Creative leadership, on your terms.

Fractional Creative Partnerships by Magic Eight

Senior-level creative direction, strategic consulting, and access to a multidisciplinary agency team, integrated into your business on a flexible, ongoing, or as-needed basis.

The right expertise, at the right time.

With more than a decade of experience helping businesses build and grow their brands, we understand the value of consistent creative leadership. Our fractional partnerships bring that expertise directly into your team, combining the continuity of an internal creative partner with the broader capabilities of our agency.

TRADITIONAL CREATIVE HIRES

  • Full-time salaries + benefits

  • Recruiting + onboarding costs

  • Expertise limited to individual hires

  • Multiple vendors + contracts

  • Fixed staffing + overhead

  • Additional hires as needs expand

MAGIC EIGHT PARTNERSHIPS ✨

  • Predictable monthly investment

  • Experienced leadership from day one

  • Access to multidisciplinary specialists

  • One integrated creative partner

  • Flexible capacity based on your needs

  • Broader agency capabilities within reach

Our fractional creative partnerships are designed for growing businesses, established brands, and lean marketing teams looking for experienced creative leadership and flexible support without expanding their permanent headcount. It’s a great fit if you:

✓ Have an internal creative team that could benefit from senior-level direction, mentorship, and oversight.

✓ Are planning campaigns or strategic initiatives and need creative leadership from concept through execution.

✓ Want to strengthen your brand through more intentional positioning, messaging, and consistent customer experiences.

✓ Have ongoing creative and marketing needs that require both strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

✓ Want to expand your team's capabilities with specialized expertise and a consistent creative partner, without additional full-time hires.

CREATIVE DIRECTION + TEAM LEADERSHIP

  • Creative leadership across projects and campaigns

  • Art direction and concept development

  • Internal team guidance, mentorship, and creative reviews

  • Brand consistency and quality control

  • Creative workflow improvements and team coordination

BRAND + MARKETING STRATEGY

  • Ongoing brand positioning and messaging guidance

  • Campaign strategy and creative planning

  • Marketing and content strategy

  • Strategic consulting and problem-solving

  • Creative briefs and initiative planning

DESIGN + CREATIVE EXECUTION

  • Predictable monthly investment

  • Experienced leadership from day one

  • Access to multidisciplinary specialists

  • One integrated creative partner

  • Flexible capacity based on your needs

  • Broader agency capabilities within reach

DEDICATED CREATIVE DAYS

Dedicated creative direction, consulting, or hands-on design support for specific initiatives. Bring us in to develop concepts, review creative work, guide a campaign, or work through a strategic challenge.

Book a day when you need it, without an ongoing commitment.

$1,850/day


INTEGRATED CREATIVE PARTNER

One dedicated day per week of creative leadership and flexible agency support, integrated into your existing team.

We help oversee creative initiatives, guide strategy, collaborate with internal resources, and contribute hands-on support as priorities evolve.

Available through 3-, 6-, or 12-month engagements, with limited availability to ensure dedicated attention.

Starting @ $4,800/mo

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Flexible by design.

Every business has different creative needs, and those needs rarely stay the same. Whether you're looking for a fresh perspective on a specific challenge or a consistent creative partner to support your team, we've developed flexible ways to work together.

DEDICATED CREATIVE DAYS

Dedicated creative direction, consulting, or hands-on design support for specific initiatives. Bring us in to develop concepts, review creative work, guide a campaign, or work through a strategic challenge.

Book a day when you need it, without an ongoing commitment.

$1,850/day

INTEGRATED CREATIVE PARTNER

One dedicated day per week of creative leadership and flexible agency support, integrated into your existing team.

We help oversee creative initiatives, guide strategy, collaborate with internal resources, and contribute hands-on support as priorities evolve.

Available through 3-, 6-, or 12-month engagements, with limited availability to ensure dedicated attention.

starting at $4,800/month

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Let’s work together.

We're currently welcoming new Creative Day bookings and inquiries for a limited number of embedded partnerships.

Our fractional engagements are intentionally limited so we can provide consistent, meaningful support to the teams we work with.

If you're interested in exploring a partnership, we'd love to learn more about your business, your existing creative resources, and where additional support could be valuable.

We'll start with a conversation to understand your needs and determine the most appropriate way to work together.

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