Not your competitor.
Your social specialist.
Built for marketing studios and agencies. You keep the client. We come in as the social specialist when you need one — whether you don't run social in-house, your team is at capacity, or a brief needs a depth your generalists don't cover.
Three ways the studios we partner with use us.
You don't need to be a studio without social to bring us in. Most partner studios fall into one of these:
- You don't run social in-house and a client just asked for it.
- You have a social team but they're at capacity for the quarter, and you need to keep the channel running for an existing client.
- You have social capability but a new client needs specialist depth your generalists don't cover. Motion-led Reels. Paid-creative testing. A category your team hasn't worked in.
We slot in as the social media arm. You stay the brand-of-record. The client never has to deal with us if you don't want them to. We're additive to your team, not a replacement for it.
White label. Co-branded. Or your call.
Three ways the engagement runs, all decided before kickoff:
White label.
Work goes out under your studio's brand. We're invisible to the client. You present the strategy, send the deliverables, run the meeting. We just make the work.
Co-branded.
We show up on the brief as a named specialist partner. Useful when the client values seeing specialist depth on the team.
Introduced.
We meet the client once at kickoff, or stay on the standing call. For when the brand wants accountability with the people doing the work.
What we do. What you keep.
What we do
Strategy & content pillars.
A 4-week calendar mapped to the client's audience and the brand voice you've already established with them.
Caption & copy.
Every caption, headline, and CTA written in the client's voice, sense-checked against your tone guidelines.
Design.
Carousels, statics and Reels using their brand kit (or one we build from your brand handover).
Posting + scheduling.
If you want. Posting from the client's account or from your scheduling tool, your call.
Stories + community basics.
Available on the higher partner tiers. Flagged escalations sent back to you, not direct to the client.
Monthly analytics review.
A written one-pager you can hand to the client or fold into your own reporting cadence.
What you keep
The client relationship.
You're the brand they call. We don't crash your standing meetings, we don't slide into their DMs.
The strategic narrative.
You present the work and the why. We write it if you want, and stay quiet in the credit line.
The invoicing chain.
You bill your client. We bill you. The financial relationship stays clean.
Brand visibility.
Your studio's name on the work, your team's faces in the meeting. We're a credit footnote or no credit at all, your decision.
The next pitch.
Anything we build for one of your clients is yours to use as proof in your next pitch. Case study sign-offs work on your timeline, not ours.
What we won't do.
Trust is the whole deal in a partner engagement. The terms below are non-negotiable on our end.
We don't pitch your clients.
If a client asks who's doing the work, we either tell them the truth ("Vibe Shift Studio, on retainer with your studio") or we say nothing, depending on what you've agreed. We never solicit. We've had two paid clients ask. We declined both.
We don't take credit without sign-off.
Public case studies of partner work need your explicit approval. If we never get approval, the work never appears on our site.
NDAs are fine. Standard.
If you have a partner agreement template, send it. If not, ours has a one-page version that covers the basics without the legal theatre.
What we don't do at all.
Brand identity, websites, paid social, shoot days. Those run as separate scopes if your client wants them, but they're not in the partner package. Most partner engagements are content + strategy + management only.
Priced like a partner.
Not like a vendor.
The direct-brand tiers are the structure.
Partner engagements are scoped per client account. The three direct-brand retainer tiers are the baseline, and most marketing-studio partnerships land somewhere between Essential and Growth, scoped to the client's calendar and post volume.
We don't add a partner premium. We don't undercut your direct work either. The number is what it would be for the brand direct. You decide your markup.
Numbers covered on the call.
30 minutes. No deck. Just your client's grid.
Send us the client's current Instagram. We'll walk through where it is, where the gaps are, and what a partner engagement would actually deliver in the first three months. If we're a fit, you'll get a one-page partner scope by end of week.
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