COMMERCIALLY
AWAKE CREATIVE
THINKING.
Creating the momentum your business needs.
COMMERCIALLY
AWAKE CREATIVE
THINKING.
Creating the momentum your business needs.
Uncle is a close-knit team of experienced strategists and creatives focused on clarity,
craft, and commercial outcomes. Put simply - work that delivers.
Uncle is a close-knit team of experienced strategists and creatives focused on clarity, craft, and commercial outcomes. Put simply - work that delivers.
Small team. Big thinking. No theatre.
Small team. Big thinking. No theatre.
If things aren’t quite landing like they should, and you’re looking for something clearer, pull up a chair.
Small team.
Big thinking.
No theatre.
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A small group of experienced minds, working closely with you, getting to the point a bit quicker than most. You’ll deal directly with the people doing the work. Conversations stay clear. Decisions don’t drag on.
We find the idea that cuts through — the one that stands up in the real world. Then we make it properly. With care, with craft, and enough backbone to last.
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Strategy, not guesswork.
A lot of thinking.
The occasional inconvenient truth.We help businesses figure out who they are, what matters, and how to bring that to life in ways people actually notice. That can mean strategy, campaigns, design systems, storytelling, digital, culture, workshops, products — or sometimes just helping untangle a knot that’s been sitting there for too long.
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Every business has blind spots.
Often, hiding in plain sight.We help uncover the stuff worth paying attention to — the tension, opportunity, awkward truth, or loose thread that changes how a brand moves forward.
Research, positioning, strategy… call it what you like. We’re really just helping businesses make smarter calls with a bit more confidence behind them.
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We don’t always take the brief where people expect. That’s usually the point.
Sometimes the right answer is a campaign. Sometimes it’s a product idea, a partnership, a story, a stunt, a system, or something nobody saw coming until it suddenly made perfect sense.
Our job is to look past the obvious, challenge the comfortable stuff, and find ideas that genuinely fit the problem — not just the category they came from.
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This is where things stop being slides, workshops and clever conversations — and start existing in the real world.
Brands people can recognise. Websites people can navigate. Experiences people are invigorated by. Content people might actually pay attention to. The small details matter here. Because they’re usually the difference between something that just looks good… and something that genuinely holds together.
A word on AI.
Everyone's using it. Not everyone's being straight about how. We use AI. Deliberately, and with a lot of experience behind the wheel.
Think of it like this: we're the conductors. We bring decades of strategic, creative and commercial thinking to every prompt, every output, every decision about what's worth keeping and what gets thrown out. AI doesn't replace that judgement — it runs on it. Used well, it lets us move faster, pressure-test ideas harder, and explore territory that would have taken weeks. Used badly, it produces confident-sounding mediocrity at scale. We've seen plenty of that.
So yes — AI is part of how we work. But the thinking that drives it, shapes it, and holds it to account is still very much human. Still very much us.
Featured
Projects.
Allevia Health
A better health journey
Unifying New Zealand’s largest private healthcare collective under one clear, connected brand built around a better health journey.
Dairy Holdings
Farms that grow farmers
Rebranding New Zealand’s largest milk supplier for the next decade. The refreshed identity reflects Dairy Holdings’ people, pasture, and process through a clean, future-focused brand.
van Asch Foundation
The Leap Within
Creating a personal and powerful brand for a programme that helps New Zealanders face fear, build confidence, and take the leap within.
Cashpoints
Collect & spend instantly
Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let’s create something meaningful together.
IWG Women in sport
Change inspires change
Creating a confident global identity for the International Working Group on Women & Sport, built around connection, momentum, and the power of change inspiring change.
MoleMap
Check. Detect. Treat.
MoleMap’s refreshed brand brings clarity, warmth, and reassurance to the skin cancer journey. Built on a renewed purpose, the new identity helps people prevent, detect, and manage skin cancer with confidence.
Auckland Rugby
The Auckland Rugby Way
Turning the Auckland Rugby Way into a behavioural storytelling system that makes culture visible, memorable, and repeatable across the whole organisation.
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