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Predictable output
A calendar that is accurate three months out, because every item has an owner and a date rather than an intention.
Managed content operations
Your content pipeline, run properly, without hiring five more people.
Content Creation Hub takes over the unglamorous middle of content marketing — briefing, scheduling, production, review, publishing and reporting — and runs it as one accountable workflow inside the tools your team already uses.
No software to buyWorks in your existing stack3-month minimum, then rollingUK-based team
Trusted by in-house teams across the UK
Midlands ManufacturingNorthgate FinancialHalden HealthBrightway RetailCorran EnergyLevitt Legal
The problem we solve
Most content teams are not short of ideas. They are short of throughput.
Briefs sit unwritten. Drafts wait a fortnight for a review nobody owns. Approved work never gets published because the person who was going to do it left. We measured this across 40 UK marketing teams — here is what we found.
Where the time actually goes
Average share of a content marketer's week, self-reported across our onboarding audits.
Chasing reviews & approvals31%
Rewriting unclear briefs22%
Formatting & publishing18%
Reporting & admin17%
Actually creating12%
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of a typical content marketer's week is spent creating anything. The rest is coordination.
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Median time from approved brief to published asset, before we get involved.
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Median time after 90 days on a managed workflow with named owners at every stage.
0×
Average increase in published output with no increase in headcount.
What we run for you
Four operating tracks. Pick the ones you are missing.
Editorial operations
A managed editorial line: research, briefing, drafting, subbing and sign-off, run to a published calendar with named owners at every stage. We write to your tone of voice document, or we build you one first.
- Search-led topic research and quarterly planning
- Structured briefs your writers do not have to interpret
- Drafting, editing and fact-checking by UK-based editors
- Subject-matter interviews with your internal experts
- Legal and compliance review routing where required
- On-page SEO applied before anything is handed over
Typical monthly output
- Long-form articles
- 6–12
- Short posts & updates
- 12–20
- Case studies
- 1–2
- Email newsletters
- 2–4
- Review turnaround
- 48 hours
- Named editor
- Yes
Video & visual production
Scheduled production days that feed the calendar rather than interrupting it. We plan shoots against the editorial plan so a single day covers a month of assets across every channel.
- Quarterly shoot planning aligned to the content calendar
- Studio and on-site filming anywhere in the UK
- Short-form cutdowns in every required aspect ratio
- Product and team photography libraries
- Motion graphics, lower thirds and templated end cards
- Captioning, transcripts and accessibility checks
Typical monthly output
- Production days
- 1–2
- Long-form videos
- 2–4
- Short-form cutdowns
- 15–30
- Photography
- 60+ frames
- First cuts
- 72 hours
- Captions
- Included
Distribution & publishing
The step teams most often lose. We publish, schedule, cross-post and repurpose so approved work actually reaches an audience instead of sitting in a folder marked final.
- CMS publishing with QA on every page before it goes live
- Social scheduling across owned channels
- Email build, test-send and deployment
- Repurposing one asset into six channel-native formats
- Internal enablement packs for sales teams
- Link, redirect and metadata hygiene
Typical monthly output
- Pages published
- 10–25
- Social posts scheduled
- 40–80
- Emails deployed
- 2–6
- Repurposed assets
- 30+
- Publishing QA
- Every item
- Channels covered
- Unlimited
Measurement & reporting
One page a month, in plain English, saying what worked, what did not and what we are changing. No dashboard logins, no vanity metrics, no forty-slide decks nobody reads.
- Baseline audit at onboarding so progress is measurable
- Monthly one-page performance note
- Quarterly deep-dive with recommendations
- Content decay tracking and refresh scheduling
- Attribution setup within your existing analytics
- Board-ready summaries when you need them
What you receive
- Monthly note
- 1 page
- Quarterly review
- 90 minutes
- Refresh backlog
- Maintained
- Analytics setup
- Included
- Data ownership
- Yours
- Board summary
- On request
Onboarding
Ninety days from first call to a workflow that runs itself.
We do not disappear for a quarter and return with a strategy deck. The first month is spent making the existing process work; everything after that is improvement.
Week 1
Audit & baseline
We map how content currently moves through your business, where it stalls, and what it costs in days. You get the map whether or not you continue with us.
