Hughes Ahmed is a small senior team in Manchester. Short engagements, no hand-offs to juniors.
Most founders do not need more advice. They need a decision they can stand behind on Monday.
We work with a handful of founders and operators at a time, so the people you meet in the first call are the people doing the work. We would rather finish early than fill the calendar.
Four practices, one team. Most clients start with one and pull in a second when the first lands.
Two partners and one senior lead on every project. Nobody learns the trade on your budget.
Positioning, brand and product decisions touch each other. We make them in one room, not across three agencies.
Every engagement has a finish line and a fixed fee. Nothing rolls on into a retainer by default.
Results
Two engagements, the numbers they moved and how long they took.
A Todmorden food maker was selling on price in 40 shops. We repositioned it around provenance and rebuilt the packaging. Repeat orders rose 38% in six months and the range moved into 112 independent stores.
New drivers were abandoning the app on day one. We cut setup from nine screens to three and rewrote the first week. Activation doubled in ten weeks and support tickets fell by a third.
Process
Four steps from first call to handover, with a fixed end date.
Week 0
You tell us the problem. We tell you honestly whether we are the right people, and if not, who is.
Week 1
One page: what we will do, who does it, the end date and the price. Most projects run three to eight weeks.
Weeks 2 to 7
You see the work every week, not at the end. A partner is in the room each time.
Final week
Documents, files and a 60 minute session with your team. We stay on call for 30 days after.
One decision, one room. A partner works through your hardest question with your team.
£3,500
The core engagement. A full piece of positioning, brand, product or growth work, start to handover.
£18,000 to £45,000
For clients who finish a sprint and want us on call while the team puts it into practice.
£4,200 a month
Clients
In their words, from founders we have worked with.
We had argued about our positioning for two years. Hughes Ahmed settled it in a fortnight and we have not argued since.Imogen, founder, Pennine Provisions
They cut our onboarding in half and told us exactly what to measure. The ten weeks paid for themselves.Tariq, operations director, Kearsley Fleet Services
Senior people, straight answers, an invoice that matched the quote. Rare.Dev, founder of a Leeds logistics start-up
Partner. Positioning and brand. Fourteen years in brand strategy, eight of them in-house at two Manchester scale-ups.
Partner. Product and growth. Former head of product at a logistics software company, now runs every sprint workshop.
Senior designer. Identity and interface. Ten years across packaging, apps and print.
Senior strategist. Research and analytics. Joins growth and positioning projects that need customer evidence.
Thirty minutes, free, with a partner. We reply within one working day.
hello@hughesahmed.co.uk
Ancoats, Manchester