How we work
One day on a wall with your team, then a fixed plan and a few weeks of making.
The idea workshop, hour by hour
Up to 12 people from your side, three from ours, one long wall. At our studio in Tanner’s Yard or in your building.
On its own
$1,800
In any package
Included
Example prices.
09:30
Coffee and the brief
You tell us what is going on, who you need to reach and by when. We listen and ask questions.
10:00
What we heard
Everyone writes yellow notes: what customers say, what is not working, what has to happen.
11:15
Ideas
Pink notes, as many as the room can manage. Small ideas count; nobody judges yet.
13:00
Lunch
We bring it. The wall stays up and people keep adding notes.
13:45
Grouping and the dot vote
We cluster the ideas, then everyone gets one red dot per round and votes. We talk about the top three.
15:00
The making list
Blue notes for the winning idea: what we will make, for whom and by when.
16:00
Done
Photos of the wall in your inbox the same evening, a written plan with costs within five working days.
The wall at the end of the day
This is what you take home: what we heard, every idea, how the room voted and the making list (sample wall).
Kick-off wall, Oakmere Playhouse
Tuesday 14 October, 12 people, one dot each (sample)
What we heard
People think we only do the panto.
Box office
Most tickets sell in the last five days.
Sales report
Under-30s say they have never been inside.
Street survey
Ideas
Open rehearsals: come in before it is finished
7 dots
Posters written by the cast
3 dots
A season pass priced like a gym
2 dots
Rename the studio theatre
no dots
We're making
Open rehearsal nights for every show, free
Posters from rehearsal photos, in the cast’s handwriting
Six 30-second films for social
Pay what you can on each first night
What we heard An idea What we are making One vote The idea that won
Yellow notes come from you and your customers, pink notes are ideas, and everyone votes with red dots. The idea with the most dots is ringed and moves to the last lane, where it becomes the list of things we make.
After the workshop
What happens between the wall and the printer, week by week.
Day 1
The idea workshop
One wall, your team and ours. We leave with the winning idea and the making list.
Week 1
The plan
A written plan with what we make, the dates and a fixed price.
Weeks 2 to 3
Routes
Rough versions of each route on real formats: a poster, a phone screen, a box.
Week 4
You choose
One meeting, one decision. We tell you which route we would pick and why.
Weeks 5 onwards
Making
Everything on the making list, with two rounds of changes.
Last week
Files and printer
Print files checked with the printer, social files cut, a short guide on using them.
Bring the problem. We bring the notes.
Tell us what is going on and when it has to be out. We reply within two working days with a date for a first call (sample).