Weeks 2–3
Workflow design
Named owners, defined stages, service-level agreements for each handover, and a single calendar everyone can see. Built inside your existing project tool.
Week 4
First cycle
We run one complete cycle end to end with your team watching, so the process is proven before anyone relies on it.
Months 2–3
Full handover of throughput
Our editors, producers and publishers take over the operational load. Your team returns to strategy, brand and the work only they can do.
Ongoing
Quarterly tuning
Every quarter we retire what is not working, reallocate the effort and update the documentation. The workflow belongs to you throughout.
Outcomes
What changes in the first two quarters.
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Shorter cycles
Median brief-to-published time falls from around a fortnight to under a week, mostly by fixing review bottlenecks.
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Lower cost per asset
Batching production and repurposing properly typically reduces cost per published asset by 30–45%.
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Documented process
Everything written down, so the operation survives holidays, resignations and reorganisations.
Client voices
What our clients tell us.
"We had three good writers and no system. Within a quarter we were publishing four times as much with exactly the same team, and nobody was working late to do it."
Head of MarketingManufacturing group, West Midlands"The audit alone was worth the first invoice. It showed us that our approval chain had five people in it and only two of them ever commented."
Marketing DirectorFinancial services, Leeds"They set up the workflow in our own Asana instead of dragging us onto a new platform. That is the reason it stuck."
Content LeadHealthcare provider, BristolPlans
Priced by throughput, not by hours.
Monthly, exclusive of VAT. Three-month initial term, then rolling with 30 days' notice.
Operate
£3,200 /mo
One track, run properly.
- One operating track of your choice
- Named operations lead
- Workflow built in your tools
- Monthly one-page report
- 48-hour review turnaround
- Documentation handover
Operate + Produce
£6,400 /mo
Editorial and production together.
- Two operating tracks
- Named editor and producer
- One production day per month
- Full publishing and QA
- Quarterly strategy review
- Content refresh backlog
- Priority scheduling
Full Operations
£11,500 /mo
The entire content function.
- All four operating tracks
- Dedicated pod of five
- Two production days per month
- Multi-brand and multi-market
- Analytics implementation
- Board-level reporting
- On-site quarterly workshops
Questions
The ones that come up on every call.
Are you an agency or a software product?
A managed service. There is no licence to buy and no platform to migrate onto. We bring people and a documented workflow; you keep strategy, brand and ownership of everything produced.
Do we have to change the tools we use?
No. We work inside Asana, Jira, Monday, Trello, Notion, ClickUp or a shared drive, whichever you already use. Migrating tools is the single most common reason content operations projects fail, so we do not ask.
What happens to our in-house team?
They stop coordinating and start creating. In every engagement so far, the in-house team has kept strategy, brand guardianship and the highest-value creative work while we absorb the operational load. We have never replaced a team.
What is the minimum commitment?
Three months. That is roughly when a new workflow stops feeling new and starts saving time — committing to less would set both of us up to fail. After the initial term it runs monthly with 30 days' notice.
Who owns the content and the process?
You own both. Content rights transfer on payment, and the workflow documentation is written in your systems from day one, so an in-house hire could take it over from us without a handover project.
Do you work with regulated industries?
Yes — financial services, healthcare and legal clients make up about a third of our work. Compliance review is built into the workflow as a formal stage with its own service-level agreement rather than bolted on at the end.
Can you work with our existing agencies?
Frequently. We often sit as the operational layer between an in-house team and one or more specialist agencies, which reduces the amount of chasing everyone has to do.
Get started
Book a 30-minute walkthrough.
We will show you the workflow, walk through a real (anonymised) client board, and give you an honest read on whether managed operations would help you or just add a layer.
No deck, no discovery phase, no procurement dance to get to a straight answer.
Direct contact
Email
[email protected]
Telephone
+44 121 496 0207
Office
Floor 4, 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2AA, United Kingdom
Hours
Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:30 GMT
Thank you — your request is with our operations team. We will confirm a walkthrough slot within one working day.
Stop hiring around a broken process.
Most teams do not need another writer. They need the eleven handovers between brief and publish to stop leaking days. That is the whole job.