Age of
the artist
An advisory for founder-led creative agencies doing $10k to $40k a month.
Turn your project-based agency into a retainer business in 90 days
Done with you, inside your actual offer, proposal and pipeline. Two operators who still run creative businesses, in the work with you every week.
If no new retainer of $2,000 a month or more is signed within the program, Club Locked In continues to work with you at no charge until one is.
Watch the breakdown first. Captions on.
- 01Watch
The breakdown, above. Who this is for, the one problem, the four pillars.
- 02Apply
Eight short questions. Under 90 seconds. Revenue-qualified, so we do not waste your call.
- 03The call
Thirty minutes. You leave with a written teardown of your pricing and pipeline either way.
Your revenue chart looks like a heart monitor
A good month, then an empty calendar. It is not a talent problem. Every job is priced by the hour or quoted fresh, so the client keeps every efficiency you find. And there is no pipeline, so the phone only rings when someone you filmed for tells someone else.
Fix the price and the pipeline together and the chart flattens. That is the whole of Triple A.
Four pillars, ninety days
- [01]
Offer and pricing
A productised core offer with three tiers, priced on the outcome, and a rate card you stop apologising for. Upsell and downsell paths for the clients you already have.
- [02]
Proposal and follow-up
One template, one stepping-stone first offer clients say yes to in fifteen minutes, and a follow-up sequence in the tools you already use.
- [03]
Pipeline
A niche list, one channel, a referral routine, a simple CRM and a ninety-minute weekly ritual that brings conversations in regardless of what any one client does.
- [04]
Capacity
Delivery handoffs and AI workflows that take you out of the deliverables, a training and sleep routine you hold for twelve weeks, and the beliefs about money that have been running the business on their own.
Fewer,
better
clients.
The method is half systems, half the person running them. Two calls a week, a workbook, and at the end of 90 days a seat at a four-day immersion with the other members. The room is part of the offer, not an upsell.
Still in the work
Corey sold quarter-million-dollar creative projects to high-level clients and ran the video company that delivered them. Joshua runs Made By Compound, a photography and film studio in Leeds, and has mentored creative founders for several years. Both have been the creative, the agency owner and the consultant. Everything installed in Triple A was used in their own businesses this quarter.
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Why we are building Club Locked In
Where each of us was, the mastermind that changed it, and what agency owners are told to do.
- [02]
The offer, on a whiteboard
Agency Architecture explained in full, price and guarantee included.
- [03]
Building the workbook and the merch
Why the workbook is a brand surface, and the hats arriving.
One teardown lesson, one build update, one ask. Plain text, once a week.
The Retainer Pricing Playbook
The pricing method we install, on paper. One offer with three prices, priced on the outcome, and the three clients in your list who already behave like retainer clients.
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