2,669 messages delivered to founder-led creative agencies across the UK — configured in about 40 minutes, live two days later.
There's a certain irony here: the best test of a prospecting tool is someone whose job is prospecting. Rob has spent 12 years finding clients for creative agencies. On 10 June 2026 at 3:36 am, our AI-written message landed in the contact form of his own website. At 10:10 the same morning, he replied:
“The system clearly works, but your well-written copy is what’s made it effective here.” — Rob Edison, manc&dandy — reply received 10/06/2026 at 10:10 am
manc&dandy provides outsourced, fractional new business for creative agencies in the UK — Rob and his associate Mike sell precisely the service murmur automates: finding clients for agencies. Twelve years in this market.
Small creative agencies are brilliant at telling other brands' stories — and never find time to sell their own. New business rests on the founder, so it only happens when the order book empties: the worst possible moment. manc&dandy sells the fix to that problem, and was facing it for its own pipeline.
Targeting drawn from our UK index — around 2 million companies, of which roughly 1 million were queryable at the time. During the discovery call, a live search on Wales alone surfaced about 380 agencies. The filter: creative agencies and professional services, under 100 staff, founder-led. An AI verification layer checks every target before sending and discards anything outside the profile.
The setup: about 40 minutes of configuration through the client link — details, targeting, message, personalisation — and the campaign went live two days later. Every reply lands directly in the client’s inbox; nothing passes through us. The complete list of contacted companies is delivered at the end of the run.
Excerpts from the campaign, anonymised — the facts are kept, the names are not. Validation test: if you can swap the prospect’s name for a direct competitor’s and the message still works, it is too generic.
It makes sense that an independent filmmaker with sixteen years' experience and a roster that spans the BBC, Channel 4 and Olympic Broadcasting would build a business that's built squarely around your craft.
A career résumé no competitor could borrow.
It's refreshing to see an agency that's been founder-led since 1999, keeping that independent spirit while turning out serious eCommerce work for clients like Cardiff's best-known bike retailer.
A named, located client reference pulled from the portfolio.
Twenty-six years behind the lens, 17 shooting, over a decade as a drone operator — it's the kind of career that builds itself on craft, not on chasing new business.
Three career figures, read straight off the site.
I saw that the agency was founded in Portsmouth back in 2006, and you've kept the team deliberately lean since then. That independence is something a lot of agencies aspire to, but it means new business rests on very few shoulders.
Founder, city and year on the prospect's about page (name withheld here).
I noticed the studio is a deliberately independent operation founded in 2022, just a handful of people running a full-stack 3D visualisation and software shop from Nottingham.
Recent founding year and exact speciality — nothing generic survives the test.
Over half of delivered messages required technical retries on reluctant sites — volume that a generic tool would simply have lost.
Replies landed directly in Rob’s inbox. A few, anonymised:
“Your appointment has been confirmed: July 15, 11:00 am BST, 45 minutes, Google Meet.” — A Welsh studio — booked a slot straight from the message, via the calendar link
“I’d be happy to take a 30 minute call but just a heads up; I’m quite sceptical re outsourced biz dev.” — A Manchester digital studio — scepticism included, call accepted
“I have just received your email to our hello@ address. I have half an hour next week for a chat.” — A creative agency, South Wales
No response rate published: the dashboard figure for this campaign was inflated by automated acknowledgements, and we told the client so in writing. Volumes and verifiable replies only.
I’d definitely like to keep going as I can see real value. There are a couple of leads that I’m quite optimistic about!
A new run on the remaining target with copy variants and a secondary offer in the follow-up — same setup, no reconfiguration.
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