Prolific Agency Labs

Agency leaders, step out of the day-to-day and into the Lab. Three days of strategy, 3 coaching sessions for accountability, one roadmap for growth.
Prolific North Labs

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Let’s be honest, 2026 hasn’t exactly been a walk in the park. Between the market playing musical chairs, and the constant, deafening chatter about AI, running an agency right now feels a bit like trying to fix the engine while the boat is on fire.

The latest data from the BenchPress report tells an interesting story: revenue is actually up for most, but profits are being squeezed until they squeak. Overheads are climbing, and while everyone says AI is making us faster, only 13% of us are actually measuring if it’s making us any money. 

Agency owners, if you feel like you’ve become the bottleneck in your own business, or if you’ve lost your strategic spark because you’re too busy dealing with the day-to-day, it’s time for a reset!

Join Prolific North and Chris Attewell for Prolific Agency Labs. We’re using the Agency House framework to help deconstruct your business and rebuild it for scale, profit, and the AI era.

The roadmap

 In true Northern style, we’ll keep it straight, no fluff, no bs – and you can walk away with a roadmap to get your agency back on track for growth. We’ll meet for three in-person, full day sessions (9:30am – 5:00 pm). Between these sessions, you’ll get 1-to-1 coaching with Chris to make sure your new shiny strategy doesn’t just end up a dusty PDF in a forgotten folder.

We’re big on ensuring you take away valuable information:

  • A refreshed agency value proposition – your why made clear!
  • Clearly defined growth targets you can communicate to your team of stakeholders.
  • An innovation roadmap and how you’ll use tech to win.
  • The New Biz playbook as a repeatable sales engine.
  • Financial forecasts & people strategy: A plan for a profitable, happy shop!

Is this for you?

We’ve built this specifically for leaders of agencies turning over between £500k and £2.5m.

If you’ve already built the perfect agency, nailed your profit margins, and have a pipeline that manages itself while you’re at the pub, congratulations, this isn’t for you. But if you suspect you could still learn a trick or two, you’re in the right place!

About the Agency House model

Chris has developed the Agency House Model to simplify the process of growing a successful agency by focusing on 4 key pillars that support long-term growth and profitability: Clients, New Business, Innovation and People. Each pillar is important in isolation, however it’s through consistently focusing efforts on all 4 that agencies achieve long-term success

The investment

Strategic resets work best when the leadership team is on the same page. We’ve priced this to make it a “no-brainer” for co-founders, owners or directors  to attend together.

Fun fact: Based on the average hourly rate for agencies like yours (£122), an Early Bird ticket pays for itself in just 16 billable hours.

Think of it as an investment in your sanity!

 

Agenda

09:00
24th Sep - Lab 1: Foundations

- Vision: where are we actually going
- Proposition: Why should anyone care? (And how to stop being “just another agency”)
- Innovation roadmap

09:00
22 Oct - Lab 2: The engine

- Retention - How to keep the good customers
- New biz - Building a sustainable pipeline of new business

09:00
19 Nov - Lab 3: The money & the people

- Ops & Finance: Finding the profit leaks and fixing them
- Culture: Making your agency a place where the best people actually want to work

Speakers

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Your chief accountability partner: Chris Attewell
Chris spent 10 years helping grow Search Laboratory into one of the UK’s largest independent digital agencies with over 150 staff across offices in Leeds and Austin, Texas, and ultimately leading the company to its acquisition by Havas Media Network in 2022 during his time as CEO. Post-acquisition, Chris spent 3 years working as part the Havas Media leadership team in the UK, giving him a fresh perspective on agency land through the eyes of a network agency. Before moving into agency leadership, Chris spent 15 years working in commercial roles covering lead generation, marketing, new business sales and client services, implementing sales and marketing strategies in the UK and globally that have delivered millions of pounds of revenue growth. He now works as a Board Advisor and Growth Consultant, sharing the experience he’s gained over the past 25 years to help agency leaders simplify the harder parts of growing a successful business. Chris will be leading your workshops and your 1-1 check-ins. His experience and wisdom makes him the perfect guide for your strategic reset.

Only 15 spots for this cohort - book yours soon!

Register your interest in our latest cohort
Start: September 24, 2026 12:00 am
End: November 19, 2026 5:00 pm

Hosted at

Colony Fabrica

Colony Fabrica – Manchester Co-Working & Office Space, Great Ancoats Street, Greater, Manchester, UK

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