Are you anticipating or reacting?
23/07/2025
Agencies often live on the edge of chaos.
Mission: Purple
Operations & Project Management Consultants
Fractional Operations for your business
Helping agencies reduce delivery chaos, protect profit, and scale sustainably through confident forecasting, accurate capacity planning, and best-practice project management.
It's our mission to get you to that purple patch of operational excellence.
Process & workflow consulting
Every team has room for improvement. Whether you want to become more efficient in delivery, improve reporting, or just get some standard processes and templates in place, we can help.
Interim Operations lead
Set your business up to deliver more quickly and efficiently. Define, control, measure, optimise - we'll put in place processes and tools that will drive tangible business outcomes.
Project management
Need a complex project set-up, planned and delivered? We offer experienced project, programme and resource management. Maternity / paternity cover. Full- or part-time.
[Their] dedication to developing and implementing best-practice processes significantly improved efficiency and effectiveness across multiple areas of the business
Aimée
Agent3
Kate plays a critical role in keeping operations and programmes running smoothly, efficiently and effectively. It is easy to take this for granted - because you know that Kate is at the controls and you have complete trust in her abilities
Shaun
The Craft Consulting
Working with Kate has been a genuinely valuable experience; her recommendations were both practical and insightful. The process gave us a clearer view of our operations and a solid foundation to start making real improvements
Jennifer
Sharp Ahead
Articles
Grab a coffee and get stuck into our recent publications...
Profit isn't just a finance metric
16/07/2025
Let's be honest - even though it saddens me deeply, operations rarely top the agency priority list.
Do different things
24/06/2025
A weird thing happens as we get older. Time speeds up.
What's your barrier to AI adoption?
12/05/2025
For many marketing agencies, the promise of AI is compelling. Smarter workflows, better use of time, and clearer insights. But in reality, AI adoption remains slow. Not because the tools aren't ready, but because many agencies aren't.
If you're running a marketing agency right now, you likely won't thank me for reminding you that AI is changing everything. And while that's true, here's the part not enough people are talking about - your internal operations will determine whether AI becomes your agency's superpower or just another tool that clogs up your workflow.