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Tractionisamarketingaccelerator. Builtforthemomentyoucan'taffordtolose.

We're a brand strategy and go-to-market consultancy that helps companies win high-stakes market moments — when something new launches, a brand resets, or the

No layers. No bloat. Just elite specialists and senior operators with brand-side experience, armed with AI solutions, deployed exactly where they’re needed.

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What we do

We get you traction today.

And futureproof your tomorrow.

You may need to change what your brand stands for, bring something important to market, or rethink how your marketing gets done. We bring the right people together to solve the challenge in front of you—and connect the work where it matters.

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Brand Foundation Design

We help you understand your customers and develop a customer-driven brand foundation — from narrative and identity to digital presence.

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Go-to-Market Design

We turn brand strategy into campaigns, content and customer experiences that give people a reason to choose you. From the launch plan to the work in market, we connect brand-building with performance.

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Marketing System Design

We design how your marketing gets done—across people, platforms, partners and process. That includes AI marketing systems that connect your company’s knowledge with the workflows your team needs to put it to work.

Bring us in for the challenge in front of you. We deliver the business impact you need without you paying for the things you don’t.

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Big wins in high-stakes moments.

Recorded Future

Building a brand in the Age of AI.
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GE HealthCare

Making ultrasound sound better.
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Patiofyre

We delivered an AI marketing engine — and a 3X Return on Ad Spend.
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ariessence

We reimagined the ariessence online brand experience to set the stage for growth.
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Apple

We’ve been with Apple since the release of the iPod Shuffle.
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HelloFresh

We helped HelloFresh say hello to their lowest CAC ever.
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What makes us different
The Liquid Workforce

Your business gets the team it needs—not the people an agency needs to keep busy.

Our Liquid Workforce brings together senior strategists, creatives, technologists and operators, many with brand-side experience. We assemble a dedicated team around your challenge, with experienced leaders close to the work and specialists working directly with you.

It’s a model built to invest more in the people doing the work and less in the layers around them.

300+ fractional consultants

100% remote workforce

65% less overhead

#1 ranked talent management team in the US

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Human insight. AI leverage.

Growth isn’t just media math. It’s behavioral science.

We design brands and experiences grounded in how people actually decide — then amplify them with AI-enhanced systems that increase speed and precision.

Psychology gives us signal. Technology gives us scale. Together, they create traction.

Marketing System Diagnostic
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Start here.

Our Marketing System Diagnostic assesses your brand, go-to-market readiness and marketing operations across people, platforms, partners and process. Working with your team, we identify the gaps, prioritize opportunities, and determine where AI could make a meaningful difference.

You get a practical blueprint of what to fix, what to build and where to move first. It stands on its own, whether or not you take the next step with us.

The Futureproof Project

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Harness emerging technology through the power of community.

Traction founded and curates The Futureproof Project—a community of 350+ CMOs and marketing leaders that meet regularly to share challenges and learnings about AI and other emerging technology.

The conversations don’t stop at the table. They inform how we think about brands, how marketing organizations work, and what we build next.

350+ brand members

40+ AI events since 2022

Insights
Adam Kleinberg at the American Marketing Association's TechWeek event
Friday, October 9, 2026Brand Narrative in the Age of AI Discovery

In the mind of a customer, you get to be one thing. That has been true since long before anyone trained a language model. It's the foundation for how we design a brand at Traction. I recently spoke on an America Marketing Association panel during Tech Week SF and was asked about the shift to AI marketing and how it impacts branding.

adam kleinberg, lauren evans and britt bowman on stage at the ascendant network conference
Monday, September 21, 2026Your AI Knows Marketing. Does It Know Your Business?

The knowledge needed to make a good decision usually exists somewhere in the organization. The people making the decision just don't have it. That's the gap a marketing context engine is built to close — and it's the standard I'd use to judge any AI-generated marketing that lands on my desk.

The Futureproof Project with Sunil Subhedar
Tuesday, September 1, 2026How Is the Marketing Leader's Role Changing in the AI Era? 12 Lessons From Sunil Subhedar.

Marketing leaders are being handed powerful AI machinery with no instruction manual. The CMO's job is shifting — from channel operator to product leader — without any diminished expectation to deliver business outcomes along the way.

Let's get you traction.

Tell us what needs to happen—and what’s getting in the way. We’ll bring the right people into the conversation, whether the answer is a stronger brand, a better launch, or a different way of getting the work done.