, applied to every engagement.

01

No layers

You speak to the person doing the work. Decisions land in the same conversation that surfaced them.

02

Show the work

Strategy, experiments, and numbers visible from day one. No reporting theatre at the end of the month.

03

AI on the boring parts

Tooling removes the slow plumbing. The time saved goes into thinking, creative, and the work humans actually do better.

04

Built to compound

Most agency relationships peak at the kickoff. Ours are designed for the second year to be sharper than the first.

The approach

From first conversation to compounding work.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A 30-minute call. We listen. You leave with a clear answer on whether KTDS is a fit, even if it is no.

  2. 02

    Audit and proposal

    A real look at what is working, what is not, and where the leverage is. Two-week turnaround. No deck-padding.

  3. 03

    Sprint zero

    A four-week sprint to ship the first round of work and stand up the reporting cadence. Outcome-shaped, not deliverable-shaped.

  4. 04

    Quarterly rhythm

    Working sessions every two weeks. Strategic review every quarter. The work stays current as your business changes.

Ready to talk?

Book a discovery call.

30 minutes. We listen. You leave with a clear answer on whether KTDS is the right fit, even if it is no.

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