Partners

The people we build with.

Unvertise sources the best marketers for the job. That is deliberate, and it also means we do not pretend to be great at everything. When a project needs design, UX, or serious data work, it goes to someone who does that for a living — named here, not hidden behind an "our team" page.

Russ Allen with four other marketing professionals on a rooftop at an industry conference.
Hanging out with other marketing friends. This industry is smaller than it looks, and most of the good work comes from people who already trust each other.

Who we bring in

Three people we hand real work to

You hire them directly, or we scope it together. Either way you know exactly who is doing what.

UX & product design

Jake Zastrow

Product and UX designer working out of Montana. Research, testing, and design systems — the part where you find out what the site should be before anybody builds it. Financial services, healthcare, consumer brands, nonprofits.

zastrow.design →
Data engineering & analytics

Zack Richardson

Rich360. Data pipelines, dashboards, and analysis. When the reporting question is bigger than what GA4 can answer — or the numbers from four systems need to agree with each other — this is the call.

rich360.io →
Design & brand

Kristen Haws

Dotty, here in Louisville. UX strategy, website design, logos and branding, and event marketing. Fifteen years across agencies and startups. Where a project needs to look like something before it can rank for anything.

hidotty.com →

No referral fees, no markup games. If they are the better fit for the whole project, we will say that too.

Agency partnership

Advirtis

Our standing white-label relationship. A meaningful share of the SEO work that leaves this desk goes out under their name, and their clients have no reason to ever hear ours. That is the arrangement, and it is the best test of the work there is — it has to hold up with somebody else's logo on it.

advirtis.com →

  • Unbranded deliverables. Docs and decks arrive clean, or dressed in your brand.
  • Wholesale pricing. A different rate card than the public one. Ask for it.
  • You own the client. We do not contact them unless you put us on the call.
  • Capacity without headcount. Take the SEO work you have been turning down.
  • The right specialist for each piece. SEO, design, data and paid media each go to someone who does that for a living.
  • No poaching, ever. If your client calls us directly, we send them back to you.

Why the list is short. Plenty of agencies have run work through us over the years, and most of them would rather that stayed between us. So this page names the people who have said yes to being named, and nobody else. If you want references, ask and we will go get you one.

Most of the thinking happens on LinkedIn first

Audits, arguments with the industry, and the occasional screenshot of something that worked. The posts usually show up here as a blog or a case study weeks later — if you want it early, that's where it is.

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