CONIGRUM

We create Brand Bending ideas, concepts and strategies that make a measurable difference to your brand and your business.

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The price of dullis high.

Memorable is the cheapest growth a brand can buy.

2.6×
The media a dull campaign must spend to match the market-share growth of one people actually find interesting.IPA · System1 · Peter Field

So we createthe one ideathat bends your brandtoward growth.

— and the strategy, concepts and plans for your team to run with.

How we work

One discipline.Three depths.

Original thinking, offered at the depth you need. The making that follows — production, media, content — is cheap and everywhere; we work on the part that decides whether any of it is worth doing.

01

The Engagement

The brand-bending idea, fully built — with the strategy, the concept and the plan to act on it, and the argument for why it will work.

Flagship · Project
02

The Sprint

A fixed-scope, fixed-price diagnostic. A fast, sharp read on a single problem — proof of the thinking before a larger commitment.

Entry · Fixed scope
03

The Seat

Standing access to the thinking, for a small, capped number of founders and leaders who want it on call.

Retained · Ongoing

Our thinking

Ideas about ideas.

A point of view — three of the ideas we keep coming back to.

The newsletter — Jam & Cream Become irresistibly creative. A weekly letter on creative thinking — think in solutions, not problems. Free, weekly, deliciously short.

Who we work with

Brands that would ratherout-think than out-spend.

A

Founder-led

Companies past product-market fit, scaling or repositioning, where one person still owns the brand and can decide without a committee. They want a breakthrough, not a backlog.

B

Challengers

Brands that can't out-spend the leader and have to out-think it. The original idea is their most affordable weapon — and their most effective one.

C

The backed

Investor-owned companies under pressure to differentiate an asset, and teams that need original thinking injected without adding headcount.

Track record

Twenty years ofmaking the difference.

Conigrum is led by a marketer who has spent two decades building brands and the businesses behind them — and measuring what the ideas did.

He founded and ran a multi-award-winning agency, twice named Agency of the Year, and built it to an exit. Over that time he created ideas for brands including Google, Dell and Bank of Ireland, and has since held senior executive roles driving growth across consumer and B2B.

The conviction behind Conigrum — that original thinking is what now separates the brands that grow from the brands that blend in — is not borrowed positioning. It's a view earned in the work.

Agency built & soldAcquired · Hyper / Epsilon
Agency of the YearTwice, consecutively
Industries worked inTech · Insurance · Energy · FMCG
RangeConsumer (DTC) & B2B
BasedDublin · works remotely
The founder Learn about Frank McCaughey. Two decades building brands and the businesses behind them — and the conviction behind Conigrum. Read his story →

Ready to bendyour brand?

Tell us the problem you can't solve from the inside.