2-Week Strategy Sprint

Win on strategy,
not bid.

AI will write anyone a strategy. It just can't tell which half is confidently wrong. Wave44 is the senior judgment that catches it before you burn the test budget. Brand-grade strategy, performance speed.

Escape the bidding war

A position rivals can't copy, so price stops being your only lever.

Move while it's still hot

Your whole strategy in 14 days, so you're live on the new angle now, not two quarters from now.

A fraction of agency cost

Senior strategy for one fixed fee, not a six-month retainer with the invoice to match.

The Wave44 / Mixd team is at Affiliate Takeover · Barcelona · 16–17 July 2026
The bidding war

Stop bleeding margin into a war you can't outbid your way out of.

When everyone sells the same thing the same way, price is the only lever left. That's a race to the bottom, and it's optional.

01

You look like everyone else

Same offer, same promises, same feed. When buyers can't tell you apart, price becomes the only thing left to compete on.

02

So you compete on price

With no real reason to be chosen, every channel turns into a bidding war and your margin gets auctioned off a point at a time.

03

Scaling just spreads it wider

More budget, more creative, more channels. On top of an undifferentiated position, you only spend faster to stand still.

What you get

Walk away with the angle your competitors can't reverse-engineer.

Most operators optimise inside an angle. We change the angle itself, then hand you three things built to be used, not admired.

Positioning · the core

The differentiated position

Where your offer stands, who it's for, who it's deliberately not for, and the open competitive space nobody else has claimed. This is where Wave44 goes deepest: the decision everything else hangs on.

Creative Territories

The space to build within

Two to three distinct territories the position opens up, with the tension each activates and why it's available. The strategic sandbox your campaigns and tests live inside.

Creative Direction

A brief to build and test against

The strategic brief your creative team takes into production: the tension to dramatise, the tone, the guardrails. Enough direction to start testing, not a finished ad.

The honest line: we deliver the position and the direction, not a guaranteed winning ad. No one can promise that; creative proves itself in-market. What we guarantee is that what you're testing sits on a position that's genuinely different.

The sprint

Get a battle-ready strategy in 14 days, not a four-month agency cycle.

One point of contact, and you steer at the halfway mark, so there are no two-week surprises.

  • 01

    Days 1–5 · Research

    Market, competitor and audience research: what's saturated, what language actually moves your buyer, and where the gap is.

  • 02

    Day 6 · Mid-sprint review

    We present the strategic direction and territories. You choose the direction before we build on it.

  • 03

    Days 7–10 · Creative direction

    The chosen territory becomes creative direction your team can brief and build against immediately.

  • 04

    Handoff · Agency-ready brief

    One tight document your creative team, agency or the Mixd network runs with. No re-work, no translation.

Week 1 · Discover
  • Market landscape
  • Competitor audit
  • Audience insight
  • Language patterns
  • Gap analysis
Week 2 · Build
  • Positioning
  • Creative territories
  • Creative direction
  • Key messages
  • Handoff brief
Fit check

Built for operators who've outgrown "just make more creative."

Right fit

  • Founders weighing a bigger move: repositioning, pricing, or entering a new market
  • DTC brands scaling an offer that's hit creative saturation
  • Affiliate operators moving offers white-hat and needing a durable angle
  • Lead-gen & pay-per-call teams tired of competing purely on bid
  • Agencies & networks who need a senior strategy layer without a six-month retainer

Not for you if

  • You want another batch of variations on the same idea
  • You're chasing a black-hat loophole, not sustainable scale
  • You want a 40-slide deck to file away, not direction to ship
  • There's no team or partner to execute the concepts
Who's behind it

Good work with AI only comes from people who did good work without it.

Everyone in the room has the same AI now, so it isn't the edge. Point it at your brief and it hands back something plausible, polished, and wrong in exactly the places that cost you money.

Finding those places is the job. Fifteen years pressure-testing strategy from both sides of the table, agency and client, trains one instinct above the rest: seeing the weak spot before you spend on it, and the sharper move sitting underneath. Sometimes that fixes a campaign; sometimes it resets how the whole business goes to market. Wave44 points that instinct at your offer, with the Mixd Group network behind it.

15 yrs · agency + client-side Creative Director → Head of Marketing & Brand Multi-market retail launch National telecom rebrand Powered by Mixd Group
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The offer

Lock your angle for a fixed fee, no retainer, no scope creep.

€15,000One flat fee. You know the number and the timeline before we start.
  • Market, competitor & audience research
  • A differentiated positioning: the core deliverable
  • 2–3 creative territories to build within
  • Creative direction brief to test against
  • Mid-sprint review, then one agency-ready handoff
Reserve a sprint slot

Low risk: you sign off on the strategic direction at the mid-sprint review before we build week two on it, so you're never locked into an angle that isn't landing.

Start the conversation

Bring your most saturated offer. Leave as the brand everyone else gets measured against.

Tell us about your offer. We'll reply within one business day and set up a 20-minute call.

Prefer email? hello@wave44.agency

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