What we do

We get you traction today.And futureproof your tomorrow.


Together, we'll dig into your unique business challenges, find the hidden gems of opportunity, and craft a practical plan to boost your bottom line. Traction arms the right talent across a wide range of disciplines with AI and proven strategies to drive the outcomes you need.

Expertise
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Brand Experience Design

We uncover insights that drive powerful expressions of your brand and bring them to life at every touchpoint — identity, advertising, digital experiences, innovation, content and communication.

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Marketing Organization Design

We evaluate your internal processes, technology, data and partnerships. Then we leverage AI to design and implement a comprehensive blueprint for enhancing your marketing org.

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Futureproof AI Solutions

We futureproof your marketing with solutions that combine AI tools and agents with top experts and a community of your peers to enable you to unlock insights, produce content and deliver growth faster.

BRAND EXPERIENCE DESIGN & ACTIVATION

We shape your brand experience throughout the customer journey.


Modern brands are built on experiences. We help you craft them at every touchpoint and connect the dots between brand and performance—with technology, data and business acumen taking an equal seat to creativity.

Branding

We position brands, shape messaging, craft narratives, and design identity systems that set you apart and convey why you’re better than the other guys.

Media & Messaging

Don't just count impressions. Make them. We integrate media planning with message planning to create the reach and relevance to win customers' attention and lower customer acquisition cost.

Research & Insights

Our research approach blends AI with human interaction (yes, we talk to customers). This ensures the work we do for you is grounded in the needs, desires and behaviors of your audience.

Creative

We bring courageous ideas to life, coordinated through every step of the customer journey to move your business forward. We help you thrive in the hive.

Social

Winning in social media is about crafting influence in a world where people put far more weight into one another than they do with brands.

UX & Design Systems

Powerful customer experience is the key to building lasting connections with customers — and attracting new ones. We use deep thinking, design, code and (of course) AI to build experiences people love and breakthrough ideas that will provide you with market differentiation, customer loyalty and brand love.

Product Innovation

We help brands bring new value to customers by designing amazing digital products driven by empathy and understanding of their audience.

Experiential

More and more, brands are turning to experiences that connect with consumers in deeper, more impactful ways. Our team's track record in building brands with experiential marketing is unsurpassed.

Tricentis: Speed changes everything.

Learn how we positioned Tricentis to 3X revenue and dominate their category leadership.

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HelloFresh

Our media team helped HelloFresh achieve their lowest CAC ever. Hello!

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MARKETING ORGANIZATION DESIGN

Rethink your People, Partners, Process, and Platforms to build a future-ready, AI-enabled marketing organization.

Marketing is changing. Is your team, data and infrastructure ready? Our practitioner consultants help you design a high performing and highly efficient marketing org across people, platforms, process, and partners.

Org Design Consulting

Make sure you have the right people on the bus to drive growth in a modern marketing organization. And that they have a strong roadmap to drive it with.

MarTech and Data Consuting

We design and implement the plumbing around your audience’s journey, and use advanced analytics to structure, clean, and connect your data so you have AI-ready platforms and data in place.

Partner Ecosystem Optimization

We help you refine and simplify your ecosystem of agencies and other partners to get the right partners in place, and eliminate redundancies and hidden costs.

Process and Workflow Consulting

We streamline marketing operations for greater productivity and identify opportunities to integrate AI agents, lower marketing expenses and increase speed to market.

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Learn how we helped a $10B retailer reduce fees by 21% while improving performance with AI and a new operational model

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How we helped a top three sports league in the US improve the fan experience and uncover $3M in annual savings on MarTech.

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FUTUREPROOF AI ACCELERATORS

Stop paying for hours. Start paying for outcomes. 


We bring together top experts armed with AI technology and best practices from The Futureproof Project community to give you solutions that deliver the insights, execution and outcomes you need.

Answer Engine Optimization

There's been a paradigm shift in search. Make sure your content is found in AI search engines by humans and machines.

AI Researcher Platform

Qualitative research hasn't been scalable until now. Gain the insights of a skilled researcher paired with mathematical confidence of quant research.

Enhanced Product Discovery

Boost sales up to 25% by putting your product names in customer friendly language that people actually use to search and shop.

Futureproof Studios

We bring together top directing talent with GenAI video production tool to cut timelines by 75% and budgets by 2/3 without diminishing brand impact, and creative talent with AI agents that can automate content personalization at scale.

Growth Engines

Stop paying for hours. Start paying for outcomes. Subscribe to AI solutions operated by top experts without the bloat of a traditional agency.

Community

The Futureproof Project community is a network of 300+ CMOs (and an added value for Traction clients) that share insights and learn together in a confidential environment.

Recorded Future

How we helped a security brand stand out in a sea of sameness.

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Patiofyre

We developed a custom AI ecosystem that gave a 3x return on ad spend.

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B2B, Financial Services, Consumer Tech,Internet, Sports & Entertainment, Food & Bev, CPG, Retail & E-Commerce, Energy, Healthcare.

What’s your problem?

At Traction, we’re a group of inspired problem solvers with an informed point of view. Our superpower is building super-teams designed to solve the problems that are keeping you up at night.