Introducing the Keeve Strategic Integration Partnership Program
Agencies can start with Keeve directly. Now the advisors and platforms they already trust can bring commercial intelligence to them too.
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Writing on margin, scoping and commercial intelligence.
Practical thinking on how agencies price, scope and protect profitability.
What Exactly Do We Mean by Commercial Intelligence?
Commercial intelligence isn’t a dashboard, connected systems or a smarter assistant. It’s an understanding of your commercial reality, built from what actually happens.
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Why Connected AI Is Still Underpricing Your Agency’s Work
Connected AI has memory and context, but without a commercial model it is still guessing at your pricing. Here is what an independent commercial ontology changes.
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Your Agency Doesn’t Have a Margin Problem. It Has a Pattern Problem.
Margin rarely disappears in one bad decision. It leaks through reasonable decisions that repeat — and the real commercial question is what to do differently next time.
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“What Did We Charge Last Time?” Isn’t a Commercial Strategy
Previous prices feel like a safe starting point. But the number alone says nothing about whether it was a good commercial decision — what matters is what happened when you charged it.
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Marketing Agency Pricing Models: A Practical Guide to Protecting Margin
Hourly, day rate, retainer, fixed fee, value-based or outcome-based — each pricing model shifts commercial risk somewhere. Here is how each behaves in practice, and how to validate the model you choose against your own delivery history.
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The Single Source of Truth Doesn’t Exist
Agency software has long promised one system holding the whole truth. That isn’t how agencies work — and it isn’t what commercial decisions actually need.
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Why Agencies Lose Margin Before the Project Even Starts
The most important commercial decision an agency makes is often the one made before work begins: the scope, the assumptions, the price.
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