One studio, the whole bench.
Most businesses don't need ten vendors. They need one team that can do the work, owns the result, and reports straight. Start with one job, add the rest on your timeline, no new contract and nothing you don't need yet. Every deliverable runs through a source-grounded check: we don't invent facts about you, and we don't ship vanity work.
Brand & positioning
The clear story that makes you the obvious choice instead of one more name on a list. Naming, message, identity, and the through-line that everything else hangs on. We start here because tactics without it just spend money faster.
Strategy · Identity · MessageWebsites & digital experience
Fast, modern, mobile-first sites that turn a first visit into a call, a booking, or a sale. Built to be owned by you, accessible by default, and easy to update without us.
Web · Landing pages · CROGetting found
Local search, Google Business Profile, listings that match, and the structured content the tools people search with read before they point anyone your way. We measure where you stand and never promise a ranking nobody can control.
SEO · Local · ListingsContent & social
A content system you can actually keep up, answering the real questions your customers ask. Human taste on every piece, and a hard no-fabrication check before anything ships. Keeping your site and feeds full so the brand stays relevant is its own service, The Current.
Social · Copy · Design Meet The Current →Video & motion
Short-form video and motion graphics that explain your work plainly and make you look like the established choice, the kind of output most small shops can't produce at volume.
Video · Motion · EditingPaid media
Search and social ads in accounts you own, measured against real inquiries and sales, not vanity clicks. We turn it off the moment it stops earning its keep, and tell you straight.
Search · Social · RetargetingOwned audience
Email and SMS lists you own, with lifecycle flows that follow up, nurture, and bring people back. The one marketing asset an algorithm can't take from you overnight.
Email · SMS · LifecycleAutomation & systems
The behind-the-scenes plumbing that follows up on leads, books appointments, and saves your front desk hours every week. Set up once, owned by you, documented so you're never held hostage.
Automation · CRM · OpsReputation management
What people find when they look you up decides whether they ever call. We watch your reviews, help you respond like a real person, and earn genuine ones, never fake. When a bad week hits, you already have a plan. It's its own service, The Breakwater.
Reviews · Response · Monitoring Meet The Breakwater →Not sure where to begin?
Most owners start with the free Lookout. Two minutes, your own answers, and you'll see exactly which of these to fix first instead of guessing.
Run the LookoutOutreach in Portuguese and Spanish, for the families and businesses who built the South Coast. We're building it right, with native speakers, not machine translation. Want in early? Tell us.
Marketing run on numbers you can trust.
The data half of the studio. We set up the measurement most small businesses never get done right, so the decisions are based on what's actually happening instead of a guess. Same rule as everything else here: we report the truth and we never invent a number.
Analytics & dashboards
One place to see how the business is actually doing. We set up clean analytics and a dashboard that surfaces the numbers that matter, so you're not stitching together five tabs to answer one question.
GA4 · Dashboards · KPIsTracking & attribution
Know what's actually bringing in calls, bookings, and sales. We wire up conversion and call tracking so your marketing ties back to real outcomes, not vanity clicks.
Conversions · Call tracking · AttributionCustomer data & CRM
Your customer data, cleaned up and organized so you can actually use it. Segmentation, tidy records, and lists you own, ready for follow-up that doesn't miss anyone.
CRM · Segmentation · Data hygieneReporting & insight
The numbers turned into plain-English answers and a clear next move. A monthly read you'll actually open, not a dashboard that gathers dust.
Reporting · Insight · DecisionsNo mystery. Here's exactly how it goes.
You start free and you stay in control the whole way. Every step is something you can see, keep, and walk away from. Nothing here is locked behind a contract or a "just trust us."
Run the Lookout
Two minutes, no signup. You see where you're strong, where the gaps are, and what's worth fixing first. If everything already looks healthy, we'll tell you that, and you owe us nothing.
Day oneThe Marketing Roadmap
A real teardown of your brand, site, visibility, and follow-up, with a prioritized plan and a call with the founder. You keep the Roadmap whether or not you hire us, and it's credited toward your first month if you do.
First weekBuild the foundation
We fix the highest-leverage things first: the positioning, the site, the way you show up in search. The groundwork everything else builds on, and the part most businesses have never had done right.
First weeksRun it, and report straight
Content, campaigns, visibility, and follow-up on a real cadence, with a monthly plain-English report on what moved and what didn't. Month-to-month. You own everything we build, and you can leave any time, in writing.
OngoingWe measure what we can control and we're honest about what we can't. We'll never promise you a ranking or a number nobody can truthfully guarantee. What we promise is the work, done well, and the truth about how it's going.
Want us to run all of it? Hosting, domain, follow-up, and reporting handled for one flat fee, from $900/mo, with ad spend kept separate in your own accounts. See the operated package →
The honest alternative to the contract trap.
The big agencies lock you in, keep your website, and hand you to a junior account manager. The cheap shops chase tactics with no strategy behind them. Cuttyhunk is founder-led, lives down here, and is honest about what it can prove. We move fast and produce like a bigger shop, with human judgment and a hard no-fabrication check on every piece.
- Tactics with no strategy behind themBrand and positioning first, then the rest
- A website that looks a decade oldFast, modern, built to convert and to own
- Contracts you can't get out ofMonth-to-month, cancel any time
- The agency keeps your websiteYou own your site, domain, and accounts
- A junior account manager you never metFounder on every call, doing the work
- The "request a quote" runaroundPublic pricing, no maze
- Vanity metrics and invented statsSource-grounded truth, plain-English reporting
Pick one job, or start free.
Run the Lookout to see what to fix first, or tell us what you're working on and we'll point you to the right starting place.
Let's talk