Pick a Cartridge™
Your marketing team, on retainer. Load the Cartridges™ you need and we run them month to month. No need to blow out the dust, we just work.
Brand
We rebuild the brand from the name up, then stay on to stop it drifting the moment you look away.
- Brand strategy & positioning
- Logo & visual identity
- Messaging & tone of voice
- Ongoing brand stewardship
Social
We run the whole channel every month, so you never hire someone whose entire job is posting.
- Monthly strategy & calendar
- Content creation & scheduling
- Community management
- Reporting & optimisation
Web
We build the site, then keep our hands on it: new pages, fixes and small bets every month, not left to rot.
- Custom design & dev
- Webflow & WordPress
- Landing pages & CRO
- Ongoing updates & care
Decks
Pitch and sales decks built properly and kept current, so you're never rebuilding one at 1am before the meeting.
- Narrative & structure
- Slide design
- Investor & sales decks
- Kept up to date
Email and CRM run every month: flows, campaigns and a list that makes money instead of sitting there.
- Flows & automations
- Monthly campaign calendar
- Segmentation & list health
- Klaviyo & Mailchimp
Marketing
Paid and organic, run month to month: ads, SEO and someone actually thinking about how they add up.
- Meta & Google Ads
- SEO & content
- Conversion tracking
- Monthly reporting & strategy
Why we exist.
Cartridge™ is a creative studio built by two engineers who grew up with technology that had character.
Super Mario Bros squeezed into 40 kilobytes. Every level, every sound, the theme you can still hum. The limit is the reason you remember it.
Nothing has a limit now. Ask a machine for forty versions and you’ll have them before lunch. All forty will be fine.
Fine is the problem. We keep a hand on the work, throw most of it out, and ship the one version with something in it.
> Don't work with dickheads.
> Work should feel human.
> Leave the fingerprints in.
> If it doesn't land, it doesn't ship.
> Authenticity above all else.
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The AI-phant in the room.
- 43%
- name undisclosed AI as the single fastest way for a brand to lose their trust. It beat dodgy influencer deals (38%) and ads dressed up as posts (37%).
- 46%
- dislike AI-generated people in ads — the worst-scoring thing in the study. The faces are where it falls apart, and your buyers clock them first.
- 36%
- call AI-made advertising untrustworthy outright. Another 28% go with inauthentic, which costs you the same sale.
Cint, with Advertising Week. Roughly 1,000 US consumers, fieldwork August 2026, published 20 October 2026.
The moment a customer spots it, they start judging you. It's our job to help you navigate the treacherous terrain of uncanny valley.
Watch this shit.
Stick some headphones in and grab 45 seconds worth of popcorn... according to our calculations... that's 22.5 popcorns?
Loaded, and live.
A few of the Cartridges™ we've run for clients. Open one for the full breakdown.
Brand · Decks
FPZERO
One brand system, three pitch decks. One for each kind of buyer.
View case study▸
Web · Film
Rule 28
A new site, then a crew that never stopped filming.
View case study▸
Video · Campaign
Camden Brewery
One hero film. Written, directed, shot and cut by us.
View case study▸
Brand · Social · Web
Fathom Watches
Every channel a vintage-watch dealer had, run for two years. Revenue grew twelve times over.
View case study▸
We click into place.
It's not just a name.
We work around the idea that a Cartridge™ is self-contained. You don't need anything extra to run it. Everything is already inside.
That's how we work. One brief comes in, finished work goes out. You're not managing a chain of suppliers or chasing an edit through four different inboxes. We own the whole thing: strategy, design, production, delivery.
We fit around what you already have. Your brand, your team, your campaign. We slot in, and execute.
People who think we're cool.
…you.
Let's make
something.
