Available — taking on 2 new engagements in Q2 2026
AI built by operators,
not consultants
Higher Agency is a boutique AI practice founded by leaders from EA, Zynga, NaturalMotion and Wooga.
We've shipped products to half a billion people, run nine-figure P&Ls, and built the AI platform we
use to deliver — Alexandria, a 170-agent system already in production
PopCap · Plants vs. Zombies 2 — $1B+
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NaturalMotion · CSR Racing — $1B+
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Wooga · June's Journey — approaching $3B
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Ten Square Games Berlin · Studio built from zero
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Alexandria · 170-agent platform · 25,000+ tournament runs
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PopCap · Plants vs. Zombies 2 — $1B+
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NaturalMotion · CSR Racing — $1B+
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Wooga · June's Journey — approaching $3B
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01 — Thesis
AI projects don't fail because of the AI.
They fail for the same reasons game launches fail
S&P Global reported that 42% of enterprises abandoned the majority of their AI initiatives in 2025 —
up from 17% the year before. The pattern is identical to a missed game launch: bad production, no creative
direction, and no one in the room who's actually shipped at scale
Most AI agencies are engineers selling implementations or consultants selling decks. Higher Agency is
something else entirely — an operator-led practice that treats AI like a product launch. Discovery, scoping,
production, live ops. That discipline is the difference between an AI pilot and an AI business
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Most AI agencies
Higher Agency
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Engineers selling implementations
Operators who've launched 500M-user products
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Strategy decks → pilot → maybe production
Production-first — we ship, then we tune
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Generalists across "all industries"
Deep entertainment / consumer DNA, transferable to any consumer business
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Methodology document as the deliverable
Working systems that learn with every engagement
02 — How we work
Three disciplines, one team. The same loop we used to ship $1B franchises — pointed at AI
The loop that turns an AI pilot into an AI business: production, creative direction, business development — run by the same operator
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Production
We run AI engagements like product launches. Scoping, milestones, ruthless cuts, live operations after
go-live. The thing ships. The thing keeps working. Then we measure what it actually changed
- Roadmap with budget and risk attached to every initiative
- Cross-functional staffing — not "an AI engineer in a room"
- Measurement framework defined before a line of code
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Creative direction
AI without taste is noise. We make calls about what to build, what to cut, and what the experience
should feel like for the human on the other side. That's the part most engineering shops can't do
- Player / customer-side instinct from F2P and consumer products
- Prompt design, agent personas and tone treated as craft
- Editorial standards on what an AI is allowed to ship
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Business development
Our team has carried P&Ls north of $200M. We know what a CFO looks at, why a board kills a project,
and how to make sure the AI initiative is the one that survives the next planning cycle
- ROI framing executives can defend in a board meeting
- Build / buy / partner decisions made the way operators make them
- Internal champion development — your team owns it after we leave
03 — Track record
We don't have a logo wall yet. We have a portfolio
Higher Agency is new. The team behind it is not. Below: products we've personally led or built, with the
numbers that matter to the people who funded them
Mobile · Free-to-play
$1B+
Plants vs. Zombies 2
Product leadership at PopCap (EA). One of the highest-grossing mobile titles of its era; defined the
live-ops playbook a generation of mobile games copied
CSR Racing
Built and grew at NaturalMotion (Zynga). A reference example of how operational rigor — not just
creative — turns a hit into a billion-dollar franchise
Mobile · Hidden object
≈$3B
June's Journey
Product leadership at Wooga (Playtika). Approaching $3B in lifetime revenue. Proof that careful
production and audience intuition compound over years, not quarters
Autonomous trading infrastructure
Production AI running with capital at risk, every day. Different domain — same discipline. AI you can
trust with money is a useful proof of what AI you can trust with a customer looks like
SaaS · Creator intelligence
Live
Jottly
AI-powered brand intelligence for professional creators. 51 specialised agents across seven departments,
five-platform parallel analysis, a five-dimensional authority model. Production on Vercel + Railway at
jottly.tools — our proof we ship consumer-grade AI, not strategy decks
Internal · Marketing OS
Live
Marketing OS
The operating system we use to run Higher Agency's own marketing — content, campaigns, inbound routing,
measurement — as a single AI-native loop. Evidence that the product discipline we bring to clients is
the same one we run on ourselves
04 — The delivery moat
Most agencies show up with a deck.
We show up with Alexandria
Alexandria is the AI platform we built to do our own work — and the platform you inherit when you work
with us. 170 specialised agents, a routing layer that picks the right one for the job, and a learning
system that gets sharper after every engagement
- 170 specialised agents — strategy, research, design, ops, code, review, analytics
- 25,000+ tournament runs — agents are evaluated against each other, not just shipped on faith
- Routing intelligence — the right specialist for the right problem, automatically
- Compounding leverage — one operator + Alexandria delivers what 5–10 generalists used to
Talk to us about Alexandria →
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