01
200+
brands that stopped being boring
Trusted by TikTok, Sonos, O'Neill and 198 other brands
Don't Take Our Word For It. Take Our Numbers.
02
40
countries and counting
03
30+
awards and counting
04
6
agency partners
At a glance
- From
- £1,500/day
- Start
- 1–2 weeks
- Commitment
- No lock-in
| Best for | Brands with an in-house team that want senior strategy on top |
|---|---|
| Formats | Audit, strategy sprint, fractional leadership, team training |
| Engagement | Fixed-scope sprint or rolling monthly advisory |
| Trusted by | Sonos, TikTok, Ann Summers |
How the consultancy works
Senior strategy that plugs into your team.
Our social media consulting services are for brands that already have capable people in-house and want senior firepower on top — not a full agency to take the work away. We audit what your channels are actually doing, set the strategy, build the playbooks, and train your team to run the system without us.
Engagements are deliberately flexible: a one-off consultancy day, a 4–6 week audit-and-strategy sprint, or fractional social leadership on a rolling monthly basis. You keep your team — we make it sharper.
What a consultancy engagement includes
Social audit
Senior eyes on your channels — content performance, paid efficiency, competitor benchmarking and a prioritised action plan. The fastest way to see what is actually holding your social back.
Strategy sprint
A 4–6 week sprint that lands positioning, channel priorities, content pillars and a measurement framework mapped to your commercial goals — built with your team, not handed down to them.
Channel playbooks
Platform-by-platform playbooks for TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn and wherever your audience lives — what to post, at what cadence, in what format, and what good looks like.
Content frameworks
Repeatable hook, format and briefing systems that keep quality high when your team is shipping daily — the editorial standards a senior creative director would set, written down.
Team training
Working sessions on platform craft, content systems and measurement, built around your brand. The explicit goal: your team needs us less every month.
Fractional social leadership
A senior strategist embedded with your team monthly — setting direction, reviewing work and owning the social number, without the cost and risk of a full-time head of social.
Nice Things, Said By Smart People
PRICING · TRANSPARENT BY DEFAULT
How Much Does Social Media Consultancy Cost?
Most consultancies won’t tell you. We will. Every engagement is fixed-scope, priced up front, with no lock-in.
Consultancy Day
From £1,500
per day
A senior strategist on your problem for a day. Channel reviews, campaign pressure-tests, leadership workshops. The fastest way to borrow our brain.
Strategy Sprint
From £5,000
one-off, 4–6 weeks
Audit, positioning, channel playbooks and a 90-day plan your in-house team can execute. The engagement most brands start with.
Fractional Leadership
From £3,000
per month
A senior strategist embedded with your team monthly — direction, reviews, training and an honest read on the numbers. A head of social, without the hire.
Consultancy vs the alternatives
Which option fits a brand that already has a team?
If people already run your social day-to-day, you usually don't need a full agency or another full-time head — you need senior direction on top. The honest comparison:
A full-time hire
Senior head of social
£70k+/yr loaded
- 12+ weeks to hire and ramp
- One person, one skill set
- Salary, benefits, management overhead
- A single point of failure
OOB consultancy
Senior team, flexible
From £5k/sprint
- Start in 1–2 weeks
- A whole team’s expertise, not one head
- No lock-in — sprint or monthly
- Trains your team as it goes
- Trusted by Sonos, TikTok, Ann Summers
Full-service agency
Hands-off, full retainer
£8k–20k+/mo
- Takes the work fully off your plate
- Best when you have no team
- Higher commitment and cost
- Less day-to-day control
Not sure consultancy is the fit?
If you want the whole thing off your plate — strategy and the daily doing — you want us as a social media agency, or a social media management agency running your channels end-to-end. Consultancy is the senior-thinking layer; management is the engine room. Most brands need one or the other — we will tell you which in the first call.
Want a taste of the thinking first, free? Run your brand through the Social Scorecard for an instant diagnostic, or see who is actually being brave on social in the Bravery Index. Both are built by the strategists you would be working with.
Who you’ll work with
Sarah Fulford-Williams · Founder, OOB
You work directly with OOB's senior strategists — the people who set social strategy for Sonos, TikTok and Ann Summers — not an account manager relaying notes to a junior team. Female-founded, 30+ awards and 200+ brands across 40+ countries since 2018. On a consultancy engagement, senior eyes are on your account from week one, and your in-house team leaves sharper than it started.
- Female-founded, independent London agency
- Social-first since day one — 200+ brands across 40+ countries
- Hands-on senior team, no account-manager layer
- Already trusted by US brands (ZAGG, Eight Sleep)
Looking for the full picture?
View the hub →See everything we do as a social media agency — strategy, content, paid, influencer, community and brand inside one team.
FAQS