STRATEGY X CREATIVE

We are a strategic and creative partner to brands leading with integrity.

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Why Our Clients Choose Us.

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We bring the same senior-level approach to every engagement from brand identity, to websites, logos, and collateral. The sector changes. The standard doesn’t.

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Intentional

Every action we take is grounded in evidence and informed by real experience.

Seamless Experience

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You work directly with the people doing the work from start to finish. Strategy, design, and development are unified from the start.

Business Minded

We create brands and products designed to reach your target audience, strengthen perceived value, and support growth.

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Decades of Experience

Combining senior level strategy and creative provides you with a roadmap for success and the ability to get you there.

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Our Ethos

We're selective by design. We work with organizations that lead with integrity and purpose: good people doing work that genuinely matters to their world. Sector doesn't matter. Values do.

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Our Founder

Kate Stoodley

FOUNDER & STRATEGIC DIRECTOR

Kate has spent her career at the intersection of strategy and story, turning complex ideas into clear, compelling work and measurable results. She's built brands for AI labs, municipalities, enterprises, higher ed, nonprofits, startups, and everything in between. She's led teams, co-founded an award-winning content firm, and reported on tech trends.

Kate's journalism training means she leads with curiosity, asks the hard questions, and doesn't stop until the work is right.

A relentless believer in the power of purpose-led work, Kate founded Purpose & Proof to help the good ones tell their stories and show up in the world with clarity and confidence.

Kate's favorite things: trains, travel, porches, seafood, yoga, apples, cheese, islands, reading, equality, and laughter as medicine.

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Maine Roots.
Global Reach.

Our agency is located in Portland, Maine and our partners are everywhere.