
Across the Guardian, Upworthy, HuffPost and 3BL, Charlie Wilkie has built a career around a stubborn question: how can worthy ideas earn attention without losing their worth? His latest answer treats AI not as a writing trick, but as a new arena for trust.
For 64 years, this Wall Street agency has practiced an unfashionable craft: making corporate disclosure worth reading. Its latest trick is blending that old discipline with sustainability strategy, digital products and AI.
The Northampton company spent years assembling the specialist outlets of responsible business. Its next wager is that corporate reputation can be distributed, benchmarked and even read through the eyes of an AI.
The New York consultancy began with internet clients, lost half its business after 9/11, and rebuilt around a stubborn idea: communication works only when it starts with the business problem.
After 18 years at BBDO, the agency leader chose a smaller, sharper brief: help brands turn purpose into practice without losing the room.
Big transformations tend to arrive as software, strategy and slides. Pivot Strategies works on the stubborn final mile - getting actual employees to understand what changed, why it matters and what to do on Monday morning.
Paul Oakley left the corporate communications suite to build an agency for products that resist a quick pitch. The wager was simple: go narrower, learn the machinery, and make complexity useful.
RH Strategic built a communications firm for ideas that are difficult to explain and expensive to misunderstand. Its wager is that influence can be engineered - and measured - without reducing public relations to a pile of clips.
For nearly three decades, a small transatlantic consultancy has made a business of translating the unruly language of sustainability into decisions, disclosures, and stories people can actually use.
Most agencies arrive when the message is ready. BravoEcho wants to be in the room earlier - while strategy, culture, and reputation are still arguing over what the message means.
Christie & Co has spent three decades selling purpose without pretending purpose sells itself. Its best tool is not a slogan, but a deceptively simple question: what actually made you choose?
A fifth-generation farmer built an agency for the people who grow our food. Its real assignment: make the difference between two bags of rice matter to the person buying one.
The California agency helped shrink Snap’s sustainability report from 113 pages to 47. Its bigger project: getting corporate ambition, evidence, and storytelling to agree.

How a former bank communicator turned a maker of air conditioners into one of the more convincing climate stories in industrial America - and why she insists credibility is the only currency that matters.