Ingenuity+

The UK’s leading search and selection consultancy, connecting more brands with more agencies across more disciplines to create long term value for all.

Navigating the modern marketing ecosystem

From agency shortlists and chemistry meetings to full-service pitches, Ingenuity+ provides expert guidance at every stage of the process. Our bespoke, industry-leading approach ensures you will always select the right agency partners through the right process for your specific needs.

Our teams of leading industry practitioners map and navigate the optimum agency typologies and pathways to answer your brief. This may involve identifying and recommending the best shortlist of agencies, running short form pitches in a single day, delivering the rigour and best practice of our renowned end-to-end pitch process, re-evaluating your marketing ecosystem or helping you rethink your ways of working.

Working with full transparency, using progressive processes and an unrivalled depth of agency knowledge, insight and understanding we reach the right answer faster.

Our Services

Some of the brands we've connected

We pride ourselves on leaving no brief behind, always deploying the right progressive process to deliver the best solution regardless of brief, budget or discipline. Whether you’re looking to hold a full pitch process, launch an RFI, re-evaluate your marketing ecosystem or model, identify the optimum list of recommended agency partners or just rethink your ways of working we’re here to help.

The Ingenuity+ model for proven progressive processes in Search, Selection and Advisory

Our core services

From market-leading agency recommendation, agency selection and pitch management to marketing advisory and ecosystem creation, our proven models successfully flex to work with complex, market leading businesses and brands as well as more agile, fast-growth scale ups.

New Intermediary Report

Redefining the Pitch: Delivering data-driven best practice in Search, Selection and Advisory

The Ingenuity+ CMO Pulse is the largest longitudinal study of senior marketing leaders in the UK, surveying hundreds of CMOs and marketing directors from leading brands with budgets of up to and above £100m every quarter. Our study reveals the stated intentions to hire new agencies, the opportunities and best practice learnings for other marketers to learn from, and the processes most in demand to deliver success in agency selection and retention.

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A selection of brands we've connected to agencies

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Managed 500+ processes in the last five years
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Delivered tens of thousands of agency recommendations to brands
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Worked across 50+ markets

"It's been a pleasure working with Ingenuity+, thank you for helping us to get a great result. It was fab and fun"

"It's been a pleasure working with you both and a personal thank you for making it such a smooth process"

"Thank you for your hard work. We're set up for success"

"We couldn't have got to this point without your expertise and we're really excited about the next steps"

"Thank you for all the support from Ingenuity+. I'm beyond excited to move forward"

"The team did a GREAT job. I really liked their methodological yet human and honest approach. Big thanks!"

"We had a great experience and are delighted with the outcome"

Great support from the first call through to appointing our packaging agency, we had a great experience and are delighted with the outcome. I particularly valued the advice that you gave around how we shaped the RFP process to be fair to the agencies and ensure that we had enough information to make our decision.

"The team selected excellent agencies"

The team were very invested in our search and I have received positive feedback on their professionalism and passion from everyone who dealt with them in the process. The team selected excellent agencies for us taking into account our briefing and we felt 3/4 of the agencies that pitched fitted our brief and were capable of delivery.

"Excellent partnership and support from start to finish"

Excellent partnership and support from start to finish. Great co-ordination and support on the Chemistry sessions and input perspective from the team.

"The team added value and insights through their guidance throughout and knowledge of the shortlisted agencies"

The whole process was very well structured with multiple agency touch points which worked well and was effective at testing consistency. The team added value and insights through their guidance throughout and knowledge of the shortlisted agencies in terms of strengths/weaknesses and overall fit for our requirements.

"One of those businesses every ambitious Procurement Professional needs to have on speed dial."

Ingenuity+ is one of those businesses that every ambitious Procurement Professional needs to have on speed dial. They make it a priority to be in touch with the Marketing Supplier marketplace, to know about who the major players are, the new entrants, and technology innovations. I pride myself on leaving my clients in a better position than I arrived, Ingenuity has been an incredible resource in enabling me to do so.

"Invaluable counsel and industry expertise."

It was an absolute pleasure working with the Ingenuity team. Not only did they take the hard work out of the pitch process during a particularly busy time for us, but they also provided invaluable counsel using their industry expertise to help steer us towards the right decision.

"They come highly recommended."

The Ingenuity team provided excellent counsel as we looked to align our corporate and brand PR requirements. They are very well connected across a variety of PR agencies and helped to guide us in making a key appointment. They come highly recommended.

"The speed at which they turned around the brief was impeccable."

The Ingenuity team worked on a social media brief for us. The speed at which they turned it around was impeccable, offering us a variety of agencies with different backgrounds, strengths and specialisms. They followed up regularly to ensure we were satisfied every step of the way and kindly offered the lovely Ingenuity office space for our meetings with the agency shortlist. Ingenuity have been extremely helpful in this process and I would recommend other clients to use them when looking to reach out to agencies in their selected discipline.